ILLUSTRATED SCIENCE FOR BOYS AND GIRLS.

[Illustration: FROM DR. FRANKLIN'S BROOM-CORN SEED. See Page 223.]

Boston: D. Lothrop & Company, Franklin Street.

Copyright, 1881, By D. Lothrop & Company.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Page How Newspapers are made. 11 Umbrellas. 38 Paul and the Comb-makers. 54 In the Gas-works. 69 Racing a Thunder-storm. 86 August's "'Speriment." 103 The Birds Of Winter. 125 Something About Light-houses. 141 "Buy a Broom! Buy a Broom!" 158 Talking by Signals. 171 Jennie finds out how Dishes are made. 183 Archery For Boys. 192 Dolly's Shoes. 202 A Glimpse of some Montana Beavers. 208 How Logs go to Mill. 211

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

Page Frontispiece The N. Y. Tribune Building at Night. 13 A Contributor to the Waste-Paper Basket. 16 Office of the Editor-In-Chief. 17 Regular Contributors 19 How Some of the News is Gathered 22 Type-Setter's Case In Pi. 22 Type-Setters' Room. 23 Taking "Proofs." 24 In the Stereotypers' Room. 25 Finishing the Plate. 27 Printing Presses of the Past and Present 29 A News-Dealer. 32 A Bad Morning for the News-Boys. 35 "Any Answers come for Me?" 36 The First Umbrella. 37 What Jonas saw adown the Future. 38 Lord of the Twenty-Four Umbrellas. 41 A "Duck's Back" Umbrella. 43 An Umbrella Handle Au Naturel. 44 Cutting the Covers. 45 Finishing the Handle. 48 Sewing "Pudding-Bag" Seams. 49 Completing the Umbrella 50 Master Paul did not feel Happy. 51 My Lady's Toilet. 53 The New Circle Comb 55 Ancient or Modern--Which? 56 "In Some Remote Corner Of Spain." 58 A Retort. 64 Kitty in the Gas-Works. 69 The Metre. 69 The Gasometre. 75 Inflating the "Buffalo." 79 A Plucky Dog. 83 Our Balloon Camp. 85 The Professor's Dilemma. 89 The Wreck of the "Buffalo." 91 The Incubator. 94 How the Chicken is Packed. 106 How the Shell is Cracked. 107 The Artificial Mother. 109 The Chickadee. 115 The Black Snow-Bird. 118 The Snow Bunting. 121 The Brown Creeper. 122 Nuthatches. 124 The Downy Woodpecker. 126 Fourth Order Light-House. 129 A Modern Light-House 132 Light-House on Mt. Desert. 134 Light-House at "The Thimble Shoal" 138 First Class Light-Ship. 141 The Blind Broom-Maker of Barnstable. 146 A Gay Cavalcade. 147 The Comedy of Brooms. 150 Up in the Attic. 151 Plant the Broom! 153 The Tragedy of Brooms. 156 In Obedience to the Signals. 163 The Potter's Wheel. 169 The Kiln and Saggers. 170 Mould for a cup. 171 Handle Mould. 171 Making a Sugar-Bowl. 171 Rest for flat Dishes. 173 The Target. 183 Dolly's Shoes 186 A Maine Wood-Chopper. 193 A River-Driver. 196 "The Liberated Logs came sailing along." 197 Through the Sluice. 198

Table of contents (by pages)

• 1: Illustrated Science for Boys and Girls
• 2: And the more will be the advertisements
• 3: But the general telegraphic news
• 4: So his secretary turns to the blotter
• 5: In the room of the type setters
• 6: Is the room of the type setters
• 7: When a proof of the article is taken
• 8: Then the pulpy paper is taken off
• 9: An Englishman named Jonas Hanway
• 10: And had seen umbrellas in China
• 11: Illustration A DUCK'S BACK UMBRELLA
• 12: But the Yankees do make all their umbrella gingham
• 13: They are the umbrella cover patterns
• 14: Sanford took his nephew aboard
• 15: Sanford and his nephew followed
• 16: These plates of horn may be colored
• 17: Every little dealer must sell combs
• 18: And dainty Kitty sniffed in considerable disgust
• 19: Into the coke which you have seen
• 20: Illustration KITTY IN THE GAS WORKS
• 21: It turns the dial pointers also
• 22: The gasometer keeps on rising slowly
• 23: The Clevelanders determined to have a big time
• 24: Then then how grandly we lifted
• 25: The Illustration OUR BALLOON CAMP
• 26: With all its hills covered with derricks and oil tanks
• 27: Illustration THE PROFESSOR'S DILEMMA
• 28: He's rigged two pans in a barrel
• 29: A naptha safety lamp sending forth a small
• 30: The naptha lamp was smoking fiercely
• 31: So once more the incubator was set
• 32: Katie and Robbie to start violently
• 33: If they hatch thousands every day
• 34: With great faith in his incubator
• 35: Robbie gave them bits of his cookies and cakes
• 36: Still the Chickadees are strangely tender
• 37: The Chickadees are very active
• 38: Unlike the Chickadees and Nuthatches
• 39: The white breasted Nuthatch is known by his cry of quank
• 40: The Downy Woodpeckers are very sociable
• 41: Corduan is stoutly built in four stories
• 42: In 1820 the famous diaptric instruments of Mr
• 43: The lowest is a storehouse for the people's provisions
• 44: Piers were built at Mull where the granite was quarried
• 45: Have piles of old magazines or story papers
• 46: Illustration THE BLIND BROOM MAKER OF BARNSTABLE
• 47: They only get a fourteen cent broom
• 48: Illustration PLANT THE BROOM
• 49: Here's the place to buy a cheap broom
• 50: That I place flags in positions 2 4 and 5
• 51: Be careful not to put on any hemlock branches
• 52: The fine drizzling rain was changing into larger drops
• 53: Another subdued giggle from the next room
• 54: Only it has slats across the top
• 55: A lot of things called saggers
• 56: By his graceful articles on archery for young men and women
• 57: An awl point wrapped with copper wire and soldered
• 58: The awl point looks like this Fig
• 59: In target shooting you should use awl pointed
• 60: Who have found a precious doll
• 61: A glimpse of some montana beavers
• 62: Illustration A MAINE WOOD CHOPPER
• 63: Illustration THROUGH THE SLUICE