Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
Chemistry, optics, pneumatics, mechanics, and mathematics, all contribute their share towards furnishing recreation and sport for the social gathering, or the family fireside. The magical combinations and effects of chemistry have furnished an almost infinite variety of pleasa...
Chemistry, optics, pneumatics, mechanics, and mathematics, all contribute their share towards furnishing recreation and sport for the social gathering, or the family fireside. T...
2. Part 2Heads may be made to nod, faces to laugh; eyes may be made to roll, teeth to gnash; crocodiles may be made to swallow tigers; combats may be represented; but one of the most ins...
3. Part 3EXAMPLE. 1. Add 1 to it 7 2. Multiply by 3 21 3. Add 1 again 22 4. Add the number thought of 28 Let him tell you the figures produced 28 5. You then subtract 4 from it 24 6. And...
4. Part 4The force of attraction when exerted between masses of matter, is termed gravitation; when it unites particles of matter of a similar kind and produces masses, it is called the...
5. Part 5If you mix in a soda-water bottle one-third of oxygen with two-thirds of hydrogen, and apply flame, the mixture will explode with a sharp report. Great care must be taken in all...
6. Part 6This gas is produced in large quantities by the respiration of animals, as may be proved by respiring through a tube immersed in lime-water, when the water will be instantly ren...
7. Part 7Melt a pound or two of bismuth in an iron ladle over the fire; remove it as soon as the whole is fluid; and when the surface has become solid break a hole in it, and pour out th...
8. Part 8HOW TO BECOME A BOWLER--A complete manual of bowling. Containing full instructions for playing all the standard American and German games, together with rules and systems of spo...