Excerpt from Appleton's Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1888, Vol. 13: Embracing Political, Military, an Ecclesiastical Affairs; Public Documents; Biography, Statistics, Commerce, Finance, Literature, Science, Agriculture, and Mechanical Industry; Whole Series, Vol. XXVIII

The year 1888 was notable in the United States for elections that changed the political complexion of two branches of the National Government, and in Europe for the death of two emperors of Germany. Under the title United States, Presidential Elections in, the reader will find in this volume a condensed compilation, by counties, of the figures of the last five presidential elections, more conveniently arranged for comparison than such figures ever have been before. In the articles Harrison, Morton, and United States, the other facts of the canvass are set forth. The changes in Germany may be found under that title and in the articles on the three emperors Wilhelm I, Friedrich III, and Wilhelm II. Other movements, political and military, are recorded in the articles Abyssinia, Afghanistan, Great Britain, France, Samoa, and Zanzibar, the article on Samoa being accompanied by a new map, which shows the harbor secured for the United States. Besides the public works described in the article Engineering, a most important one is set forth under Nicaragua, where the reader will find the latest facts about what now appears to be the most feasible plan for a Ship-canal between the two oceans, illustrated by a colored bird's-eye view. The Financial Review furnishes the usual fine summary of the year's transactions, and the increase of our material prosperity may be further noted invthe articles on the separate States and Territories, and in that entitled Cities, American, Recent Growth of, continued from the two preceding volumes. The most noted deaths of the year, in the United States, were those of Gen. Sheridan and chief-j 11stice Waite, on whom the reader will find articles, as well as on their successors, Gen. Schofield and chief-justice Fuller, the last 'named illustrated by a' portrait on steel. Among the other losses of eminent citizens may be noted the Hon. Roscoe Conkling, who was a victim of the March blizzard; the venerable A. Bronson Alcott and his daughter Louisa; Asa Gray, the botanist; Mrs. Lozier, the physician; Seth Green, the pioneer pisciculturist; and Richard A. Proctor, the scientist. The Obituaries, both American and Foreign, will be found to cover a wide range.

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