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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4 pages in this part of Museum of Wonders.

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BERHARD II, Count of Wurtemberg, had two children, Ulric and Lida. Ulric in a battle had been forced by superior numbers to retreat. His…

Seba Smith: Eberhard

She had been betrothed by her brother, before his death, to his friend Count Wolf, of Ebernstein, but after his death, despite the…

Seba Smith: Tador

A few days afterward, while wandering disconsolate on foot, mourning his wretched fate, his ears catch the sound of a horse in full gallop…

Seba Smith: State

When the Declaration of Independence was adopted by Congress, the event was announced by ringing the old State House bell, which bore the…

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