Made from leaves of trees--Peculiarities--Process of manufacture-- Healthful fragrance--Colour--"Natural" paper--GOLDEN COLOURED PAPER--Its connection with the Allmanyuka--The incident which led to its discovery
Consumption--Why generally beyond cure--Erroneous views--The patient--Examination by the doctors--Their mistake--Narrator's belief--Potion administered--Death--Cause discovered--Mode of detecting and curing the disease in its germ--Assemblage of the multitude--Episode of the mother and the child--The sequel
The principal musical instrument--Description--Four sets of chords--Strings of electricity--Marvellous variation and depression of the notes--Echoes and responses--Diapason changed to an extraordinary extent--Different characters of sound produced--Examples--Harp language; how taught--Accompaniments--Harp beautiful as a work of sculptural art--Movement of birds, flowers, and foliage, and exhalation of perfume in accord with the music--How idea was suggested
Amusements enjoined--Learned men prone to seclusion--Wisdom of requiring studious men to cultivate social relations questioned--Twenty men selected for the experiment--Result--The works of the "Seclusionists" and of the "Society-Sympathisers"--The MONOMANIAC--His eccentricities and cure--Convert to the Narrator's views
Arenas--Electricity--Why arenas open to the sky--Games exhibited-- Beautiful effects produced--MAN and HORSE--The FLYING CHILDREN--WILL--DEAF AND DUMB CHILD--The MONKEYS--Tragic Drama--Races and public games--Parties for children--Labouring people--The aged--Districts--The middle-aged--INTRODUCTION of strangers--Ceremony observed--ATTRACTING-MACHINE
Peculiar form and construction--Former shape--Effective model sought--"Swan Ships"--Dangers of navigation--Ship sometimes submerged--Sufferings of the passengers for want of air--Remedy--The swan's head--Captain's quarters--Vessels propelled by electric power--Machinery--Steering and stoppage of the vessel--TIMBER FOR SHIPS--How seasoned--How protected against insects in every part--The COMPASS--The ANCHOR--Peculiarity of its formation: how let out and hauled in--The Bison ropes
Interesting discoveries--Microscopic pictures transmitted from a distance--Picture made of a landscape and persons afar off--Picture of swan-vessels and passengers--How effected--Bottom of the sea rendered visible