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Cable, telegraph, between Ireland and U. S., 184

Cabinet, of Buchanan, 20

Cabinet officers, 185

Cabinet officers, salaries of, 107-108, 185

Cabinet, Postmaster General in the, 143

Cable message, the first, 31

Cables, transatlantic, 21

Cables, submarine, 120-121

CÆSARS— Palace of the, 112 The title, 178 The twelve, 96

Cairo, elevation of, 109

Calendar, changes in, 45-46

Calhoun, resigns Vice Presidency, 49

CALIFORNIA— An early coin of, 44 Description of, 24, 170 Leprosy in, 6 Mail route, 155

Calvinism, five points in, 91

Cambridge, Duke of, 111

CANADA— Largest cities in, 151 Religious statistics in, 35

Canadian tariff, 86

Canals, Erie and Michigan, 10

Canby, General, sketch of, 148

Canon, the sacred, 102

Canton, burning of, 50

Capitol at Washington, 163

Capron, suicide canard, 120

Carat, definition and weight of, 8

Carleton, Will, sketch of, 135-136

Carlotta, Empress, 122

Carlos, Don, sketch of, 147-148

Carlstadt, burning of, 50

CAROLINA— Gold mines of, 57 Settlement of, 67

Cashmere fleeces, 44

Caspian Sea, depression of the, 184

Castle Garden, New York, 56

Casualties of the civil war, 74

Cathedrals, largest, 69

Catholics, Roman, in Canada, 35

CATTLE— Estimating the weight of, 164-165 In the United States, 121, 127

Caucus, origin of the, 53-54

Cedar County, Neb., 31-32

Celts, record of British, 43

Cement, Chinese, 131

Cemeteries, National, 159

Central America, 94

CENTRAL AMERICANS— In Chicago, 23 In New York, 23

Chaillu, Du, sketch of, 92

Chancellor, Lord and Chief Justice, 156-157

Channing, William E., sketch of, 169

CHAPLAINS— Age required for, 138 In army and navy, 138 Of Congress, 99

Chapultepec, Lee at, 16

Chariots, scythed, 75-76

Charles, Elizabeth Rundle, 72

Charleston, S. C., burning of, 50

Cheers in a conference, 166

CHEESE— Creamery, 27 Duty on, 11

Chess, origin of, 69-70

CHICAGO— Burning of, 50, 181 Churches in, 76 Elevation of, 128 First slave in, 174 First white child born in, 161 Flower mission in, 73 Foreign population of, 23 Grain handled in, 17 Population of, 176 Pronunciation and meaning of, 181 Railroads entering, 133-134 Saloons in, 105

Chickens, what to feed, 85

China, distance and fare to, 124

Chinese cement, 131

CHINESE— In Australia, 51 In Chicago, 23 In New York, 23 Proverbs of, 167-168

China, treaties with, 126-127

Chore, derivation of the word, 175

Christadelphians, 157

Christiana, burning of, 49

Christian Era, when first used, 96

Christian institutions, 148

Christianity, the Logic of Creation, 8

Christmas and Easter, 116

Churches and membership in Chicago, 76

Church of England, 74

Churches, membership of, 182

Church reformations, 102-103

CITIES— Altitudes of Western, 21 Largest in U. S. and Canada, 151 Of France and Great Britain, 131

Citizen’s League of Illinois, 77-78

Civil list of U. S., 28

CIVIL WAR— Prisoners taken in, 134 Troops called for in, 176

Clarendon County Colony, 67

CLAY, HENRY— And Liberia, 154 Descendants of, 108-109 Sketch of, 108-109 Presidential candidate, 108

Clearing House, London, 17

Clement VIII., 10

Cliff dwellings in Sonora, 165

Clocks and noon marks, 24

Clock and sun-dial, 97

Clydesdale horses, 78

COAL— Area of the U. S., 157 Duty on, 11 First reported in U. S., 88 Oil for fence-posts, 176

Cobbett, Wm., sketch of, 100

Code Napoleon, 106

COFFEE— First use of, 95 Mocha, 44-45

COIN— An early Californian, 44 At a premium, 110 Early American, 19 Fineness of U. S., 20 Foreign, value of, 128 Rare, of the U. S., 122-123 Value of rare, 19-20

COLD— Atmospheric condition of, 83 In Dakota and Chicago, 83

Cold Harbor, General Meade at, 184

Coles, Governor Edward, sketch of, 20

Cologne Cathedral, 69

Colombia, formation of, 25

Colosseum, dimensions of, 68-69

Columbia College, wealth and attendance, 134

Columbia, District of, area of, 180

Columbia River, 145-146

Columbus, wives and sons of, 73

Combe, George, 9

Comet of 1812 and 1813, 149

Committee of the Whole, 53

Communism, 79

Compass, variations of, 16

Compulsory Education Laws, 132-133

Concrete houses, 100-101

Confederacy, finances of, 123-124

Confederate losses, 74

Confucianism, 168

Congregationalists in Canada, 35

CONGRESS— The Continental, 62, 140 First Chaplains of, 99 Members of, 185 Congressman “at large”, 70, 179 Members not United States officers, 177 Congressmen, occupations of, 88 Salaries of, 180 Congressional apportionments, 11 Congressional townships, 67

CONSTANTINOPLE— Burning of, 49-50 Harbor of, 182

Constellations of the Zodiac, 30-31

CONSTITUTION— Amendments to the, 104, 129 Framers of the, 177 Of the United States, 138

Consumption, deaths from, 125

Contestants of seats in Congress, 70

Continental Congress, Presidents of, 62

Convict labor, 95

Cook, Eliza, sketch of, 15

Cooper, J. Fenimore, sketch of, 13

Copenhagen, burning of, 49

Copper, where found and use, 14

COPYRIGHT— How to secure a, 78 Penalties, 78

Cordova, Mexico, description of, 116

CORN— Amount of alcohol in, 163 Crop of Iowa and Illinois, 124 Crop in 1882, 31 Duty on, 11 “Corn Laws”, 154 Leading county in, 181

Corn meal, duty on, 11

Cortez, Fernando, 48-49

Cotton, white and brown, 181

Cotton-gin, inventor of, 114

Counties, large, 118

Counties, number in the United States, 32

Court in banc, 85

Courts, high, 157

Cow, products of butter from, 39-40

Cox, “Sunset”, 179

Creamery, description of, 27-28

Creole, meaning of the term, 184

CRIME— In Chicago, 77 On high seas, 51

Criminals, number of educated, 175

Cruelty to animals, 52

Cuba, slavery in, 23

Cummins, Maria S., 97

“Curfew Must Not Ring To-night”, 180

Cushing, Caleb, 126

Custer County, Neb., 145

Czar, income of the, 47