The Scrap Book, August, 1906

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Various

Title

The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 6 August 1906

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Produced by Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier, Christine D. and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

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AP: General Works: Periodicals

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Periodicals

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Text

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32123

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https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32123

Release Date

April 24, 2010

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Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE SCRAP BOOK.
2. 2.AUGUST, 1906.
3. 3.THE TOMB OF NAPOLEON.
4. 4.The Latest Viewpoints of Men Worth While — WHAT THE SUPREME COURT STANDS FOR. — The Men and the Tradition. — The Nation Sound at Bottom. — THE GERMAN KAISER'S CAMPAIGN FOR AMITY. — THE GENIAL SPORT OF GENEALOGISTS. — TEACHING IS A VERY POPULAR PROFESSION. — Changes in Occupation. — Teaching Monopolizes the Increase. — MEN OF THE SOUTH WERE NEVER REBELS. — War Has Settled Great Questions. — General Lee's Rebuke. — PLACE IN PUBLIC LIFE ONLY FOR PICKED MEN. — Hard Time for the Poor Man. — Must Give More Than Money. — The Most Dangerous Men. — THEY WOULD KEEP THE PEACE-DOVE HOVERING. — The Hague Conference as a Basis. — The Limits of Hospitality. — LIQUOR DEALERS COME OUT FOR TEMPERANCE. — Prohibitory Laws Evaded. — Favor White Ribbon Movement. — Intoxication Should Be Crime. — MACAULAY'S PROPHECY OF DEMOCRACY'S DOOM. — An Early Victorian Mother Shipton. — Restraining the Discontented Majority. — Statesman and Demagogue. — AN OPEN ATTITUDE IN STUDYING THE OCCULT. — Science and Experience. — THAT GREAT MYSTERY, THE COMMON TABBY.
5. 5.DEFINITIONS OF "HOME."
6. 6.RECESSIONAL.
7. 7.FROM THE LIPS OF ANANIAS. — RUDYARD KIPLING'S LYRIC TO LIES. — SOME SNAKE STORIES. — DISCRIMINATING SPARROWS. — A GUN'S SELF-SACRIFICE. — A POWERFUL SALVE. — HOW THE PACK WAS PACKED. — A TALL TREE YARN. — REMARKABLE ECHOES.
8. 8.The Graves of Our Presidents.
9. 9.MILITARY RED TAPE IN INDIA.
10. 10.A Fight With a Cannon.
11. 11.Good Manners Fifty Years Ago. — Shopping. — Traveling. — Arrival at a Hotel. — Hotel Breakfast. — Hotel Dinner. — On Shipboard. — Things Not to Do. — Introductions.
12. 12.DINNERS THAT CONSISTED OF BOOKS.
13. 13.How They Got On In The World. — HE "PEELED OFF HIS COAT." — MADE TRAVEL LUXURIOUS. — Pullman's First Sleeping-Car. — COLT AND HIS REVOLVER. — Investors Were Timorous. — THE FIRST EXPRESSMAN. — Carpetbags First Express Cars. — A Builder of the West. — TRIUMPHS OF A RUNAWAY.
14. 14.LETTERS FAMOUS FOR BREVITY.
15. 15.BRAHMA. — By RALPH WALDO EMERSON.
16. 16.The First Piano in Camp.
17. 17.ALL KINDS OF THINGS. — THE THRIFTY FARMER OF MOUNT VERNON. — FIFTEEN SQUARE MILES OF LAND. — ELABORATE APPAREL OF OLD JOHN HANCOCK. — APTNESS AT PUNISHING THE PUNCH. — MEN WHOSE NAMES LIVE IN THEIR INVENTIONS. — ODD COINING OF SUITABLE WORDS. — HOW INSECTS CONDUCT THEIR CONVERSATIONS. — THE MUSIC OF THE GRASSHOPPER. — LUCKLESS SPY WHO SWALLOWED A BULLET. — A MESSAGE STRANGELY CONCEALED. — FINDING MONEY IN UNEXPECTED PLACES. — WEALTH WAS HIDDEN IN A CRUTCH. — NO ROYAL ROAD TO THE PRESIDENTIAL CHAIR. — ROUTES THROUGH POLITICAL MAZE. — BRIDEGROOM NAMED A BABY AS SECOND WIFE. — TRUTH BORN IN HONEYMOON JEST. — A LEARNED BLACKSMITH AND THE IRON HORSE. — BURRITT, THE SELF-MADE SCHOLAR. — ONE LEVIATHAN YIELDED $100,000. — ORIGIN OF HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT. — ANCIENT PARALLEL OF OUR JINGLE.
18. 18.Spartacus to the Gladiators at Capua.
19. 19.THE AVERAGE AGES OF ANIMALS. — LINES ON A SKELETON.
20. 20.THE BEGINNINGS OF THINGS. — EVOLUTION OF THE PIANO. — THE FIRST LIGHTHOUSE. — ORIGIN OF THE TYPEWRITER. — THE FIRST PRINTED BOOK. — THE INVENTION OF MATCHES. — THE FIRST HORSE-CARS.
21. 21.BEAUX AND GALLANTS OF FORMER DAYS.
22. 22.CASEY'S REVENGE.
23. 23.A Course From Trimalchio's Dinner.
24. 24.Little Glimpses of the 19th Century. — SIXTH DECADE. — 1851 — 1852 — 1853 — 1854 — 1855 — 1856 — 1857 — 1858 — 1859 — 1860
25. 25.The Beginnings of Stage Careers. — SHE BEGAN IN "1492." — At Fifteen Dollars a Week. — Those Elusive Sleepers. — HYMN GOT WOODRUFF ON. — Chorus Boy In "Pinafore." — How the Rungs Were Climbed. — SELWYN LOST JOB AS USHER. — How a Job Was Captured. — An Energetic Salesman. — A Series of Discouragements. — How Selwyn Held Up Gillette. — Selwyn's Varied Make-Ups. — The Turning of the Long Lane. — Stranded in Chicago. — Striking the Iron While It Was Hot. — A Staggering Blow.
26. 26.LOVE.
27. 27.Chops the Dwarf.
28. 28.Royal Visitors in America. — The Visit of Louis Philippe. — The Brothers of Napoleon. — The Two Sons of Murat. — The Prince of Wales's Tour. — Kings and Princes From Many Lands.
29. 29.THE AGE OF THE EARTH.
30. 30.AN ANTHOLOGY OF THE LINKS. — THE FANTOM OF THE LINKS. — THE LOST BALL. — GOLF IN CACTUS CENTER. — WHEN MACLAREN FOOZLED OUT. — THE LOST GRIP.
31. 31.THE WORLD'S GREAT OPERAS. — Rienzi. — Wagner. — Argument.
32. 32.WHERE ROOSEVELT USED THE PHRASE "THE STRENUOUS LIFE."
33. 33.SYMBOLISM OF PLAYING-CARDS.
34. 34.THE BATTLE OF THE "YATCHES."
35. 35.Wit and Cruelty as Allies. — The Parson's Suggestion. — Lamb's Unkind Thrust. — A Weighty Politician. — Religiously Personal. — A Beggar's Benison. — Hard Hit by Napoleon. — A Triumph for Billingsgate. — David vs. Goliath. — An American Woman's Retort. — Silencing the Surgeon. — Thomas Lawson's Sharp Tongue. — The Deacon Smelled Sulfur. — Laying Up Treasure for Heaven. — Tact of Disraeli.
36. 36.A HOROSCOPE OF THE MONTHS.

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