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  TEN THOUSAND
  WONDERFUL THINGS

  COMPRISING

  WHATEVER IS MARVELLOUS AND RARE, CURIOUS
  ECCENTRIC AND EXTRAORDINARY

  IN ALL AGES AND NATIONS

  ENRICHED WITH

  _HUNDREDS OF AUTHENTIC ILLUSTRATIONS_

  EDITED BY

  EDMUND FILLINGHAM KING, M.A.

  LONDON
  GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS, LIMITED

  BROADWAY, LUDGATE HILL
  MANCHESTER AND NEW YORK

  1894




STANDARD WORKS OF REFERENCE.

_UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME._


LEMPRIERE'S CLASSICAL DICTIONARY.

WALKER'S RHYMING DICTIONARY.

MACKAY'S THOUSAND AND ONE GEMS OF ENGLISH POETRY.

D'ISRAELI'S CURIOSITIES OF LITERATURE.

BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS.

CRUDEN'S CONCORDANCE TO THE BIBLE.

THE FAMILY DOCTOR.




PREFACE.


A BOOK OF WONDERS requires but a brief introduction. Our title-page
tells its own tale and forms the best exposition of the contents of the
volume.

Everything that is marvellous carries with it much that is instructive,
and, in this sense, "Ten Thousand Wonderful Things," may be made useful
for the highest educational purposes. Events which happen in the
regular course have no claim to a place in any work that professes to
be a register of what is uncommon; and were we to select such Wonders
only as are capable of familiar demonstration, we should destroy their
right to be deemed wondrous