Dead drunk for twopence,66.Body, odd way of discovering,334.Monkeys demanding their,279.Dean Swift's marriage ceremony,67.Death warrant of the Saviour,45.Death watch,230.Decapitation by the guillotine,204.Deepened damnation,191.Delicate machinery,86.Destiny, visions of,342.Deutsche luft,143.Devil regarded as a benefactor,227.Dials, ancient,86.Dialect rhyme,26.Diamonds, veneered,141.Diamond, queer place to secrete a,222.Diaries,17.Digestive powers, great,289.Digging for water,346.Dinner time, royal,318.Dinner, getting outside of his,284.Diogenes and his tub,27.Dipping the left shirt sleeve,233.Discovery of the body of Canute,154.Of glass,134.Of composition rollers,133.Disfigurement, fashionable,187.Divination by Bible and key,342.Divinity, queer evidence of,182.Divining rods,316.Doctor, African rain,152.Donne's apparition,245.Johnson's blunders,22.Dodo, story of the,268.Dogs, barking of,274.Charm against,332.Can they count?279.Donation to a fair,69.Don Quixote's sheep,40.Double-entendre,39.Double apparition,241.Dove,253.Double-headed,254.A harbinger of good news,254.Dragon, bogus,68.Drawing cabbages blindfolded,233.Dream, Lord Bacon's,246.Dreams, remedy for bad,225.Dresses of Queen Elizabeth,160.Drinking glass a yard long,109.Drop letter retort,67.Druid's seat,110.Drum made of human skin,212.Drunk for twopence,66.Duels fought by clergymen,71.Durability of bricks,208.Earliest clocks,80.Earliest traders,197.Earthquake, swallowed by an,175.Ear of birds not to be deceived,272.Ears of the elephant,277.Earwig,289.Easter box,238.Eating animals that have died a natural death,193.Clouds,293.Tea,208.For a wager,184.Eccentricity, Kant's,44.Eccentric will,59.Echoes, remarkable,166.Echo verse,78.Eden Hall, luck of,101.Edict against fiddlers,58.Edifices of the Polypi,299.Effect of a new nose,215.Efficacy in a mutilated saint,216.Egg mistaken for a pearl,170.Egg, penguin's solitary,262.Eggs, superstition about,274.Egyptian perfumes,203.Egyptian physicians,169.Electioneering in 1640,62.Elephants' ears,277.Elephants, tenacity of life in,276.Elephants, white,276.Eliot's Indian Bible,12.Elves, child-stealing,350.Embalmed in honey,194.Eminent men, foppery in,159.Epitaphs, curious,110.Escape from the guillotine,204.Essence of pearl,134.Esteem, inordinate self-,76.Etching upon glass,136.Eucharist, ordeal of the,308.Eve, St. Agnes,234.Evidences of divinity, queer,182.Executioner's sword,101.Expenses of CharlesII., private,53.Exterminating vermin,327.Extraordinary muscular strength of the bat,289.Eyebrows, mole-skin,189.Eye, evil, in Spain,320.Eyes of the cuttle-fish,290.Fable of the pelican,270.Fabulous roc,270.Fair, donation to a,69.Fairy treasure,220.False conclusion,52.Famous astronomical clock,81.Famine, singular provision against,283.Farthing, half-penny and,170.Farthing, Queen Anne's,177.Fashionable disfigurement,187.Fatal day to the royal family of England,57.Feasts at coronations,217.Gluttony of the monks,181.Mammoth,181.Skeletons at,183.Feathers for the ladies,176.Feathers, house of hen's,164.Feat, manufacturing,175.Felling oaks,246.Few fish found at sea,199.Fiddlers, edict against,58.Fiddler's head, cutting off the,236.Fiddling to some purpose,137.Figures, acrobatic,202.Fillan's bell, St.,119.Fineness of India muslins,174.Fine for insulting a king,187.Fire, ordeal by,309.First artificial limb,198.Brick house in Philadelphia,54.Butterfly,350.Hermits,98.Meerschaum pipe,130.Museums,107.New-laid egg,274.Opera,198.Oval lathe,131.Sale for the day,338.Fish, cuttle,290.Few found at sea,199.Fighting,295.Market at Scarborough,198.Mullet,298.Queer legend about,296.Fisherman's luck,335.Flea, jump of a,291.Fleas, remedy for,256.Flamingo, nest of the,274.Flower, passion,311.Flower pots, toppling,62.Fly, persistent,292.Following his nose,133.Foppery in eminent men,159.Food, yearly, of one man,207.Fog, crows lost in a,267.Fools, court,155.Force of imagination,224.Four-leaved clover,303.Freckles, May dew a remedy for,231.Freischutz,168.Friar Bacon's brazen head,96.Fungus, vegetable,306.Gall insect,294.Gambling for fingers,160.Gander, an old,269.Gander, led by a,267.Gems,196.Geranium, superstition about,302.German silver,138.Getting himself outside of his dinner,284.Giants, Chinese,162.Gifts, mystic,327.Gilt beards,9.Gipsy dance,181.Gipsy reticence,170.Glas, Bodach,240.Glass, discovery of,134.Drinking, a yard long,109.Etching upon,136.Glasses, hour, in coffins,220.Glastonbury thorn,219.Gloves, Anne Boleyn's,179.Gloves, winning a pair of,237.Gluttony of the monks,181.Gods, moving,167.Gold-headed canes for physicians,207.Gold letters, printed in,10.Golden tooth,226.Good tenant,209.Grace knives,108.Grandiloquent outbursts,25.Grave of Robin Hood,118.Great auk,264.Bell of Rouen,119.Digestive powers,289.Hero of the Bretons,144.Tom of Lincoln,118.Gretna Green marriages,41.Grimaldi's death,244.Grinning for a wager,183.Groaning boards,212.Guide posts, pious,68.Guillotine, decapitation by the,204.Guillotine, escape from the,204.Haarlem, sea-woman of,150.Hair cutting in Russia,183.Care of the beard,214.Human,208.Red, ancient antipathy to,72.Hallow E'en customs,232.Half-penny and farthing,170.Half-starved tramp,137.Halls, spacious,171.Hammock, bird,272.Handkerchiefs, love,185.Harrison's clock,84.Hat, color of, for cardinals,173.Hats, paradise of old,205.Head dresses, pagoda-shaped,157.Fiddler's, cutting off the,236.Friar Bacon's brazen,96.JamesIV.of Scotland,153.Orpheus,104.Of the bed, looking for the,283.Healing by the king,232.Hell-stones,226.Hens, can they count?280.Hens, cocks and,266.Hermits, first,198.Hero of the Bretons,144.High-sounding prologue,34.Hinder well-spout unlucky,247.Hindostan, trying land titles in,163.Hindoo oaths,57.Hindoo vow, singular,231.Holland, bell-ringing in,122.Honey, embalmed in,194.Hood, Robin, grave of,118.Honor, boots an object of,193.Honoring the lark,252.Horn of Oldenburg,98.Horn, unicorn,319.Horrible mode of assassination,295.Horses, Arabian, pedigree of,284.Curing vicious,211.Feeding one another,286.Witch-ridden,340.Horseshoes,314.Hour glasses in coffins,220.House, brick, first in Philadelphia,54.Carried on his head,176.Crickets,330.Leek,307.Of hen's feathers,164.Houses, before numbered,180.Household rules in the sixteenth century,56.How the ancients rewarded inventors,143.How the Chinese select a pastor,238.How the prophesy of the destruction of Bath came about,66.How rats and mice use their tails,280.Huge copy of the Koran,12.Human hair,208.Human skin, drum made out of,212.Hundred families' lock,188.Hundred stomachs,293.Hundred years too soon,55.Hungary water,141.Hymn in the form of a cross,49.Illuminated manuscript Bible,8.Imprisoned during incubation,270.Imperishable prison literature,16.Imagination, force of,224.Immense value placed upon gems by the ancients,196.Immense zoological cabinet,298.Incredible liars,223.India, library of the king of,19.India, muslins, fineness of,174.Indian Bible, Eliot's,12.Inducements to subscribers,34.Infamous nankeen,75.Ingenuity, literary,18.Injury, adding insult to,179.Ink, river of,200.Innate appetite,290.Innocent blood, curse of,228.Inordinate self-esteem,76.Inscriptions on bells,122.In search of a looking glass,70.In search of a rhyme,26.Insects, phosphorescent,292.Instance of remarkable perseverance,21.Instance of sympathy, strange,241.Interesting manuscript Bible,10.Introducing a soul into a bird,249.Inventor, legend of,228.Inventors, how the ancients rewarded,143.Iron crown of Lombardy,99.Isabella color,138.Island, supposed to be a genuine,18.Isaiah, martyrdom of,154.Isthmus of Panama suggested three hundred years ago,52.Japan, children's day in,195.Java, leaf-butterfly of,290.Java, tree-planting in,302.Jericho, rose of,303.Jersey, bells of,120.Jew, wandering,145.John O'Gaunt's will,58.Judas Iscariot, legend of,151.Judy, Punch and, in 1669,77.Jumping jack,185.Jump of a flea,291.Kant's eccentricity,44.Kicked by a camel,281.Killing a robin,254.King, fine for insulting a,187.Fisher,264.Healing by the,232.Of India's library,19.King's cock-crower,188.King's health, a swallow drinks the,258.Kircher's speaking trumpet,198.Kissed while asleep,237.Kneeling statue of Atlas,109.Knives, grace,108.Knotted tails, cats with,287.Knot, true-lover's,187.Koran, huge copy of the,12.Ladies, feathers for the,176.Lantern, curious,100.Lark, honoring the,252.Lathe, oval,131.Latin Bible, magnificent,10.Lawyer, astonished,70.Law, curious,60.Lead pencils, no lead in,177.Leaf-butterfly of Java,290.Led by a gander,267.Legend, fish,296.Inventor,228.Judas Iscariot,151.Pontius Pilate,149.Strange,229.Wandering Jew,145.Lepers in England, treatment of,237.Letiche,226.Letters, gold, printed in,10.Letter M and the Napoleons,161.Letters, oddly addressed,43.Letter, superscription to a,70.Liars, incredible,223.Library, King of India's,19.Library, unique,13.Life in death,225.In the elephant,276.Time, washing but once in a,317.Light from potatoes,178.Lightning prints,72.Lightning, thunder and,323.Lilly's predictions,36.Lily, belladonna,305.Lily, veneration for the,311.Limb, first artificial,198.Lincoln, accidental rhymes of,43.Lincoln, Great Tom of,118.Lion, re-tailing a,277.Literary ingenuity,18.Locality, strange, for saying prayers,169.Lock, wonderful,91.Lock, hundred families',188.Lombardy, iron crown of,99.Long lost book recovered,8.Long psalm, value of a,216.Long-toed shoes,209.Looking back,317.Glass, in search of,70.For the head of the bed,283.Lord Bacon's dream,246.Lord Kingsborough's Mexico,15.Lotteries,65.Lottery, ancient,64.Lottery, cashing prizes,63.Lottery of women in India,64.Lost book,13.Lost in a fog, crows,267.Love birds,271.Charms,314.Handkerchiefs,185.Knot, true,87.Luck of Eden Hall,101.Of birthdays,336.Fisherman's,335.Lundyfoot's,136.Spitting for,343.Lucky find,205.Luminous human bodies,