178.Luncheon,210.Luxury in 1652,158.Macduff's cross,221.Machinery, delicate,86.Magpie,257.Stoning a toad,278.Half a nest,257.Magnetic cures,230.Magic rain stone,203.Magnificent Latin Bible,10.Magnus, Albertus, recipes from,74.Mammoth bottle,109.Bell of Buddah,119.Feast,181.Pawnbroker's shop,170.Man carries his house on his head176.Man, yearly food of one,207.Manna marked with the number six,324.Manner of watchmen imitating the clock at Hernhuth,55.Manufacturing feat,175.Mark of the cross on the ass,276.Marriages, Gretna Green,41.Marriages in May unlucky,344.Martin Luther's tankard,94.Martyrs, blood of the,338.Martyrdom of Isaiah,154.May dew a cure for freckles,231.Mazarine Bible,9.Meal, one a day,206.Mecca, black stone of,92.Medallions only for the royal,171.Medical prescriptions, Chinese,182.Medicine, ancient practice of,337.Meerschaum pipe, first,130.Memnon, statue of,103.Memorandum, curious old, on the crucifixion of the Saviour,38.Menageries, phantom,60.Mexico, Lord Kingsborough's,15.Mezzotinting,134.Midsummer, rose at,307.Military salute,75.Minute mechanisms,90.Miniature time-piece,88.Missal, Bedford,14.Mixed moons,338.Mob wisdom,173.Moles (on the skin),349.Mole-skin eyebrows,189.Mole, voracity of the,285.Money, breaking a piece of,314.Monkish prayers,180.Monks, gluttony of the,181.Monks ordered to shave,62.Monkeys demanding their dead,279.Moons, mixed,338.Moon, cutting timber by the,213.Welcoming the new,240.Struck,168.Most curious book in the world,7.Motherly sacrifice of the gall insect,294.Mountain highway,321.Mouse ear,305.Moving gods,167.Mugwort,305.Mullet, colors in a dying,298.Mummies converted into paint,174.Museums, temples, the first,107.Muscles of the caterpillar,292.Muslins, fineness of India,174.Musical stones,199.Musical sand,200.Music, queer arctic,174.Mutilated Saint, efficacy in a,216.Mystic gifts,327.Name, simply on account of her,240.Nankeen, infamous,75.Napoleons and the letter M,161.Nature, copied from,303.Nebuchadnezzar's golden mask,98.Nest of the flamingo,274.Why the cuckoo builds no,256.Why the magpie builds but half a,257.Nettles, striking with,236.Newcastle, carrying coals to,170.New England primer,14.New moon, welcoming the,240.New nose, effect of a,215.Newspapers, vascillating,22.Nightingale,252.Night owls,271.Nile, crocodiles of the,282.No buttons but brass buttons,73.No lead in lead pencils,177.Nonius, opal of,195.Normandy treasures,201.Nose, following his,133.Noted anachronisms,27.Not buried at night, Sir John Moore,28.Not divine until smeared with red paint,169.Nothing new under the sun,142.Novel way of curing vicious horses,211.Number one, superstitious notion of,323.Seven, virtue in the,325.Six, manna marked with the,324.Oaks, felling,246.Oaths, Chinese,172.Oaths, Hindoo,57.Oddly addressed letters,43.Odd bill of repairs,63.Mode of revenge,287.Titles of old books,29.Way to discover a dead body,334.Odor of patchouli,141.Odors, tenacity of,202.Offending barbers,77.Oldenburg, Horn of,98.Oldest ballad,40.Old Grimaldi's death,244.Old pike,297.Old weather rhymes,127.Omens, cock-crowing,319.Picture,245.Poetry of,329.Reckless disregard of,247.Twelfth-night,244.One hundred years too soon,55.One meal a day,206.Onomancy,326.Opera, first,197.Opal of Nonius,195.Oranges, curious,304.Orchards, wassailing the,235.Ordeal in Africa,308.Of chewing rice,309.Of the cross,307.Of cold water,309.Of the Eucharist,308.By fire,309.By touch,310.Origin of attar of roses,215.Blue-tinted paper,132.Long-toed shoes,209.Orthography, singular specimen of,34.Orpheus, head of,104.Ostrich,252.Outburst, grandiloquent,25.Oval lathe, first,131.Owl,259.Owl, night,271.Owl's claws,340.Oyster dredging chaunt,201.Oysters growing on trees,301.Painters, blunders of,23.Paint, mummies converted into,174.Paint, not divine until smeared with,169.Pagoda-shaped head-dresses,157.Palindromes,20.Paper, blue-tinted, origin of,132.Paper, note, diminutive,135.Papers, watch,78.Parallel passages between Shakespeare and the Bible,32.Parallel, curious,80.Parisian scarlet,139.Paradise of old hats,205.Paradise, bird of,259.Passage through the Isthmus of Panama suggested three hundred years ago,52.Passion flower,311.Passing bell,121.Pastor, how the Chinese secure a,238.Patagonian superstitions,312.Patchouli, odor of,141.Pawning Bibles and Waterloo medals,212.Pawnbroker's shop, mammoth,170.Pea crabs,288.Peacock at home,268.Peacocks' crests,263.Pearl, egg mistaken for a,170.Pearl, essence of,134.Pedigree of Arabian horses,284.Pelican, fable of the,270.Penguin breeding-grounds,271.Penguin's solitary egg,262.Peri, born of a,214.Perfumes, Egyptian,293.Perfumed butter,194.Perfume, saffron as a,202.Perforated stones,328.Persistent fly,292.Phantom menageries,60.Physicians, Egyptian,169.Gold-headed canes for,207.Symbol,162.Phœnix,260.Phosphorescent insects,292.Picnics centuries ago,182.Picture omens,245.Pigmies,161.Pike, an old,297.Pillory in Philadelphia,54.Pin superstitions,345.Pious guide posts,68.Pipe, meerschaum, first,130.Plague, red tape a protection against,339.Play bill, curious,32.Plate, Wesley's,107.Plover, crocodile,263.Poem, Carmelite friar's,31.Poetry of omens,329.Politeness, strained,210.Polypi edifices,299.Pontius Pilate at Vienne,149.Pope's skull,211.Portland vase,93.Porcelain,132.Posies for wedding rings,52.Post-office, curious,76.Potatoes, light from,178.Prayers, curious locality for saying,169.Prayers, monkish,180.Praying for revenge,189.Practice of medicine, ancient,337.Prescriptions, Chinese medical,182.Predictions, Lilly's,36.Preserved in salt,157.Preservative against toothache,338.Prices, Scripture,175.Primitive tavern signs,78.Primer, New England,14.Prince of Charlatans,206.Prints, lightning,72.Printed in gold letters,10.Prison literature, imperishable,16.Private expenses of CharlesII.,53.Prizes, early lottery,63.Prophetic almanacs,17.Prologue, high-sounding,34.Provision against famine, singular,283.Psalm, value of a long,210.Puffing their own books,16.Pulpit, refreshments for the,61.Punch and Judy in 1669,77.Puritan surnames,38.Pyed Piper,147.Queer arctic music,174.Evidence of divinity,182.Legend about fish,296.Place to secrete a diamond,222.Quaint epitaphs,110.Quaint recipes,46.Queen's vow,171.Queen Anne's farthings,177.Queen Elizabeth's dresses,166.Queen Elizabeth's "Oone Gospell Book,"11.Rain doctors, African,152.Magic stone,203.Whipping toads to produce,349.Rats and mice, how they use their tails,280.Raven,250.Recipes from Albertus Magnus,74.Recipes, quaint,46.Reckless disregard of omens,247.Red tape a remedy for the plague,339.Refreshments for the pulpit,61.Regal hunting party,214.Remarkable events, chronological table of,47.Remarkable perseverance,21.Remarkable echoes,166.Remedy for bad dreams,225.Remedy for fleas,256.Relics, religious,108.Resurrection watch,88.Retailing a lion,277.Reticence, gipsy,170.Retort, drop-letter,67.Revenge, odd mode of,287.Rhymes, accidental,43.Dialect,26.In search of,26.Old weather,127.Foul weather,129.Rhyming charter,42.Rhymer, Thomas the,148.Rice, chewing, ordeal of,309.Richelieu's boast,79.Richelieu, copy of a letter written by,51.Riddles, antiquity of,63.Riddles, book of,13.Rights and lefts,216.Right and left hand,197.Ringing, articles of,126.Bell, in Holland,122.The changes,122.Rings, cramp,313.Posies for,52.Rubbing with,341.Toad-stone,317.Wedding,206.River of ink,200.Roasting a black hen's heart at midnight,267.Robin Hood, grave of,118.Robin, killing a,254.Roc, fabulous,270.Rollers, discovery of composition for,133.Roman stamp,91.Roses, attar of,215.Jericho,303.Midsummer,307.Rouen, great bell of,110.Royal dinner time,318.Royal, medallions only for the,171.Royal sportsmen,215.Roving tinkers,168.Rubbing with a gold ring,341.Rules, household, in the sixteenth century,56.Sacred anchors,179.Sacro Catino,99.Saffron as a perfume,202.Sagacity of a bird,273.Sailors whistling,247.Salagrama stone,334.Salute, military,75.Salt, preserved in,157.Salt, spilling,336.Sand, musical,200.Satanic superstitions,231.Saturday a fatal day to the royal family of England,57.Saviour, brass medal of the,44.Saviour, death warrant of the,45.Scapegoat, the camel as a,275.Scarborough fishmarket,198.Scarlet, Parisian,139.Scipio's shield,97.Scotland, curse of,227.Screens, tavern,71.Scripture, prices,175.Sea, few fish found at,199.Sea-woman of Haarlem,150.Self-esteem, inordinate,76.Selecting an avocation,343.Selling snails,190.Seventh son of the seventh son,324.Shakespeare, parallel passages,32.Shaking aspen,302.Shaved bear,277.Shells, chank,298.Shells, colossal,297.Sheep, Don Quixote's,40.Shirts growing on trees,300.Shoe-black plant,306.Shoes, horse,314.Rights and lefts,216.Origin of long-toed,209.Throwing an old,319.Showers of blood,299.Sibylline books,16.Signature of the cross,79.Signs in New York, curious,74.Signs of foul weather,129.Silver book,12.Silver, German,138.Simply on account of her name,79.Singular burial customs,236.Coincidence,71.Hindoo vow,231.Provision against famine,283.Specimen of orthography,34.Sir Henry Wotten's strange dream,243.Sir John Moore not buried at night,28.Sitting cross-legged,330.Skeletons at feasts,183.Skull, buffalo's,322.Pope's,211.Watches,86.Slave advertisements,27.Sleep, composition during,35.Sleeping on stones,336.Smokers, ancient,181.Smuggler's talisman,341.Snake's attachment for home,296.Snuff-box, Burn's,103.Spacious halls,171.Spain, evil eye in,320.Speaking trumpet, Kircher's,198.Specific against epilepsy,242.Spelling, Boone's,33.Spellbound,315.Spelling, vagaries of,33.Spider barometers,291.Spider's web, wonderful,294.Spilling salt,336.Spirit of Dundee,242.Spitting for luck's sake,343.Spontaneous combustion,203.Sportsman, royal,215.Stamp, Roman,91.Statue of Memnon,103.Strained politeness,