Chapter M: S.--Master of Science (6)

Baths, 161

Bayreuth Festival, 11

Beautifiers, 43

Belladonna poisoning, 191

Bells on shipboard, 100

Bible, 11

Bible, kissing the, 67

Bible statistics, 12

Bicarbonate of soda, 175

Billiard records, 115

Bi-metallism, 12

Birth stones, 12

Bite, snake, 195

Bites, dog, 169

Bleeding, 162

Bleeding from capillary veins, 163

Bleeding from the veins, 163

Blind, 13

Blood, circulation of, 21

Blood-heat, 13

Blue-Grass region, 13

Board and timber measure, 156

Body temperature, 198

Bones, broken, 164

Books, production of, 100

Bowling records, 116

Boxers, 14

Brain, 14

Brandy, 177

Bread, 15

Breakfast foods, 15

British Royal family, cost of, 30

Broken bones, 164

Brook farm, 15

Burns, 192

Cable, Atlantic, 6

Calculating interest, 16

California, gold in, 55

Camphor, 176

Camphor poisoning, 190

Canals, 17

Capacity of cisterns and wells, 18

Capillary veins, bleeding from, 163

Capitol at Washington, 18

Carbolic acid poisoning, 189

Cards, 93

Carrying the wounded, 199

Cause of failures, 48

Cellars, disinfecting, 168

Cells of the brain, 14

Celluloid, 19

Census of the United States, 27

Certified checks, 19

Cesspools, disinfecting, 168

Cheap laundry soaps, 110

Checks, certified, 19

Chemical composition of man, 20

Chess, 20

Chests (medicine), 75

Chief virtues, 107

Chilblains, 164

Children, emergencies, 173

Chloroform poisoning, 190

Christmas, 21

Circle, circumference of, 25

Circle, diameter of, 24

Circle, radius of, 24

Circle, square of the diameter of, 24

Circle, square of the radius of, 24

Circular measure, 155

Circulation of the blood, 21

Circumference of a circle, 25

Circumference of a circle, square of, 25

Circumference of a sphere, 25

Circumference of the earth, 39

Cisterns and wells, capacity of, 18

Cities in the United States, distances between, 34

Cities (large) of the United States, 28

Cities of the world (population), 73

Civil War, songs of, 113

Cleanliness, 164

Climate and temperature, 21

Climate, influence of the ocean on, 66

Clothing, afire, 166

Coal industry, 22

Coal oil, fires from, 179

Cocoa industry, 22

Coffee industry, 22
Coin (money), 23

Cold cream, 177

Colds, 167

Collapse, 194

Colors, to produce, 138

Colosseum, 23

Comets, 23

Communism and Socialism, 27

Comparative population of the large cities and towns of the United
States, 28

Comparative population of the United States, 27

Copper coining, 23

Commission form of government, 56

Common abbreviations, 1

Common Council, 56

Common degrees, 1

Common measurements, 24

Compass, 28

Composition of man, 20

Constitution of the United States, 55

Corn in the crib, to measure, 138

Corporal works of mercy, 107

Correct weight of men and women, 126

Corrosive sublimate poisoning, 191

Corsets, 29

Cosmetics, 29

Cost of the British Royal family, 30

Cotton industry, 31

Cotton gin, 31

Cough medicines, 87

Countries of the world, 98

Cradle of American liberty, 31

Credit Mobilier, 31

Creed, Apostles', 4

Creosote poisoning, 189

Croton water tunnel, 59

Crusades, 32

Crust of the earth, 32

Cubic measure, 154

Daguerreotypes, 32

Damage by lightning, 33

Danger of taking patent medicines, 86

Day or night, to find the length of, 137

Deadly sins, 107

Deaf and dumb, 33

Death, apparent, 160

Deaths, percentage of, 77

Deeds, 33

Degrees in common use, 1

Depth of the sea, 40

Dialects, 112

Diameter of a circle, 24

Diameter of a sphere, 26

Diamonds (famous), 49

Dictionaries, 33

Difference in time, 136

Different colors, to produce, 138

Digestibility of foods, 34

Diphtheria, 167

Diseases, infectious, 186

Disinfectants, 167

Disinfecting cellars, yards, cesspools, etc., 168

Disinfecting the sick room, 168

Dislocation, 168

Distance between cities in the United States, 34

Distance from the earth to the planets, 112

Diving bells, 36

Dog bites, 169

Drama, 36

Drowning, 169

Drowning, to prevent, 172

Drugs, 36

Dry measure, 154

Dumb and deaf, 33

Dying sayings of great men, 37

Dynamite, 39

Ear, getting things into, 184

Earth, crust of, 32

Earth facts, 39

Earthquake areas, 42

Earthquakes, 41

Electoral vote, 62

Engine, steam, 128

England, Bank of, 11

Equator, 39

Errors of history, 44

Esperanto, 46

Estimating the weight of hay, 137

Europe, 40

Exercise, 178

Extinguishing fire from coal oil, 179

Eye, getting things into, 183

Facts about the earth, 39

Failures, 47

Failures, cause of, 48

Fainting, 180

Famous diamonds, 49

Faneuil Hall, 31

Farm productions, 49

Feeding an invalid, 180

Fertile soil, 41

Finding the capacity of cisterns and wells, 18

Finding the length of day or night, 137

Finding the number of days (interest), 16

Fire in the house, 181

Fires from coal oil, 179

First trans-Atlantic steamship, 51

Fits, 181

Flag of the United States, 142

Flour industry, 51

Food (pure), 101

Food nutriment, 51

Foods, breakfast, 15

Foods, digestibility of, 34

Fool's Day, 4

Force of gravity, 57

Forests, 52

Foretelling the weather, 52

Freemasonry, 54

Freiburg tunnel, 59

French Academy, 55

Frost bite, 182

Fumigating a sick room, 182

Gas, acetylene, 2

Gas, illuminating, 186

Gas, natural, 79

Gems, language of, 67

Getting things into the eye, nose, ear, etc., 183

Getting wet, 184

Ginger, 176

Glass, plate, 92

Glasses, 114

Glycerine, 176

Gold coining, 23

Gold in California, 55

Government, 55

Grain industry, 57

Gravity, 57

Great American inventions, 57

Great Eastern, 58

Great libraries, 59

Great men, dying sayings of, 37

Great religions, 135

Great tunnels, 59

Greece, seven wise men of, 108

Growers (hair), 59

Gunnison tunnel, 59

Hair growers, 59

Half-century of life, 60

Half the circumference of a circle, 25

Hamamelis, 177

Hammer-throwing records, 117

Harp, æolian, 3

Hawaii, 61

Hay industry, 61

Hay, to estimate the weight of, 137

Headache powders, 87

Headaches, 184

Health, 61

Height of men and women, 126

Height of the land, 40

Hiccoughs, 185

Highest mountain, 40

Historical data, 62

History, errors of, 44

History in brief, United States, 143

Holy Grail, 64

Hoosac tunnel, 59

House afire, 181

House of Representatives, 56

Household weights, 64

How to avoid accidents, 185

How to become a voter, 64

Human brain, 14

Hurdle racing records, 117

Hurricane warnings, 152

Hydrophobia, 169

Ice, artificial, 5

Illuminating gas, 186

Implement industry, 3

Indian ocean, 40

Industrial occupations, 65

Industry, agricultural implement, 3
coal, 22
cocoa, 22
coffee, 22
cotton, 31
flour, 51
grain, 57
hay, 61
iron, 66
jewelry, 66
liquor and wine, 74
meat, 75
mineral, 76
mining, 76
petroleum, 92
poultry and egg, 97
sugar, 130
tobacco, 137
wool, 203

Infectious diseases, 186

Influence of the ocean on the climate, 66

Inhabitants of the United States, 95

Insane, 66

Insomnia, 195

Interest calculating, 16

Interest table, 17

Invalid, feeding an, 180

Inventions, great American, 57

Iron industry, 66

Jewelry industry, 66

John Doe and Richard Roe, 66

Judicial, 56

Jumping records, 117

Kissing the Bible, 67

Koran, 67

Land area of the earth, 39

Land area of the United States, 93

Land, height of, 40

Land measure, 155

Language of gems, 67

Languages, 112

Languages of the world, 67

Large cities and towns of the United States, population of, 28

Large cities in North America, population of, 68

Largest steamship, 204

Laundry soaps, 110

Law, 72

Leading cities of the world (population), 73

Legislative, 56

Length of day or night, to find, 137

Liberal arts, seven, 108

Libraries, 59

Life, half-century of, 60

Lightning, damage by, 33

Liquid measure, 154

Liquor and wine industry, 74

Literature, 74

Living ages, 3

Lockjaw, 188

Long measure, 153

Lotions, shaving, 109

Magnetic poles, 75

Mammoth cave, 75

Man, chemical composition of, 20

Manchester canal, 17

Marathon team race records, 117

Masons, 54

Measurements, common, 24

Measuring corn in the crib, 138

Meat industry, 75

Medicine chests, 75

Medicines, emergency, 174

Medicines (patent), 86

Men of Greece, seven wise, 108

Mercy, seven corporal works of, 107

Metalic coin, 23

Metric system, 155

Microscope, 76

Middle Ages, seven wonders of, 108

Mineral industry, 76

Mining industry, 76

Money (coin), 23

Mont Cenis tunnel, 59

Moon, 76

Mortality, 77

Mortgages, 78

Motor-cycle records, 117

Mountain, highest, 40

Mushroom poisoning, 191

Mustard plasters, 188

National Government, 56

Nations, wealth of, 151

Natural gas, 79

Naturalization, 79

Naturalized citizens, 64

Neuralgia, 188

Newspapers, 80

New York Stock Exchange, 81

New Zealand, 41

Nicknames of States, 81

Night, to find the length of, 137

Nitroglycerine, 82

Normal weight of men and women, 126

North American continent, 40

North America, population of the large cities of, 68

Nose, getting things into, 183

Notes, 82

Number of newspapers, 80

Nutriment of food, 51

Nux vomica poisoning, 190

Occupations, industrial, 65

Ocean ownership, 82

Ocean records, 117

Oceans, area of, 40

Old time ships, 83

Opium poisoning, 190

Oxalic acid poisoning, 189

Pacific ocean, 40

Palmistry, 84

Panama canal, 17

Partnership, 84

Patent medicines, 86

Peppermint, 176

Percentage of deaths, 77

Perpetual motion, 91

Petroleum industry, 92

Philippine Islands, 92

Phonograph, 131

Physicians, 88

Pianoforte, 92

Planets, 112

Plate glass, 92

Playing cards, 93

Poison, 188

Poisoning by acids, 189
by aconite, 190
by arsenic, 191
by carbolic acid or creosote, 189
by belladonna, 191
by camphor, 190
by chloroform, 190
by corrosive sublimate, 191
by mushrooms, 191
by nux vomica, 190
by opium, 190
by oxalic acid, 189
by prussic acid, 189

Poisonous insects, stings of, 197

Pole star, 93

Pole vaulting records, 118

Poles, magnetic, 75

Population by States, 125

Population and land area of the United States, 93

Population of the large cities and towns of the United States, 28

Population of the large cities of North America, 68

Population of the large cities of the United States, 68

Population of the leading cities of the world, 73

Population of the United States, 27

Population of the United States per square mile, 95

Population of the world at the time of Augustus, 41

Porto Rico, 97

Postage stamps, 97

Poultry and egg industry, 97

Presidents of the United States, 97

Press, 99

Principal countries of the world, 98

Printing press, 99

Production of books, 100

Prussic acid poisoning, 189

Public debt of the United States, 101

Public schools, 101

Pulse, 191

Pure food, 101

Pyramids, 103

Quack doctors, 90

Radius of a circle, 24

Railroads, 103

Records, air ship, 114
automobile, 114
billiards, 115
bowling, 116
endurance, 116
hammer-throwing, 117
hurdle racing, 117
jumping, 117
Marathon team race, 117
motor cycle, 117
ocean, 117
pole vaulting, 118
running, 118
running distance, 119
shot putting, 119
skating, 119
sporting, speed, etc., 114
swimming, 120
trotting, 121
walking, 121

Referendum, 104

Registration, 64

Religions, ten great, 135

Religious denominations, 105

Rheumatism, 192

Roads, 105

Round table, 105

Royal Academy, 106

Royal Society, 106

Running distance records, 119

Running records, 118

Sayings of great men, 37

Scalds and burns, 192

School statistics, 106

Schools, 101
Sunday, 131

Sea, depth of, 40

Seasickness, 106

Senate, 56

Settlement of the United States, 62

Seven chief virtues, 107
corporal works of mercy, 107
deadly sins, 107
liberal arts, 108
spiritual works of mercy, 108
wise men of Greece, 108
of the Middle Ages, 108
wonders of the New World, 109

Shaving lotions, 109

Ship bells, 109

Ship watches, 110

Ships (old time), 83

Shock or collapse, 194

Shot putting records, 119

Sick room, disinfecting, 168
fumigating a, 182
temperature of, 199

Sins, seven deadly, 107

Size of the brain, 14

Skating records, 119

Slavery, 110

Sleeplessness, 195

Snake bite, 195

Soap, 110

Socialism and Communism, 27

Solar system, 111

Some things worth knowing, 112

Songs of the Civil War, 113

Soothing syrups, 87

Sore throat, 196

South American continent, 40

Spectacles and glasses, 114

Speed records, 114

Sphere, circumference of, 25

Sphere, surface of, 25

Spheres, 26

Spiritual works of mercy, seven, 108

Sporting, speed and other records, 114

Sprains, 196

Square measure, 153

Square of the circumference of a circle, 25
of the diameter of a circle, 24
of the radius of a circle, 24

Square root or the area of a circle, 25

St. Clair tunnel, 59

St. Gothard tunnel, 59

Standard time, 122

Star chamber, 124

Star-spangled Banner, 124

Stars, their number, 124

State governments, 56

States, nicknames of, 81

Statistics of population, United States by States, 125
of the Bible, 12
school, 106

Stature and weights, 126

Steam engine, 128

Steamship (first trans-Atlantic), 51
largest, 204

Stimulants, 177

Stings of poisonous insects, 197

Stock Exchange, New York, 81

Stock, watered, 151

Stock yards, 112

Stones, birth, 12

Storm warnings, 152

Strawberry tunnel, 59

Strikes, 130

Sub rosa, 130

Suez canal, 17

Suffocation, 197

Sugar industry, 130

Sun, 111

Sunday schools, 131

Sunstroke, 197

Superior Court, 56

Supreme Court, 56

Swimming records, 120

Table of interest, 17

Taking drugs, 36

Talking machines, 131

Tariff, 131

Telegraph, 132

Telegraphy, wireless, 202

Telephone, 134

Temperature and climate, 21

Temperature of the body, 198
of the sick room, 199

Ten great religions, 135

Théâtre Français, 136

Thirteen original States, 62

Throat, getting things into, 184

Throat, sore, 196

Thunder, 136

Ticket-of-leave, 136

Timber measure, 156

Time difference, 136

Time, standard, 122

To estimate the weight of hay, 137

To find the length of the day or night, 137

To measure corn in the crib, 138

To prevent drowning, 172

To produce different colors, 138

Tobacco industry, 137

Toilet soaps, 110

Tom Thumb, 138

Tonics, 87

Toothache, 199

Towns (large) of the United States, 28

Trade unions, 139

Trans-Atlantic steamship (first), 51

Transporting the wounded, 199

Trotting records, 121

Troy weight, 154

Trusts, 140

Tunnels, 59

Turbines, 140

Turpentine, 176

Type, 141

Unions, trade, 139

United States, area, 62
by whom settled, 62
distances between cities in, 34
electoral vote, 62
flag, 142
Government, 55
history in brief, 143
inhabitants, 96
large cities (population of), 68
population and land area of, 93
population of, 27, 62
population of the large cities and towns, 28
population per square mile, 95
Presidents, 97
public debt of, 101
railroads in, 103
statistics of population by States, 125
Thirteen Original States, 62
when admitted into the Union, 62
when settled, 62

University extension, 148

University settlements, 149

Utopia, 149

Vaccination, 149

Vacuum, 150

Vaseline, 177

Vedas, 150

Veins, bleeding from, 163

Ventilation, 200

Vomiting, 201

Voodooism, 150

Voter, how to become, 64

Walking records, 121

War songs, 113

Washington, D. C., 18

Watches on shipboard, 110

Watered stock, 151

Wealth of the nations, 151

Weather, 52, 151
Bureau, 151
flags, 151
foretelling the, 52

Wedding anniversaries, 153

Weight of hay, 137

Weight of men and women, 126

Weights and measures, 153

Weights (household), 64

Wells and cisterns, capacity of, 18

Wells, artesian, 5

What to do in emergencies, 156

Whisky, 177

Wills, 201

Wine, 177

Wine industry, 74

Wireless telegraphy, 202

Wise men of Greece, seven, 108

Witch hazel, 177

Woman suffrage, 202

Women voters, 203

Wonders of the Middle Ages, seven, 108

Wonders of the world, seven, 109

Wool industry, 203

Works of mercy, seven spiritual, 108

World, languages of, 67
leading cities (population), 73
principal countries of, 98
seven wonders of, 109
largest steamship, 204

Wounded, transporting the, 199

Yankee, 205

Yankee Doodle, 205

Yards, disinfecting, 168

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