| Page |
| Frontispiece | |
| The N. Y. Tribune Building at Night. | 13 |
| A Contributor to the Waste-Paper Basket. | 16 |
| Office of the Editor-In-Chief. | 17 |
| Regular Contributors | 19 |
| How Some of the News is Gathered | 22 |
| Type-Setter’s Case In Pi. | 22 |
| Type-Setters’ Room. | 23 |
| Taking “Proofs.” | 24 |
| In the Stereotypers’ Room. | 25 |
| Finishing the Plate. | 27 |
| Printing Presses of the Past and Present | 30 |
| A News-Dealer. | 33 |
| A Bad Morning for the News-Boys. | 36 |
| “Any Answers come for Me?” | 37 |
| The First Umbrella. | 38 |
| What Jonas saw adown the Future. | 39 |
| Lord of the Twenty-Four Umbrellas. | 42 |
| A “Duck’s Back” Umbrella. | 44 |
| An Umbrella Handle Au Naturel. | 46 |
| Cutting the Covers. | 47 |
| Finishing the Handle. | 50 |
| Sewing “Pudding-Bag” Seams. | 51 |
| Completing the Umbrella | 53 |
| Master Paul did not feel Happy. | 55 |
| My Lady’s Toilet. | 58 |
| The New Circle Comb | 61 |
| Ancient or Modern—Which? | 62 |
| “In Some Remote Corner Of Spain.” | 65 |
| A Retort. | 72 |
| Kitty in the Gas-Works. | 77 |
| The Metre. | 77 |
| The Gasometre. | 83 |
| Inflating the “Buffalo.” | 87 |
| A Plucky Dog. | 91 |
| Our Balloon Camp. | 94 |
| The Professor’s Dilemma. | 99 |
| The Wreck of the “Buffalo.” | 101 |
| The Incubator. | 105 |
| How the Chicken is Packed. | 117 |
| How the Shell is Cracked. | 118 |
| The Artificial Mother. | 120 |
| The Chickadee. | 126 |
| The Black Snow-Bird. | 129 |
| The Snow Bunting. | 133 |
| The Brown Creeper. | 134 |
| Nuthatches. | 136 |
| The Downy Woodpecker. | 138 |
| Fourth Order Light-House. | 141 |
| A Modern Light-House | 144 |
| Light-House on Mt. Desert. | 147 |
| Light-House at “The Thimble Shoal” | 151 |
| First Class Light-Ship. | 154 |
| The Blind Broom-Maker of Barnstable. | 159 |
| A Gay Cavalcade. | 160 |
| The Comedy of Brooms. | 163 |
| Up in the Attic. | 164 |
| Plant the Broom! | 166 |
| The Tragedy of Brooms. | 169 |
| In Obedience to the Signals. | 177 |
| The Potter’s Wheel. | 184 |
| The Kiln and Saggers. | 186 |
| Mould for a cup. | 188 |
| Handle Mould. | 188 |
| Making a Sugar-Bowl. | 189 |
| Rest for flat Dishes. | 191 |
| The Target. | 201 |
| Dolly’s Shoes | 204 |
| A Maine Wood-Chopper. | 211 |
| A River-Driver. | 214 |
| “The Liberated Logs came sailing along.” | 216 |
| Through the Sluice. | 218 |
