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Title: Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889

Author: Barkham Burroughs

Release Date: November 19, 2004 [EBook #14091]

Language: English

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BARKHAM

BURROUGHS' ENCYCLOPAEDIA

OF

ASTOUNDING FACTS

AND

USEFUL INFORMATION

1889

For Melba Conner

Universal Assistant and Treasure-House of Information to be Consulted
on Every Question That Arises in Everyday Life by Young and Old Alike!

Including: 521 Recipes * 236 Remedies * 150 Themes for Debate * How to
Be Handsome * Mother Shipton's Prophesy * The Cure for Baldness * How
to Distinguish Death * PLUS 20,000 Things Worth Knowing, and Much Much
More.

[Illustration: THE HIGHEST BUILDINGS IN THE WORLD.

1. An imaginary tower, 1000 feet high. 2. Cathedral at Cologne, 501
feet. 3. Pyramid of Cheops, 480 feet. 4. Strasbourg Cathedral, 468
feet. 5. St. Peter's, Rome, 457 feet. 6. Pyramid of Cephren, 454 feet.
7. St. Paul's, London, 365 feet. 8. Capitol at Washington, 287 feet.
9. Trinity Church, N.Y., 286 feet. 10. Bunker Hill Monument, 221 feet.
11. St. Marks, Philadelphia, 150 feet.]

CONTENTS

HOW POOR BOYS BECOME SUCCESSFUL MEN, 6

THE ART OF PENMANSHIP, 7

ORNAMENTAL PENMANSHIP, 18

HOW TO WRITE A BUSINESS LETTER, 19

ELEMENTS OF SUCCESS IN BUSINESS, 28

DETECTING COUNTERFEIT MONEY, 32

HOW TO ADVERTISE, 37

HOW TO BE HANDSOME, 39

MULTUM IN PARVO. (110 MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS), 41

HOUSEHOLD RECIPES, 71

HOW TO DESTROY HOUSEHOLD PESTS, 73

ACCIDENTS AND INJURIES (236 ITEMS), 75

THE FAMILY PHYSICIAN, 83

LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS, 93

MASTERPIECES OF ELOQUENCE, 94

SUNDRY BRIEF ITEMS OF INTEREST, 95

PHYSICIAN'S DIGESTION TABLE, 95

THEMES FOR DEBATE (150), 95

COOKERY RECIPES (521), 98

HOW