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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solved "one way or another;" but the obnoxious provisions, and to pass it that general checked their indiscretion and very morning, that it might obtain the precipitancy, and the assembly broke up force of law before their adversaries could at midnight, with an understanding that have time to appeal to the power of the the leading men on each side should sword. resume the subject in the morning.

While Harrison "most strictly and hum- At an early hour the conference was bly" conjured them to pause before they recommenced, and after a short time, took so important a step, Ingoldsby has-

CROMWELL DISSOLVING THE LONG PARLIAMENT.
CROMWELL DISSOLVING THE LONG PARLIAMENT.
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