"The range of subjects treated in this book is wonderful, even to me. It is a library of universal knowledge, and the facts contained in it are different from any other facts now in use. I have carefully guarded, all the way through, against using hackneyed and moth-eaten facts. As a result, I am able to come before the people with a set of new and attractive statements, so fresh and so crisp that an unkind word would wither them in a moment." - Summary by The Author
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Chapters
- Chapter 1
Directions
03:34 - Chapter 2
My School Days - Recollections of Noah Webster
08:09 - Chapter 3
To Her Majesty - Habits of a Literary Man
10:22 - Chapter 4
A Father's Letter - Archimedes
06:56 - Chapter 5
To the President-Elect - Anatomy
07:44 - Chapter 6
Mr. Sweeney's Cat - The Heyday of Life
09:08 - Chapter 7
They Fell - Second Letter to the President
09:33 - Chapter 8
Milling in Pompeii - Broncho Sam
10:00 - Chapter 9
How Evolution Evolves - Hours With Great Men
10:29 - Chapter 10
Concerning Coroners - Down East Rum
10:12 - Chapter 11
Railway Etiquette - B. Franklin, Deceased
09:50 - Chapter 12
Life Insurance as a Health Restorer - The Opium Habit
06:18 - Chapter 13
More Paternal Correspondence - Twombley's Tale
12:05 - Chapter 14
On Cyclones - The Arabian Language
08:11 - Chapter 15
Verona - A Great Upheaval
11:55 - Chapter 16
The Weeping Woman - The Crops
11:38 - Chapter 17
Literary Freaks - A Father's Advice to His Son
09:28 - Chapter 18
Eccentricity in Lunch - Insomnia in Domestic Animals
10:04 - Chapter 19
Along Lake Superior - I Tried Milling
12:04 - Chapter 20
Our Forefathers - In Acknowledgement
11:46 - Chapter 21
Preventing a Scandal - About Portraits
10:20 - Chapter 22
The Old South - Knights of the Pen
10:29 - Chapter 23
The Wild Cow -Spinal Meningitis
07:30 - Chapter 24
Skimming the Milky Way - A Thrilling Experience
19:04 - Chapter 25
Catching a Buffalo - John Adams
11:57 - Chapter 26
The Wail Of A Wife - Bunker Hill
11:24 - Chapter 27
A Lumber Camp - My Lecture Abroad
08:43 - Chapter 28
The Miner at Home - An Operatic Entertainment
10:25 - Chapter 29
Dogs and Dog Days - Christopher Columbus
10:25 - Chapter 30
Accepting the Laramie Postoffice - A Journalistic Tenderfoot
07:01 - Chapter 31
The Amateur Carpenter - The Average Hen
08:40 - Chapter 32
Woodtick William's Story - In Washington
10:21 - Chapter 33
My Experience as an Agriculturist - A New Autograph Album
10:21 - Chapter 34
A Resign - My Mine
09:53 - Chapter 35
Mush and Melody - The Blase Young Man
08:56 - Chapter 36
History of Babylon - Lovely Horrors
12:09 - Chapter 37
The Bite of a Mad Dog - Arnold Winkelreid
07:37 - Chapter 38
Murray and the Mormons - About Geology
10:36 - Chapter 39
A Wallula Night - Flying Machines
11:05 - Chapter 40
Asking for a Pass - Words About Washington
10:04 - Chapter 41
The Board of Trade - The Cow-Boy
08:58 - Chapter 42
Stirring Incidents at a Fire - The Little Barefoot Boy
10:59 - Chapter 43
Favored a Higher Fine - I Spy.
08:05 - Chapter 44
Mark Anthony - Man Overbored
10:52 - Chapter 45
Done It A-Purpose.- Picnic Incidents
13:13 - Chapter 46
Nero - Squaw Jim
10:31 - Chapter 47
Squaw Jim's Religion - One Kind of Fool
07:01 - Chapter 48
John Adams' Diary - John Adams' Diary. (No. 2.)
10:13 - Chapter 49
John Adams' Diary (No. 3.) - Heap Brain.
08:50 - Chapter 50
The Approaching Humorist - What We Eat
09:29 - Chapter 51
Care of House Plants - A Peaceable Man.
08:36 - Chapter 52
Biography of Spartacus - Concerning Book Publishing.
11:10 - Chapter 53
A Calm. - The Story of a Struggler.
15:35 - Chapter 54
The Old Subscriber. - My Dog.
19:52 - Chapter 55
A Picturesque Picnic. - Taxidermy.
13:18 - Chapter 56
The Ways of Doctors.- Absent Minded.
08:12 - Chapter 57
Woman's Wonderful Influence. - Causes for Thanksgiving.
12:18 - Chapter 58
Farming in Maine. - Doosedly Dilatory.
11:50 - Chapter 59
Every Man His Own Paper Hanger. - Sixty Minutes in America.
11:33 - Chapter 60
Rev. Mr. Hallelujah's Hoss. - Somnambulism and Crime.
08:05 - Chapter 61
Modern Architecture. - Letter to a Communist.
10:30 - Chapter 62
The Warrior's Oration. - The Holy Terror.
08:12 - Chapter 63
Boston Common and Environs. - Drunk in a Plug Hat.
11:48 - Chapter 64
Spring. - The Duke of Rawhide.
06:31 - Chapter 65
Etiquette at Hotels. - Fifteen Years Apart.
10:48 - Chapter 66
Dessicated Mule. - Time's Changes.
08:55 - Chapter 67
Letter From New York. - Crowns and Crowned Heads.
07:53 - Chapter 68
My Physician. - All About Oratory.
09:41 - Chapter 69
Strabusmus and Justice. - A Spencerian Ass.
07:26 - Chapter 70
Anecdotes of Justice. - The Chinese God.
10:17 - Chapter 71
A Great Spiritualist. - General Sheridan's Horse.
08:02 - Chapter 72
A Circular. - The Photograph Habit.
09:27 - Chapter 73
Rosalinde. - The Church Debt.
07:49 - Chapter 74
A Collection of Keys. - Extracts from a Queen's Diary.
07:49 - Chapter 75
Shorts. - We.
06:49 - Chapter 76
A Mountain Snowstorm. - Lost Money.
10:17 - Chapter 77
Dr. Dizart's Dog. - Chinese Justice.
08:06 - Chapter 78
Answers to Correspondents. - Great Sacrifice of Bric-a-brac.
12:23 - Chapter 79
A Convention. - Come Back.
08:12 - Chapter 80
A New Play. - The Silver Dollar.
11:08 - Chapter 81
Polygamy as a Religious Duty. - The Newspaper.
18:21 - Chapter 82
Wrestling with the Mazy. - Anecdotes of the Stage.
09:43 - Chapter 83
George the Third. - The Cell Nest.
09:41 - Chapter 84
Parental Advice. - Early Day Justice.
09:30 - Chapter 85
The Indian Orator. - You Heah Me, Sah!
08:55 - Chapter 86
Plato. - The Expensive Word.
10:15 - Chapter 87
Petticoats at the Polls. - The Sedentary Hen.
09:31 - Chapter 88
A Bright Future for Pugilism. - The Snake Indian.
11:57 - Chapter 89
Roller Skating. - No More Frontier.
09:25 - Chapter 90
A Letter of Regrets. - Venice.
10:08 - Chapter 91
She Kind of Coaxed Him. - Answering an Invitation.
15:47 - Chapter 92
Street Cars and Curiosities. -The Poor Blind Pig.
13:32 - Chapter 93
Daniel Webster. - Two Ways of Telling It.
11:14 - Chapter 94
All About Menials. - A Powerful Speech.
09:25 - Chapter 95
A Goat in a Frame. - To a Married Man.
09:22 - Chapter 96
To an Embryo Poet. - Eccentricities of Genius.
12:10