The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 6 August 1906
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THE SCRAP BOOK.
AUGUST, 1906.
THE TOMB OF NAPOLEON.
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.
DEFINITIONS OF "HOME."
RECESSIONAL.
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.
The Graves of Our Presidents.
MILITARY RED TAPE IN INDIA.
A Fight With a Cannon.
Good Manners Fifty Years Ago.
Shopping.
Traveling.
Arrival at a Hotel.
Hotel Breakfast.
Hotel Dinner.
On Shipboard.
Things Not to Do.
Introductions.
DINNERS THAT CONSISTED OF BOOKS.
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.
LETTERS FAMOUS FOR BREVITY.
BRAHMA.
The First Piano in Camp.
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.
Spartacus to the Gladiators at Capua.
THE AVERAGE AGES OF ANIMALS.
LINES ON A SKELETON.
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.
BEAUX AND GALLANTS OF FORMER DAYS.
CASEY'S REVENGE.
A Course From Trimalchio's Dinner.
Little Glimpses of the 19th Century.
SIXTH DECADE.
1851
1852
1853
1854
1855
1856
1857
1858
1859
1860
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.
LOVE.
Chops the Dwarf.
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.
THE AGE OF THE EARTH.
AN ANTHOLOGY OF THE LINKS.
THE FANTOM OF THE LINKS.
THE LOST BALL.
GOLF IN CACTUS CENTER.
WHEN MACLAREN FOOZLED OUT.
THE LOST GRIP.
THE WORLD'S GREAT OPERAS.
Rienzi.
Wagner.
Argument.
WHERE ROOSEVELT USED THE PHRASE "THE STRENUOUS LIFE."
SYMBOLISM OF PLAYING-CARDS.
THE BATTLE OF THE "YATCHES."
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.
A HOROSCOPE OF THE MONTHS.
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