DIRECTIONS.-1. Read the illustrated newspapers of 1877

for a good idea of the railroad riots. 2. If your history does not give an account of the Murphy Movement, have your teacher tell you of it. 3. Read any sketch of William C. Bryant and tell what poems he wrote. Which ones have you read? 4. Relate in your own language the story of the Negro Exodus, and that of the yellow fever. 5. What was the population of the U. S. in 1880? Of your State? Of your township? Of your city, or village?

QUEER QUERIES.

341. Who was the "Tanner President"? 342. What is meant by a "Granger"?

343. How many locomotives were burned at Pittsburgh in

the railroad riots?

344. What is a "coolie "?

345. Who said, "Go West, young man "?

346. Who is the "Father of Greenbacks"?

347. What man had "the longest funeral on earth "? 348. What president in his inaugural address used the expression," With malice toward none, with charity for all "?

349. What general of the Rebellion was designated as "Fighting Joe "?

350. What was the "cheese box on a raft"? (1862.)

WRITTEN REVIEW.

158. What amendments have been made to the Constitution? What was the first and the last made?

159. Describe the failures and the final success of the Atlantic cable.

160. What States were admitted from 1789 to the present? 161. What important railroad was completed in 1869? Give an account of the ceremonies on its completion.

162. Write a short sketch of Horace Greeley.

163. Describe the labor riots of 1877. Give causes. 164. Make a good list of American authors.

165. Make a list of important inventions with names of inventors.

166. Give full account of presidential muddle of 1876 '7. 167. What was Hayes's policy?

DIRECTIONS.- -1. If your histories do not contain the history for 1881-1885, it will be necessary for you to question those who are likely to know. If you have a file of any newspaper it would be well to leaf it for the information concerning the assassination of President Garfield, the Yorktown Centennial, the trial and execution of Guiteau, the Mississippi and the Ohio floods. The Pictorial Press will be the best reference. If f you have no such files, borrow one of a friend or spend an evening with him in looking over the topics name.l. 2. Allow the writer to suggest that we do not pay enough attention to current history in our school work. The live teacher or the wide-awake pupil will note every current event of any importance. Let us set about it to make an historical scrap-book in which we shall file all historical notes of whatever moment, cut from the daily or weekly paper of

each issue.

QUEER QUERIES.

351. Why is Garfield called the "Teacher President"? 352. Who shot Garfield?

353. Why are certain presidents called "Accidental "?

354. What is a Star Route?

355. Why does it anger an Indian brave to ask him his name? 356. What is meant by the "Joint High Commission "? (1871.)

357. What States presented the spikes which laid the last rail on the Union Pacific Railroad in 1869?

358. Who projected and built the St. Louis bridge? 359. What were Horace Greeley's last words?

360. What was a "Carpet-bagger"?

WRITTEN REVIEW.

168. What was the first and the last battle of the Revolu

tion?

169. The Mexican War?

170. War of 1812?

171. War of Secession?

172. French and Indian War?

173. Give full account of Custer's defeat.

174. Name the seceding States.

175. Tell all about the Trent affair.

176. Tell all about the Geneva Arbitration.

177. Give short sketch of the battle of Gettysburg.

MORE QUEER QUERIES.

A few more queries are appended for the purpose of aiding the teacher and the pupil in historical research. A large number of the queries are inserted for the purpose of leading the student to a knowledge of something else in his reading, to verify the answers appended. It is hoped that the teacher at least will read to satisfy himself as to the correct answers to all the queries.

The teacher may draw upon the following list at his leisure in the class; or he may substitute any of these for others in the regular lesson.

Let both teacher and pupil vie with each other in adding new queries to this list.

361. Who was Sir John Mandeville?

362. Why cannot the people of the Ant-Arctic continent see the North Star?

363. How did Sir John Mandeville say the earth turned? 364. How many persons signed the Mayflower Compact? 365. What early document contains the germ of the Articles of Confederation and of the Constitution?

366. When did the Ernancipation Proclamation take effect? 367. What general of the Revolution was called the "No flint general "?

368. What air did the British general order played when his army entered Philadelphia?

369. Where did a house save the British from defeat?

370. How did Luther Holcomb hold Governor Tryon's army in check at Bethel?

371. What did Congress do for Lieutenant-Colonel Barton who captured General Prescott at Newport?