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BILL NYE
By Bill Nye
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TABLES OF CONTENTS OF VOLUMES
REMARKS
By BILL NYE
(Edgar W. Nye)
CONTENTS
[ Recollections of Noah Webster. ]
[ Second Letter to the President. ]
[ Life Insurance as a Health Restorer. ]
[ More Paternal Correspondence. ]
[ A Father's Advice to His Son. ]
[ Insomnia in Domestic Animals. ]
[ An Operatic Entertainment. ]
[ Accepting the Laramie Postoffice. ]
[ A Journalistic Tenderfoot. ]
[ My Experience as an Agriculturist. ]
[ Stirring Incidents at a Fire. ]
[ Concerning Book Publishing. ]
[ Woman's Wonderful Influence. ]
[ Every Man His Own Paper-Hanger. ]
[ Rev. Mr. Hallelujah's Hoss. ]
[ Boston Common and Environs. ]
[ Extracts from a Queen's Diary. ]
[ Answers to Correspondents. ]
[ Great Sacrifice of Bric-a-brac. ]
[ Polygamy as a Religious Duty. ]
[ A Bright Future for Pugilism. ]
[ Street Cars and Curiosities. ]
ALPHABETIZED CONTENTS
About Geology
About Portraits
[ A Bright Future for Pugilism ]
A Bright Future for Pugilism
Absent Minded
A Calm
[ Accepting the Laramie Postoffice ]
Accepting the Laramie Postoffice
A Circular
A Collection of Keys
A Convention
A Father's Advice to his Son
A Father's Letter
A Goat in a Frame
A Great Spiritualist
A Great Upheaval
A Journalistic Tenderfoot
A Letter of Regrets
All About Menials
All About Oratory
Along Lake Superior
A Lumber Camp
A Mountain Snowstorm
Anatomy
Anecdotes of Justice
Anecdotes of the Stage
A New Autograph Album
A New Play
An Operatic Entertainment
Answering an Invitation
Answers to Correspondents
A Peaceable Man
A Picturesque Picnic
A Powerful Speech
Archimedes
A Resign
Arnold Winkelreid
Asking for a Pass
A Spencerian Ass
Astronomy
A Thrilling Experience
A Wallula Night
B. Franklin, Deceased
Biography of Spartacus
[ Boston Common and Environs ]
Boston Common and Environs
Broncho Sam
Bunker Hill
Care of House Plants
Catching a Buffalo
Causes for Thanksgiving
Chinese Justice
Christopher Columbus
Come Back
[ Concerning Book Publishing ]
Concerning Book Publishing
Concerning Coroners
Crowns and Crowned Heads
Daniel Webster
Dessicated Mule
Dogs and Dog Days
Doosedly Dilatory
“Done It A-Purpose”
Down East Rum
Dr. Dizart's Dog
Drunk in a Plug Hat
Early Day Justice
Eccentricity in Lunch
Etiquette at Hotels
[ Every Man His Own Paper-Hanger ]
Every Man His Own Paper-Hanger
[ Extracts from a Queen's Diary ]
Extracts from a Queen's Diary
Farming in Maine
Favored a Higher Fine
Fifteen Years Apart
Flying Machines
General Sheridan's Horse
George the Third
Great Sacrifice of Bric-a-Brac
Habits of a Literary Man
“Heap Brain”
History of Babylon
Hours With Great Men
How Evolution Evolves
In Acknowledgment
[ Insomnia in Domestic Animals ]
Insomnia in Domestic Animals
In Washington
“I Spy”
I Tried Milling
John Adams
John Adams' Diary
John Adams' Diary, (No. 2.)
John Adams' Diary, (No. 3.)
Knights of the Pen
Letter from New York
Letter to a Communist
[ Life Insurance as a Health Restorer ]
Life Insurance as a Health Restorer
Literary Freaks
Lost Money
Lovely Horrors
Man Overbored
Mark Antony
Milling in Pompeii
Modern Architecture
[ More Paternal Correspondence ]
More Paternal Correspondence
Mr. Sweeney's Cat
Murray and the Mormons
Mush and Melody
My Dog
[ My Experience as an Agriculturist ]
My Experience as an Agriculturist
My Lecture Abroad
My Mine
My Physician
My School Days
Nero
No More Frontier
On Cyclones
One Kind of Fool
Our Forefathers
Parental Advice
Petticoats at the Polls
Picnic Incidents
Plato
[ Polygamy as a Religious Duty ]
Polygamy as a Religious Duty
Preventing a Scandal
Railway Etiquette
[ Recollections of Noah Webster ]
Recollections of Noah Webster
[ Rev. Mr. Hallelujah's Hoss ]
Rev. Mr. Hallelujah's Hoss
Roller Skating
Rosalinde
[ Second Letter to the President ]
Second Letter to the President
She Kind of Coaxed Him
Shorts
Sixty Minutes in America
Skimming the Milky Way
Somnambulism and Crime
Spinal Meningitis
Spring
Squaw Jim
Squaw Jim's Religion
[ Stirring Incidents at a Fire ]
Stirring Incidents at a Fire
Strabismus and Justice
[ Street Cars and Curiosities ]
Street Cars and Curiosities
Taxidermy
The Amateur Carpenter
The Approaching Humorist
The Arabian Language
The Average Hen
The Bite of a Mad Dog
The Blase Young Man
The Board of Trade
The Cell Nest
The Chinese God
The Church Debt
The Cow Boy
The Crops
The Duke of Rawhide
The Expensive Word
The Heyday of Life
The Holy Terror
The Indian Orator
The Little Barefoot Boy
The Miner at Home
The Newspaper
The Old South
The Old Subscriber
The Opium Habit
The Photograph Habit
The Poor Blind Pig
The Sedentary Hen
The Silver Dollar
The Snake Indian
The Story of a Struggler
The Wail of a Wife
The Warrior's Oration
The Ways of Doctors
The Weeping Woman
The Wild Cow
They Fell
Time's Changes
To a Married Man
To an Embryo Poet
To Her Majesty
To The President-Elect
Twombley's Tale
Two Ways of Telling It
Venice
Verona
“We”
What We Eat
[ Woman's Wonderful Influence ]
Woman's Wonderful Influence
Woodtick William's Story
Words About Washington
Wrestling With the Mazy
“You Heah Me, Sah!”
{Illustration: WE WERE NOT ON TERMS OF INTIMACY.}
BALED HAY
By Bill Nye
A Drier Book than Walt Whitman's "Leaves o' Grass."
1884
CONTENTS
[ EXPERIMENTS WITH OLD CHEESE. ]
[ CHIPETA'S ADDRESS TO THE UTES. ]
[ HUMAN' NATURE ON THE HALF-SHELL. ]
[ HOW TO PUT UP A STOVE-PIPE. ]
[ AN INCIDENT OF THE CAMPAIGN. ]
[ MANIA FOR MARKING CLOTHES. ]
[ SOMETHING TOO MUCH OF THIS. ]
[ THE REVELATION RACKET IN UTAH. ]
[ THE MARCH OF CIVILIZATION. ]
[ ANOTHER FEATHERED SONGSTER ]
[ TOO MUCH GOD AND NO FLOUR. ]
[ ASK US SOMETHING DIFFICULT. ]
[ THEY HAVE CURBED THEIR WOE. ]
[ POISONS AND THEIR ANECDOTES. ]
[ WHAT THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY NEEDS. ]
[ TABLE MANNERS OF CHILDREN. ]
BILL NYE AND BOOMERANG
Or, The Tale Of A Meek-Eyed Mule, And Some Other Literary Gems
By Bill Nye
1883
CONTENTS
[ OSTROPHE TO AN ORPHAN MULE. ]
[ A MINERS' MEETING—MY MINE—A MIRAGE ON E PLAINS. ]
[ THE TRUE STORY OF DAMON AND PYTHIAS. ]
[ SAD MEMORIES OF THE DEAD YEAR. ]
[ SUGGESTION'S FOR A SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM. ]
[ RECOLLECTIONS OF THE OPERA. ]
[ SIC SEMPER GLORIA HOUSEPLANT. ]
[ DIARY OF A SAUCY YOUNG THING. ]
[ KILLING OFF THE JAMES' BOYS. ]
[ SOME REASONS WHY I CAN'T BE AN INDIAN AGENT. ]
[ THE PICNIC SNOOZER'S LAMENT. ]
[ BILLIOUS NYE AND BOOMERANG IN THE GOLD MINES. ]
[ THE TEMPERATURE OF THE BUMBLE-BEE. ]
[ THE GLAD, FREE LIFE OF THE MINER. ]
[ SOME THOUGHTS OF CHILDHOOD. ]
[ THE NEW ADJUSTABLE CAMPAIGN SONG. ]
[ SITTING ON ON A VENERABLE JOKE. ]
[ MYSELF, DR. TALMAGE, AND OTHER DIVINES. ]
[ FINE-CUT AS A MEANS OF GRACE. ]
[ THE WEATHER AND SOME OTHER THINGS. ]
[ THE PARABLE OF THE UNJUST STEWARD. ]
[ THE PARABLE OF THE PRODIGAL SON. ]
[ THE INDIAN AND THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL. ]
[ PUMPKIN JIM; OR THE TALE OF A BUSTED JACKASS RABBIT. ]
[ CHAPTER II.—GERALDINE CARBOLINE O'TOOLE. ]
[ CHAPTER III.—STARTLING REVELATIONS. ]
[ CHAPTER IV.—all's well that ends well. ]
[ WILLIAM NYE AND THE HEATHEN CHINEE. ]
[ HONG LEE'S GRAND BENEFIT AT LEADVILLE. ]
[ THE LOP-EARED LOVERS OF THE LITTLE LARAMIE. ]
[ CHAPTER I.—A TALE OF LOVE AND PARENTAL CUSSEDNESS. ]
[ HE WENT OUT WEST FOR HIS HEALTH. ]
[ A QUIET LITTLE WEDDING WITHOUT ANY FRILLS ]
[ THE VETERAN WHO DIED WHILE GETTING HIS PENSION. ]
[ GINGERBREAD POEMS AND COLD PICKLED FACTS. ]
[ HOW A MINING STAMPEDE BREAKS OUT. ]
[ THE GREAT ROCKY MOUNTAIN REUNION OF YALLER DOGS. ]
[ WHAT WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE HAS DONE FOR WYOMING. ]
[ PORTUGUESE WITHOUT A MASTER. ]
[ THE BUCKNESS WHEREWITH THE BUCK BEER BUCKETH. ]
[ BILLIOUS NYE AND THE AMATEUR STAGE. ]
[ A JOURNALISTIC CORRECTION. ]
[ A UTE PRESIDENTIAL CONVENTION. ]
[ THE CLUB-FOOTED LOVER OF PIUTE PASS. ]
[ AGRICULTURE AT AN ALTITUDE OF 7500 FEET. ]
[ THE GENTLE YOUTH FROM LEADVILLE. ]
[ THOUGHTS OF THE MELLOW PREVIOUSLY. ]
[ BANKRUPT SALE OF A CIRCUS. ]
[ GREELEY VERSUS VALLEY TAN. ]
[ THE ETERNAL FITNESS OF THINGS. ]
[ THEY UNANIMOUSLY AROSE AND HUNG HIM. ]
[ CATCHING MOUNTAIN TROUT AT AN ELEVATION OF 8000 FEET. ]
[ SOME ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. ]
[ THE CROW INDIAN AND HIS CAWS. ]
[ THE NUPTIALS OP DANGEROUS DAVIS. ]
[ THE GENTLE POWER OF A WOMAN'S INFLUENCE. ]
[ THE NATIVE INBORN SHIFTLESSNESS OF THE PRAIRIE DOGS. ]
[ ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. ]
[ THE SECRET OF GARFIELD'S ELECTION. ]
[ PERILS OF THE BUTTERNUT PICKER. ]
[ A WORD OR TWO ABOUT THE SWALLOW. ]
[ THE CALAMITY JANE CONSOLIDATED. ]
[ THE RELENTLESS GARDEN HOSE. ]
[ THE GREAT, HORRID MAN RECEIVETH NEW YEAR CALLS. ]
[ EXAMINING THE BRAND ON A FROZEN STEER. ]
BILL NYE'S CHESTNUTS OLD AND NEW
With New Illustrations From Original Sketches, Photographs, Memoranda, and Authentic Sources, by Williams, Opper, and Hopkins.
By Bill Nye
1888
CONTENTS
[
CHESTNUT-BURR. I.—THE SHAKESPEARE-BACON PUZZLE WRESTLED WITH CONSCIENTIOUSLY. ]
[
CHESTNUT-BURR II—HOW THE GLORIOUS FOURTH WAS CELEBRATED AT WHALEN'S GROVE LAST YEAR. ]
[
CHESTNUT-BURR III—BILL NYE FINDS COLOROW FULL OF ODD TRAITS. ]
[ AWKWARDNESS OF CARRYING WHISKY ABOUT. ]
[
CHESTNUT-BURR IV—BILL NYE PAYS A BRIEF VISIT TO A PROFESSIONAL STAR READER. ]
[ INGRATITUDE OF THE HUMAN HEART. ]
[
CHESTNUT-BURR V—CONCERNING THE FRENCH MASTERPIECES AT THE ACADEMY OF DESIGN. ]
[
CHESTNUT-BURR VI—BILL NYE DIAGNOSTICATES THE PLAINT OF A COUNTRY COUSIN. ]
[ MEN ARE OFTEN MISUNDERSTOOD. ]
[
CHESTNUT-BURR VII—BILL NYE IN THE ROLE OF AN UTE INDIAN JENKINS. ]
[ SURE CURE FOR BILIOUSNESS. ]
[
CHESTNUT-BURR VIII—IN AN UNGUARDED MOMENT BILL NYE IS CAPTURED BY A POLITICAL SIREN. ]
[
CHESTNUT-BURR IX—BILL NYE DESCANTS UPON YOUNG IVES'S IDEAS IN FINANCE. ]
[ THE ANTI-CLINKER BASE-BURNER BEE. ]
[
CHESTNUT-BURR X—A FEW REMARKS ON OUR HOSTELRY SYSTEM AS IT NOW PREVAILS. ]
[ PITY FOR SAD-EYED HUSBANDS. ]
[
CHESTNUT-BURR XI—WILLIAM NYE VISITS ROYALTY FROM THE HOME OF THE HAM SANDWICH. ]
[
CHESTNUT-BURR—THE HUMORIST INTERVIEWS HIS GRACE THE DUKE IN THE IMPROVED STYLE. ]
[
CHESTNUT-BURR—XII "THE OLD MAN ELOQUENT." ]
[
CHESTNUT-BURR XIV—THE AMENDE HONORABLE. ]
[ SWEET INFLUENCES OF CHANGING SEASONS. ]
[ THE MARCH OF CIVILIZATION. ]
[
CHESTNUT-BURR. XV—A BIG CORNER ON PORK. ]
[
CHESTNUT-BURR XVI-PATRICK OLESON. ]
[ TOO MUCH GOD AND NO FLOUR. ]
[
CHESTNUT-BURR. XVII—LONGING FOR HOME. ]
[
CHESTNUT-BURR XVIII—THE TRUE HISTORY OF DAMON AND PYTHIAS. ]
[
CHESTNUT-BURR XIX—A STORY OF SPOTTED TAIL. ]
[
CHESTNUT-BURR XX—THE ROMANCE OF HORSE-SHOEING. ]
[
CHESTNUT-BURR XXI—EXPERIENCE ON THE FEVERISH HORNET. ]
[
CHESTNUT-BURR XXII—ANCIENT BRIC-A-BRAC ]
[
CHESTNUT-BURR XIII—THE TWO-HEADED GIRL. ]
[
CHESTNUT-BURR XIV—A PATHETIC EPISODE IN NORTHERN WISCONSIN. ]
[
CHESTNUT-BURR XXV—BILL NYE ESSAYS A NOVELETTE. ]
[
CHESTNUT-BURR XXVI—THE DAUGHTER OF BOB TAIL FLUSH. ]
[ THE PLUMAGE OF THE OSTRICH. ]
[
CHESTNUT-BURR XXVII—OUR GREAT NATIONAL MOTTO. ]
[
CHESTNUT-BURR XVIII—BILL NYE AT A TOURNAMENT. ]
[
CHESTNUT-BURR XXIX—A SOCIAL CURSE—THE MAN WHO INTERRUPTS. ]
[
CHESTNUT-BURR XXX—A DISCOURSE ON CATS. ]
[
CHESTNUT-BURR XXXI—THE GREAT ORATION OF SPARTACUS. ]
[
CHESTNUT-BURR—WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE IN WYOMING. ]
[
CHESTNUT-BURR—CONCERNING THE SWALLOW. ]
[
CHESTNUT-BURR XXXIV—A NOVEL WAY OF MARKING CLOTHES. ]
[
CHESTNUT-BURR XXXV—THE UNHAPPY HUMORIST. ]
[
CHESTNUT-BURR XXXVI—THE SODA LAKES OF WYOMING. ]
[
CHESTNUT-BURR XXXVII—VIEWS OF CHICAGO. ]
[
CHESTNUT-BURR XXXVIII—A SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM. ]
[ MODERN FICTION IS UNRELIABLE. ]
[
CHESTNUT-BURR XXXIX—SOME FACTS OF SCIENCE. ]
[
CHESTNUT-BURR XL—SORROWS OF A ONE-LEGGED MAN. ]
[ THE TRUE POET LOVES SECLUSION. ]
[
CHESTNUT-BURR XLI—REVELATION IN UTAH. ]
[
CHESTNUT-BURR XLII—THE TONGUE-DESTROYING FRENCH LANGUAGE. ]
[
CHESTNUT-BURR XLIV—ONE TOUCH OF NATURE. ]
[ HOW TO DEAL WITH THE REVOLVER DIFFICULTY. ]
[
CHESTNUT-BURR XLV—FUN OF BEING A PUBLISHER. ]
[
CHESTNUT-BURR XLVI—PERFORMANCE OF THE PHOENIX. ]
[
CHESTNUT-BURR NYE AS A CRITIC AND NYE AS A POET. ]
[ APOSTROPHE TO AN ORPHAN MULE.= ]
[ FANTASIA FOR THE BASS DRUM; ADAPTED FROM THE GERMAN BY WILLIAM VON NYE.= ]
[ THE PICNIC SNOOZER'S LAMENT.= ]
[ APOSTROPHE ADDRESSED TO O. WILDE.= ]
[ ADJUSTABLE CAMPAIGN SONG.= ]
[ THE TRUE TALE OF WILLIAM TELL. ]
[ BANKRUPT SALE OF LITERARY GEMS. ]
[ OFFICE OF THE MORMAN BAZOO. ]
BILL NYE'S SPARKS
By Edgar Wilson Nye (Bill Nye)
1896
CONTENTS
[ A PATENT ORATORICAL STEAM ORGANETTE FOR RAILWAY STUMPING ]
[ THE DRUG BUSINESS IN KANSAS ]
[ THE PERILS OF IDENTIFICATION ]
[ LIBERTY ENLIGHTENING THE WORLD. ]
[ THE COUPON LETTER OF INTRODUCTION ]
[ THE GREAT WESTERN CLAIRVOYANT, ]
[ THE FARMER AND THE TARIFF. ]
[ A PLEA FOR ONE IN ADVERSITY ]
[ SPEECH OF RED SHIRT, THE FIGHTING CHIEF OF THE SIOUX NATION ]
[ WEBSTER AND HIS GREAT BOOK ]
BILL NYE'S RED BOOK
By Edgar Wilson Nye
Illustrated by J. H. Smith
1891
CONTENTS
[ RECOLLECTIONS OF NOAH WEBSTER. ]
[ SECOND LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT. ]
[ LIFE INSURANCE AS A HEALTH RESTORER. ]
[ MORE PATERNAL CORRESPONDENCE. ]
[ A FATHER'S ADVICE TO HIS SON. ]
[ INSOMNIA IN DOMESTIC ANIMALS. ]
[ AN OPERATIC ENTERTAINMENT. ]
[ ACCEPTING THE LARAMIE POSTOFFICE. ]
[ A JOURNALISTIC TENDERFOOT. ]
[ MY EXPERIENCE AS AN AGRICULTURIST. ]