INDEX
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- Americana, [9]
- American Indians, The, [18]
- Authorship of the Declaration, [23]
- Cabots, The, [12]
- Constitutional Convention, [34]
- Division of Legislative Authority, [36]
- Eminent Domain—National Sovereignty, [25]
- Erikson and Columbus, [11]
- First Legislative Assembly, [21]
- Foreknowledge, [10]
- Gun flints wanted, [31]
- Icelandic Sagas, The, [10]
- Landing of the Pilgrims, [19]
- Master Spirit of the Revolution, [32]
- Name America, The, [13]
- Norse Adventures, The, [9]
- Progress toward Position as a World Power, [16]
- Signing of the Declaration, [22]
- What it cost to discover America, [16]
- Brevities, [593]
- Clever Hits of the Humorists, [276]
- According to Agreement, [284]
- Botanical Misnomer, [288]
- Business Economy, [289]
- Caderousse’s Wager, [283]
- Christmas Chimes, [295]
- Completing a Stanza, [289]
- Democritus at Belfast, [293]
- Double X, [282]
- Frankness, [282]
- His Station, [281]
- Identified, [277]
- Killarney Echo, [280]
- Love of Specie-s, [281]
- Mark Twain convinced, [285]
- Met the Emergency, [282]
- Mistaken Vanity, [276]
- Motto for a Tavern Sign, [286]
- Nestling Shuttlecock, [296]
- New Light, A, [286]
- Not interchangeable, [288]
- Not Rousseau, [281]
- Preferred Beverage, [277]
- Pulpit Wager, [285]
- Remedy, The, [288]
- Rhus Toxicodendron, [285]
- Schweininger’s Thrust, [287]
- Seeing is Believing, [280]
- Significant Change, [287]
- Similar Privilege, [283]
- Toast, A, [276]
- Uncivil Retort, [278]
- Very Long Bill, [279]
- Whittier’s Impromptu, [279]
- Xanthippe vindicated, [290]
- Comical Blunders, [331]
- Aaron and Hur, [347]
- Alleged Danger of Rapid Movement, [346]
- “Beats,” not Turnips, [342]
- Before Railroads, [354]
- Betting on the Lord’s Prayer, [339]
- Both Sides, [335]
- Contradictory Phraseology, [339]
- Couldn’t fool him, [333]
- Desirable Uniformity, [351]
- Direct Information, [351]
- Disinfecting a Telegram, [331]
- Economy of Nature, [349]
- Exchanging Errors, [339]
- False Doctrine, [350]
- Faux Pas, [341]
- German Pickwick, [344]
- Gibson’s Venus, [334]
- Great Mind, A, [338]
- Half-Truths, [337]
- Happening of the Unexpected, [337]
- Happy Thought, A, [332]
- Help from Above, [350]
- Highgate, [334]
- Hopeless Case, [335]
- Individuals, [340]
- Infelicities, [340]
- John the Baptist, [344]
- Minding One’s Business, [351]
- Misplaced Zeal, [353]
- Mistranslation, [352]
- Not a Chiropodist, [345]
- One Form of Vanity, [342]
- Poor Children, [350]
- Psoriasis, [338]
- Quakerese, [343]
- Question of Capacity, [336]
- Reasonable Excuse, [343]
- Sending a Postscript, [343]
- Stiefel, [332]
- “Sufficient” Guide-post, [341]
- Twenty Dunkards, [347]
- Unexpected Reception, [336]
- Unfamiliar Familiarity, [346]
- Wrong Man made a Count, [331]
- Wrong Word, [355]
- Enigmas, [514]
- Archbishop Whately’s, [514]
- Arithmetical Puzzle, [517]
- Charades, [518]
- Fox’s, [514]
- Fugitive Sigh, [516]
- Genealogical Puzzle, [520]
- Hallam’s, [514]
- Macaulay’s, [515]
- Marigold, [520]
- Mitchell’s, [515]
- Palindromic, [516]
- Richard Porson’s, [516]
- Seward’s, [515]
- Sir Hilary’s Prayer, [521]
- What becomes of the Pins, [517]
- Evasions of Ambiguity, [322]
- Acknowledgment, [323]
- Artful Dodger, [323]
- Butchers, The, [327]
- Deceiver, A, [324]
- Difference, A, [324]
- Divine Service, [325]
- Doubtful Compliment, [325]
- Erskine’s Pleasantry, [329]
- Greek Lexicographers, [322]
- Judge like Solomon, [326]
- King or Pretender, [325]
- Legal Question, [326]
- Meeting the Difficulty, [327]
- Mortuary Word-Play, [330]
- Religion of Wise Men, [322]
- Rouge, [324]
- Shifting Responsibility, [329]
- Tough Witness, [328]
- Which?, [324]
- Even Homer sometimes nods, [362]
- Balboa, [370]
- Bishop Ken’s Doxology, [371]
- Bret Harte’s Astronomy, [364]
- Byron’s Greek, [372]
- Cassio or Iago?, [367]
- Cenotaph, [370]
- Chinese Cycle, [363]
- Collins vs. Prior, [369]
- Dante as a Naturalist, [367]
- Gladstone’s Heber, [369]
- In Time of Peace, [368]
- Johnson’s Error, [366]
- Jugurtha, [362]
- Milton as a Botanist, [366]
- Milton’s Italian, [366]
- Mistakes of our Best Writers, [373]
- Racine vs. Voltaire, [363]
- St. Paul to the Ephesians, [371]
- Triple Error, [372]
- Watts vs. Cowper, [364]
- Wolseley’s Mistake, [365]
- Facetiæ, [223]
- Admissible Explanation, [228]
- Already had One, [223]
- Ask Papa, [224]
- Berners Street Hoax, [242]
- Canard, [226]
- Cardinal’s Curse, [241]
- Coldblooded Criticism, [234]
- Companion Pictures, [236]
- Compliant Courts, [237]
- Eye of the Fly, [225]
- Graduate, The, [233]
- High Art Advertising, [227]
- High Diddle Diddle, [245]
- Jack and Jill, [244]
- Juxtaposition, [236]
- Legal Dilemma, [238]
- Mary’s Little Lamb, [245]
- Meeting, The, [246]
- Mr. Evarts’s Jocularity, [230]
- Mock Heroics, [234]
- Modern Judge on Portia, [237]
- Niagara, [236]
- Old Cock, The, [223]
- Poet-Farmer in a Fix, [231]
- Point of View, [244]
- Relative Size, [240]
- Second- or Third-Rate, [229]
- Sothern’s Practical Joke, [227]
- Too mild, [224]
- Unwilling Willingness, [235]
- Venerable Joke, [232]
- Vicissim, [244]
- Virgil’s Æneid dissected, [239]
- Worse than Worst, [231]
- Wounded Amazon, [239]
- Yale’s Way, [226]
- Falsities and Fallacies, [383]
- Anglo-Saxon as a Race Term, [413]
- Bacon Humbug, [398]
- Burning of Rome, [411]
- Don’t give up the Ship, [388]
- False Ascription, [383]
- Finding of Moses, [386]
- Good Old Times, [393]
- Guillotin, [416]
- Historic Phrase Disputed, [387]
- L. E. L. assumes a Virtue, [410]
- Lentulus Letter, [384]
- Maelstrom, [388]
- Mummy Wheat, [413]
- Penn Treaty, [391]
- Pocahontas, [390]
- Scott’s Fabrications, [385]
- Shakespeare’s Defiance of Historical Fact, [394]
- Specific Gravity, [389]
- Stratford-on-Avon, [406]
- William Tell, [386]
- Famous Beauties, [567]
- Female Poisoners, [583]
- Finis Coronat Opus, [604]
- At Last, [612]
- Auld Lang Syne, [613]
- Avoidance, [623]
- Burial Places of Europe, [604]
- Death, [628]
- Faith, Hope and Love, [627]
- Goethe’s Last Words, [622]
- Guizot’s Confession of Faith, [620]
- Immortality, [619]
- Imperator Augustus, [624]
- In a Rose Garden, [614]
- Into the World and out, [626]
- Mary Stuart’s Prayer, [625]
- No Repairs, [627]
- Now I lay me, [615]
- Old Hickory’s Death-bed, [624]
- Patientia, [626]
- Patrick Henry’s Legacy, [622]
- Thanatopsis, [618]
- Thiers’s Faith, [622]
- First Things, [125]
- Anæsthesia, [132]
- Anno Domini, [143]
- Anthracite, [133]
- Auld Kirk, [140]
- Bank-notes, [143]
- Beer, [140]
- Billiards, [147]
- Boston “Merchantman”, [148]
- Boycott, [139]
- Cardinal’s Red Hat, [154]
- Cheap Postage, [147]
- Coffee, [146]
- College Papers, [129]
- Damnatus, [129]
- Dark Horse, [157]
- Degree of M.D., [150]
- Dollar, [149]
- Emblematic Eagle, [137]
- Equal Mark, [154]
- Erasure, [142]
- Eve’s Mirror, [145]
- First American Book, [128]
- First Blood of the Revolution, [125]
- First Christian Hymn, [152]
- First Duel in New England, [126]
- First Gold found in California, [158]
- First Marriage in American Colonies, [125]
- First Person cremated in America, [127]
- First Riddle, [138]
- First United States Bank, [165]
- Flag of the United States, [162]
- Gringo, [142]
- Honeymoon, [141]
- John Bull, [138]
- Machine Politics, [132]
- Marriage in Church, [149]
- Millions for Defence, [131]
- Mother Goose and Mary’s Lamb, [152]
- National Political Conventions, [163]
- Oldest Buildings, [126]
- Oldest Declaration, [143]
- Oldest Living Things, [166]
- Old Hickory, [137]
- Old Proverb, An, [155]
- Old-time Journalism, [127]
- Order of the Garter, [146]
- Petroleum, [134]
- Photography, [135]
- Pioneer Furrier, [128]
- Postage Stamps, [148]
- Punctuation, [144]
- Sleeping-cars, [144]
- Stereoscope, [156]
- Suspension Bridge, [130]
- Theatrical Deadhead, [148]
- Thimble, [142]
- Title of Reverend, [150]
- Umbrella, [153]
- Virginia Abolitionist, [130]
- Vivisection, [139]
- Flashes of Repartee, [247]
- Bearding the Lion, [257]
- Best for her, [254]
- Boomerang, A, [252]
- Condemned Jester, [261]
- Courteous Retort, [256]
- Date of Possession, [250]
- Decay’s Effacement, [253]
- Declined with Thanks, [256]
- Distinction with a Difference, [257]
- Divine Knowledge, [259]
- Each his Own Way, [251]
- Ecclesiastical Tit-for-tat, [254]
- Even Chances, [255]
- Fitting Answers, [247]
- Force and Argument, [260]
- Future Provision, [257]
- Hereditary Transmission, [247]
- Last Chance, [259]
- Left-handed Compliments, [248]
- Like Topsy, [249]
- Limitation of Authority, [248]
- Marjorie, [262]
- Marriage in Heaven, [260]
- Maternity, [250]
- Meeting an Emergency, [255]
- Nature’s Painting, [252]
- No Jury then and there, [251]
- Not beyond Reach, [248]
- Old Dominion, [250]
- Opposite Effects, [249]
- Quaint Reproof, [259]
- Quick-witted Damsel, [255]
- Relationship, [253]
- Sumner’s Legal Learning, [258]
- Walk vs. Conversation, [258]
- Woman’s Revenge, A, [254]
- Forecasts, [187]
- Hits of the Satirists, [299]
- American Eagle, [303]
- Bancroft as a Historian, [305]
- Battle Prayer, [299]
- Beaconsfield, [301]
- Burns’s Impromptu, [302]
- Carlyle as a Masquerader, [321]
- Compliments to Boswell, [305]
- Drama as an Instrumentality, [304]
- Forbidden Fruit, [305]
- Imitation of the Commentators, [317]
- Junius on the Duke of Bedford, [313]
- Lardner’s Mistaken Prediction, [306]
- Lawyers and Playwrights, [307]
- Pens dipped in Gall, [311]
- Plain Speaking, [310]
- Prince Regent, [303]
- Puffery Extraordinary, [301]
- Ruskin on the Bicycle, [316]
- Samuel Rogers, [312]
- Satire, [321]
- Serious Interruption, [316]
- Silly Newspaper Queries, [300]
- Stanhope, [310]
- Statesman as a Scientist, [306]
- Sylvan Reverie, [318]
- Thanks for Victory, [299]
- Wordsworth’s Horse, [318]
- Honeyed Phrase of Compliment, [550]
- Ideal Physical Proportions, [560]
- Legendary Lore, [417]
- Acadia, [441]
- Amulets and Talismans, [451]
- Chien d’Or, [446]
- Christmas Observances, [454]
- Circassian Legend, [437]
- Grouchy at Waterloo, [438]
- Ilium Fuit, [417]
- Iron Maiden, [432]
- Letter M, [430]
- Macaulay in Role of Pickpocket, [419]
- Marred Destiny, A, [417]
- Marseillaise, The, [434]
- Maximilian at Queretaro, [447]
- Minister’s Messenger, A, [420]
- Mystery of the Dauphin, [425]
- Robinson Crusoe, [418]
- Shakespeare and Burbage, [436]
- Sistine Madonna, [428]
- Thieves’ Market, [449]
- Tobacco in Diplomacy, [422]
- Value of Practical Knowledge, [433]
- What Language did Jesus speak?, [457]
- Wolfe at Quebec, [443]
- Mazes of Obscurity, [554]
- Miscellanea Curiosa, [197]
- Age of Niagara Falls, [204]
- Ant’s Habits, The, [213]
- As you read it, [208]
- Bismarck in the Language of the Spirits, [204]
- Bolingbroke’s Favorite Desk, [198]
- Bottled Tears, [207]
- Caroline Herschel’s Many Years, [214]
- Circumstantial Evidence, [209]
- City in Darkness, [217]
- Constitution of the Early Churches, [214]
- Cromwell’s Grace, [202]
- Distant World, A, [205]
- Flowering Dogwood, [199]
- Fourth of March, [198]
- Franklin’s Brown Coat, [211]
- Graffiti at Pompeii, [218]
- He couldn’t have shot him, [202]
- Hero Worship, [212]
- Home, Sweet Home, [215]
- Importance of Punctuation, [207]
- Itemized Bill, [220]
- Jack Sprat, [211]
- Latin Pronunciation, [221]
- Little Beggar’s Charity, [210]
- Long Name, A, [212]
- Loyalty to Prince, Disloyalty to Self, [197]
- Marriage in Undress, [216]
- Matter of Form, A, [206]
- None such, [213]
- Ocean Depths, [203]
- Offensiveness punished, [200]
- Pleasant Reading, [203]
- Powwow, [199]
- Premonitory Caution, [201]
- Prevention better than Cure, [222]
- Queer Parliamentary Enactment, [197]
- Quis Custodiet ipsos Custodes?, [213]
- Realism, [201]
- Ropes made of Women’s Hair, [200]
- Singular Expedient, [197]
- Sources of History, [212]
- Story of Witchcraft, [208]
- Superstition, [220]
- Sweet Auburn, [206]
- Tools of the Pyramid Builders, [205]
- Misquotation, [380]
- Missing the Point of the Jokes, [356]
- Our Historic Characters, [47]
- Our Language, [90]
- Alliterative Tribute to Swinburne, [101]
- Alphabet, The, [90]
- Alphabetical Fancies, [102]
- Americanisms, [92]
- Aspirate, The, [100]
- Changes in Pronunciation, [110]
- Collects, The, [107]
- Compressing the Alphabet, [101]
- Dream of a Spelling-Bee, [95]
- Either and Neither, [108]
- Guess, [123]
- If, [109]
- Index Expurgatorius, [112]
- Its, [107]
- Legal Verbosity, [106]
- Lingua Anglicana, [90]
- Longest Words, The, [95]
- Message from England, [123]
- Metaphorical Conceits, [118]
- Palindromes, [103]
- Perplexing Word, A, [98]
- Philological Contrarieties, [99]
- Phonetic Changes, [91]
- Power of Short Words, [105]
- Proper Names, [111]
- Rough, [108]
- Spelling Exercises, [93]
- Spelling Lesson, [94]
- Stilted Scientific Phraseology, [116]
- Trifles, [97]
- Verbal Conceits, [99]
- Vulcan, [101]
- Words that will not be put down, [110]
- Words Wrong, Pronunciation Right, [104]
- Our National Airs, [39]
- Our Wonderlands, [78]
- Parallel Passages, [462]
- Prototypes, [168]
- Ancestry, [172]
- Best Service, The, [171]
- Bill of Fare, [172]
- Chestnut, [175]
- Christmas-Tree, [184]
- Cinderella, [173]
- Crossing the Bar, [174]
- Expressive Phrase, [176]
- Figaro, [169]
- Fourth Estate, [174]
- Guilds of London, [180]
- Malaprops, The, [169]
- Mark Twain’s Plagiary, [171]
- Monteith, [182]
- Milton’s Indebtedness, [176]
- Ne Sutor, [174]
- Next to Godliness, [177]
- Overstrained Politeness, [177]
- Pen and Sword, [170]
- Platform, [186]
- Punchinello, [178]
- Rip Van Winkle, [182]
- Setting up to knock down, [180]
- Shallows and Deeps, [185]
- Standing Egg, [179]
- Shylock, [168]
- Workmen’s Strikes, [179]
- Stretches of Poetic License, [374]
- Toasts and Mottoes, [596]
- American Commonwealth, [597]
- Army, [598]
- Christian Charity, [601]
- City, [599]
- Erskine’s, [603]
- Flag of our Union, [598]
- Good-night, [603]
- Independence Day, [596]
- Law, [599]
- Medicine, [600]
- Modern Transportation, [602]
- Navy, [598]
- Our Country, [596]
- Our Dead, [603]
- Pilgrim Fathers, [596]
- President of the United States, [597]
- Press, [602]
- Pulpit, [599]
- Sexual Affinity, [601]
- Temperance, [602]
- Woman, [600]
- Voices from God’s Acre, [523]
- Alford, [524]
- André, [530]
- Arthur Winter, [538]
- Bayard Taylor, [543]
- Beust, [529]
- Bismarck, [546]
- Blue and Gray, [525]
- Booth, [524]
- Cheyne, [530]
- Condell and Heminge, [535]
- Corwin, [533]
- Croly, [523]
- Eleanor Gwyn, [533]
- George Eliot, [526]
- Grateful Memory, [544]
- Harriet Mill, [526]
- Harvard, [529]
- Hibernicism, [533]
- Horace, [523]
- Husbandman, [548]
- Huxley, [530]
- Indian Apostle, [531]
- In Mt. Auburn, [538]
- Johnson, [528]
- Keats, [543]
- Klaes, [534]
- Lady Mansel, [537]
- Little Ruth, [537]
- Longfellow and Brooks, [540]
- Palgrave, [540]
- Plato, [523]
- Prince Christian, [532]
- Queen Elizabeth, [527]
- Salvino Armato, [535]
- Santa Croce, [545]
- Scott, [527]
- Shakespeare’s Doctor, [536]
- Short Epitaphs, [544]
- Sir John Franklin, [542]
- Stevenson, [531]
- Webster, [524]
- Wit of the Epigrammatists, [496]
- Appropriate Petition, [503]
- Bacon and Shakespeare, [499]
- Bar Sinister, [512]
- Better Late than Never, [510]
- Bulwer Lytton, [501]
- Busy Bee, [513]
- Changed Conditions, [509]
- Communism, [513]
- Complimentary, [501]
- Contrast, [504]
- Crier, [502]
- Debtor and Creditor, [507]
- Distinction with a Difference, [509]
- Division of Labor, [504]
- Double Prize, [502]
- Dryness, [507]
- Ended in Smoke, [507]
- Expectancy, [503]
- Fitness, [500]
- Four Georges, [496]
- Four Kinds, [510]
- Friend in Need, [512]
- Gamester’s Marriage, [509]
- Gay with One Leg, [498]
- Ghosts, [509]
- Glen Urquhart, [511]
- Hic, Hæc, Hoc, [501]
- History, [499]
- Horse-Breaker and Gray Mare, [505]
- Huijgens, [508]
- Jenner’s Quacks, [498]
- Jowett, [496]
- Keenness of Edge, [503]
- Ladies, The, [497]
- Lis et Victoria Mutua, [505]
- Loud Snoring, [499]
- Mackintosh, [506]
- Never cut themselves, [498]
- None missing, [510]
- Not conclusive, [503]
- Not distinguishable, [512]
- Pretty Girl who lent a Candle, [511]
- Quodcunque Infundis Acescit, [511]
- Retaliation, [512]
- Revenons à nos Moutons, [504]
- Sarcastic, [497]
- Spirits, [513]
- Three Sportive Fishers, [508]
- Two Watering Places, [511]
- Washington, [506]
- War and Peace, [502]
- Welsh Poets, [500]
- Whewell, [496]
- Why no Last Will, [508]
- Winning Team, [513]
- Word-Twisting by the Punsters, [263]
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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
- Silently corrected obvious typographical errors and variations in spelling.
- Retained archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as printed.