A very important meeting of the American Scientific Society had been held in their Hall in the city of New York. All the learned ...

Readestown, U. S. A., is a smart, flourishing little city upon a certain river that runs down to the sea, and it owes its founding and ...

“John is a wild renegade and a shame to the colony,” exclaimed Captain Richard Bonyton, in a burst of unfatherly indignation. It was ...

“A submarine boat? Do you really mean it, Frank? I trust you are not becoming mentally unbalanced with the success of your inventive ...

“Stranger than the tales of the Arabian Nights—indeed, almost Munchausen-like in its seemingly improbable character is the tale I am ...

Honk, h-o-n-k! “Look out there! Jump—jump!” High above these sounds there broke a startled yell. Owen Clancy, who was tramping along ...

Toward the close of a cool, pleasant day in September, 18—, the residents of the village of Readestown were startled by seeing a ...

The clipper ship Aurelian, one of the few survivors of the old West India trade, had sighted Sandy Hook and was making New York harbor ...

By looking at any comprehensive map it can be readily seen that upon the western end of the Island of Cuba, there is a cape known as San ...

It was a bitterly cold night in March. The bleak, gloomy streets of Chicago were almost deserted. A poor little boy in rags was ...

It was late on a cold November night in the city of Boston, the sky was obscured by dark, stormy clouds, a bleak wind was whistling ...

It was near the close of a beautiful day in June, and the declining sun shed its radiance softly over the crags and heights of the Andes ...

A report had gained extensive circulation that Frank Reade Jr. of Readestown, U. S. A., had brought out a new invention. This rumor ...

“Sufferin’ whirligigs, Pard Matt! Look at that bubble wagon! Is it trying to turn a handspring, or ‘skin the cat,’ or climb that ...

“For its size, pard, I reckon this is about the biggest town on the map. We’ve been here five days, and the traffic squad has been busy ...

Craft and greed showed in the eyes of the hatchet-faced Chinaman. He seemed to have been in deep slumber in the car seat, but the ...

"It's three long and weary hours, pard before the boat for New York ties up at the landing. You don't want to cool your heels in the ...

"Sufferin' treadmills! Say, pard, here's where I drop down in the shade and catch my breath. How much farther have we got to go?" "Not ...

"Hello, dere, Viskers!" grinned Carl Pretzel, reaching up to grab the hairy paw of the Zulu chief. "Howdy, Dutch!" answered the chief, ...

A brown man in a white turban sat by the river. It was night, and a little fire of sticks sent strange gleams sparkling across the ...