Barkham Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889. Barkham Burroughs

RECIPES

       MISCELLANEOUS.

       HOW TO DESTROY HOUSEHOLD PESTS

       ACCIDENTS AND INJURIES

       And How to Meet Them

       THE FAMILY PHYSICIAN

       LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS

       MASTERPIECES OF ELOQUENCE

       AT HIS BROTHER'S GRAVE.

       AT THE GRAVE OF A CHILD.

       SUNDRY BRIEF ITEMS OF INTEREST.

       PHYSICIANS' DIGESTION TABLE

       SHOWING THE TIME REQUIRED FOR THE DIGESTION OF THE ORDINARY ARTICLES OF FOOD.

       THEMES FOR DEBATE.

       THEMES FOR DEBATE.

       COOKERY RECIPES

       HOW TO COOK FISH OF DIFFERENT KINDS

       HOW TO CHOOSE AND COOK GAME

       HOW TO MAKE ICE CREAMS WATER-ICE AND JELLIES

       HOW TO SELECT AND COOK MEATS

       HOW TO MAKE PIES OF VARIOUS KINDS

       HOW TO MAKE PRESERVES OF VARIOUS KINDS

       HOW TO BOIL, BAKE AND STEAM PUDDINGS

       HOW TO PUT UP PICKLES AND MAKE CATSUPS

       HOW TO ROAST, BOIL, OR BROIL POULTRY

       SAUCES FOR MEATS, FISH, E TC.

       HOW TO MAKE SOUPS AND BROTHS

       HOW TO COOK VEGETABLES

       HOW TO CALCULATE.

       PRACTICAL RULES, SHORT METHODS, AND PROBLEMS USED IN BUSINESS COMPUTATIONS.

       ADDITION.

       SHORT METHODS OF MULTIPLICATION.

       FRACTIONS.

       TWENTY THOUSAND THINGS WORTH KNOWING.

       SUSTAINING POWER OF ICE.

       THE EXPANSIVE POWER OF WATER.

       BLUNDERS AND ABSURDITIES IN ART.

       A STOPPAGE OF THE FALLS OF NIAGARA.

       WONDERS OF MINUTE WORKMANSHIP.

       CURIOUS DISSECTION OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS.

       REMARKABLE INSCRIPTION.

       CURIOUS CALCULATIONS.

       WONDERS OF SCIENCE.

For Melba Conner

       Table of Contents

      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.

      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. Mark's, Philadelphia, 150 feet.

       HOW POOR BOYS BECOME SUCCESSFUL MEN, 6

       THE ART OF PENMANSHIP, 7

       ORNAMENTAL PENMANSHIP, 18

       HOW TO WRITE A BUSINESS LETTER, 19

       ELEMENTS