1000 Things Worth Knowing - Nathaniel C. Fowler

World's Largest Steamships.—The "Imperator," just placed in commission, is the world's largest vessel. She is 919 feet long, 98 feet beam, and 62 feet deep. The boat deck is 100 feet, and the trunks of the mast 246 feet, above the keel. The funnels are 69 feet long with oval openings, 29 by 18 feet. The rudder alone weighs 90 tons. She is registered at 50,000 tons, with a displacement of 70,000 tons. Displacement represents the weight of the water which is occupied by that part of the hull under water. The ship is a modern floating hotel, containing a grill-room, a tea garden, a veranda café, several ladies' sitting-rooms, a palm garden, a ball-room, a gymnasium, a swimming tank, and other accessories. In the first cabin there are 220 regular bath rooms and showers, including 150 private bath rooms. The staterooms do not contain berths, metal bedsteads being used throughout. The entrance hall is 90 feet wide, and 69 feet long. In addition the vessel carries a drug store, a book store, and a flower shop, and several passenger elevators are maintained. To illuminate the ship there are 9,500 electric lamps. The Roman bath is 65 feet long, and 41 feet wide. The swimming bath is 39 feet long, 21 feet wide, and 9 feet deep. The quadruple turbine engines have 72,000 horse-power and develop an average speed of 22-1/2 knots an hour. One of the immense rotars contains 50,000 blades, and weighs 135 tons. The ship carries a crew of 1,100 persons, a complete fire department, and wireless telegraphy. If the "Imperator" was set on end, she would be higher than the largest building in the world, which is 750 feet high. The ship has a passenger capacity equal to the population of a large town.

Yankee.—This word is said to be a corruption of English or Anglais, pronounced by the Massachusetts Indians, who gave this name to the New England Colonists, Yenghies, Yanghies, Yankees. It was applied to the New Englanders by the British soldiers during the Revolutionary War, and to the Federal soldiers by the Confederates during the Civil War.

Yankee Doodle.—The origin of Yankee Doodle, perhaps the most famous American national air, is unknown. It is supposed to have been an English tune. At any rate, it was introduced into America by the British troops in 1775.

INDEX

Abbreviations in common use, [1]
Accidents, [160]
Accidents, electrical, [173]
Accidents, how to avoid, [185]
Acetylene gas, [2]
Acid poisoning, [189]
Aconite poisoning, [190]
Admitted to the Union, [62]
Adventists, [2]
Arsenic poisoning, [191]
Æolian harp, [3]
Afire, clothing, [166]
Africa, [40]
Age, [3]
Agricultural implement industry, [3]
Air ship records, [114]
Alaska, [3]
Alberg tunnel, [59]
Algebra, [4]
Almanacs, [4]
Amazons, [4]
American inventions, [57]
Ammonia, [174]
Antarctic ocean, [40]
Apostles' creed, [4]
Apothecaries' weight, [154]
Apparent death, [160]
April Fools Day, [4]
Arbor Day, [5]
Arctic ocean, [40]
Area of a circle, [24]
Area of a square, [26]
Area of desert, [41]
Area of fertile soil, [41]
Area of the base of a square, [26]
Area of the earth, [39]
Area of the oceans, [40]
Area of the United States, [62]
Areas of earthquakes, [42]
Arithmetic, [5]
Arnica, [175]
Aromatic spirits of ammonia, [175]
Artesian wells, [5]
Artificial ice, [5]
Arts, seven liberal, [108]
Asia, [40]
Atlantic cable, [6]
Atlantic ocean, [40]
Atmosphere, [10]
Aurora Borealis, [10]
Australia, [41]
Automobile records, [114]
Automobiles, [10]
Average life of man, [3]
Average weight of men and women, [128]
Avoirdupois weight, [154]
Baltic and North Sea canal, [17]
Bandaging, [161]
Bank of England, [11]
Baseball, [115]
Base of a triangle, [25]
Bastile, [11]
Baths, [161]
Bayreuth Festival, [11]
Beautifiers, [43]
Belladonna poisoning, [191]
Bells on shipboard, [100]
Bible, [11]
Bible, kissing the, [67]
Bible statistics, [12]
Bicarbonate of soda, [175]
Billiard records, [115]
Bi-metallism, [12]
Birth stones, [12]
Bite, snake, [195]
Bites, dog, [169]
Bleeding, [162]
Bleeding from capillary veins, [163]
Bleeding from the veins, [163]
Blind, [13]
Blood, circulation of, [21]
Blood-heat, [13]
Blue-Grass region, [13]
Board and timber measure, [156]
Body temperature, [198]
Bones, broken, [164]
Books, production of, [100]
Bowling records, [116]
Boxers, [14]
Brain, [14]
Brandy, [177]
Bread, [15]
Breakfast foods, [15]
British Royal family, cost of, [30]
Broken bones, [164]
Brook farm, [15]
Burns, [192]
Cable, Atlantic, [6]
Calculating interest, [16]
California, gold in, [55]
Camphor, [176]
Camphor poisoning, [190]
Canals, [17]
Capacity of cisterns and wells, [18]
Capillary veins, bleeding from, [163]
Capitol at Washington, [18]
Carbolic acid poisoning, [189]
Cards, [93]
Carrying the wounded, [199]
Cause of failures, [48]
Cellars, disinfecting, [168]
Cells of the brain, [14]
Celluloid, [19]
Census of the United States, [27]
Certified checks, [19]
Cesspools, disinfecting, [168]
Cheap laundry soaps, [110]
Checks, certified, [19]
Chemical composition of man, [20]
Chess, [20]
Chests (medicine), [75]
Chief virtues, [107]
Chilblains, [164]
Children, emergencies, [173]
Chloroform poisoning, [190]
Christmas, [21]
Circle, circumference of, [25]
Circle, diameter of, [24]
Circle, radius of, [24]
Circle, square of the diameter of, [24]
Circle, square of the radius of, [24]
Circular measure, [155]
Circulation of the blood, [21]
Circumference of a circle, [25]
Circumference of a circle, square of, [25]
Circumference of a sphere, [25]
Circumference of the earth, [39]
Cisterns and wells, capacity of, [18]
Cities in the United States, distances between, [34]
Cities (large) of the United States, [28]
Cities of the world (population), [73]
Civil War, songs of, [113]
Cleanliness, [164]
Climate and temperature, [21]
Climate, influence of the ocean on, [66]
Clothing, afire, [166]
Coal industry, [22]
Coal oil, fires from, [179]
Cocoa industry, [22]
Coffee industry, [22]
Coin (money), [23]
Cold cream, [177]
Colds, [167]
Collapse, [194]
Colors, to produce, [138]
Colosseum, [23]
Comets, [23]
Communism and Socialism, [27]
Comparative population of the large cities and towns of the United States, [28]
Comparative population of the United States, [27]
Copper coining, [23]
Commission form of government, [56]
Common abbreviations, [1]
Common Council, [56]
Common degrees, [1]
Common measurements, [24]
Compass, [28]
Composition of man, [20]
Constitution of the United States, [55]
Corn in the crib, to measure, [138]
Corporal works of mercy, [107]
Correct weight of men and women, [126]
Corrosive sublimate poisoning, [191]
Corsets, [29]
Cosmetics, [29]
Cost of the British Royal family, [30]
Cotton industry, [31]
Cotton gin, [31]
Cough medicines, [87]
Countries of the world, [98]
Cradle of American liberty, [31]
Credit Mobilier, [31]
Creed, Apostles', [4]
Creosote poisoning, [189]
Croton water tunnel, [59]
Crusades, [32]
Crust of the earth, [32]
Cubic measure, [154]
Daguerreotypes, [32]
Damage by lightning, [33]
Danger of taking patent medicines, [86]
Day or night, to find the length of, [137]
Deadly sins, [107]
Deaf and dumb, [33]
Death, apparent, [160]
Deaths, percentage of, [77]
Deeds, [33]
Degrees in common use, [1]
Depth of the sea, [40]
Dialects, [112]
Diameter of a circle, [24]
Diameter of a sphere, [26]
Diamonds (famous), [49]
Dictionaries, [33]
Difference in time, [136]
Different colors, to produce, [138]
Digestibility of foods, [34]
Diphtheria, [167]
Diseases, infectious, [186]
Disinfectants, [167]
Disinfecting cellars, yards, cesspools, etc., [168]
Disinfecting the sick room, [168]
Dislocation, [168]
Distance between cities in the United States, [34]
Distance from the earth to the planets, [112]
Diving bells, [36]
Dog bites, [169]
Drama, [36]
Drowning, [169]
Drowning, to prevent, [172]
Drugs, [36]
Dry measure, [154]
Dumb and deaf, [33]
Dying sayings of great men, [37]
Dynamite, [39]
Ear, getting things into, [184]
Earth, crust of, [32]
Earth facts, [39]
Earthquake areas, [42]
Earthquakes, [41]
Electoral vote, [62]
Engine, steam, [128]
England, Bank of, [11]
Equator, [39]
Errors of history, [44]
Esperanto, [46]
Estimating the weight of hay, [137]
Europe, [40]
Exercise, [178]
Extinguishing fire from coal oil, [179]
Eye, getting things into, [183]
Facts about the earth, [39]
Failures, [47]
Failures, cause of, [48]
Fainting, [180]
Famous diamonds, [49]
Faneuil Hall, [31]
Farm productions, [49]
Feeding an invalid, [180]
Fertile soil, [41]
Finding the capacity of cisterns and wells, [18]
Finding the length of day or night, [137]
Finding the number of days (interest), [16]
Fire in the house, [181]
Fires from coal oil, [179]
First trans-Atlantic steamship, [51]
Fits, [181]
Flag of the United States, [142]
Flour industry, [51]
Food (pure), [101]
Food nutriment, [51]
Foods, breakfast, [15]
Foods, digestibility of, [34]
Fool's Day, [4]
Force of gravity, [57]
Forests, [52]
Foretelling the weather, [52]
Freemasonry, [54]
Freiburg tunnel, [59]
French Academy, [55]
Frost bite, [182]
Fumigating a sick room, [182]
Gas, acetylene, [2]
Gas, illuminating, [186]
Gas, natural, [79]
Gems, language of, [67]
Getting things into the eye, nose, ear, etc., [183]
Getting wet, [184]
Ginger, [176]
Glass, plate, [92]
Glasses, [114]
Glycerine, [176]
Gold coining, [23]
Gold in California, [55]
Government, [55]
Grain industry, [57]
Gravity, [57]
Great American inventions, [57]
Great Eastern, [58]
Great libraries, [59]
Great men, dying sayings of, [37]
Great religions, [135]
Great tunnels, [59]
Greece, seven wise men of, [108]
Growers (hair), [59]
Gunnison tunnel, [59]
Hair growers, [59]
Half-century of life, [60]
Half the circumference of a circle, [25]
Hamamelis, [177]
Hammer-throwing records, [117]
Harp, æolian, [3]
Hawaii, [61]
Hay industry, [61]
Hay, to estimate the weight of, [137]
Headache powders, [87]
Headaches, [184]
Health, [61]
Height of men and women, [126]
Height of the land, [40]
Hiccoughs, [185]
Highest mountain, [40]
Historical data, [62]
History, errors of, [44]
History in brief, United States, [143]
Holy Grail, [64]
Hoosac tunnel, [59]
House afire, [181]
House of Representatives, [56]
Household weights, [64]
How to avoid accidents, [185]
How to become a voter, [64]
Human brain, [14]
Hurdle racing records, [117]
Hurricane warnings, [152]
Hydrophobia, [169]
Ice, artificial, [5]
Illuminating gas, [186]
Implement industry, [3]
Indian ocean, [40]
Industrial occupations, [65]
Industry, agricultural implement, [3]
coal, [22]
cocoa, [22]
coffee, [22]
cotton, [31]
flour, [51]
grain, [57]
hay, [61]
iron, [66]
jewelry, [66]
liquor and wine, [74]
meat, [75]
mineral, [76]
mining, [76]
petroleum, [92]
poultry and egg, [97]
sugar, [130]
tobacco, [137]
wool, [203]
Infectious diseases, [186]
Influence of the ocean on the climate, [66]
Inhabitants of the United States, [95]
Insane, [66]
Insomnia, [195]
Interest calculating, [16]
Interest table, [17]
Invalid, feeding an, [180]
Inventions, great American, [57]
Iron industry, [66]
Jewelry industry, [66]
John Doe and Richard Roe, [66]
Judicial, [56]
Jumping records, [117]
Kissing the Bible, [67]
Koran, [67]
Land area of the earth, [39]
Land area of the United States, [93]
Land, height of, [40]
Land measure, [155]
Language of gems, [67]
Languages, [112]
Languages of the world, [67]
Large cities and towns of the United States, population of, [28]
Large cities in North America, population of, [68]
Largest steamship, [204]
Laundry soaps, [110]
Law, [72]
Leading cities of the world (population), [73]
Legislative, [56]
Length of day or night, to find, [137]
Liberal arts, seven, [108]
Libraries, [59]
Life, half-century of, [60]
Lightning, damage by, [33]
Liquid measure, [154]
Liquor and wine industry, [74]
Literature, [74]
Living ages, [3]
Lockjaw, [188]
Long measure, [153]
Lotions, shaving, [109]
Magnetic poles, [75]
Mammoth cave, [75]
Man, chemical composition of, [20]
Manchester canal, [17]
Marathon team race records, [117]
Masons, [54]
Measurements, common, [24]
Measuring corn in the crib, [138]
Meat industry, [75]
Medicine chests, [75]
Medicines, emergency, [174]
Medicines (patent), [86]
Men of Greece, seven wise, [108]
Mercy, seven corporal works of, [107]
Metalic coin, [23]
Metric system, [155]
Microscope, [76]
Middle Ages, seven wonders of, [108]
Mineral industry, [76]
Mining industry, [76]
Money (coin), [23]
Mont Cenis tunnel, [59]
Moon, [76]
Mortality, [77]
Mortgages, [78]
Motor-cycle records, [117]
Mountain, highest, [40]
Mushroom poisoning, [191]
Mustard plasters, [188]
National Government, [56]
Nations, wealth of, [151]
Natural gas, [79]
Naturalization, [79]
Naturalized citizens, [64]
Neuralgia, [188]
Newspapers, [80]
New York Stock Exchange, [81]
New Zealand, [41]
Nicknames of States, [81]
Night, to find the length of, [137]
Nitroglycerine, [82]
Normal weight of men and women, [126]
North American continent, [40]
North America, population of the large cities of, [68]
Nose, getting things into, [183]
Notes, [82]
Number of newspapers, [80]
Nutriment of food, [51]
Nux vomica poisoning, [190]
Occupations, industrial, [65]
Ocean ownership, [82]
Ocean records, [117]
Oceans, area of, [40]
Old time ships, [83]
Opium poisoning, [190]
Oxalic acid poisoning, [189]
Pacific ocean, [40]
Palmistry, [84]
Panama canal, [17]
Partnership, [84]
Patent medicines, [86]
Peppermint, [176]
Percentage of deaths, [77]
Perpetual motion, [91]
Petroleum industry, [92]
Philippine Islands, [92]
Phonograph, [131]
Physicians, [88]
Pianoforte, [92]
Planets, [112]
Plate glass, [92]
Playing cards, [93]
Poison, [188]
Poisoning by acids, [189]
by aconite, [190]
by arsenic, [191]
by carbolic acid or creosote, [189]
by belladonna, [191]
by camphor, [190]
by chloroform, [190]
by corrosive sublimate, [191]
by mushrooms, [191]
by nux vomica, [190]
by opium, [190]
by oxalic acid, [189]
by prussic acid, [189]
Poisonous insects, stings of, [197]
Pole star, [93]
Pole vaulting records, [118]
Poles, magnetic, [75]
Population by States, [125]
Population and land area of the United States, [93]
Population of the large cities and towns of the United States, [28]
Population of the large cities of North America, [68]
Population of the large cities of the United States, [68]
Population of the leading cities of the world, [73]
Population of the United States, [27]
Population of the United States per square mile, [95]
Population of the world at the time of Augustus, [41]
Porto Rico, [97]
Postage stamps, [97]
Poultry and egg industry, [97]
Presidents of the United States, [97]
Press, [99]
Principal countries of the world, [98]
Printing press, [99]
Production of books, [100]
Prussic acid poisoning, [189]
Public debt of the United States, [101]
Public schools, [101]
Pulse, [191]
Pure food, [101]
Pyramids, [103]
Quack doctors, [90]
Radius of a circle, [24]
Railroads, [103]
Records, air ship, [114]
automobile, [114]
billiards, [115]
bowling, [116]
endurance, [116]
hammer-throwing, [117]
hurdle racing, [117]
jumping, [117]
Marathon team race, [117]
motor cycle, [117]
ocean, [117]
pole vaulting, [118]
running, [118]
running distance, [119]
shot putting, [119]
skating, [119]
sporting, speed, etc., [114]
swimming, [120]
trotting, [121]
walking, [121]
Referendum, [104]
Registration, [64]
Religions, ten great, [135]
Religious denominations, [105]
Rheumatism, [192]
Roads, [105]
Round table, [105]
Royal Academy, [106]
Royal Society, [106]
Running distance records, [119]
Running records, [118]
Sayings of great men, [37]
Scalds and burns, [192]
School statistics, [106]
Schools, [101]
Sunday, [131]
Sea, depth of, [40]
Seasickness, [106]
Senate, [56]
Settlement of the United States, [62]
Seven chief virtues, [107]
corporal works of mercy, [107]
deadly sins, [107]
liberal arts, [108]
spiritual works of mercy, [108]
wise men of Greece, [108]
of the Middle Ages, [108]
wonders of the New World, [109]
Shaving lotions, [109]
Ship bells, [109]
Ship watches, [110]
Ships (old time), [83]
Shock or collapse, [194]
Shot putting records, [119]
Sick room, disinfecting, [168]
fumigating a, [182]
temperature of, [199]
Sins, seven deadly, [107]
Size of the brain, [14]
Skating records, [119]
Slavery, [110]
Sleeplessness, [195]
Snake bite, [195]
Soap, [110]
Socialism and Communism, [27]
Solar system, [111]
Some things worth knowing, [112]
Songs of the Civil War, [113]
Soothing syrups, [87]
Sore throat, [196]
South American continent, [40]
Spectacles and glasses, [114]
Speed records, [114]
Sphere, circumference of, [25]
Sphere, surface of, [25]
Spheres, [26]
Spiritual works of mercy, seven, [108]
Sporting, speed and other records, [114]
Sprains, [196]
Square measure, [153]
Square of the circumference of a circle, [25]
of the diameter of a circle, [24]
of the radius of a circle, [24]
Square root or the area of a circle, [25]
St. Clair tunnel, [59]
St. Gothard tunnel, [59]
Standard time, [122]
Star chamber, [124]
Star-spangled Banner, [124]
Stars, their number, [124]
State governments, [56]
States, nicknames of, [81]
Statistics of population, United States by States, [125]
of the Bible, [12]
school, [106]
Stature and weights, [126]
Steam engine, [128]
Steamship (first trans-Atlantic), [51]
largest, [204]
Stimulants, [177]
Stings of poisonous insects, [197]
Stock Exchange, New York, [81]
Stock, watered, [151]
Stock yards, [112]
Stones, birth, [12]
Storm warnings, [152]
Strawberry tunnel, [59]
Strikes, [130]
Sub rosa, [130]
Suez canal, [17]
Suffocation, [197]
Sugar industry, [130]
Sun, [111]
Sunday schools, [131]
Sunstroke, [197]
Superior Court, [56]
Supreme Court, [56]
Swimming records, [120]
Table of interest, [17]
Taking drugs, [36]
Talking machines, [131]
Tariff, [131]
Telegraph, [132]
Telegraphy, wireless, [202]
Telephone, [134]
Temperature and climate, [21]
Temperature of the body, [198]
of the sick room, [199]
Ten great religions, [135]
Théâtre Français, [136]
Thirteen original States, [62]
Throat, getting things into, [184]
Throat, sore, [196]
Thunder, [136]
Ticket-of-leave, [136]
Timber measure, [156]
Time difference, [136]
Time, standard, [122]
To estimate the weight of hay, [137]
To find the length of the day or night, [137]
To measure corn in the crib, [138]
To prevent drowning, [172]
To produce different colors, [138]
Tobacco industry, [137]
Toilet soaps, [110]
Tom Thumb, [138]
Tonics, [87]
Toothache, [199]
Towns (large) of the United States, [28]
Trade unions, [139]
Trans-Atlantic steamship (first), [51]
Transporting the wounded, [199]
Trotting records, [121]
Troy weight, [154]
Trusts, [140]
Tunnels, [59]
Turbines, [140]
Turpentine, [176]
Type, [141]
Unions, trade, [139]
United States, area, [62]
by whom settled, [62]
distances between cities in, [34]
electoral vote, [62]
flag, [142]
Government, [55]
history in brief, [143]
inhabitants, [96]
large cities (population of), [68]
population and land area of, [93]
population of, [27], [62]
population of the large cities and towns, [28]
population per square mile, [95]
Presidents, [97]
public debt of, [101]
railroads in, [103]
statistics of population by States, [125]
Thirteen Original States, [62]
when admitted into the Union, [62]
when settled, [62]
University extension, [148]
University settlements, [149]
Utopia, [149]
Vaccination, [149]
Vacuum, [150]
Vaseline, [177]
Vedas, [150]
Veins, bleeding from, [163]
Ventilation, [200]
Vomiting, [201]
Voodooism, [150]
Voter, how to become, [64]
Walking records, [121]
War songs, [113]
Washington, D. C., [18]
Watches on shipboard, [110]
Watered stock, [151]
Wealth of the nations, [151]
Weather, [52], [151]
Bureau, [151]
flags, [151]
foretelling the, [52]
Wedding anniversaries, [153]
Weight of hay, [137]
Weight of men and women, [126]
Weights and measures, [153]
Weights (household), [64]
Wells and cisterns, capacity of, [18]
Wells, artesian, [5]
What to do in emergencies, [156]
Whisky, [177]
Wills, [201]
Wine, [177]
Wine industry, [74]
Wireless telegraphy, [202]
Wise men of Greece, seven, [108]
Witch hazel, [177]
Woman suffrage, [202]
Women voters, [203]
Wonders of the Middle Ages, seven, [108]
Wonders of the world, seven, [109]
Wool industry, [203]
Works of mercy, seven spiritual, [108]
World, languages of, [67]
leading cities (population), [73]
principal countries of, [98]
seven wonders of, [109]
largest steamship, [204]
Wounded, transporting the, [199]
Yankee, [205]
Yankee Doodle, [205]
Yards, disinfecting, [168]

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