| A |
| PAGE |
| Acting Vice-Presidents of the United States | [159] |
| Adam’s beard | [93] |
| African capital named from a United States President | [76] |
| Albany Regency, The | [95] |
| Alien and Sedition Laws, The | [119] |
| Amber | [3] |
| American Fabius, The | [169] |
| American Pathfinder, The | [146] |
| American Pope of Rome, The | [30] |
| Ancient account for the origin of amber | [4] |
| Ancient city that perished through silence | [5] |
| Ancient Mariner, The | [65] |
| Ancient name of the ring-finger | [22] |
| Animal noted for its large tail | [72] |
| Antarctic Continent discovered | [38] |
| Auld Reekie | [134] |
| Author of “Curfew must not ring To-night” | [59] |
| Author of “Greenbacks” | [89] |
| Author of the name America | [21] |
| B |
| Balm of Gilead | [126] |
| Banshee | [66] |
| Battle fought above the clouds | [89] |
| Battle of Herrings, The | [137] |
| Battle of Spurs, The | [133] |
| Beautiful Parricide, The | [23] |
| Beautiful Rope-maker, The | [165] |
| Bible of the Greeks, The | [151] |
| Bird with neither tail nor wings | [6] |
| Birthplace of two Presidents | [40] |
| Black Hole of Calcutta | [136] |
| Black Jack | [136] |
| Blue Hen State, The | [88] |
| Blue-Noses, The | [163] |
| Boundary between United States and Canada | [14] |
| Bravest of the brave, The | [33] |
| Breeches Bible, The | [130] |
| Bridge of Sighs, The | [145] |
| Brightest star visible | [62] |
| Bug Bible, The | [104] |
| Burial place of Columbus | [102] |
| Burial place of our Presidents | [105] |
| C |
| Causes of the American Revolution | [116] |
| Causes of the Civil War | [119] |
| Cave of the winds | [40] |
| Celluloid | [104] |
| Chains of Columbus | [176] |
| Children of Columbus | [101] |
| Christ of India, The | [50] |
| Cities without elections | [28] |
| City destroyed by an ill-timed jest | [125] |
| City of Elms, The | [43] |
| City of Magnificent Distances, The | [134] |
| City of Oaks, The | [167] |
| City of the Red Staff, The | [28] |
| City where burials are made above ground | [141] |
| Colony founded as a home for the poor | [91] |
| Color and portrait of our postage-stamps | [40] |
| Colossus of American Independence, The | [91] |
| Columbus’s line extinct | [101] |
| Confederate candle | [80] |
| Copperheads, The | [171] |
| Country in which grass grows upon trees | [145] |
| Country in which prayers are said by wheels | [95] |
| Country in which the clergymen are blacksmiths | [25] |
| Cousin Michael | [131] |
| D |
| Dark day, The | [142] |
| Day of Barricades, The | [143] |
| Day of Corn-sacks, The | [170] |
| Defects of the Confederation | [118] |
| Deliverer of Washington’s funeral oration | [76] |
| Derivation of Alaska | [122] |
| Derivation of Canada | [124] |
| Derivation of magnet | [130] |
| Devil’s Wall, The | [81] |
| Deviser of our decimal coinage | [107] |
| Diamond necklace affair | [23] |
| Discovery of the Pacific Ocean | [82] |
| Dynamite | [99] |
| E |
| Eight motions of the earth | [172] |
| El Dorado | [144] |
| Election on which the price of flour depended | [77] |
| Explorer of the Mississippi with La Salle | [64] |
| Explorer who drove a herd of hogs before him | [72] |
| F |
| Famous men killed by lice | [168] |
| Father of Ridicule, The | [41] |
| Fat man’s misery, The | [11] |
| “Fiery serpents” of Numbers xxi | [8] |
| First American bird taken to England | [156] |
| First Bible printed in America | [138] |
| First bloodshed in the Civil War | [75] |
| First bloodshed in the Revolution | [52] |
| First census of the United States | [38] |
| First circumnavigator of the globe | [166] |
| First Colonial Congress | [117] |
| First duel in the United States | [13] |
| First English book | [147] |
| First English child born in America | [147] |
| First English child born in New England | [27] |
| First flag of a republic set up in America | [80] |
| First gun of the Civil War | [75] |
| First land discovered by Columbus | [21] |
| First legislative assembly in America | [74] |
| First martyr to American liberty | [59] |
| First national political convention | [87] |
| First national political platform | [88] |
| First paper-makers | [46] |
| First post-offices | [12] |
| First President nominated by national convention | [87] |
| First purchaser of United States postage-stamps | [159] |
| First temperance society | [145] |
| First watches | [168] |
| First white child born in America | [173] |
| First woman hung in the United States | [162] |
| Foul-weather Jack | [81] |
| Floral emblem of the United States | [172] |
| Flying Dutchman, The | [65] |
| Franklin’s oft-quoted epitaph | [55] |
| French game-cock, The | [95] |
| G |
| Gate of Tears, The | [175] |
| Gems emblematic of the Twelve Apostles | [111] |
| General fired at fifteen times but unharmed | [164] |
| Goblets used as preservatives against poison | [157] |
| Golden number and how determined | [115] |
| Golomynka | [53] |
| Grandest funeral pageant ever known | [54] |
| Granite City, The | [174] |
| Great American Commoner, The | [100] |
| Ground Hog Day | [105] |
| H |
| Hæmadynamometer | [4] |
| Hagar’s well | [63] |
| Hairy men, The | [115] |
| Handsome Englishman, The | [164] |
| Heaviest metal | [134] |
| Hebrew manner of naming the books of the Bible | [138] |
| Height of Goliath | [126] |
| Highest spot inhabited by human beings | [142] |
| Highest tides known | [25] |
| History changed by a flight of birds | [20] |
| History of the poem “Sheridan’s Ride” | [109] |
| Holy Grail, The | [80] |
| Horse Latitudes, The | [148] |
| How all the greenbacks, etc., are destroyed | [96] |
| How Napoleon was paid for Louisiana | [80] |
| How the Red Sea gets its color | [46] |
| How the schooner obtained its name | [43] |
| How the swallow obtained its name | [176] |
| How to determine the years of a Congress | [39] |
| How umbrellas are put together | [17] |
| I |
| Indian chief made an English peer | [36] |
| Indians’ present to Penn’s widow | [71] |
| Indians with red hair and pale complexions | [7] |
| Inventor of decimal fractions | [107] |
| Inventor of the first steamboat | [139] |
| Inventor of the most perfect alphabet | [53] |
| Irish Night, The | [67] |
| Iron Duke, The | [148] |
| Island discovered by two lovers | [10] |
| Island of St. Brandon | [148] |
| Island of the Seven Cities | [149] |
| Ivan Ivanovitch | [131] |
| J |
| Japanese national beverage | [37] |
| Jersey blues, The | [93] |
| Jewish year corresponding to 1886 A. D. | [49] |
| John Bull | [132] |
| Johnny Crapaud | [130] |
| John of Gaunt | [122] |
| K |
| Keystone State, The | [67] |
| King who boasted of being a good cook | [10] |
| King who said “I am the state” | [60] |
| King who wrote an essay against tobacco | [173] |
| Kitchen Cabinet, The | [52] |
| Kosciusko’s mound | [97] |
| L |
| Lalla Rookh | [151] |
| Land of Steady Habits, The | [151] |
| Land of the Incas, The | [138] |
| Land of the Midnight Sun, The | [77] |
| Land of the Rising Sun, The | [77] |
| Largest clock in the world | [11] |
| Largest locomotive in the world | [146] |
| Largest stationary engine in the world | [55] |
| Last Union general killed in the Rebellion | [73] |
| Last words of Benedict Arnold | [92] |
| Last words of Columbus | [101] |
| Last writing of Columbus | [102] |
| Learned tailor, The | [62] |
| Left-handed marriage | [1] |
| Lightest metal | [135] |
| Light-horse Harry | [95] |
| Little Giant, The | [54] |
| Little Magician, The | [72] |
| Little Paris | [16] |
| Longest word in the English language | [111] |
| Lumber State, The | [151] |
| Luz | [152] |
| M |
| Maiden town, The | [155] |
| Maid of Saragossa, The | [68] |
| Man of Destiny, The | [57] |
| Martha Washington | [125] |
| Meaning of the phrase “By hook or by crook” | [158] |
| Meaning of the phrase “By Jingo” | [113] |
| Meaning of the phrase “Fitting to a T” | [129] |
| Metals valued at over one thousand dollars a pound | [173] |
| Mill-boy of the Slashes, The | [43] |
| Mistress of the World, The | [35] |
| Modern Athens, The | [106] |
| Mollusk that swims by fins on the side of its neck | [2] |
| Money of North American Indians | [42] |
| Most deadly epidemic ever known | [31] |
| Most famous heroine of antiquity | [98] |
| Most useful conquest ever made by man | [52] |
| Most useful tree in the world | [73] |
| Mother Goose | [60] |
| Mother of Cities, The | [9] |
| Mourning colors of various nations | [34] |
| N |
| Name of the penitent thief | [50] |
| National emblematic flower of China and Japan | [139] |
| National hymn composed in a single night | [32] |
| Nearest approach made to the North Pole | [77] |
| Newspaper called “The Thunderer” | [57] |
| Newton of Antiquity, The | [172] |
| Nimrod of the Bible, The | [75] |
| Nine Worthies, The | [41] |
| Northeast Passage discovered | [156] |
| Northwest Passage discovered | [26] |
| Number of languages | [29] |
| Number of people brought over in the “Mayflower” | [76] |
| O |
| Oath of office administered to Washington | [35] |
| O Grab Me Act, The | [61] |
| Old Bullion | [13] |
| Oldest President | [90] |
| Oldest street in New England | [155] |
| Old Hickory | [42] |
| Old Nick | [113] |
| Old Public Functionary | [94] |
| Old Scratch | [135] |
| Only bird that can see an object with both eyes at once | [6] |
| Only canonized saint of American birth | [74] |
| Only monarchy on the Western Continent | [96] |
| Order of the Garter | [39] |
| Origin of “April Fool” | [128] |
| Origin of “Before one could say Jack Robinson” | [69] |
| Origin of “bigot” | [164] |
| Origin of “bogus” | [112] |
| Origin of “Brother Jonathan” | [36] |
| Origin of “catch-penny” | [58] |
| Origin of “getting into a scrape” | [129] |
| Origin of “halcyon days” | [50] |
| Origin of “honeymoon” | [43] |
| Origin of “humbug” | [108] |
| Origin of “I acknowledge the corn” | [18] |
| Origin of “Johnnies” | [176] |
| Origin of “Lynch Law” | [67] |
| Origin of “Mugwump” | [177] |
| Origin of “Old Harry” | [106] |
| Origin of “pin-money” | [56] |
| Origin of “printer’s devil” | [44] |
| Origin of “quiz” | [68] |
| Origin of “sardonic smile” | [166] |
| Origin of “Simon Pure” | [154] |
| Origin of “tariff” | [57] |
| Origin of tarring and feathering | [112] |
| Origin of Thanksgiving Day | [114] |
| Origin of “That’s a feather in your cap” | [161] |
| Origin of the barber’s pole | [126] |
| Origin of the minute and second | [15] |
| Origin of the names of the days of the week | [48] |
| Origin of the names of the months | [47] |
| Origin of the names of the oceans | [143] |
| Origin of “The three R’s” | [16] |
| Origin of the word “Mississippi” | [61] |
| Origin of “To catch a Tartar” | [154] |
| Origin of “To haul over the coals” | [155] |
| Origin of “To have a bone to pick with one” | [157] |
| Origin of “To row up Salt River” | [145] |
| Origin of “To speak for Buncombe” | [120] |
| Origin of “To throw dust in one’s eye” | [157] |
| Origin of Uncle Sam | [16] |
| Origin of “Whig” and “Tory” | [106] |
| Origin of $ | [156] |
| P |
| Palace containing five hundred rooms | [52] |
| Parents of Columbus | [100] |
| Parthenopean Republic, The | [47] |
| Patriot Preacher of the Revolution, The | [24] |
| Peeping Tom of Coventry | [132] |
| Petrified City, The | [161] |
| Philosopher who thought the sun was a huge fiery stone | [175] |
| Physiologist who thought man should live a century | [29] |
| Pine-Tree State, The | [15] |
| Pocahontas’ real name | [35] |
| Poet noted for his thinness | [92] |
| Poet’s death caused by his bald head | [26] |
| Porkopolis | [148] |
| Postal cards | [78] |
| Pouter pigeon | [92] |
| Prairie State, The | [135] |
| President buried at the expense of his friends | [121] |
| Presidential administration compared to a parenthesis | [137] |
| Presidential election in which three States did not vote | [34] |
| Presidents born in Virginia | [96] |
| President twice married to the same lady | [121] |
| President who never attended school | [79] |
| President who worked on a ferry-boat | [78] |
| President who wrote his own epitaph | [87] |
| Prince of Destruction, The | [151] |
| Proper name of Columbus | [100] |
| Punishment of bachelors at Sparta | [71] |
| Putnam and the wolf | [78] |
| Q |
| Quaker Poet, The | [171] |
| Queen of Hearts, The | [152] |
| Queen of Tears, The | [33] |
| R |
| Railroad City, The | [124] |
| Rail-splitter, The | [69] |
| Rare Ben | [113] |
| Red Prince, The | [123] |
| Religious sect that depend on prayer | [51] |
| Remarkable Esquimaux stratagem | [20] |
| Roundheads, The | [153] |
| S |
| Sacred writings of the Buddhists | [83] |
| Sacred writings of the Chinese | [83] |
| Sacred writings of the Hindoos | [85] |
| Sacred writings of the Japanese | [86] |
| Sacred writings of the Mohammedans | [86] |
| Sacred writings of the Persians | [85] |
| Sacred writings of the Scandinavians | [84] |
| Sage Brush State, The | [124] |
| Sage of Monticello, The | [170] |
| Sailor king, The | [176] |
| Samian letter, The | [177] |
| Scourge of God, The | [158] |
| Sect believing in one hundred and thirty-six hells | [82] |
| Seed supposed to confer invisibility | [10] |
| Seven against Thebes, The | [169] |
| Seven Bibles of the world, The | [86] |
| Seven Champions of Christendom, The | [45] |
| Seven Sleepers, The | [44] |
| Seven Wise Men of Greece, The | [45] |
| Seven Wonders of the ancient world, The | [45] |
| Shadeless forests | [97] |
| Shakespeare of India, The | [5] |
| Socrates’ fundamental doctrine | [51] |
| Sovereign who owns the greater part of his realm | [9] |
| State called “The Dark and Bloody Ground” | [89] |
| “Stonewall” Jackson’s sobriquet | [136] |
| St. Tammany | [69] |
| Sucker State, The | [103] |
| Symmes’ Hole | [171] |
| T |
| Taffy | [131] |
| Tallest trees in the world | [98] |
| Tam O’Shanter | [93] |
| Terms of the treaty of 1783 | [117] |
| Three kings of Cologne, The | [142] |
| Title of the Czar of Russia | [119] |
| Town in Vermont captured by the Confederates | [1] |
| Tree regarded as an emblem of death | [11] |
| Trivial incident that led to a grand discovery | [6] |
| Turpentine State, The | [136] |
| Two consecutive Bible verses that contradict | [175] |
| U |
| Unconditional Surrender | [167] |
| Underground river in the United States | [58] |
| V |
| Value of a pound of hair-springs for watches | [4] |
| Veiled Prophet, The | [7] |
| Via Dolorosa | [135] |
| Vice-President not elected by the people | [38] |
| Vice-President who did not serve | [38] |
| Vinegar Bible, The | [130] |
| Violet stones | [36] |
| W |
| Wagoner Boy, The | [64] |
| War of the Roses, The | [155] |
| Water volcano, The | [62] |
| Wealthiest President | [93] |
| Well-known hymn composed in a few minutes | [129] |
| What the Indians did to raise ammunition | [75] |
| What the Indians supposed the ships of Columbus to be | [79] |
| When a gallon of vinegar weighs more | [35] |
| Whence the cravat obtains its name | [147] |
| Where the Declaration of Independence was written | [115] |
| Where the different Presidents were nominated | [88] |
| White Lady, The | [28] |
| Who ate Roger Williams? | [70] |
| Whose daughter was Noah? | [115] |
| Whose wife was Adam? | [114] |
| Why a dog turns round before he lies down | [46] |
| Why buckwheat is so called | [112] |
| Why John Quincy Adams was so named | [90] |
| Why New Jersey is called a foreign country | [123] |
| Why New Jersey is called Spain | [153] |
| Why people move on March 25 | [150] |
| Why Presidents are inaugurated on the 4th of March | [56] |
| Why the Baldwin apple is so called | [161] |
| Why the “Hoosiers” are so called | [160] |
| Why the passion flower is so called | [160] |
| Why the shamrock is the emblem of Ireland | [127] |
| Why the White House is so called | [132] |
| Wicked Bible, The | [46] |
| Wife of Columbus | [100] |
| Words containing all the vowels in order | [73] |
| Y |
| Youngest President | [81] |
| Youngest Territory | [127] |
| Z |
| Zopyrus | [175] |