It must be, for there is a logic to everything on this earth and nothing is done without a reason, that God sometimes lets scientists discover.
In this manner, in early days, were formed those vast and prodigious layers of coal, which an ever—increasing consumption must utterly use up in about three centuries more, if people do not find some...
Hurrah! cried one voice (need it be said it was that of J. T. Maston). Distance does not exist! And overcome by the energy of his movements, he nearly fell from the platform to the ground. He just esc...
El juego es un placer siempre grosero, a veces malsano. El hombre atacado de esta enfermedad no puede menos de padecer otras. Es un vicio que nunca va solo.
A scholar has to know a little of everything.
Question. On the 20th of July, 1866, the steamer Governor Higginson, of the Calcutta and Burnach Steam Navigation Company, had met this moving mass five miles off the east coast of Australia. Captain...
Administered to the detective a perfect volley of blows, which proved the great superiority of French over English pugilistic skill.
But you perceive, my boy, that it is not so, and that facts, as usual, are very stubborn things, overruling all theories.
But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!
But in the cause of science men are expected to suffer.
As for the Yankees, they had no other ambition than to take possession of this new continent of the sky, and to plant upon the summit of its highest elevation the star- spangled banner of the United S...
As I remarked before, the Asiatic elephant is smaller than the African, which is frequently twelve feet high, and its tusks are in proportion. In the island of Ceylon a certain number of animals are f...
An English criminal, you know, is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
A moving wall of oxen advanced, and our mighty elephant himself was brought to a standstill. There was nothing to regret in this enforced halt, however, for a most curious spectacle was presented to o...
Science has fallen into many errors - errors which have been fortunate and useful rather than otherwise, for they have been the stepping stones to truth.
Continuons donc notre excursion, repris-je, mais ayons l’œil aux aguets, quoique l’ile paraisse inhabitée, elle pourrait renfermer, cependant, quelques individus qui seraient moins difficiles que nous...
On the 22nd of September, Jansi was passed at a considerable distance. This city is the most important military station in the Bundelkund, and the spirit of revolt is strong in the lower classes of it...
If his destiny be strange, it is also sublime.
A well-used minimum suffices for everything.