The Gentleman's Journal
1872; Gale Group; Linguagem: English
Resumo
Frontmatter: The Gentleman's Journal. Essay: Sea-Angling, A Night of Horror, The Hunting Spiders, Crocodiles, Boys' History of the Franco German War, When the Greatest Danseuse of Her Own and Any Subsequent Time, Madame Taglioni, Left the Stage, Few Expected Ever to See That Famous Artiste Again, or to Hear of Her in Connection with the Vocation She Made Famous, Oddities of Human Character XI—Nathaniel Bentley, Leap Year, The "Cormorant's" Luck, To Correspondents, British Birds' Eggs, Reptiles in Madagascar, According to a Late Communication by Ehrenberg to the Academy of Science at Berlin, He Has Succeeded in Determining the Existence of 548 Species of Organic Forms, Absolutely Invisible to the Naked Eye, and yet Held in Suspension in the Atmosphere, A Remarkable Set of Chinese Chessmen, Ammonia as a Cure for Snake-Bites, Some Further Remarks, Professor Marsh Reports to the American Journal of Science the Discovery, during His Explorations in 1871, of a Remarkable Fossil Bird, Recreations for the Ingenious Prizes for Competition, Consisting of Fifteen Handsomely-Bound Volumes, A Perilous Position, Solutions of the Self-Mates C. Kockelkorn's, Behind the Curtain, A Nest-Building Fish, Our Competitive Examination The Names of the Prize Winners Are Printed in Small Capitals, Introduction, Bartol Was a Gentleman, Quiet and Unobtrusive; but When His Dignity Was Touched He Could Make a Very Cutting Remark; and His Wit Was Quick and Keen, The Disagreeable Wiseacre, English Bank-Note Library, The First and Second Positions Referred to Are—Black Kings on 3 and 4, White King on 15, and Black King on 9, Man on 5, with White King on 7, Buried Alive, The Midnight Murder, The Hive and the Honey-Bee, Notes on Menageries, Professor Shaler Has Stated His Belief, from the Result of Observation, That the Rattle Snake's Rattle Is Actually Beneficial to It, Its Object Being to Imitate the Sound of the Cicada or Other Insect Which Forms the Food of Many Birds, Thus Attracting Them within Its Power, and Accounting for the Apparent "Fascination" of Its Prey, Which Must Now Be Consigned to the Limbo of Travellers' Tales, Honorary Distinction for Contributions, A Rat Story, Captain Evans, Exploration of the World Underground, Answers to Recreations for the Ingenious No. 15 (New Series).—Pages 88,89,90,91, The Pyramids, Remarkable Impostures VIII—The Chevalier D'eon, Draughts Pohlman on Draughts, A Man of Few Words, Holiday Rambles V.—Mallow, An Old Tiger-Killer Killed, In 1596 the Dutch Explorers in Nova Zembla Constructed a Small Wooden Hut. Arts and entertainment: Chess Problems, Chess Game LVIII, Rules and Principles of the Game of Draughts, Chess Chess Games, Chess Game LVII, Solutions of the Six Chess Problems in the Supplement for April, Page 96.
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