Museum of Wonders, or Curiosities of the World

A cabinet of curiosities in book form, 1890: monsters of the ancient world, wild animals, queer wanderers in the vasty deep, famous inventions and sublime scenery — assembled to astonish the young and, the preface admits, their elders too.

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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 of whistle of the marmot may be chamois may be seen in the early morning heard in every glen. The gold- on the heights overlooking the ordinary route of tourists. In most parts of Switzen eagle may be descried, poised high up

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