Barkham Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889. Barkham Burroughs
RECIPES
HOW TO DESTROY HOUSEHOLD PESTS
SUNDRY BRIEF ITEMS OF INTEREST.
SHOWING THE TIME REQUIRED FOR THE DIGESTION OF THE ORDINARY ARTICLES OF FOOD.
HOW TO COOK FISH OF DIFFERENT KINDS
HOW TO MAKE ICE CREAMS WATER-ICE AND JELLIES
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
PRACTICAL RULES, SHORT METHODS, AND PROBLEMS USED IN BUSINESS COMPUTATIONS.
SHORT METHODS OF MULTIPLICATION.
TWENTY THOUSAND THINGS WORTH KNOWING.
BLUNDERS AND ABSURDITIES IN ART.
A STOPPAGE OF THE FALLS OF NIAGARA.
WONDERS OF MINUTE WORKMANSHIP.
CURIOUS DISSECTION OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS.
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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