The World's Encyclopedia of Wonders and Curiosities

Everything a Victorian found astonishing, gathered into one enormous volume — burning springs and buried cities, freaks of storm and flood, the habits of bees and the manners of nations, filed under headings like “Curiosities Respecting Man.”

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Chapter Xci

MISCELLANEOUS CURIOSITIES-(Concluded).

New Mode of Telegraphy-Telephone-Phonograph-Photophone-Electric Light- Elevated Railroads -Great Suspension Bridge, New York City-Central Park, New York City-Egyptian Obelisk, New York Central Park-Mammoth Cave of Ken- Obelisk, New York Central Park-Mammoth Cave of Kentucky-Hot Springs of Arkansas.

APPENDIX.

Containing Curious Experiments and Amusing Recreations S24 835 839

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