Illustrated Science for Boys and Girls - 1

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FROM DR. FRANKLIN’S BROOM-CORN SEED. See Page 223.

ILLUSTRATED SCIENCE

FOR

BOYS AND GIRLS.

BOSTON:

D. LOTHROP & COMPANY,

FRANKLIN STREET.

By D. Lothrop & Company.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

	Page
How Newspapers are made.	[11]
Umbrellas.	[38]
Paul and the Comb-makers.	[54]
In the Gas-works.	[69]
Racing a Thunder-storm.	[86]
August’s “’Speriment.”	[103]
The Birds Of Winter.	[125]
Something About Light-houses.	[141]
“Buy a Broom! Buy a Broom!”	[158]
Talking by Signals.	[171]
Jennie finds out how Dishes are made.	[183]
Archery For Boys.	[192]
Dolly’s Shoes.	[202]
A Glimpse of some Montana Beavers.	[208]
How Logs go to Mill.	[211]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

	Page
[Frontispiece]
The N. Y. Tribune Building at Night.	[13]
A Contributor to the Waste-Paper Basket.	[16]
Office of the Editor-In-Chief.	[17]
Regular Contributors	[19]
How Some of the News is Gathered	[22]
Type-Setter’s Case In Pi.	[22]
Type-Setters’ Room.	[23]
Taking “Proofs.”	[24]
In the Stereotypers’ Room.	[25]
Finishing the Plate.	[27]
Printing Presses of the Past and Present	[30]
A News-Dealer.	[33]
A Bad Morning for the News-Boys.	[36]
“Any Answers come for Me?”	[37]
The First Umbrella.	[38]
What Jonas saw adown the Future.	[39]
Lord of the Twenty-Four Umbrellas.	[42]
A “Duck’s Back” Umbrella.	[44]
An Umbrella Handle Au Naturel.	[46]
Cutting the Covers.	[47]
Finishing the Handle.	[50]
Sewing “Pudding-Bag” Seams.	[51]
Completing the Umbrella	[53]
Master Paul did not feel Happy.	[55]
My Lady’s Toilet.	[58]
The New Circle Comb	[61]
Ancient or Modern—Which?	[62]
“In Some Remote Corner Of Spain.”	[65]
A Retort.	[72]
Kitty in the Gas-Works.	[77]
The Metre.	[77]
The Gasometre.	[83]
Inflating the “Buffalo.”	[87]
A Plucky Dog.	[91]
Our Balloon Camp.	[94]
The Professor’s Dilemma.	[99]
The Wreck of the “Buffalo.”	[101]
The Incubator.	[105]
How the Chicken is Packed.	[117]
How the Shell is Cracked.	[118]
The Artificial Mother.	[120]
The Chickadee.	[126]
The Black Snow-Bird.	[129]
The Snow Bunting.	[133]
The Brown Creeper.	[134]
Nuthatches.	[136]
The Downy Woodpecker.	[138]
Fourth Order Light-House.	[141]
A Modern Light-House	[144]
Light-House on Mt. Desert.	[147]
Light-House at “The Thimble Shoal”	[151]
First Class Light-Ship.	[154]
The Blind Broom-Maker of Barnstable.	[159]
A Gay Cavalcade.	[160]
The Comedy of Brooms.	[163]
Up in the Attic.	[164]
Plant the Broom!	[166]
The Tragedy of Brooms.	[169]
In Obedience to the Signals.	[177]
The Potter’s Wheel.	[184]
The Kiln and Saggers.	[186]
Mould for a cup.	[188]
Handle Mould.	[188]
Making a Sugar-Bowl.	[189]
Rest for flat Dishes.	[191]
The Target.	[201]
Dolly’s Shoes	[204]
A Maine Wood-Chopper.	[211]
A River-Driver.	[214]
“The Liberated Logs came sailing along.”	[216]
Through the Sluice.	[218]

ILLUSTRATED SCIENCE FOR

BOYS AND GIRLS.