This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ... SEEN hand, eyed it critically, as though he had AND never seen it before; then took it apart and HEARD explained to the amazed courtiers exactly how it performed its wonders. He never said a word about his instruction of the day before. I have heard it whispered that beneath his breath Edison muttered ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ... SEEN hand, eyed it critically, as though he had AND never seen it before; then took it apart and HEARD explained to the amazed courtiers exactly how it performed its wonders. He never said a word about his instruction of the day before. I have heard it whispered that beneath his breath Edison muttered of the German Kaiser, "An unmitigated fraud." And perhaps there was a "damn" somewhere in the expression. This is the man the authorized attachment of whose name to any commercial enterprise gives it a substantial beginning and an assur-ance of positive success. Salmon in the Delaware The floating office of the United States Fish Commission, which in marine nomenclature is known as the Fish Hawk, dropped her anchor a few nights ago in the waters that lave the Gloucester beach in the Delaware River, and for the next few weeks the officials in charge will purchase many millions of shad eggs and propagate the fry for the restocking, of the many rivers visited annually by that succulent denizen of the deep. But for this labor shad would soon be exterminated, as in SEEN the natural order of events the spawn are AND largely destroyed before the ova are hatched. HEARD But what the Fish Hawk folks are most anxious about, and what they will watch with eager interest, is the result of their labors towards the propagation of salmon in the Delaware waters. The efforts making and that have been made towards the introduction of this gamest of all fish into waters so much further south than its natural lair in the cold streams of Canada and Norway and Scotland present an interesting story. The first move in this direction was made about twenty-three years ago by Major E. J. Anderson, then the President of the New Jersey Fish Commission, later State...
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Add this copy of Seen & Heard By Megargee, Volume 3... to cart. $67.25, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2012 by Nabu Press.
