Front matter
Reading edition
FROM DR. FRANKLIN’S BROOM-CORN SEED. See Page 223.
ILLUSTRATED SCIENCE
FOR
BOYS AND GIRLS.
BOSTON:
D. LOTHROP & COMPANY,
FRANKLIN STREET.
Copyright, 1881,
By D. Lothrop & Company.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Page
How Newspapers are made. 11
Umbrellas. 38
Paul and the Comb-makers. 54
In the Gas-works. 69
Racing a Thunder-storm. 86
August’s “’Speriment.” 103
The Birds Of Winter. 125
Something About Light-houses. 141
“Buy a Broom! Buy a Broom!” 158
Talking by Signals. 171
Jennie finds out how Dishes are made. 183
Archery For Boys. 192
Dolly’s Shoes. 202
A Glimpse of some Montana Beavers. 208
How Logs go to Mill. 211
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
Page
Frontispiece
The N. Y. Tribune Building at Night. 13
A Contributor to the Waste-Paper Basket. 16
Office of the Editor-In-Chief. 17
Regular Contributors 19
How Some of the News is Gathered 22
Type-Setter’s Case In Pi. 22
Type-Setters’ Room. 23
Taking “Proofs.” 24
In the Stereotypers’ Room. 25
Finishing the Plate. 27
Printing Presses of the Past and Present 30
A News-Dealer. 33
A Bad Morning for the News-Boys. 36
“Any Answers come for Me?” 37
The First Umbrella. 38
What Jonas saw adown the Future. 39
Lord of the Twenty-Four Umbrellas. 42
A “Duck’s Back” Umbrella. 44
An Umbrella Handle Au Naturel. 46
Cutting the Covers. 47
Finishing the Handle. 50
Sewing “Pudding-Bag” Seams. 51
Completing the Umbrella 53
Master Paul did not feel Happy. 55
My Lady’s Toilet. 58
The New Circle Comb 61
Ancient or Modern—Which? 62
“In Some Remote Corner Of Spain.” 65
A Retort. 72
Kitty in the Gas-Works. 77
The Metre. 77
The Gasometre. 83
Inflating the “Buffalo.” 87
A Plucky Dog. 91
Our Balloon Camp. 94
The Professor’s Dilemma. 99
The Wreck of the “Buffalo.” 101
The Incubator. 105
How the Chicken is Packed. 117
How the Shell is Cracked. 118
The Artificial Mother. 120
The Chickadee. 126
The Black Snow-Bird. 129
The Snow Bunting. 133
The Brown Creeper. 134
Nuthatches. 136
The Downy Woodpecker. 138
Fourth Order Light-House. 141
A Modern Light-House 144
Light-House on Mt. Desert. 147
Light-House at “The Thimble Shoal” 151
First Class Light-Ship. 154
The Blind Broom-Maker of Barnstable. 159
A Gay Cavalcade. 160
The Comedy of Brooms. 163
Up in the Attic. 164
Plant the Broom! 166
The Tragedy of Brooms. 169
In Obedience to the Signals. 177
The Potter’s Wheel. 184
The Kiln and Saggers. 186
Mould for a cup. 188
Handle Mould. 188
Making a Sugar-Bowl. 189
Rest for flat Dishes. 191
The Target. 201
Dolly’s Shoes 204
A Maine Wood-Chopper. 211
A River-Driver. 214
“The Liberated Logs came sailing along.” 216
Through the Sluice. 218
ILLUSTRATED SCIENCE FOR
BOYS AND GIRLS.