Inside Out Library · Explore

St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 105

An illustration from St. Nicholas [serial], 1873, leaf 105
similar failure, it might become seriousin its results, for the watch would then lose nineand four fifths seconds a day, or four and ninetenths minutes a month. A watch that kept nobetter time than that would be exceedingly un-satisfactory. Wonderful as are the achievements of a watch,it is still… … of the New York Zoological Society. The New York Zoological Park has recentlyobtained a pair of the rare and strange pygmyhippopotamuses (Cha:ropsis liberiensis) recentlyobtained in Africa. Director Hornaday thusdescribes them: This adult male is thirty inches high at theshoulders, seventy inches…

Children's literature

Internet Archive · UNC Libraries · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.

More pictures from St. Nicholas [serial]

More like this