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