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1000 Things Worth Knowing

Nathaniel C. Fowler, Jr.

Read by Larry Wilson, Logan Lorenz, Pamela Nagami, Zozue, BettyB, Greg Giordano, Adele Pooley, Pam Jameson, Amelia Chesley, GrimsonB, Eva Staes, WilkieMills, Marta A, Foon and RussellEric · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

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Preface (1:22)
Acetylene Gas - Artificial Ice (5:35)
Atlantic Cable (6:52)
Atmosphere - Birth Stones (5:51)
Blind - Brook Farm (5:38)
Calculating Interest (11:03)
Canals - Celluloid (6:48)
Certified Checks - Climate and Temperature (4:47)
Coal Industry - Comets (4:58)
Common Measurements - Communism and Socialism (5:09)
Comparative Population of the United States - Corsets (12:31)
Cosmetics - Crust of the Earth (5:19)
Daguerreotypes - Digestibility of Foods (4:39)
Distances Between Cities in the United States (28:46)
Diving Bells - Dynamite (5:35)
Earth Facts - Earthquakes (5:36)
Earthquake Areas of the Earth - Embezzlement (5:47)
Errors of History - Esperanto (5:00)
Failures - Farm Production (11:33)
First Trans-Atlantic Steamship - Foretelling the Weather (5:21)
Freemasonry - Grain Industry (4:58)
Gravity - Great Tunnels (4:47)
Hair Growers - Health (4:03)
Historical Facts (14:03)
Holy Grail - Insane (6:26)
Iron Industry - Languages of the World (3:26)
Large Cities of North America Akron, O. - Muskogee, Okla. (11:26)
Large Cities of North America Nashua, N. H. - Winnipeg, Man. (10:34)
Law - Liquor and Wine Industry (8:22)
Literature - Moon (5:59)
Mortality - Naturalization (5:20)
Newspapers - Ocean Ownership (4:50)
Old Time Ships - Partnership (5:41)
Patent Medicines (7:45)
Perpetual Motion - Pole Star (3:29)
Population and Land Area of the United States - Population Per Square Mile (22:55)
Porto Rico - Principal Countries of the World (10:25)
Printing Presses - Pure Food (7:33)
Pyramids - Roads (6:19)
Round Table - Seven Deadly Sins (4:38)
Seven Liberal Arts - Ship Bells (5:55)
Slavery - Solar System (6:10)
Some Things Worth Knowing - Spectacles and Glasses (3:32)
Sporting, Speed, and Other Records - Airship Records - Endurance Records (6:44)
Sporting, Speed, and Other Records - Hammer Throwing - Shot Putting Professional (7:15)
Sporting, Speed, and Other Records - Skating Amateur - Walking Records Professional (9:07)
Standard Time - Stars, Their Number (4:52)
Star Spangled Banner - Statistics of Population United States, by States (12:19)
Stature and Weights (11:01)
Steam Engine - Sugar Industry (4:30)
Sunday Schools - Telegraph (5:15)
Telephone - Thunder (5:07)
Ticket-of-Leave - Tom Thumb (4:45)
To Produce Different Colors - Turbines (5:12)
Type - United States Flag (4:15)
United States History in Brief (9:28)
University Extension - Watered Stock (4:32)
Wealth of Nations - Wedding Anniversaries (3:24)
Weights and Measures (10:14)
What to Do in Emergencies (4:36)
Accidents - Baths (3:54)
Bleeding - Chilblains (4:57)
Cleanliness - Diphtheria (4:48)
Disinfectants - Dog Bites (3:22)
Drowning (3:58)
Drowning Another Method - Emergencies with Children (3:54)
Emergency Medicines - Glycerin (3:30)
Emergency Medicines - Peppermint - Emetics and Stimulants (3:14)
Exercise - Fainting (4:22)
Feeding an Invalid - Fumigating a Sick-Room (4:17)
Getting Things into the Eye, Nose, Ear, etc. - Hiccoughs (3:58)
How to Avoid Accidents - Neuralgia (4:55)
Poison - For Poisonous Mushrooms (5:05)
Pulse - Scalds and Burns (4:17)
Shock or Collapse -Sore Throat (3:44)
Sprains - Sunstroke (3:37)
Temperature of the Body - Vomiting (3:54)
Wills - Woman's Suffrage (3:38)
Women Voters - Yankee Doodle (4:32)