Published by Inter Ocean Publishing Company, Chicago, 1889
First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. First edition. 8vo. Cloth. 174 p. + index. A compendium of answers to questions about history, biography, politics, religions, the arts, the sciences, nature, and more. Examples of articles include the Fugitive Slave Law, Cape Cod Ship Canal, the Hoosatonic Tunnel, storms, electricity, lead, electro-plating, artificial rainbows, Russia, France, Siberia, Rome, liquor manufacture and consumption, population, lepers, Fanny Kemble, and some 2,000 other topics. Very minor edgewear. Near fine.