Entries from May 2005 ↓

In fact, get two eggs, one boiled and the other raw, and spin them rapidly on their sides on a mirror or other perfectly smooth surface. If you put the palm of your hand gently upon the boiled egg while it is spinning, it, of course, ceases to move, and remains motionless after you have lifted your hand. But if you do the same with a raw egg, it will immediately begin to spin again when the hand is removed. Indeed, it is extraordinary how long you can hold your hand upon it without destroying its motion. The reason of this is no doubt apparent. The fluid within the egg continues to revolve, though the shell is stationary, while in the other case the whole egg is stopped. If you attempt to spin the eggs on the mirror like a top, you will find that the boiled egg will spin for a considerable time, but the other will fall almost immediately on its side.

The greatest discovory [sic] for suffers of catarrh, Hay fever, Asthma is Mayers’ Magnetic Catarrh Cure. Its wonderful cures since its discoveay [sic] are known to thousands.

This grand medicine will positively cure all forms of these terrible diseases.

It accomplishes what no other remedy has done. So simple a child can use it. No cure no pay. One bottle will do the work and lasts for a three months treatment. Entirely new, no other remedy like it. This is what the eminent Dr. Henry Carrington Alexander, D. D., L. L. D., has to say of its marvelous cure.

The Mayers Drug Co., Oakland, Md.

Gentlemen:–Ever since I have tried your famous catarrh remedy I have intended to give you a voluntary testimonial of its efficiency. I have been a sufferer for years from nasal and post nasal catarrh, and the bone in my nose has been visibly changed in its shape.

After a trial of all manner of good and indifferent recipes, I have no hesitation in pronouncing your Magnetic Catarrh Cure the best, the speediest and most effectual remedy I have yet encountered. I wish and predict your success in the effort to demonstrate the value of your neat device in the way of a truly scientific and meritorious inhalant. You have made me your everlasting debtor.

I am my dear sirs,
Yours faithfully,
Henry Carrington Alexander.
Sept. 12th, 1893.

Round the World in Seven Days, by Herbert Strang. From the Project Comments:

Lieutenant Charles Thesiger Smith flies a teeny aeroplane around the world. Meets natives who attack (repeatedly).

This is the first book I’ve “fostered” to another PPer. I like PPing, but my stack is just getting too tall. Thanks to Sankar Viswanathan for doing the Post-Processing of this book! And thanks to Bill for making the illustrations so pretty.

It is odd what turns the collecting mania will take. There is a man in New York, who never goes to the theater, but has for twenty-five years collected the programs of each New York playhouse weekly. Not only that, but he has clipped from each Tuesday’s papers the criticisms of the new plays. All this vast quantity of data he has carefully preserved. It is odd how he started in the quest of theater programs and bad health. His doctor told him he must exercise more. So he decided he wold walk around to the different theaters and ask for a program. The walking he found of benefit to his health, and it is an interesting fact that in twenty-five years he has not missed a day to make his rounds of the playhouses. He is a very shy old man, and as he has grown older his walks have been lengthened out, since new theaters have sprung up all over New York at considerable distances apart.