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The American Missionary — Volume 36, No. 1, January, 1882We welcome the advent of the new year with praise and thanksgiving. The toils and burdens of 1881 are past. The husbandman has garnered his sheaves. The sower has cast in his seed, and awaits...

Gypsy and GingerOh, but before that I ought to say that those were not their names. Hers was the name of the most beautiful of women, and his the name of the most victorious of men. But they were not a bit like that...

The Aviator and the Weather BureauThis is a brief but general account of the history of aviation as it is associated with southern California, a description of the War Department school of aviation at San Diego, a syllabus of the course of lectures delivered...

Royalty in All Ages - The Amusements, Eccentricities, Accomplishments, Superstitions and Frolics of the Kings and Queens of EuropeIt has been remarked that to write of the private and domestic acts of monarchs while still alive savours of scandal and bad taste, but when...

The Underground World: A mirror of life below the surfaceINTERESTING SKETCHES OF MINES AND MINING IN ALL PARTS OF THE WORLDCAVES AND THEIR MYSTERIESFAMOUS TUNNELSDOWN IN THE DEPTHS OF THE SEA. VOLCANOES AND THEIR ERUPTIONSPETROLEUMUNDERGROUND LIFE OF MAN AND THE LOWER ANIMALS. SUBTERRANEAN WORKS...

A Soldier's Experience in Southern Prisons - A Graphic Description of the Author's Experiences in Various Southern PrisonsLibbyNow I lose my money"Fresh fish"Quarters and rationsBoxes from homeTwo majors escapeA general conspiracyBad news and new prisonersGeneral Butler saves two Union officers by threatening to hang...

The Catholic World, Vol. 09, April, 1869-September, 1869 [Transcriber's Notes: This production was derived from https://archive.org/stream/catholicworld09pauluoft/ catholicworld09pauluoft_djvu.txt Page images are also available at https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moajrnl/browse.journals/cath.html To view the tables in several places use a fixed pitch font.] New York: The Catholic Publication House, 126 Nassau...

Glove LoreIn presenting our Brochure on fall and winter gloves, it occurred to us that a few facts bearing upon the historical phase of the subject would not be amiss, and, though necessarily brief, we trust may prove interesting to our readers. Our display...

Sydney to Croydon (Northern Queensland) - An Interesting Account of a Journey to the Gulf Country with a Member of ParliamentHAVING received letters and telegrams from an old mate of mine who has been on the Croydon goldfield for some considerable timein all of...

Hurst & Blackett's Standard Library (1895)The first volume of Messrs. Hurst and Blacketts Standard Library of Cheap Editions forms a very good beginning to what will doubtless be a very successful undertaking. Nature and Human Nature is one of the best of Sam Slicks...

LucerneThere is good warrant for turning directly to Lucerne and to the lake which lies in the midst of the four Forest Cantons when making, or renewing, acquaintance with Switzerland; and there should be no question of thereby slighting other famed districts of this...

A Primer of the Art of Illumination for the Use of Beginners - With a rudimentary treatise on the art, practical directions for its exercise, and examples taken from illuminated mss.As the taste for illumination continues to spread, the want of an elementary work...

The Southern Literary Messenger, Vol. I., No. 7, March, 1835SELECTIONS: from the Papers of the Virginia Historical and Philosophical Society The Breviate Book of Sir John Randolph Proceedings of the Sons of Liberty at Norfolk, 1766 Attack on Wheeling Fort in the Year 1777...

On Mule Back Thru Central America with the GospelThe days of miraculous achievements are not past, as the accounts chronicled in this book will testify. Four people make a missionary trip from Los Angeles, Cal., down the coast of Mexico, preaching in many of...

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 52, 1841-1898 - Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those...

Œuvres complètes de Guy de Maupassant - volume 13Comme il portait beau, par nature et par pose dancien sous-officier, il cambra sa taille, frisa sa moustache dun geste militaire et familier, et jeta sur les dneurs attards un regard rapide et circulaire, un de...

Nouveaux Pastels (Dix portraits d'hommes)Je me trouvais, au mois d'octobre 188., voyager en Italie, sans autre but que de tromper quelques semaines en revoyant mon aise plusieurs des chefs-d'uvre que je prfre. Ce plaisir de la seconde impression a toujours t, chez moi, plus...

Peter VischerTHE Germans have by nature the gift of working in metal, and, among them, in the realms of bronze, Peter Vischer stands easily first. His position as a craftsman may, in fact, be compared with that held by his contemporary and fellow citizen,...

The Sheep-StealersIN the earlier half of the nineteenth century, when most of the travelling done by our grandfathers was done by road, and the intercourse between districts by no means far apart was but small, a tract of country lying at the foot of...

Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground JourneyAs doubting Thomases seem to take particular pleasure in popping up on all occasions, Jack-in-the-Box-like, it may be well to head them off in this particular instance by proving that Baron Trump was a real baron, and not a mere...