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HISTORY

Who is the prime minister of England? 300.

What eminent statesman was prime minister to George III? 751.

What caused him to lose the American colonies? 751.

When did the British East India Company settle in India? 920.

What victory fastened England's rule upon Bengal? 411.

When were the exclusive privileges taken away from the East India

Company? 576. What famous trial of seven years was held over East Indian affairs?

847.

How did the Seven Years' War affect the American colonies? 1727. What famous general was known as the Iron Duke? 2067. When was the 3rd of Sept. changed to the 14th, to the consternation

of ignorant people? 307.

What was the Manchester Anti-Cornlaw League? 416. Why was Victoria the most constitutional monarch of England? 2019. What did the great reform-bill do for the English people? 617. What brought an end to the Crimean War? 478, 1716. When did the Indian Mutiny occur? 354. What famous general was horn at Cawnpore? 1619. How did Queen Victoria become endeared to the American people?

2019.

What war cost England $937,000,000 in four years? 235. What immense service did "Little Bobs" render his country? 1619.

AMERICA,

Who recommended Columbus to Queen Isabella? 431. Which of  the  West Indies  is  said  to  have  been  first  discovered?

157, 2070.

How is the Duke of Veragua related to Columbus? 431. Was Columbus the first to believe that the earth is a sphere? 745. What famous maker  of maps first showed that  America  is  a  new

continent? 301. What did the Filipinos do to Magellan on the first voyage around

the globe? 1144.

What letter to a school-friend caused America to be named? 2016. Did the man who discovered the Pacific name it? 1407. Where did the American Indians come from? 60, 921.

MEXICO.

When did the Toltecs come to Mexico? 1216. Who invented the Mexican calendar? 1216. Who was Aztlan? 150.

What broke the heart of the last Aztec emperor? 1257. How were the Aztec women educated? 150. Where are some Aztecs living today? 1668. Where did Cortes burn his ships? 462. Was Cortes a  common adventurer? 462. What is one of the romances o~ history? 1216. How are the records of the Aztecs preserved? 150. How did the Spaniards treat the native Mexicans? 1216. What did New Spain include? 1216.

How did the priest Hidalgo serve his countrymen? 1216. Who established  the  Mexican  republic? 1216. Under what incompetent monarch did Spain lose Mexico? 656. What is the character of Emperor Augustine I?   949. What relation had the Mexican states to the central government? i675. Under what president was war again declared? 1216. Where did Maximilian make his last stand? 1574. How did he directly cause his own death? 1192. What was the  pathetic fate of his loyal queen? 1192. What faithful general was executed with him? 1239. Who is the ablest of Mexican rulers? 1216.

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