223.Nation's Debt to Mothers, The,307.Nature's Wilderness Compasses,322.Navarino, battle of,259.Negritos of Malacca and Siam,120.Negro, future of,9.Nelson, Lord, aided by a pin-scratch,325;wins battle of Copenhagen,42;death of,44;last words of,296.Neptune, planet, discovery of,431.New England, Blue Laws in,251.Newman, John Henry,268.New Orleans, battle of,161.Newton, Sir Isaac, celibacy of,156.New York:City Hall, foundation of,43.Maeterlinck's criticism of,100.New York Herald, founded by J.G. Bennett,208.New York Sun, on pugilists on the stage,38;"Yellow Journal" glossary,151.New Zealand, Status of women in,55.Niagara, discovery of,364.Niagara, the June Bride's Paradise,363.Nicknames of Our States and Towns,356.Niebuhr, Barthold, death of,337.Night View of a City,175.Nineteenth Century, events of,41,159,257,337,429,531.Nixon, Lewis, on Nicholas II of Russia,238;on future of Russia,7.North, Lord, anecdote of,80.Northcote, James, death of,337.Norway, seeSweden.Noses as signs of character,228.Novara, battle of,433.Nutritive value of foods,326.OOcean travel, humors of,206.O'Connell, Daniel, excluded from Parliament,259;agitates against the Act of Union,430;death of,432.Oddities of Biblical Literature,134.Oersted, Hans C., death of,531.Oglesby, Richard J.,369.O'Hara, Theodore,254.Ohio admitted to the Union,43.Oklahoma, population of,119.Old age, Oliver Wendell Holmes on,32.Old American newspapers, extracts from,229.Olden Time Publicity,296.Oldest City in the World, The,301.Old Maid, Diary of an,220.Old May-Day Customs,205.Osceola, capture and death of,340.Osler, William, philosophy of,8;story told by,80.Ostwald, Wilhelm, on American colleges,197.Other Ways of Saying "Howdy Do?"428.Oudinot, Nicholas C., death of,432.Our Interest in Westminster Abbey,370.Our National Anthem,421.Owen, Robert, founds New Harmony, Indiana,258;death of,535.Owners of the Soil, The,408.PPaderewski, Ignace Jan, precocity of,392.Paganini, Nicolo, death of,340.Paine, Thomas,461; death of,46.Paley, William, death of,44.Palm, Johann, execution of,44.Palmer, A.M., and Richard Mansfield,65.Palmer, John, death of,200; last words of,296.Palmer, Joseph C., California banker,124.Palmerston, Lord, becomes prime minister,533.Paradox Proverbs,199.Park, Mungo, death of,44.Parker, Theodore, on ideals,131; death of,536.Parkhurst, Charles H., and his mother,310;on the brotherhood of man,387.Parliament, mixed metaphors in,244.Part of Chance in Progress, The,245.Pascal, Blaise, precocity of,392.Patrick Henry's Call to Arms,393.Patriotism,377.Patterson, Elizabeth, marries Jerome Bonaparte,44,549.Patterson, Joseph M., on socialism,192.Peabody, Francis G., and the German Kaiser,471.Peck, Harry Thurston,527.Peel, Sir Robert, death of,433.Pellisier, Georges, on women in literature,104.Penfield, W.L., on the prevention of war,475.Penny postage, introduction of,340.Pension system, beginning of,162.Percy, Thomas, death of,159.Perry, Matthew C., makes treaty with Japan,532.Perry, Oliver H., wins battle of Lake Erie,160.Personal Character of the Czar, The,236.Petronius, Gaius,527.Phillips, Wendell, leader of Abolitionist movement,338.Philosophy of Trouble-Seeking, The,253.Photography, in winter,49;origin of,183.Piano, evolution of the,524.Pierce, Franklin, inauguration of,532;grave of,489.Pisces, zodiacal sign of,85.Pitkin, Albert J., career of,335.Pitt, William, last words of,296;death of,44.Pius VIII, Pope, accession of,260;death of,260.Pius IX, elected Pope,431;flees from Rome,432;restored,433.Place-Makers' Bible, The,134.Pliny, the Younger,297.Plutarch, witticisms of,350.Plympton, Eben, and Wilton Lackaye,263.Poe, Edgar Allan,17,164;career of,17;foibles of,180;love-letter of,110;death of wife of,164;on his lost love,164;death of,433;Poe and R.H. Stoddard,333.Poland, rebellion in (1830),260;suppressed by Russians,337.Polk, James K., death of,433;grave of,488.Pompeii, destruction of, narrated by Pliny,297.Pope, Jessie,552.Porter, Jane, death of,433.Portugal, regency of Dom Miguel,338.Postmasters, curious letters from,227.Poverty, advantages of,253.Prescott, William H., death of,535.President and Little Belt, encounter of,159.Presidents of the United States, previous careers of,517;graves of,486.Price, Joseph, discovers Niagara,364.Printers' Bible, The,134.Printing-rollers, invention of,245.Profession of the Fool, The,426.Progress of Women, The,51.Prophecies of Bonaparte, The,135.Proverbs, inconsistencies of,199.Prussia: see alsoGermany.Frederick the Great, last words of,295.Louise, Queen, death of,46.Public life, Joseph G. Cannon on,474.Public ownership, C.S. Darrow on,11.Pugilism's Invasion of the Drama,38.Pullman, George M., career of,502."Punch," a Canadian opinion of,261;editors and artists of,101.Puns, Theodore Hook on,315.Puritans, intolerance of,251.Pushkin, Alexander, death of,339.QQuarantine, first record of,183.Quiller-Couch, A.T., anecdote of,241.RRace Suicide, a defense of,104.Railroad:first, in England,258;in the United States,259;in Canada,339;in Japan,410;in Brazil,533.Empire State Express, the,181.Fastest trains of various countries,181.Locomotive, invention of,258;first American,260;Elihu Burritt's description of,518.Panama Railroad, opening of,533.Sleeping-car, invention of,502.Rainsford, Rev. W.S.,107.Raleigh, Sir Walter, gorgeous costumes of,525;last words of,296.Randolph, John, of Roanoke, death of,338.Reade, Charles,74.Red Man Eloquent, The,427.Reed, Charles A.L., on "The American Family,"104.Reed, Thomas B., anecdote of,222.Reform Bill, passage of (1832),338.Rehan, Ada, in "The Kiss of Blood,"167.Reich, Dr. Emil, on American women,284.Reichstadt, Duke of, death of,338.Rejected Books That Won Fame,136.Reminiscence, A,88.Renan, Ernest, foible of,180;dedication of "The Life of Jesus,"234.Republics, small, in Europe,122.Revolver, invented by Samuel Colt,504.Ricardo, David, death of,258.Richest men, list of one hundred,348.Richman, Charles, career of,67.Richter, Jean Paul, death of,258.Riddle, Byron's,462; solution of,463.Rienzi, Wagner's opera of,554.Riley, James Whitcomb, anecdote of,152.Roberts, Lord, anecdote of,558.Roche, Sir Boyle, "bulls" perpetrated by,244.Rockefeller, John D., and his mother,309;on making money,105.Rockefeller, John D., Jr., on Joseph's corner in corn,192.Rogers, H.H., and his mother,309;career of,150.Rome, ancient, great fortunes of,231.Roosevelt, Theodore,555;favorite poem of,26;anecdote of,222;on hunting the grizzly bear,341;on military training,8;on the United States Supreme Court,470.Roosevelt and the Labor-Unions,13.Root, Elihu, on Canada and the United States,286.Rosin Bible, The,134.Rostopchin, Prince, death of,259.Rothschild, Mayer Amschel, career of,335.Rowland, Helen,304.Roxane, Margaret Anglin as,66.Royal Visitors in America,549.Royle, Edwin Milton, career of,264.Rumford, Count (Benjamin Thompson), death of,161.Russell, Annie, career of,167.Russia:Alexander I, accession of,42;death of,259.Alexander II, accession of,533.Alexis, Grand Duke, visits the United States,551.Boris, Grand Duke, visits the United States,551.Crimean War,532,533.Duma, proclamation at opening of,386.Finland, cession of,46.Future of,7.Invasion by Napoleon,159.Nicholas I, accession of,258;death of,533.Nicholas II, character of,236;proclamation of,386.Paul I, murder of,42.Polish rebellion suppressed (1831),337.Revolutionary movement in,386.Serfs, liberation of, in Baltic Provinces,44.War with France (1805),44.War with France (1807),44,45.War with France (1812),159.Ryan, Thomas F., on great fortunes,194.SSackville, Lord, anecdote of,559.Sage, Russell, philosophy of,11.St. George's Church, New York,107.St. Helena, Napoleon's arrival at,161.St. Hilaire, Etienne, death of,430.St. Ulrich, toy-making in,452.San Jacinto, battle of,339.Santa Anna, Antonio de, seeMexico.Saragossa taken by the French,46.Sardou, Victorien, foible of,180."Sartor Resartus," extracts from,175.Saxe, John G.,242.Sayings in Every-Day Use,78.Schelling, Joseph, death of,340.Schiller, J.C.F., death of,44.Schlegel, Karl von, death of,260.Schleiermacher, F.E.D., death of,339.Schopenhauer, Arthur, death of,536.Schubert, Franz, death of,260.Schulman, S., on prejudices against the Jews,288.Schumann, Robert, death of,534.Schurman, Jacob G., on ancient and modern culture,99;on William R. Harper,11.Schwarzenberg, Prince, death of,532.Scinde, annexation of,430.Scott, Leroy,386.Scott, Sir Walter,212,351,377,416;last words of,296;death of,338.Scott, Winfield, wins victories in Mexico,431;last words of,296.Scrap Book, The, announcement of,1;reception of,95.Scudder, John L., on business women,293.Sealing-wax, origin of,183.Seaman, Owen, editor of "Punch,"101.Sebastopol, siege of,533.Selwyn, Edgar, career of,539.Sewing-machine, introduced by Thimonnier,260.Shakespeare, William, familiar maxims from,78;Bible sentences in plays of,134;on woman,31;on clothes,174.Shaw, George Bernard, on amateur actors,198.Shelley, Percy B., death of,257.Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, death of,162.Shibuzawa, Baron, career of,409;on conditions in Japan,6.Siddons, Sarah, death of,337.Sidney, Sir Philip, last words of,296.Silver-plating, discovery of,432.Simms, W. Gilmore,48.Sioux, renaming of the,386.Skinner, Otis, on dramatic art,293.Sleeping-car, invention of,502.Smith, Joseph, founder of Mormonism,259;death of,430.Smith, Langdon,184.Smith, Sydney, death of,431.Smithsonian Institution, foundation of,339,431.Smoking, prevalence of, among European monarchs,230.Snake stories,484.Socialism, William J. Bryan on,286;Robert Hunter on,287.Solferino, battle of,535.Some Deep-Sea Humor,206.Some of the Chances of Marriage,375.Something New in Magazine Making,1.Sonderbund, the, formation and dissolution of,431.Southey, Robert, death of,430.Southwestern States, growth of,117.Spain:Charles IV, abdication of,45.Espartero, regency of,340.Eulalia, Princess, visits the United States,551.Ferdinand VII held prisoner by Napoleon,45;restoration of,160;death of,338.Isabella II, accession of,338.Maria Cristina, expulsion of,340.Rebellion of South American colonies,162.Spalding, Susan Marr,87.Spargo, John, on food as a factor of character,106.Sparta, ruined by its women,285.Spartacus to the Gladiators at Capua,520.Speech on Duluth (Proctor Knott),320.Spelling reform, movement for,195;Calvin Thomas on,382.Spinoza, Baruch de, celibacy of,156.Splendor of Niagara, The,363.Spohr, Ludwig, death of,536.Sprague, Frank J., career of,147.Spy who swallowed a bullet,515.Staël, Madame de, exiled from France,43;death of,162.Stanhope, Lady Hester, death of,340.Stead, William T., on Nicholas II of Russia,236.Steinmetz, Charles P., career of,333.Stephenson, George, builds his first locomotive,160;death of,432.Stephenson, Robert, death of,536.Stevens, John, death of,340.Stevenson, Robert Louis, anecdote of,305;foible of,180.Stewart, Dugald,260.Stoddard, Richard Henry, career of,333.Stoddart, James H., and Richard Mansfield,65.Story of Baseball, The,437.Story of the Snow Elinora, The,247.Stothard, Thomas, death of,339.