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Journal of William H. Richardson, a private soldier in the campaign of New and Old Mexico, under the command of Colonel Doniphan of MissouriI left my home on West River, Anne Arundel County, Md., the 11th November, 1845, for a southern tour, and after...

Smoking flaxSmoking Flax is a story of the South written by a young Kentucky woman. Undoubtedly in the South its advent will be saluted with enthusiastic bravos. What will be the nature of its reception in the North it is hazardous to predict. One...

Puppies and kittens, and other storiesDaily Graphic.Wonderland through the camera. Mrs. Carine Cadby has had the charming idea of telling in The Dolls Day exactly what a little girl who was very fond of dolls dreamed that her dolls did when they had a...

Lost in the backwoods Cyril had never passed through such a terrible minute in his whole life as that one during which his father remained silent, instead of replying to his fierce assailant's demand. A short while before the train-boy, passing down the outside...

Elastic and non-elastic narrow fabrics - and a chapter on narrow fabrics made on knitting machinesWhen we think of the discovery of rubber vulcanization and the effect it has had on world affairs our minds naturally turn to the big things, such as the...

Danton: A studyAn historian of just pre-eminence in his university and college, in a little work which should be more widely known, has summed up the two principal characters of the Revolution in the following phrases: the cold and ferocious Robespierre, the blatant Danton.[1]...

Le vote des femmesCe livre, qui relate les efforts faits en France depuis plus dun sicle pour faire entrer les femmes en possession de leurs droits politiques; envisage le vote des femmes tous les points de vue, il rfute les objections qui y sont...

A handbook of systematic botanyThe present translation of Dr. E. Warmings Haandbog i den Systematiske Botanik is taken from the text of the 3rd Danish Edition (1892), and from Dr. Knoblauchs German Edition (1890), and the book has been further enriched by numerous additional...

A spray of lilac, and other poems and songsIf an apology for venturing to offer them to the public in collected form be deemed necessary, I can only urge the plea of the poor but hospitable Dervish, He is a generous host who freely...

John Sobieski: Lothian prize essay for 1881Strangeness of Polish history.The Kingdom or Republic of Poland has always seemed a strange phenomenon in European history, partly from the aboriginal character of its population, and partly from its exceptional constitution. The ancient Sarmatians, who occupied the...

The motherIN the kitchen of the small thatched farmhouse the mother sat on a low bamboo stool behind the earthen stove and fed grass deftly into the hole where a fire burned beneath the iron cauldron. The blaze was but just caught and she...

Poor Jack: A play in one actThus am I confounded by words of my own choosing, for in truth I have raised one; and not for me, as for Dame Sylvia, does Chivalry blow upon a silver horn to drown the squeakings of that...

The violin and the art of its construction: a treatise on the Stradivarius violinIn giving publicity to this treatise on the construction of the violin, I believe I am only meeting the wishes of many, both professionals and amateurs, who are desirous of learning...

The case against evolutionAs a result of recent investigations on the sex chromosomes and chromosome numbers in mammals, Theophilus S. Painter reaches the conclusions that polyploidy cannot be invoked to explain evolution within this class. After giving a table of chromosome numbers for 7...

Petunia blossoms: Ballads and poemsThis really happened in April, 1865, in the northern part of the Atlantic ocean. The ship was an old fashioned sailing vessel and under ordinary circumstances would have required three to four weeks time from Bergen, Norway, to Montreal, Canada....

My mother IndiaThis work was undertaken at the request of THE PACIFIC COAST KHALSA DIWAN SOCIETY, commonly known as the SIKH TEMPLE at Stockton, California. The original plan was to write a comprehensive reply to Katherine Mayos book MOTHER INDIA, which was changed later...

Budapest: RegényValamikor rgen ppensggel nem kellett az rnak bocsnatot krnie, amirt az els pr sorral nem viszi az olvast tmja rdekes kell kzepbe. Magam is sok tprenkedtem, mikppen kerlhetnm ki a hossz s szraz lerst, prbltam is kezdetl nhny dialgust kifaragni hsm s hsnm...

College prolongs infancy... the ideals and methods which are dynamic in our institutions of higher learning are false. They are false to the students, false to the social purpose which nourishes them, false to the inward nature of education itself. They are false because...

The Wyvern mystery In the small breakfast parlour of Oulton, a pretty girl, Miss Alice Maybell, with her furs and wrappers about her, and a journey of forty miles before hernot by railto Wyvern, had stood up to hug and kiss her old aunt,...

Sketches in EgyptEGYPT has sat for her likeness longer than any other country. Nothing disturbs her composure. Financial ruin may stare her in the face, armies may come and go, but each year the Nile rises and spreads out over her, and all traces...