Table of Contents
J. R. Jones
3 pages
Poetry and Prose
2 pages
I Ist of Illustrations
4 pages
Beautiful World
BEAUTIFUL world! though bigots condemn thee, My tongue finds no words for the graces that gem thee!
Bonnet Monkeys
HOEVER invented the term when anyone for whom she entertains an "chattering ape" must have affection is teased or threatened. Monhad in his…
The Chamois
HE Chamois is goat- brown hue, and the coat consists of long, like in form. This shaggy, coarse hair. In summer the is nowhere better tints…
The Dead Chamois
(21) or the interests of many by the watchfulness | perform many little services for each of one or more, is represented in the life other…
The Wild Cat
LTHOUGH the In the winter season, when the Wild Wild Cat may be Cat ventures further abroad in search of said to avoid rather prey than in…
Stampede on the Prairie
BSERVING the way rivals in appearance the similar Bison, we see that adornment in the lion himself. Along huge develop the back the hair of…
Elk Attacked by Wolves
HEN attacked by his The weight of the antlers of the Elk natural enemies, the may be fifty, or even sixty pounds; the wolves, the Elk…
Desperate Battle Between an Elk and Wolves
27 his nose up, so as to lay the horns hori- or thirty feet off over the snow. Another zontally back; and in this attitude can- rush of the…
A Narrow Escape
and the pursued is immersed in the cold water. The lake knows him well in the /waters of the lake. The nearest wolves summer days, for both…
A Marvellous Animal
ESPECTING the sa- object, dead or alive, to place under their gacity of the Ele-knees to prevent them sinking deeper in phant, and…
Elephant and Young
(31) emitting a peculiar grunting noise. This the dismay of her keeper, who asserted was her recognition of Mr. Turley's atten- that had it…
A Marauder
appro MONGST birds for protection. If the white plumage in the Ptarmigans winter serves to conceal it amid the snow, form an interest- the…
A Marauder and His Captive
(33) It is a curious fact that these birds remarks that the delicacy and perfection appear to know the safety which lies in of the nest…
Albatross and Gulls
HE great world of wa-sweep of wing, the Albatross may appear ters, like the broad tracts to hover or to sail lazily along for hours of…
The Great Albatross
Well-nigh as interesting in every respect | "carries off the palm from all competitors. are the elegant Gulls. The seaside visitor, Never…
A Day's Fishing in South Africa
HEN stationed at one of "I will have some of you," the little stone forts thought I. in South Africa, The spot where the fish rose was…
The Long-Clawed Iguana
(37) thus precipitated, the water was sweet Capital sport we had, pulling them out enough and wholesome. The river had often two at a time…
Curious Horse-Fish
(39) intense disgust; "why, here's a tremen- than one of the great trap spiders, erronedous big toad comin' up now, sorr. Bad ously called…
The Shooting-Fish Bringing Down a Fly
| usual luxury of a dish of collared eels or There are curious specimens of fish in fried mullet, as to enjoy the pleasure (fas- the…
An Unequal Contest
Nits general aspect, the mother-raven or crow can dislodge it in Polecat closciy resembles its ferocity. Occasionally, in its rambles, the…
Shark-Fishing on the Coast of Florida
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Animals, Reptiles and Fish of the Tropics
(47) on long voyages; and, though exceedingly the same latitudes. This curiously concoarse and rank, it is generally considered structed…
Ostrich-Riding of the Somali
OMALI LAND, by the women. He is courageous, brave and reports of Stanley, independent, but quarrelsome and deceit. Emin Pasha and ful, and…
Ostrich Riders of Africa
(49) pranced around. Large-eyed ostriches, threw them away, which with lightning not in the least shy, stood near-by. speed the ostriches…
South American Ostrich and Young
for the most part these have been successful. A wonderful bird is the Ostrich; so large and tall, so strong, so foolish in its flight, when…
The Horsemanship of the Kurds
AVING travelled through all On the second day of our sojourn at parts to Palestine, a celebrated Ossa, a chase was arranged in our honor…
Marvellous Feats of Horsemanship Among the Kurds
(53) suddenly wheeling to the right and left, leading horseman stood on his head in they formed small troops, and then exe- the saddle…
Monsters of the Ancient World
It URING the distinct classes of the animal kingdom. year 1814, Sir The teeth of the Lizard-fish, in some in- Everard Home stances…
The Great Sea-Lizard and Flying Reptile
genus than fishes, especially in the character of the skeleton. formidable jaws and teeth, its rapid mo- A similar remarkable combination…
Battle Between Antediluvian Monsters
shape and appearance as this strange creature. It was a struct the animal, and clothe it with flesh, marvel of ugliness. in our…
The Ferocious Crocodile
ONES of a race of im- it was covered with plates on its under mense Crocodiles have side as well as on its back. Though it been found…
Immense Crocodiles of the Ancient Seas
his body prevents him from turning sud- Except when pressed by hunger or denly round, he swims forward with urged by the necessity of…
Famous Egyptian Crocodile
LATT KILENER (61) ing undressed, was about to take a glori- sprang back instinctively. This proved ous dive, when his attention was…
Prairie Dog Town
PRAIRIE DOG is a depth, as one of them has been known to pretty and rather curious absorb five barreis of water without being animal…
Pearson. Soc
(63) and leap into their burrows. Their its home. A pea-rifle is almost useless in curiosity, however, is irrepressible, and shooting…
The Pretty Dormouse and Its Nest
HE pretty little must needs have some retired domicile in brown-coated, which it can be hidden from the many enewhite-bellied Dor- mies…
Dormouse and Nest
5 (65) of it as a treasury. Like many other the pangs of hunger. As the food of the hibernating animals, it collects a store of Dormouse…
The Harvest-Mouse
HIS elegant little manner as to entitle it to the name of a creature is so tiny true hanging nest. Generally, it is hung that, when full…
Pranks of the Harvest Mouse
(67) always at some little height, presupposes As the food of the Harvest-mouse cona climbing power in the architect. All sists greatly of…
Androcles and the Lion
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Heifer Seized by an Immense Lion
(71) * two points, as if to find how much too softly to the cage, and showed only s short, or how much beyond the mark, he face between the…
The Shipwrecked Boys
N account of the wreck that the islet on which they now found of the ship Osprey, themselves was quite out of the track of little David…
Hunting Shell-Fish and Sea-Birds' Eggs
(73) a as closely together as possible, so as to discomfort and danger of wearing their form the four walls, sods of turf being wet…
Adventure in a Jungle
EVERAL years ago a neck. They had reached, one day, a party of young civil- dense cane brake, and were pushing their ians in India, while…
Deadly Fight in the Jungle
(75) of them, the reeds towering far above was horrified to see in front of him the their heads, and the dust and fluff of the Elephant…
Elephants Transporting Cannon
them says: it was the means of bringing game of a been attested by special mention in the high class within their reach, for on the reports…
Elephants Laying Timbers
the centre of the roof, to which the ascent his strength was exhausted, and he was by a ladder. retired. The next in size and strength On…
Our Little German Band
2 pages
Looking into the Future
wic Groome "YOU BLOW AND I'LL BE LEADER." tants. The principal road to the palace- could be cleared; but he was in haste, and gate was…
Performing Elephants
(83) crawled to such a distance as to verge mal to be got out? The owner thought upon the limits of his range (for the and thought, and…
Remarkable Dogs
HE Mastiff was called by the ness and fidelity were equal to their Romans Canis Molossus, because it strength. A touching memorial of one…
Celebrated Dog of Marathon
(85) Llewellyn gazed with wild surprise; Unused such looks to meet, His favorite checked his joyful guise, And crouched and licked his feet.
Giving Doggie a Drink
(87) arrives. One brave Dog, named Barry, of whom was accompanied by a Dog, one had a medal tied round his neck as a of which was the…
An Animal of Great Height and Beauty
HE Giraffe--which has countenance exceedingly gentle and been humorously de- pleasing in its expression, the eyes being scribed as "an…
Beautiful Giraffe or Camelopard
herds containing thirty where to be met with in great numbers. to sixteen; but I have not unfrequently In countries unmolested by the…
Hunters Chasing a Herd of Giraffes
shall not soon forget the wild, agonized, and more of something else-horsey, I pleading sort of expression in that poor should say. But I…
The Gigantic Hippopotamus
CARCELY, if at all, the dread of every servant and peasant, inferior to the ele- they cost from half-a-dollar to a dollar phant in bulk…
Terrible Encounter with Hippopotami
and, though the shaft of the harpoon may | turning it. Meanwhile, his assailants are be broken, the piece of wood which is not idle; four…
Old and Young Hippopotami
about as much injury as a boy's sling; it of necessary delay for the hunt. When was perfect accuracy of firing, for ten undisturbed by…
The Donkey
UR engraving pictures go on horseback and are attended by a young English lad Indians on foot. When arrived at the and his Donkey. proper…
To Lewes
When they come to the edge of one of librium of the Donkey, in which case both the descents, they stop of themselves, must unavoidably…
Among the Lilies
HEN summer suns are shining, B And countless joys are ours- The matchless grace of nature, The fragrance of the flowers- When lingering by…
The Fishing Otter
N otter, belonging to a teen inches. Itslegs are short, but strong Scotch gentleman, was and muscular. The head is broad, oval so tame that…
Otter Catching Fish
when among the woods where the snow is with clubs kill great numbers of them. light and deep, they immediately dive, These creatures are…
The Long-Tongued Chameleon
F THE tree lizards, or stantly passing over its body. Sometimes those which rarely it would be striped like a zebra with light crawl on the…
The Chameleon
(101) display, perhaps, the most surprising lithe and active in its motions. Of all agility and suppleness. Not only does it creatures that…
The Cats and the Ape
PES have always had A female Orang-outang, from the the name of being island of Borneo, was brought alive into shrewd and mis- Holland and…
Looking Out for Number One
put them into her mouth, holding, at the after eating, if presented with a toothpick same time, the plate in the other hand.
A Morning Call
HE accompanying en- Toomer, then under-keeper of Broomy graving represents a Lodge, in the New Forest, was breaking. lively scene. A num…
The Puma
HE PUMA, some- known to kill fifty in one night. Active times called the means are, therefore, constantly required couguar, has a very for…
E. Ak Jahrmarg
(107) flew at the prostrate beast; but a single several persons to the spot, where the blow from his paw laid him dead by his unfortunate…
Trained Walrus
OFFER to and cried in such a pitiable way that the our young other animals became excited and frightfriends, in ened. Many who have heard…
Hunting the Deer
TAG-HUNTING | often seen in herds of upwards of a thouhas been a favor- sand, and when in a track where there is ite pastime from no human…
A Race for Life
". (111) same time; some of the animals are gen- outrun the fleetest horse or greyhound; erally stationed on watch. When these yet such is…
Adventure with an African Buffalo
IVINGSTONE, in discovered a herd of Buffaloes, the trio his travels through let fly at them, wounding some, but not Africa, often ob- so…
Exciting Chase of African Buffaloes
took to his heels. The Buffalo saw him, my friend, and continued in pursuit of and uttering a continued unearthly noise Frolic. between a…
Great Polar Bear
N ACQUAINT- reigns eternal frost, and of those coasts ance with this ani- which are rarely free from ice, this Bear, mal may be traced in a…
Marvellous Scene in the Arctic Regions
(115) Captain Sabine states that he saw one then goes out to sea upon the ice, and about midway between the north and preys upon seals…
Polar Bears Capturing a Seal
(117) last piece, the crew levelled their muskets attempted to escape. Finding itself, at the cubs, and shot them both dead; at however…
Polar Bear Killed While Defending Her Young
Luden (119) the piece. A third time the noose was At another time they saw three Bears laid, the rope was now buried in the snow, approach…
Animal Life in the North Sea
131 rus of nine or ten feet in length, rose in water, in case of a nearer acquaintance a pool of water, and, after looking around, with his…
A Formidable Foe
R. HAYES, the ruses to get their tushes on the gunwale Arctic explorer, of the boat, and it was evident that in the relates an adven- event…
Encounter with Walruses
(123) now, as before, busy loading; the other heads pointed seaward. A dozen had rifles had been discharged, and the men been killed, and…
Story of Sir John Franklin
O tale of Arctic adventure is more of Baffin Bay, moored to an iceberg and thrilling than that of Sir John awaitingan opening into…
May Elwe
DESPERATE COMBAT BETWEEN DOGS AND A POLAR BEAR. (125) Y around, as also meat canisters, were the of King William Land. Her people went…
Arctic Ship Among Mountains of Ice
(127) more of the Esquimaux, or other traces snow; it is the risk that captivates them. of the lost voyagers, and feeling cer- Charmed with…
Relics of Franklin's Polar Voyage
men, when they perished in the far bravery, and the voyages of the brave men who have risked, and, in some Notwithstanding the disastrous…
Perils of Arctic Voyages
HE American Arc- months drifting in the pack will make a tic Expedition, little mass of volcanic rock like our island commanded by as…
Lieutenant Delong's Perilous Journey Over the Ice
(131) the only signs of life. To reach the land, the ship's party of thirty-three made their the party left their boat and supplies, and…
The Enchanted Coast
Phantom ANY travel- by the golden beams of a rising eastern lers have sun, never looked half so splendid as did spoken of the this phantom…
Ships Among Overhanging Icebergs
(135) country, as a luminous arch near the ing out tongues of flame, which shoot up northern horizon, from which start straight the zenith…
A Strange People
SINGULAR race tain Parry, who says that a collection of of people are igloos, or huts, though within sight of his the Esquimaux. ship, had…
Esquimau Village of Snow Houses
(137) as to create astonishment, that feeling driver. I think I never perspired so was in no small degree heightened on profusely as on…
Rapid Travelling on a Dog Sledge
arose to prevent it; and thus a second next morning-the third of our journight came upon us while still upon the ney-it was found…
Esquimau in His Water-Proof Canoe
can enter, puts on his water-proof mittens strokes of the long double paddle, the sea and takes hold of his double paddle by may dash over…
Ships Seen in the Air
NE of the beautiful, British fleet, consisting of nineteen sail. deceptive phenom- Here, again, the distance between the ena known as the…
The Most Wonderful Voyage on Record
words of hope and confidence of the success of the expedition. N 1870, the Congress of the United States appropriated the sum of $50,000…
Voyage of Six Months on an Iceberg
10 (145) time food was furnished to save them.
Start of a Sledge Expedition
removing their things to a new centre. children were placed in the boat without On the night of the 7th it broke again, a dry spot, and…
The Walrus of the Arctic Seas
peated every fifteen minutes, and it kept deplorable condition, and had suffered all busy looking for a place which would indescribable…
Cutting Docks in the Ice
insecurely patched and overloaded. The morning, but were compelled to haul her danger was great, but the boat survived up on the ice, where…
Dangers of Alpine Climbing
HE SWISS valleys are rich in in the clear blue sky, or wheeling slowly rare and beautiful flowers. The round some solitary peak; and herds…
Fierce Attack of Eagles Upon a Chamois
(151) erland this wild denizen of the mountains came a little impatient. It was no use has become very rare. From many dis- talking, it was…
Swiss Mountains and Cottages
(153) the ridge could be turned at all. Here, We passed close under the tremendous carefully arranging our legs so as not to Cima di Jazi…
On the Top of the Wetterhorn
ANY of the it is hard to conceive how even a chamois peaks of the could make its way along them. The Alps have experienced cragsman…
Alpine Climbers Seeking Crystals
VERY- come to the level plain exclaim, "Oh, what body who a beautiful country!" It is so different can, goes from anything they have ever…
Exciting Adventures in the Alps
PERILS always attend We commenced the ascent of the gully the Alpine tourist, leading to a point in the ridge, just to the a fact well…
Dangerous Plunge from a Snow-Cliff
teen feet, all being tied together, Almer, you dropped into the crevasse below, the other guide, occupying the responsi- which, although…
On the Brink of a Terrible Chasm
side, and hauled us up after him; then on hands and knees, towed us across by cut away along a ridge until a point was the legs, ridiculing…
The Far-Famed Mount Rigi
A - ON of it were just like islands half emerging DER- to the view. It lay over the Bay of Kuss- FULnacht at our feet, like the white robe…
Railway Up the Rigi
keepers. But, as I was resolute in my determination to proceed, the difficulties vanished, and a few minutes after seven o'clock we were…
Beauties of India
UCH has been written In the "Vale of Cashmere" there are not concerning the natu- only "roses the brightest that earth ever ral scenery and…
Fording the River Parbutti-India
(165) Of entering the water, the natives quickly of straw easy-chairs, and a lantern, formpropel it to the opposite bank. ing bed-room and…
Magnificent Oriental Procession
ARODA is the capital of conspicuous for Oriental magnificence the territory of one of would seem to have been the regal sowari, the most…
Gorgeous Procession in the Great Sowari-India
(167) in loud shouts which might well have Behind them stalked a magnificent elestartled the timid creature. The air re- phant, covered…
Cities of India
HE poet Moore, in rets of Lahore, made the city altogether his romance of like a place of enchantment." "Lalla Rookh," Not to be forgotten…
Kashmirian Boatmen of India
(169) ing in objects of interest. Here a clump craft with much dexterity. Travellers of tall trees is perched on the summit of speak in…
Feast of Ganesa
HE temple of Ganesa, The great festival of Ganesa occurs God of Wisdom, a many- towards the end of April. It always atarmed human figure…
Celebrating the Feast of Ganesa-India
ரம் (171) embroidered canopy surmounts, is placed while the river is thickly covered with an effigy of the god, made in terra-cotta scores…
The Sacred River of India
IKE most eastern coun- pets and other commodities. The Brahtries India does not change mins then, as now, were performing their much. The…
Boats and Boatmen of the Ganges-India
a (173) Improved since the day when the pioneer sanctuaries, to which, over distances of the English merchants wandered greater than from…
Crocodile of the Ganges
True, it cannot be seen, but the pilgrim believes that it flows underground to this spot.
Indian Caves and Temples
RAVELLERS in India yet without a haven or an anchorage for expect always to visit the ships, large or small, which carry on Madras and…
Curious Hindoo Idol-India
fanta of Portugal, and as the Portuguese had made conquests in India. before our time, the island belonged to them.
Sculptured Guards of an Indian Temple
10 landing-place is an elephant as large as holds a cobra, which is a large poisonous life, hewn out of a rock.
An Indian Fable
HERE once lived which he thought would suit his purpose, in India a weaver, and began to cut it down. Now a spirit named Man - lived in the…
The Egg Dance as Seen in India
are disposed of in the same way, until should she make a false step, the egg every thread is provided with one. would dash against each…
Strange Hindoo Gods
INDOOISM, or Brah- people love him, but because they fear minism, is the pre- him. They think that if they neglect to vailing religion pay…
Ready for the Chase
HE natives of Persia are adepts | nations have the same practices as some at hunting, and exhibit remark- of the western. This Persian…
Persian Falconer Ready for the Chase
it on horseback, but also, where the ground was broken, covered fresh supply. Many of these species eat | with wood, or intersected by…
Strange Sights in Pekin
HE Central Street of the most ear-piercing description; and the Chinese City of Pekin noise of buying and selling, bawling and presents one…
Chinese Actors in Fantastic Costumes
out distinction of persons, upon any who back having borne before him an enor. are inclined to be quarrelsome or dis-mous lantern…
Chinese Wedding Procession
pensated by the universal passion for assign a good cause for being out. It is lanterns; even on a bright moonlight said, however, that a…
Japanese Ferry-Boat
T has always been endangered while being transported by a problem with our admirable Ferry-boats. men how they In the river Mersey the…
Ancient Japanese Ferry-Poat
as were found so serviceable on the Some of the Japanese notions have Roman galleys. You will notice, how- found their way to our own…
A Ramble in Tokio, Japan
APANESE people are None of the women and girls wore bon among the most interest- nets or head-covering; their gracefully. ing in the world…
Scene in a Court of Justice
(191) Japanese Court of Justice. There are ing a cap on his head, spectacles to add some things about it that would remind to his dignity…
Grand Opening of the Suez Canal
LL boys and girls who have from the city of Geneva to the foot of studied geography know Mt. Blanc, which was constructed by that the…
Bird's-Eye View of the Suez Canal
(193) previously talked about, and having en- | greatest difficulties surmountable. "From listed the active coöperation of Napoleon the…
People and Costumes of the Soudan
LARGE territory in and the valley, surrounded by abrupt Central Africa is slopes, basks in a green luxuriance of called the Soudan. woods…
Discovering a Witch
HEN Du Chaillu was in round the sick man and beat drums and Africa, among the kettles close to his head; fire off guns tribe called Cam…
Strange Method of Discovering a Witch
the nose upward, divided his forehead in this stood a looking-glass, beside which two parts. Another red stripe passed lay a buffalo-horn…
A Crafty Old African Chief
HEN the celebrated they are so greedy and so stingy that they explorer Baker was will not supply him properly, how can at Obbo in Africa…
Peculiar Obbo War-Dance
a long time, and the people had become water, and squirted it on the branch, so angry at the continued drouth, that which was then waved…
How a Traveller Saved His Life
a STORY is told of traveller in deavoring to drive his master's cattle into South Africa. In a pool of water, enclosed between two crossing…
A Traveller Saved by Stratagem
self down at the foot of the tree, and did a mile distant, as fast as his feet could not move from the place for four and carry him, and he…
Travelling in Africa
R.STANLEY gives tend against, such as not knowing the an amusing ac- right road, and inability to resist the count of the temptation of…
Barbarous Punishments
EMARKABLE AC- orders had been obeyed.
Singular Mode of Executing a Criminal
such interference at an early stage would who have been mentioned there were sevproduce more harm than good. This last eral executioners…
Adventure with a Canoe
SPIRITED account of smasher." It soon became evident that the skill of the Afri- there was sound sense in the request of can natives in…
Carrying Boats Around the Falls of Inkissi-Africa
(210) none of its virtue; the accident was owing carry their Canoes overland. Then a to Tuba having started without his break- large number…
A Famous Tribe of Savages
IR SAMUEL BAKER, beautifully arranged in sections of blue the celebrated African and red, that the entire helmet appears to explorer, gives…
Latooka Warriors with Dress and Weapons
ladies. In order to prevent this ornament | height, and, although they are exceedfrom falling, a piece of twine is knotted ingly muscular…
A Giant Tree
HE Baobab on the pointed at one of its extremities, and banks of the Niger, from eight to eighteen inches long by six in its splendid lux…
Giant Tree of Africa
gives them influence, and makes them earth, as they would the bodies of other respected by other negroes, who look men, they would draw…
Strange Customs in Patagonia
OWN in the ex- catch guanacos, and give her plenty of treme southern grease. part of South These overtures being rejected as con- America…
Patagonian Dancers
was done. Some yellow clay was brought, moistened until it was like paint, and with this substance the child was anointed from head to…
Patagonian Funeral Procession
HE mode of burial among even showing themselves unless absothe Patagonians varies lutely obliged to do so. They must in detail according to…
Mountains of Fire
NE of the large vol-ened the air, caused complete darkness in canoes in the Sand- Java, eight hundred miles off, and covwich Islands has…
Volcanic Lake of Fire-Sandwich Islands
fell, produced torrents on the mountain covered in 1713, when, in digging a well, side, which, carrying onwards the fallen a theatre with…
Terrific Eruption of Vesuvius
the peaks which it touches with glorious flame. But the picture quays-a row of glow-worms under a border of houses-and behind, the mountain…
Sports and Pastimes
HE annexed engrav- much has ever been written about many ing is a representa- of the inhabitants of Eastern Europe. tion of musicians There…
Morlack Musicians and Dancers of Zara
of their toil by an occasional frolic. enjoy the music of their bag-pipes; they Probably you would not consider these men however, are…
Pulling in Gold with the Net
HE fish most abund- the herring, which afford a staple source ant, and conse- of profit and employment on many parts quently most com- of…
Fishermen Pulling in the Net
be placed man, who every year catches believe, in spite of this circumstance, that millions, the species do not appear to it could be…
Story of Peter the Great
ETER I, called the the Black Sea, and he resolved to create a "Great," began his fleet which should enable him to hold his reign with the…
How Birds Get Their Christmas Dinner
ORWAY is a land of snow the inhabitants of Norway, of which I and, lying in the north must tell you. As in all European counof Europe, the…
The Kalke
protect- NORWEGIAN AMUSEMENTS-HANGING UP THE SHEAF OF CORN. ing themselves from the cold winds and heavy, for the upper part is larger than…
Exciting Race on Snow-Shoes
(231) Skid-racing is a favorite sport in north- most kindly heart; and, though outern Sweden, Lapland and in the valleys wardly cold, he is…
Down with a Rush
(233) years. They are unquestionably endowed | compels, not very hospitable, greedy of with an excellent opinion of themselves, gain, and…
Exiles of Siberia
UNDREDS of crimi- Then, too, the exiles are distributed nals are sent every throughout the country, and not allowed year by the Russian to…
Camping Out
Y YOUNG readers | Stein, who hails from the great city of will be interested the white shutters, marble door-steps, in the adventures and a…
A Sudden Tumble
house. School was in session at the time, see the load till within fifty yards of it. and the door stood open.
Our Camp in the Woods
On looking into the tent, we found that lated Dearborn so profoundly that he Fred had filled it, while we were gone wished to try his luck…
Timber Rafts on the St. John
1 amunk Lake. Theodore Winthrop wrote sound by the fond imagination of some it Mollychunkamug, and conjecturing, lumberman, finding in it a…
Carrying the Boats
5 pages
Snow Blockade on the Pacific Railroad
2 pages
Sports on the Toboggan
W A As he gathers his treasures of snow; Then lay not the trappings of gold on thine heirs, While health and the riches of Nature are…
Lively American Winter Scene
17 = الا (257) Some persons think that winter is a would tire of summer; the bleak cold dreary season, but a large part of the days of…
The Famous Cow-Boys
HERE is a race of Each cattle-owner, or "rancher," has his men distinct in own registered brand or sign, which is character, who fol…
Cow-Boy Post-Office
(259) For this work they train their special miles at an easy, stretching gallop (termed "cutting" ponies to a high state of profi- loping)…
Horse Raising Up His Master
(261) somewhat public, and light-fingered gen- to advance. His calling-so primitive in tlemen of elastic consciences and ques- character-is…
In Clover
2 pages
Hydraulic Mining in California
OLD is mined in vari- in letting water down from a considerable ous ways. The height, and throwing it under the presvaried apparatus for…
Curious Method of Obtaining Gold
bank is a little reservoir, containing per- usually longer. Sometimes the pipe will haps in it more than 200 gallons, into be eight inches…
How to Live Under
IGHT down to the bot- is well protected from the water, while at tom of the sea you the same time there is a contrivance which could go as…
Coral Divers and Diving Bell
by order of Charles to prove the possi- These remarkable inventions for enability of the thing, and in others also bling men to live under…
The Poor Boys of London
HE boys and girls stant fight for existence. Some years of America do not ago, Lord Shaftesbury founded what are know much about called…
Learning to Write
who want the London mud, which is apt handsome, but many of them are very to be very deep, brushed from their shoes polite, for, you know…
French Children and Schools
N the annexed engraving you | plea that otherwise they might not enjoy may see a group of French the fresh air so essential to their…
French Children by the Seaside
there is one or more in every town, and all connected with the University of Paris, by which the degree of Bachelor is granted to the…
Wal Paget
particular in their language, polite in people are very noticeable, and may well their manners, and to show the utmost be imitated by other…
Feeding the Nanny-Goats
(274) flesh of the kid is equal in flavor to the they might be allowed to anoint themmost delicate lamb. selves with a kind of aromatic…
The Famous Gypsies
REAT curiosity is always and deception. Severe laws were passed felt concerning the Gyp- against them, but these measures often Where did…
Gypsies on the Road
(276) ure, due to their having immigrated to visitors who come to their encampments. the United States. Probably there are a You can obtain…
Up in the Air
UCH fun boys find a Kite. It looks very well, but the quesin flying their tion is whether it will go up. Very nice Kites. And that looking…
Balloon Adventures
R. S. M. BROOKS, The spot is some two miles and a half the aeronaut, was from Rome, Jefferson County. Mr. Harto have ascended vey and his…
Dangers of the Descent-The Balloon Drifting
and the Balloon was soon lost sight of. Mount Vernon, got up, as he says, and A period of more intense wretchedness went out upon his porch…
Up in a Balloon
city, with its girdle of encampments, pre- | of his apartment, in November, 1782. sents a superb scene. I have great plea- Certain, then…
The Squirrel
HIS pretty lively little and lively, never atrest from morning til creature, has his home night; somewhat shy at the same time, in the…
The Little Nut-Cracker
seeds, nuts, and the young shoots of trees. | exclusive of the tail, which is a beautiful For a change of diet, however, he has been brush…
Ralph Waldo Emerson
HE two young very much as if they needed someone to gentlemen whom take them home and dry them. But the you see in the old farmer has a…
The Gleaners
HE young women as much work as would be expected from of our country are any man. In some parts of Germany, not much in the England and…
Edison's Phonograph
NE of the newest and registration on a sensitive surface of most important sound waves. Minute indentations are inventions in elec-cut…
The Hermit and Leopard
VERY ani- thirsty creature, yet stories are told which mal almost show that this animal can be tamed, and in the there are several…
Coals of Fire
2 pages
Young Morgan Saves Hetty Osgood
golden hair. Mr. Sharp shouted to him. one helping him; besides, he wanted her He saw the rope and swam towards it, a few moments quite to…
The World's Greatest Natural Wonder
HE great natural wonder As the current approaches Goat Island of the world is the Falls it seems to flow with redoubled velocity. of…
World-Renowned Niagara Falls
leaves a large and smooth expanse, which at such times not infrequently lose the reaches from the sheet of falling water power of…
Remarkable Plants and Trees
N the whole range For several centuries there had been of vegetable crea- strange rumors of huge plants in the tion it will be diffi- more…
The Fabled Man-Eating Tree
fast, lock the rows of spines together, and theless, certain that the plant cannot dissqueeze it to death. And further, lest the tinguish…
Milking the Cow-Tree
ing, and it is up this alluring but fatal | downward, till it falls into the fluid below, pathway that ants, bugs, and other creep- and…
The Giant Cactus-Antibes, France
gardens and fields. Even in southern | New Mexico. In Sicily it grows most Europe several species of Cactus under wonderfully, and produces…
Gathering Roses in Roumelia
KNOW a little leafy bower Where may and blackthorn are in flower, And, there, half hid from sight, Two little birds have made their nest…
Wonderful Birds
IRDS, says Figuier, are landscape with the most lovely motion the favorites of creation. and beautiful association; they come and Their…
The Dinornis-A Bird Without Wings
3 pages
R Illner Sc
fore they make any effective attempts to fly.
The Heron Bringing Home Dinner
(315) their elegant tails in an upright position.
R. Illnar.sc
(317) The Shoe-Bill. sometimes sing as merrily in December as The most singular bird of Africa and in June; but our Negro Melodist only…
The Strange Shoe-Bill
if starving, come readily with other birds hand, waiting till some impudent sparto the windows to be fed, but he would much rather lurk…
The Musical Blackbird
large as itself and flies off with it, dropping it by mistake in its hurry near where the dusky watcher is concealed, who darts out and…
Fish Eagle and Nest of Young
(321) above the Hudson and Susquehanna, he Now is the time to witness a display of attracts the eye of the intelligent voyager, the Eagle's…
Bald Eagle Attacking the Osprey
of which is the White-headed The length is about three feet, darts upon it, and it is easily overcome. largest of which is the White-headed…
Swallows at Sea
(325) Thou art perched aloft on the beetling crag, And the waves are white below, And on, with a haste that cannot lag, They rush in an…
Set Free
are held as captives, we would most likely free, and are intently watching its upward open the doors of the cages, and be glad flight. We…
The Whooping-Crane
2 pages
The Curious Flamingo
rounded by a black ring; secondaries These birds are extremely shy, and very about three feet long and brownish, but difficult to be kept…
Elegant Argus Pheasant
RILENERISE of Paradise Birds crossing from one to the e against the wind. Should a gale arise, they other of these places, but constantly…
Beautiful Bird of Paradise
assert they prey on smal birds, a supposition which is favored by their strength of bills and legs, and the vigor with which they act in…
Curious Insects
UGE animals expecting from them. Among insects in forests and there are evidently architects, masons, jungles are no upholsterers…
The Grasshopper Band
diversity of forms, it is the prodigious had been laid, he found it buried to the variety of coloring. Their mantles gleam depth of three…
The Goliath Beetle
22 (337) spicuous, both for size and song, of our which serves for breaking up the ground native Grasshoppers; he has rather a for the…
New Zealand Moth, with Fungus Plume
windings of the roads, or hidden by with long weapons, which at a distance the projection of some hillock. This might be taken for lances…
The Monk Bombyx-Chrysalis and Butterfly
The foresters equally dread another always as busy as a child on a holiday. moth, commonly called the monk or nun, Ants are day-laborers…
Ada Louise Martin
AB The wasp is a paper-maker, and he that the least possible amount of material makes his paper out of materials that is formed into the…
Wonders of the Sea
2 pages
The Oyster Girl
(347) the custom of ostracism-that is, sending beds; in eighteen months they are fit for political delinquents to that place where use. The…
The Monsters of the Deef
2 pages
On the River
water meeting made A tremor in the hues that fade Between the Sundown and night's shade We floated on adown the river- Not Dealh himself…
A Long Good-Bye
heavy with wind and rain The day was heavy When last we said goodbye, When I and my love shall meet again There will be a cloudless sky…
May Kendall
walks on the ground or on the bottom of beneath this lip, and partially appearing the sea, it is in the latter position. The through the…
Front View of the Hideous Cuttle-Fish
like those of a cat. The mouth is placed in dible is the uppermost; these mandibles the space inclosed by the arms; it consists do not…
The Monkey and Dolphin
As Ligmy (355) The poem herewith given will show you what befell the Monkey and the Dolphin:
Fishes with Wings
Karl Jahrmaratsi times, and so adjust their fins as to be terranean sea, and the latter in the Atlan carried upwards by it. Two species are…
Ferocious Sword-Fish Capturing His Prey
coarse kind of ivory. The fish is supposed then passed through three inches of plank, to have followed the ship when under and beyond that…
Icelanders Capturing Narwhals
much that they paralyze each other's ing it to smoke. The oil furnished by the movements; they become entangled in Narwhal is, it is said…
The Little Fishmongers
the ice which, even in the most severe in Calcutta, from the crowding of the winters, remain unfrozen. In this hole Narwhals in their…
Coral Arbor and Mysterious Cuttle-Fish
reefs. The different varieties of Coral The Coral animals and marine shells are consist almost solely of carbonate of lime. the agents…
The Sea-Cucumber
the coast of New England, but attain a larger size in the Bay of Fundy and on the Banks of Newfoundland. On the leaves them high and dry…
Beautiful Stars of the Ocean
an inch to more than a foot. The snake, seas a very singular species, the aboresor Sand Star, is another species. In most cent Star-fish…
Catching the Speckled Trout
(371) large gaudy peacock-fly alighted on the of the desperate struggle that should folwheeling eddies, at the tail of a long low, before…
The Little Fish and the Fisherman
4 pages
The Lay Torpedo for Blowing Up Ships
he went to England in 1804, and in 1805 fleet, the southern ports and rivers were was authorized to make an attempt to much exposed to…
Great Events of History
OOKING into the rec- The great Revolution in France, at the ords of ages past, we close of the last century, was full of wondiscover many…
The Student of History
3 pages
The Spartan Aristodemus Charged with Cowardice
(383) which make the heart beat quicker and the blood run faster, but in the whole range of history there is hardly anything to surpass the…
Blacklow Hill-May, 1312
HEN Edward lay a-dying At Burgh-upon-the-sands, He called his son before him, And spake his last commands. "If thou recall Piers Gaveston…
Gaveston's Last Ride
25 (385) With hope and terror mingled, He left his narrow room, To see a sight that froze him, Sure presage of his doom; For, there, upon a…
Making the Guy
4 pages
Holyrood Palace-Residence of Mary, Queen of Scots
2 pages
Museum of Wonder
7 pages
Plucking Wild Flowers
solved "one way or another;" but the obnoxious provisions, and to pass it that general checked their indiscretion and very morning, that it…
Cromwell Dissolving the Long Parliament
interrupted, in consequence of the receipt tened to inform Cromwell at Whitehall. of a notice by the general, that it was the His…
Famous Old Tower of London
9 pages
George Macdonald
(412) I I Remember, I Remember.
The Happy Trio
NE little row of ten little toes, O To go along with a brand-new nose, Eight new fingers and two new thumbs That are just as good as sugar…
William Cox Bennett
ROM the skies are peeping Stars of shining gold; Tiny lambs are sleeping In the quiet fold.
Alfred Tennyson
HEN the humid shadows hover Over all the stary spheres, And the melancholy darkness Gently weeps in rainy tears, What a bliss to press the…
Coates Kinney
HILE South Carolina was overrun by the British troops, there was a staunch Whig family, named Martin, which sent all the men to the…
William Wordsworth
3 pages
Frances a. Humphrey
Y AND BY " is a very bad boy, Shun him at once and forever, For they who travel with "By and By," Soon come to the house of "Never." "I…
G. Weatherly
HERE'S a wonderful weaver High up in the air, And he weaves a white mantle For cold earth to wear.
Allan Cunningham
Y The Boy to the Schoolmaster.
E. J. Wheeler
IR WALTER SCOTT, when a boy at the High School, Edinburgh, is said to have been remarkably active and dauntless, full of all manner of fun…
George E. Hunting
Careless People. a greater fancy for being burned to death than the rest of the world!
T. S. Arthur
A Dissatisfaction of Rich and Poor.
The Good-Night Prayer
(425) Ah! it is well that "little ones" should love us!
Dr. J. Hamilton
HREE young men, who had visited South Wales to enjoy the scenery of the place, came to the foot of the Black Mountains, which one of them…
G. Mogridge
fellows had gone through in previous terms. He devoted the hours of play, and not a few of the hours of sleep, to the mastering of these…
Eliza Cook
2 pages
Sports of Childhood
And so the active breath of life Should stir our dull and sluggard wills; For are we not created rife With health that stagnant torpor…
Mary Howitt
2 pages
K. Arvine
PORTING through the forest wide; Playing by the water side; Wandering o'er the heathy fells; Down within the woodland dells; All among the…
H. W. Beecher
INE be a cot," for the hours of play, Of the kind that is built by Miss Greenaway, Where the walls are low, and the roofs are red, And the…
Austin Dobson
HE world can pry out everything about us which it has a mind to know. But there is this consolation, which men will never accept in their…
William Makepeace Thackeray
And wild wet leaves against the pane.
Bessie Chandler
Out to the breadth of rainy sea.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
HE great effects produced by the coöperation of small causes is in nothing better illustrated than in the productions of that form of life…
E. O. Haven
2 pages
S. Coley
2 pages
George Weatherla
Sleep, my dearie, sleep, and dream!
Mary Robinson
Take another case: money freely offered by an citizens. I was but a bad speaker, never eloquent, actor, cheered, aided, and held back…
Charles Kingsley
B Power of Character. subject to much hesitation in my choice of words, hardly correct in my language, and yet I generally carried, my…
L. M. Stretch
RIGHT is the froth of an easter wave, As it plays in the sun's last glow; BR Pure is the pearl in its crystal bed, Gemming the worlds…
Fairies of the Fields
(435) T Tenacity of Life in the Wolf.
David L. Proudfit
Ary Scheffer was an eminent French painter. He was born in 1795, and died in 1858.
A Stately Vessel
They will hardly bend the lily proud, Though caught in her cup of gold; Yet am I a part of God's great plan, So my treasure I'll give as…
William Cowper
LITTLE sunbeam in the sky Said to itself one day, "I'm very small, yet why should I Do nothing else but play?
The Fisherman's Charge
LESSINGS on thee, little man, Barefoot boy, with cheek of tan!
John Greenleaf Whittier
2 pages
J. W. Pakker
UT away the little playthings That the darling used to wear, She will need them on earth never- She has climbed the golden stair; She is…
W. D. Smite
WOULD if I could," though much it's in use Is but a mistaken and sluggish excuse; And many a person who could if he would, Is often heard…
Luella Clark
2 pages
The Pet of the Household
(445) That yet will shine as the lights of fame, Till boys are wanted on earth no more.
Mary B. Reese
HE dew was falling fast; the stars began to blink; I heard a voice; it said, "Drink, pretty creature, drink!"
The Castle Builders
Rainey (447) D Better a Word than a Blow.
J. O. Rockwell
T is the miller's daughter, And she is grown so dear, so dear, That I would be the jewel That trembles at her ear :
Through the Snow to Church
C HISEL in hand, stood a sculptor boy, With his marble block before him; And his face lit up with a smile of joy As an angel dream passed…
W. C. Doane
How once, out of the Southland early Came a bird, For she, flying east, flying west, Had a song- A song for her work and her rest, All day…
Aaron Watson
Thankfulness and Murmuring. $ ME murmur when their sky is clear And wholly brought to view, If one small speck of dark appear In their…
Archbishop Trench
R. FRANKLIN says that, in a time of great despondency among the first settlers of New England, it was proposed in one of their public…
John Townsend Trowbridge
T was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived, whom you may know By the name of Annabel Lee; And this…
Edgar Allen Poe
HEY drive home the cows from the pasture, Up through the long, shady lane, T O Where the quail whistles loud in the wheat-fields That are…
M. H. Krout
NCE upon a time, Frederick, King of Prussia, surnamed "Old Fritz," took a ride, and espied an old farmer ploughing his acre by the wayside…
Annabel Lee
(453) "No, sir," replied the farmer, who knew not that it was the king; "I am not so rich as that; I plough for wages." "How much do you…
Anna M. Ford
HE following specimens of curious punctuation are given by the Printers' Register: "A man was killed by a railroad car running into Boston…
Going for the Cows
INE be a cot beside the hill; A beehive's hum shall soothe my ear; A willowy brook that turns the mill, With many a fall shall linger near.
Samuel Rogers
The Brave Little Maid. 'M not afraid of anything," Cried little Bessie Brown, Who thought herself the bravest lass In all Northampton town…
Robert Story
2 pages
Clement C. Moore
DISTRICT SCHOOL, not far away, 'Mid Berkshire hills, one winter's day, Was humming with its wonted noise Of threescore mingled girls and…
William Pitt Palmer
5 pages
Hannah F. Gould
3 pages
Samuel Lover
3 pages
Charles Dickens
2 pages
Oliver Wendell Holmes
N sure I was tould to come till yer Honor, To see would ye write a few lines to me Pat?
Rbong Xa
(467) Clasping his hands and hiding his face, Unconsciously yearning for help and grace, The little one now began ; His mother's nod and…
Mary E. Dodge
HERE is no time so sweet as spring, When Nature dons her best; Dispell'd is gloom when bud and bloom Awake from winter's rest.
Edward Oxenford
HEY carried pie to the parson's house, And scattered the floor with crumbs, And marked the leaves of his choicest books With the prints of…
Spring Blossoms
jerked the reins pretty hard: have you got that deown?" "Yes; and I am impatiently waiting for more. wish you wouldn't bother me with so…
John B. Gough
2 pages
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
2 pages
Seba Smith
4 pages
An Incident of the Crimean War
5 pages
Elizabeth Akers Allen
Robert Dale Owen, in one of the chapters of his autobiography reproduces the following poem, written to illustrate an incident of English…
Albert Nicol
NCE, in a city's crowded street, With broom in hand, an urchin stood; No boots inciosed the little feet, Though winter chilled the infant…
Chloris, Grecian Goddess of Flowers
To scorn the noble worker's thought, And quench the young aspiring flame; No answer gave the hero back, But to and fro he whisked the…
H. S. Brooks
OURAGE, brother! do not stumble, Though thy path be dark as night, There's a star to guide the humble; "Trust in God, and do the right."
Norman Mcleod
O, feel what I have felt, Go, bear what I have borne; Sink 'neath a blow a father dealt, And the cold, proud world's scorn; Thus struggle…
George W. Cutter
SLEPT and dreamed that life was beauty:
John Sullivan Dwight
A O Looking into the Future.
Gerald Massey
H! little they know of true happiness, they whom satiety fills, Who, flung on the rich breast of luxury, eat of the rankness that kills.
Denis Florence Maccarthy
OOD-NIGHT, To each weary toil-worn wight!
Charles T. Brooks
Hart-Leap Well is a small spring of water about five miles Nothing but dulness and lethargy, weariness, sorrow, from Richmond in Yorkshire…
Part First
HE knight had ridden down from Wensley Moor, With the slow motion of a summer's cloud; And now, as he approached a vassal's door, "Bring…
Part Second
The moving accident is not my trade; To freeze the blood I have no ready arts: 'Tis my delight, alone in summer shade, To pipe a simple…
W. W. Fink
3 pages
J. M. Bailey
This spirited piece was suggested by an anecdote related of a ship-boy who, growing dizzy, was about to fall from the rigging, but was…
Jonathan Lawrence
To guard his ears, his nose his eyes; He perched upon his worship's crown, With teeth and claws his skin he tore, And stuffed himself with…
William Somerville
3 pages
Richard Harris Barham
(Thomas Ingoldsby, Esq.) Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
Muscle and Courage
(493) Had scooped the vale, and clothed the mountain's side we must suppose that in the upper terrace was a With many a verdant wood : nor…
Henry Wadsworth Longfellot
T A Child's Dream of a Star.
Jonathan Swift
2 pages
Henry Ward Beecher
FOUND a Rome of common clay," imperial Cæsar cried; "Can anybody be happier?" said the father-bird to the mother-bird. "We will live in…
Benjamin F. Taylor
2 pages
Ann S. Stephens
Friend, in my mountain-side demesne, My-plain-beholding, rosy, green.
Francis Mahony
HE bee from the clover blooms Is ready to lift his wings; I found him gathering honey Out of the common things.
Samuel W. Duffield
2 pages
Albert Gorton Greene
DERVISH was journeying alone in the desert, when two merchants suddenly met him. "You have lost a camel?" said he, to the merchants…
Caleb Charles Colton
EN have done brave deeds, And bards have sung them well; I of good George Nidiver Now a tale will tell.
George Alexander Stevens
E are indebted to Mrs. E. F. Ellet's most admirable work, "The Women of the American Revolution," for the following exciting incident: "A…
I. F. Mayo
Courtship and Marriage Amongst Swed- haustible supply of brandy. When the fish is served, A ish Peasants. the speaker makes a short speech.
Charles Johns
How sweetly has Mary Howitt sung:
T. C. Irwin
F ROM yon high shore The cedar that salutes the morning sun, And views some vessel far as sight can reach, Whose sails have felt the…
John Bate
IPED the Blackbird, on the beechwood spray, Pretty maid, slow wandering this way, What's your name?" quoth he, - "What's your name? O, stop…
Thomas Westwood
6 pages
Andrew Marvell
The interesting fact on which this ballad is founded, occurred to Mr. Davidson, the celebrated traveller, between Mount Sinai and Suez, on…
Lady Dufferin
3 pages
At Night in St. George's Chapel, Windsor
THE HE castle clock had tolled midnight, With mattock and with spade- And silent, by the torches' light- His corse in earth we laid.
William Lisle Bowles
NDERNEATH the sod low-lying, Dark and drear, Sleepeth one who left, in dying Sorrow here.
James T. Fields
5 pages
May E. Stone
S I came round the harbor buoy The lights began to gleam; A No wave the land-locked water stirred, The crags were white as cream.
Jean Ingelow
EDDY-BOY by the window stands, Watching the leaves as they downward fall; Watching the shadows that gather so fast, And hearing the birds…
Mary D. Brine
TIS A A Song of the Harvest.