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Excerpt from Things Not Generally Known: A Popular Hand-Book of Facts Not Readily Accessible in Literature, History, and Science
The general idea of the work will be readily gathered from its title and from a glance at its contents. It contains many little items of information, gathered from the broad fields of literature, history, and science, which are not contained in encyclopedias and ordinary hand-books, and which are not readily found when sought. In the departments of the Physical and Natural Sciences, more over, ars contained many interesting results of modern research, of too recent date to have found a place in ordinary scientific treatises. In a word, while this volume has little or no a strictly scientific character, it is believed that it will be found.
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