Abelard and Heloise,29.Abraham and Sarah,229.Absurdities of the toilet,160.Abydos, bride of,25.Abysynnian tradition,213.Accidental rhymes,43.Acid, citric,136.Aconite,301.Acrobatic figures,202.Adding insult to injury,179.Advertisements, slave,27.Africa, ordeals in,308.African rain doctors,152.Africa, twins in,197.Ague, charm for the,337.Albatross,265.Albertus Magnus, recipes from,74.Alliterations carried to an absurd excess,21.Alliterative whims,21.Alligators swallowing stones,282.Almanacs, prophetic,17.Amulets, amethyst,337.Arsenic as an,339.Inserted under the skin,315.Kingfisher,264.Owl's claws,340.St. Helena coins,328.Unicorn's horn,319.Amusements of some learned men,14.Anachronisms, noted,27.Anchors, sacred,179.Ancient bit of waggery,191.Dials,86.Lottery,64.Practice of medicine,337.Smokers,181.Animals forecasting danger,282.Antiquity of acrobatic figures,202.Curious piece of, on the Crucifixion of the Saviour,50.Of riddles,63.Of tarring and feathering,183.Anne Boleyn's gloves,179.Antipathies,239.Antipathy to red hair,72.Apes, cynocephalic,278.Apothecary shop, walking,192.Apparition, Dr. Donne's,245.Double,241.Twofold,244.Appetite, innate,290.Arab charms,347.Arabian horses' pedigree,284.Arabia, the turban in,159.Arctic music, queer,174.Articles of ringing,126.Artificial limb, first,198.Artist's tradition,232.Asleep, kissed while,237.Aspen, shaking,302.Assuming the form of a bird,248.Assassination, horrible mode of,295.Astonished lawyer,70.Astrologer, cunning,156.Astronomical clock, famous,81.Asylum for destitute cats,163.Atlas, kneeling statue of,109.Attar of roses, origin of,215.Auk, great,264.Automata, wonderful,104.Avocation, selecting an,343.Babes in the wood,65.Babes of Bethlehem,122.Bagging his rival,190.Baker's dozen,217.Ballad, oldest,40.Bantam, warlike,201.Barbers' basins,210.Barbers, offending,77.Barking of dogs,274.Barnacles,333.Barometer, spider,291.Barometer, stone,157.Bath, how the prophecy of its destruction came about,66.Bat, muscular strength of the,289.Beads, St. Cuthbert's,193.Bear, shaved,277.Beard, care of the,214.Beards at communion,62.Beards, gilt, 9.Beasts, blessing of,348.Bed, looking for the head of the,283.Bedford Missal,14.Bees, superstitions about,239.Bees, wonderful exhibition with,217.Before houses were numbered,180.Bells, articles of ringing,126.Born within the sound of Bow,61.Coral and,190.Of Jersey,120.Subterranean Christmas,120.Bell, great of Rouen,110.Great Tom of Lincoln,118.Inscriptions,122.Mammoth, of Buddah,119.Passing,121.Ringing the changes,122.Ringing in Holland,122.St. Fillan's,119.St. Sepulchre's,121.Belladonna lily,305.Benefactor, the devil regarded as a,227.Bernini's bust of Charles I,102.Bible and key, divination by,342.Bug,8.Curious parallel between Shakespeare and the,32.Eliot's Indian,12.Gilt beards,9.Illuminated MS.,8.Interesting MSS.,10.Magnificent Latin,10.Mazarine,9.Printed in gold letters,10.Vinegar,11.Wierix's,9.Bill, curious play,32.Of particulars,36.Of repairs, odd,63.Birds, Albatross,265.A little bird told me,66.Assuming the form of,248.Auk, great,264.Bantam, warlike,201.Bittern,251.Blackbird originally white,253.Bullfinch,272.Burree Churree,251.Chaffinch contest,269.Change of sight in,273.Cranes, 251,263.Crossbill,251.Crows lost in a fog,267.Cuckoo,255.Cuckoo, why she builds no nest,257.Dodo,268.Dove,253.Dove, double-headed,259.Dove, harbinger of good news,254.Ears of birds not to be deceived,272.Introducing a soul into a,249.Flamingo, nest of the,274.Gander, an old,269.Gander, led by a,267.Hammock,272.Kingfisher,264.Imprisoned during incubation,271.Love,271.Lark,252.Magpie,257.Magpie, half a nest,257.Magpie stoning a toad,278.Nightingale,252.Night owls,271.Ostrich,252.Owl,259.Owl's claws,340.Paradise,259.Peacock at home,268.Peacock crests,263.Pelican,270.Penguin breeding-grounds,271.Penguin's solitary egg,263.Phœnix,260.Plover,263.Prognosticating death,250.Raven,250.Robin, killing a,254.Roc,270.Sagacity of a bird,273.Stork,265.Swallow,258.Swallow drinks the king's health,258.Talismanic stones in,249.Titmouse,272.White-breasted,262.Wren,261.Bird hammock,272.Birthdays,62.Birthdays, luck of,336.Birthday, St. Patrick's,234.Bittern,251.Bitterness of strychnia,303.Blackbirds originally white,253.Black stone of Mecca,92.Bleeding for nothing,70.Blessing beasts,348.Blossoming, thirty years in,305.Blood, curse of innocent,228.Of the martyrs,338.Showers of,299.Stanching,346.Blue Beard,151.Blunders, Dr. Johnson's,22.Of painters,23.Thackeray's geographical,23.Boards, groaning,212.Boast, Richelieu's,79.Bodach Glas,240.Bogus dragon,68.Book-keeping in Norway,75.Book-shaped watch,87.Books—Huge copy of the Koran,12.Imperishable prison literature,16.Library, King of India's,19.Library, unique,13.Long lost book recovered,8.Lost book,13.Lord Kingsborough's Mexico,15.Missal, Bedford,14.Most curious book in the world,7.New England primer,14.Odd titles of old books,29.Printed in gold letters,10.Prophetic almanacs,17.Puffing their own books,16.Queen Elizabeth's "Oone Gospell Book,"11.Remarkable instance of perseverance,27.Riddles,13.Sibylline books,16.Silver book,12.Swearing on the book,172.Title pages that mislead,31.Without words,9.With unpronounceable names,7.Book worms,291.Boone's spelling,33.Boots an object of honor,193.Born of a Peri,214.Born within sound of Bow Bells,61.Borrowed days,209.Borrowing watches,88.Bottle, mammoth,109.Brass medal of the Saviour,94.Breaking a piece of money,314.Bricks, durability of,208.Brick, he's a,76.Bride of Abydos,25.Buddah, mammoth bell of,119.Buffalo's skull,322.Bug Bible,8.Burial customs, singular,236.Burned wastes replenished,311.Burree churree,251.Burn's snuff-box,103.Butterfly, first,350.Butterfly, leaf, of Java,290.Butter, perfumed,194.Buttons, none but brass,73.Buying and selling,220.Cabinet, immense Zoological,298.Cader Idris couch,216.Cæsar's wife must be above suspicion,43.Camel as a scape-goat,275.Kicked by a,281.Superstition about the,284.Can a clergyman marry himself?211.Can dogs count?279.Can hens count?280.Candle clock,196.Canes, gold-headed, for physicians,207.Canute, the great,154.Captain Kidd's vision,242.Carara's toilet box,100.Care of the beard,214.Carmelite friar's poem,31.Carrying coals to Newcastle,170.Cashing lottery prizes,63.Cats, asylum for destitute,163.Cats with knotted tails,287.Cat clock,84.Concert,173.Worship,286.Whittington and his,153.Caterpillar, muscles of the,292.Caul,312.Cavern chapel,219.Cavern, St. George's,165.Certificates of Gretna Green marriages,41.Chaffinch contest,269.Changing colors in a dying mullet,298.Changes, ringing the,122.Changes in signification,40.Change in the sight of birds,273.Chank shell,298.Charms, dogs,332.Arabian,347.Ague,337.Bread,331.Burns,321.Butter,331.Cramp,335.Love,314.Molar tooth,338.Thorn,321.Scattering water,332.Sundry rural,331.Witchcraft,320.Charlatans, prince of,206.Charlemagne, talisman of,91.Charlemagne, clock presented to,85.Charter, rhyming,42.Chateaubrun's escape from the guillotine,204.Chaunt, oyster dredging,201.Chewing rice, ordeal of,309.Children's day in Japan,195.Children, superstitions about,345.Child played for,65.Child-stealing elves,350.Chinese giants,162.Medical prescriptions,182.Oaths,172.Veneration for the lily,311.Chronological table of remarkable events,47.Christmas bells, subterranean,120.Citric acid,136.Claws, owl's,340.Clergymen, duels fought by,71.Cleopatra a myth,28.Clock, astronomical, famous,81.Candle,196.Cat,84.Earliest,80.Harrison's,84.Presented to Charlemagne,85.That strikes thirteen,82.Vocal,83.Westminster,82.Wonderful,83.Clouds, eating,293.Clover, four-leaved,303.Coals, carrying to Newcastle,170.Cobblers' stalls in Rome,178.Cock-crower, king's,188.Crowing an omen of victory,319.Fighting among the ancients,195.And Hen,266.Coffins, hour-glasses in,220.Coincidence, singular,71.Crooked,25.Curious historical,61.Coins, St. Helena,328.Cold water, ordeal of,309.Colors most frequently hit in battle,196.Of the hat for cardinals,173.Isabella,138.Parisian scarlet,139.Tyrian purple,139.Colossal shells,297.Composition during sleep,35.Composition of rollers discovered,133.Confectionery decorations,69.Copied from nature,303.Copy of the Koran, huge,12.Copy of a letter written by Cardinal Richelieu,51.Coral and bells,190.Cork jackets,142.Coronations, feasts at,217.Couch, Cader Idris,216.Court fools,155.Courtship of William the Conqueror,155.Crabs, pea,288.Cramp rings,313.Cramp, charm for,335.Cranes, worshipful,263.Crests, peacock's,263.Crickets, house,330.Crinoline in 1744,157.Critic, stupid,24.Crocodiles of the Nile,282.Crocodile plover,263.Crooked coincidences,25.Crossbill,251.Cross-legged, sitting,330.Cross, hymn in the form of a,49.Macduff's,221.Mark of, on the ass,276.Ordeal of the,307.Signature of the,79.Crows lost in a fog,267.Crucifix of Columbus,96.Crucifixion, curious piece of antiquity on the,50.Cruciform watch,88.Cuckoo,255.Cuckoo, why she builds no nest,257.Cunning astrologer,156.Cures, magnetic,230.Curious epitaphs,110.Custom in Strasburg,59.Historical coincidence,61.Lantern,100.Law,60.Locality for saying prayers,169.Parallel,80.Play bill,32.Post-office,76.Old memorandum,38.Oranges,304.Time-piece,85.Signs in New York,74.Wagers,184.Curse of Scotland,227.Curse of innocent blood,228.Cuttle-fish, eyes of the,290.Customs, Hallow E'en,232.Cutting off the fiddler's head,236.Cutting timber by the moon,213.Cynocephalic apes,278.Dance, gipsy,181.Danger, animals forecasting,282.Dairus, tomb of,106.Day, first sale of the,338.