Ellis Island, in New York harbor, once bore the name of Gibbet Island, because pirates and mutineers were hanged there in chains. During the times when it was devoted to this fell purpose there stood in Communipaw the Wild Goose tavern, where Dutch burghers resorted, to smoke, drink Hollands, and grow fat, wise, and sleepy […]
From the dried sinews stretched across the shell of a dead tortoise to the concert-grand piano of the present day is a far flight. Yet to this primitive source, it is said, may be traced the evolution of the stringed instrument which reached its culmination in the piano. The latter has been aptly called “the […]
A hard fate has condemned human beings to enter this mortal sphere without any natural covering, like that possessed by the lower animals to protect them from the extremes of heat and cold. Had this been otherwise, countless myriads, for untold ages, would have escaped the tyrannical sway of the goddess Fashion, and the French […]
This is a post created for testing purposes. At Organic Themes we try to ensure that our themes work properly under any circumstances. Fictum, deserunt mollit anim laborum astutumque! Ambitioni dedisse scripsisse iudicaretur. Ab illo tempore, ab est sed immemorabili. Praeterea iter est quasdam res quas ex communi. At nos hinc posthac, sitientis piros Afros. […]
Back from his war against the Tahawi comes the Sun, chief of the Lower Saranacs, —back to the Lake of the Clustered Stars, afterward called, by dullards, Tupper’s Lake. Tall and invincible he comes among his people, boasting of his victories, Indian fashion, and stirring the scalps that hang at his breast. “The Eagle screams,” […]
To most minds mystery is more fascinating than science. But when science itself leads straight up to the borders of mystery and there comes to a dead stop, saying, “At present I can no longer see my way,” the force of the charm is redoubled. On the other hand, the illimitable is no less potent […]
About a mile back from the Hudson, at Coxsackie, stood the cabin of Nick Wolsey, who, in the last century, was known to the river settlements as a hunter and trapper of correct aim, shrewdness, endurance, and taciturn habit. For many years he lived in this cabin alone, except for the company of his dog; […]
Who has not heard of the Vikings—the dauntless sea-rovers, who in the days of long ago were the dread of Northern Europe? We English should know something of them, for Viking blood flowed in the veins of many of our ancestors. And these fierce fighting men came in their ships across the North Sea from […]
This is a post created for testing purposes. At Organic Themes we try to ensure that our themes work properly under any circumstances. Curabitur blandit tempus ardua ridiculus sed magna. Quisque ut dolor gravida, placerat libero vel, euismod. Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? Magna pars studiorum, prodita quaerimus. Non equidem invideo, miror magis […]
This is a post created for testing purposes. At Organic Themes we try to ensure that our themes work properly under any circumstances. Curabitur blandit tempus ardua ridiculus sed magna. Quisque ut dolor gravida, placerat libero vel, euismod. Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? Magna pars studiorum, prodita quaerimus. Non equidem invideo, miror magis […]
Recent Comments