... this upheaval. The name of Tussaud came from the Frenchman she married in 1794, but from whom she soon parted. Coming to England with a collection of her wax figures she first toured the provinces, and later established herself in Baker Street, subsequently ...

... ornaments and other articles found in them, such as spindle whorls and needles used by women for embroidery. The known caves of the world must Continued on t>age 66) (On right The world's greateststalagmite. The Big Dome in the Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico. ...

... Excellency may well offer you as an appeasement to his anger. But take comfort; he will order your hasty departure from the world with regret; he is a kindly man at heart. Woe! lamented Wang, that I should have believed reports which were untrue. Alas ...

... a shock to an author on a U.S. lecture tour to be told by a hotel clerk that if he wants a room to show samples in, that will be two dollars extra. Here and there Godfrey Winn received other shocks which convinced him that U.S. hotels are less good, British ...

... which an epic mystery, a world-shaker of its kind, was to be written, and with a score of variations. Fraser Trenholme and Co. intended naming the vessel James B. Matthews, but on the outbreak of the Civil War they could find no use for her, and left her ...