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Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony Simply Explained
by Alfred Powell MorganWireless telegraphy, that marvelous art which has made possible the instantaneous transmission of intelligence between widely distant parts having no apparent physical connection save that of the earth, air, and water, is one of those wonders of science which appeal to the average mind as either incomprehensible or only explainable through the use ..
An Attempt to Investigate the Seat of Animal Life
by Henry CurtisThe capacity and aptitude for motion, observable in man, naturally lead us to an enquiry into the general principle of his corporeal functions. To a disquisition of which I devote the following pages. Aware of the intricacy of my subject, and that the operations of the animal body necessarily embrace agents not within the range of our senses, I can..
The Young Continentals at Lexington
by John T. McIntyre“The Young Continentals at Lexington” begins with that vital period of our country’s history when the great forces that made the Revolution were slowly coming together. The port of Boston was closed; an army under Gage occupied the city; Massachusetts Bay was thronged with troop-ships and frigates, and the colonies were writhing under a serie..
A poem on the earthquake at Lisbon
by AnonymousCALM was the Sky, the Sun serenely bright,Shot o’er the Sea long dazzling Streams of Light.Thro’ Orange Groves soft breathing Breezes play’d,And gather’d Sweets like Bees where e’er they stray’d.In fair Relievo stood the lofty Town,Set off by radiant Lights and Shadows brown;While ev’ry Dome, each Cupola and Spire,Shone doubly gilt by the Sun’s lam..
Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, Fifth Series, No. 108, Vol. III, January 23, 1886
by Chambers' JournalI am once more at the water’s edge. It is the Tweed, silver-voiced, musical, its ripples breaking into liquid crystals as the rushing stream leaps into the breast of the softly-circling pool. Here, in its upper reaches, amid the pastoral hills of Peeblesshire, its volume of fair water is untainted by pollution. It has miles and miles yet to run ere..
Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, Fifth Series, No. 109, Vol. III, January 30, 1886
by Chambers' JournalThe canon of literary criticism is, we have said, not an unvarying one. But undoubtedly there is, for all perfect, and still more for all enduring work in the world of letters a certain measure and standard of excellence in the mode of expression, which even the most brilliant genius cannot afford wholly to disregard, but which is as incapable of e..
The man with the hoe, and other poems
by Edwin MarkhamThe man with the hoe, and other poems is a collection of American poems written by Edwin Markham. A list of poems belowThe Man with the HoeA Look into the GulfBrotherhoodSong of the Followers of PanLittle Brothers of the GroundWail of the Wandering DeadA PrayerThe PoetThe Whirlwind RoadThe Desire of NationsThe Elf ChildThe Goblin Laugh..
Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, Fifth Series, No. 110, Vol. III, February 6, 1886
by Chambers' JournalThe cry is everywhere the same—the badness of our modern servants. But who is really to blame—the mistresses or the maids? the masters or the employed? The one class are educated, the other are comparatively ignorant; and influence filters downwards—it does not permeate the social mass from below. We cast longing looks backward to the bygone times ..