1000 Things Worth Knowing

Part almanac, part encyclopedia, part dictionary, Nathaniel C. Fowler, Jr. gives us his idea of important, but sometimes obscure, facts that he thinks should be in our bank of general knowledge. He includes a large section on medical emergency and health. Items are arranged in alphabetical order, so there is no logical presentation, but reference is made easy. Or, it is just interesting browsing, and a glimpse into the world of the early twentieth century.

By : Nathaniel C. Fowler, Jr. (1858 - 1918)

00 - Preface 01 - Acetylene Gas - Artificial Ice 02 - Atlantic Cable 03 - Atmosphere - Birth Stones 04 - Blind - Brook Farm 05 - Calculating Interest 06 - Canals - Celluloid 07 - Certified Checks - Climate and Temperature 08 - Coal Industry - Comets 09 - Common Measurements - Communism and Socialism 10 - Comparative Population of the United States - Corsets 11 - Cosmetics - Crust of the Earth 12 - Daguerreotypes - Digestibility of Foods 13 - Distances Between Cities in the United States 14 - Diving Bells - Dynamite 15 - Earth Facts - Earthquakes 16 - Earthquake Areas of the Earth - Embezzlement 17 - Errors of History - Esperanto 18 - Failures - Farm Production 19 - First Trans-Atlantic Steamship - Foretelling the Weather 20 - Freemasonry - Grain Industry 21 - Gravity - Great Tunnels 22 - Hair Growers - Health 23 - Historical Facts 24 - Holy Grail - Insane 25 - Iron Industry - Languages of the World 26 - Large Cities of North America Akron, O. - Muskogee, Okla. 27 - Large Cities of North America Nashua, N. H. - Winnipeg, Man. 28 - Law - Liquor and Wine Industry 29 - Literature - Moon 30 - Mortality - Naturalization 31 - Newspapers - Ocean Ownership 32 - Old Time Ships - Partnership 33 - Patent Medicines 34 - Perpetual Motion - Pole Star 35 - Population and Land Area of the United States - Population Per Square Mile 36 - Porto Rico - Principal Countries of the World 37 - Printing Presses - Pure Food 38 - Pyramids - Roads 39 - Round Table - Seven Deadly Sins 40 - Seven Liberal Arts - Ship Bells 41 - Slavery - Solar System 42 - Some Things Worth Knowing - Spectacles and Glasses 43 - Sporting, Speed, and Other Records - Airship Records - Endurance Records 44 - Sporting, Speed, and Other Records - Hammer Throwing - Shot Putting Professional 45 - Sporting, Speed, and Other Records - Skating Amateur - Walking Records Professional 46 - Standard Time - Stars, Their Number 47 - Star Spangled Banner - Statistics of Population United States, by States 48 - Stature and Weights 49 - Steam Engine - Sugar Industry 50 - Sunday Schools - Telegraph 51 - Telephone - Thunder 52 - Ticket-of-Leave - Tom Thumb 53 - To Produce Different Colors - Turbines 54 - Type - United States Flag 55 - United States History in Brief 56 - University Extension - Watered Stock 57 - Wealth of Nations - Wedding Anniversaries 58 - Weights and Measures 59 - What to Do in Emergencies 60 - Accidents - Baths 61 - Bleeding - Chilblains 62 - Cleanliness - Diphtheria 63 - Disinfectants - Dog Bites 64 - Drowning 65 - Drowning Another Method - Emergencies with Children 66 - Emergency Medicines - Glycerin 67 - Emergency Medicines - Peppermint - Emetics and Stimulants 68 - Exercise - Fainting 69 - Feeding an Invalid - Fumigating a Sick-Room 70 - Getting Things into the Eye, Nose, Ear, etc. - Hiccoughs 71 - How to Avoid Accidents - Neuralgia 72 - Poison - For Poisonous Mushrooms 73 - Pulse - Scalds and Burns 74 - Shock or Collapse -Sore Throat 75 - Sprains - Sunstroke 76 - Temperature of the Body - Vomiting 77 - Wills - Woman's Suffrage 78 - Women Voters - Yankee Doodle

This book contains more than one thousand facts, many of which are not generally known to the average person; but all of them are of interest to humankind, and a knowledge of many of them is essential.

The author has used the simplest English, and has avoided, as far as possible, all technical or scientific terms. He has endeavored not to fall into the common error of making his explanations harder to understand than the subjects treated.

This book is not intended for the scientist, nor does it claim to be exhaustive.

In the space of a few hundred pages the writer has presented the thousand or more things which are really worth knowing, and which are usually described at unprofitable length and without that simplicity of expression so essential to clearness.