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Vie de GrillonIl nest au monde rien de plus mouvant que lclosion et le droulement dune petite vie, dune vie comme celle de linsecte dont jentreprends ici lhistoire. Petite vie Je viens demployer l une pithte qui ne me plat en aucune faon; mais...

Ancient history from the monuments: Greek cities & islands of Asia MinorCyzicusLampsacusAbydusAssusPal-ScepsisTroyDr. SchliemannIlium NovumAlexandriaTroasPergamum or Pergamusolis. Before we proceed to give a somewhat detailed account of the more important cities of Asia Minor, and of the islands adjacent to its west and southern shores,...

Fogságom történeteAz 1852-ik v rkre szomoru emlk lesz Erdly trtnelmben, mert az ldz rendszer ekkor egsz gyllettel dhngtt s teljes ervel zte korltlan uralmt. Szzanknt fogdostk be a haza polgrait s vdolvn ket hazarulssal s felsgsrtssel, csapatonknt itltk el 1020 vre, st ktlre is....

The Truth About an Author Sometime in the last century I was for several years one of the most regular contributors to "The Academy," under the editorship of Mr. Lewis Hind and the ownership of Mr. Morgan Richards. The work was constant; but the...

"Polio": Infantile ParalysisWhen polio strikes some child in a community, it is only natural for all parents in that community to become concerned about their own children. It is well to keep in mind, however, that even during an epidemic the number of persons...

Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, Fifth Series, No. 50, Vol. I, December 13, 1884The glacier garden lies far away on a steep hillside by the Lake of the Forest Cantons. Close to the picturesque town of Lucerne, a little path leads...

Australasia Triumphant!: With the Australians and New Zealanders in the Great War on Land and SeaIt is too soon to attempt the telling at large and in detail of all that has been done by Australia and New Zealand in the Great War. There...

Die Dynamitpatrone Eine Anzahl indianischer Arbeiter, die in den Bergwerken von Chihuahua gearbeitet hatten und sich jetzt in dem Vorort der Stadt herumtrieben, stritten sich eines Tages ber die Wirksamkeit der Dynamitpatronen, die beim Sprengen der Gesteinsmassen verwendet werden. Die Mehrzahl stimmte darin berein,...

Die Geschichte einer Bombe Eines Tages kam zu ihm der Indianer Guido Salvatore, der hier am Orte mehrere Wochen im Busch gearbeitet und fr etwa fnfzig Pesos Holzkohle gebrannt hatte. Nachdem er sich ein neues Hemd, eine neue Hose und einen neuen Hut gekauft,...

A New Story Book for ChildrenNobody could be more astonished than I, to find myself famous. I never dreamed of it, when I sat in a small room, at the top of the house where I lodged, scribbling over a sheet of coarse foolscap...

All-Time Favorite Cranberry RecipesCranberries are truly North American berries. Before Columbus came to the new world, the tangy wild cranberries had an important place in everyday life here. Indian squaws used cranberries to brighten up food. Pilgrim women learned of this wild berry from...

Harcz a nemzeti hadseregértVoltak llami kzletnk jeles frfiai kzt kivl sznokok. Kevs sznok beszdeit gyjtttk ssze az lk vagy a hivek vagy az rksk. Wesselnyi Mikls, fels-bkki Nagy Pl, ifjabb Balogh Jnos, Szemere Bertalan, Klauzl Gbor, Szilgyi Dezs beszdeihez pldul csak a trtnet s...

La petite femme de la merIl vint sur le mle une trange et sarcastique figure, un de ces visages quivoques aux yeux hardis, au rire muet, qui vous frlent du coude et ensuite vous proposent mystrieusement de vous mener vers les tavernes. Celui-l, on...

Meadowlark BasinOn the brow of the hill the horse Lark was riding stepped aside from the trail, walked to the very edge of the rim and stood there, gravely looking down into the valley. Where he stood the young grass was cut and crushed...

The Life of the GrasshopperI have ventured in the present volume to gather together, under the somewhat loose and inaccurate title of The Life of the Grasshopper, the essays scattered over the Souvenirs entomologiques that treat of Grasshoppers, Crickets, Locusts and such insects as...

Der Fall Strauß Der Fall der Brder Strau ist eigentlich der Sturz nur eines Menschen ... des lteren der beiden Brder, Emil Strau, der 1887 geboren, im Jahre 1921 wegen Ttung eines Kriminalwachtmeisters zu fnfzehn Jahren Zuchthaus verurteilt wurde. Dieses Urteil war in mehr...

NewshoundHis Honor popped a phenobarb tablet between his lips, tossing his head and gulping the pill down without water. His moist, nervous hands left their wet imprint on the desk top when he reached into his breast pocket and withdrew a clipping from the...

The Little Review, November 1915 (Vol. 2, No. 8) ... The war saps all ones energy. It seems impossible to do any creative work in the midst of all this turmoil and carnage. Of course you know that we had the Zeppelins over London?...

Es PercipiNicholson ducked into the room and squinted myopically through contact lenses which made his eyes look watery and far away. "Better scram out the back way, boss," he said. "That dame from the Department of Health and Public Welfare is here again." "Unfortunately,"...

La neuvaine de ColetteJai tant formul cette oraison jaculatoire sans que jamais nul y rponde que, de guerre lasse, je viens lcrire. Les choses crites ont plus de poids, me semble-t-il; puis elles durent plus faire surtout; et, par la mme raison qui ma...