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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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.

After drinking she wiped her lips, and When, at the approach of night, she was she would use it in a proper manner. about to lie down, she would prepare the key, and shut again, she seized a little bit bed on which she slept, by shaking well of stick, and put it into the keyhole, turnthe hay, and putting it in proper order; ing it about in all directions, and examin. and, lastly, she would cover herself up ing to ascertain whether the padlock warm with the quilt. One day, seeing would not open. This shows how easy it the padlock of her chain opened with a is for Apes to imitate.

LOOKING OUT FOR NUMBER ONE.
LOOKING OUT FOR NUMBER ONE.
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