V. GEOLOGY.--On the Origin and Structure of Coal,--With full page
of illustrations.


VI. POLITICAL ECONOMY.--Labor and Wages in America.--By D.
PIDGEON.--Who and what are the operatives.--Native labor.--Alien
employes.--Housing of labor.--Sobriety.--Pauperism.--Artisans'
homes.--Interest of employer in the condition of his
employes.--Wages in Europe and America.--Expenditures of
workingmen.--Free trade and protection.


VII. MISCELLANEOUS.--Ice Boat Races on the Mueggelsee, near
Berlin.--With engraving.


VIII. BIOGRAPHY.--DUPUY DE LOME--With portrait.

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THE RIGHI RAILROAD.


In the year 1864, the well-known geographer, Heinrich Keller, from Zurich,
on ascending to the summit of the Righi Mountain, in the heart of
Switzerland, discovered one of the finest panoramic displays of mountain
scenery that he had ever witnessed. To his enthusiastic descriptions some
lovers of nature in Zurich and Berne listened with much interest, and in