The Queer, the Quaint and the Quizzical: A Cabinet for the Curious

by Frank H. Stauffer

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 Charles II., 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].
James IV. 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,

[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 head [176].
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 Charles II., [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,

[210].
Strange instance of sympathy, [241].
Strange legend, [229].
Strasburg, curious custom in, [59].
Stanching blood, [346].
Striking parallel passages, [32].
Watches, [89].
With nettles, [236].
Stomachs, hundred, [293].
Stones, alligators swallowing, [282].
Barometer, [157].
Black, of Mecca, [92].
Hell, [226].
Magic rain, [203].
Musical, [199].
Perforated, [328].
Salagrama, [334].
Sleeping on, [336].
Talismanic, in birds, [249].
Stork, [265].
Story of the dodo, [268].
Strychnia, bitterness of, [303].
St. Agnes eve, [234].
St. Anthony's fire, [179].
St. Cuthbert's beads, [193].
St. Fillan's bell, [119].
St. George's cavern, [165].
St. Helena coins, [328].
St. John's wort, [306].
St. Patrick's day, [234].
St. Sepulchre's bell, [121].
Stumbling unlucky, [311].
Stupid critic, [24].
Subscribers, inducements to, [34].
Subterranean Christmas bells, [120].
Sugar, whitening, [134].
Supernatural appearance at Holland House, [243].
Superscription to a letter, [70].
Superstitions, beard, [214].
Bees, [239].
Breton, [347].
Birds, (see birds).
Camel, [284].
Caul, [312].
Children, [345].
Coral and bells, [190].
Croaking of a raven, [250].
Death-watch, [330].
Cutting timber, [213].
Eggs, [274].
Geranium, [302].
Hidden treasure, [164].
House crickets, [330].
Letiche, [226].
Letter M, [161].
Lily, [311].
May dew, [231].
Moon, [168].
Number one, [323].
Number seven, [325].
Number six, [324].
Patagonian, [312].
Pin, [345].
Pontius Pilate, [149].
Rose of Jericho, [303].
Rose at midsummer, [307].
Rubbing with a gold ring, [341].
Satanic, [231].
Seventh son of the seventh son, [324].
Spilling salt, [336].
St. John's wort, [306].
Whistling, [247].
Wolf, [346].
Supposed to be a genuine island, [18].
Sundry rural charms, [331].
Sun, temple of the, [105].
Surnames, Puritan, [38].
Swearing on the book, [172].
Swift's Latin puns, [42].
Swallowed by an earthquake and thrown up again, [175].
Swallow drinks the king's health, [258].
Sword, executioner's, [101].
Symbol, physician's, [162].
Talismanic stones in birds, [249].
Talisman of Charlemagne, [91].
Smuggler's, [341].
Treacherous, [219].
Tankard, Martin Luther's, [94].
Tarring and feathering, antiquity of, [183].
Tavern screens, [71].
Tavern signs, primitive, [78].
Tea, eating, [208].
Temple of the sun, [105].
Museums, first, [107].
Tradition of the, [230].
Tenacity of odors, [202].
Tenacity of life in an elephant, [276].
Tenant, good, [209].
Thackeray's geographical blunders, [23].
Thirty years in blossoming, [305].
Thomas the Rhymer, [148].
Thorn, Glastonbury, [219].
Three borrowed days, [209].
Throwing an old shoe, [319].
Thunder and lightning, [323].
Time-piece, miniature, [88].
Time-piece, curious, [85].
Time, royal dinner, [318].
Timber, cutting by the moon, [213].
Tinkers, roving, [168].
Title pages which mislead, [31].
Toad-stone rings, [317].
Magpie, stoning a, [278].
Whipping, to produce rain, [349].
To disappoint his wife, [192].
Toilet, absurdities of the, [160].
Toilet box, Carara's, [100].
Tomb of Darius, [106].
Toppling flower pots, [62].
Too many watches, [89].
Toothache, preservative against, [338].
Tooth, golden, [226].
Tooth-picks, [60].
Tooth-picks, magnetic, [231].
Tortoises afraid of heat and rain, [288].
Touch, ordeal of, [310].
Traders, earliest, [197].
Tradition, Abysynnian, [213].
Artist, [213].
Temple, [230].
Trains in the fourteenth century, [158].
Treasure, fairy, [220].
Digging, [164].
Normandy, [201].
Treatment of lepers in England, [237].
Trees, oysters growing on, [301].
Planting in Java, [302].
Shirts growing on, [300].
Whistling, [301].
Trifoliated plants considered sacred, [304].
True-lover's knot, [187].
Trumpet, Kircher's speaking, [198].
Trying land titles in Hindostan, [163].
Tub, Diogenes and his, [27].
Turban in Arabia, [159].
Turkish superstition about the geranium, [302].
Twelfth-night omens, [244].
Twins in Africa, [197].
Twofold apparition, [244].
Twopence, drunk for, [66].
Tyrian purple, [139].
Unicorn's horn, [319].
Unique library, [13].

Unlucky, stumbling, [311].
The hinder well-spout, [247].
May marriages, [344].
Umbrellas, [185].
Vagaries of spelling, [33].
Value of a long Psalm, [210].
Vascillating newspapers, [22].
Vase, Portland, [93].
Vegetable fungus, [306].
Veneered diamonds, [141].
Veneration for the lily, [311].
Very long word, [178].
Vermin, exterminating, [327].
Verse, echo, [78].
Victory, cock-crowing an omen of, [319].
Vienne, Pontius Pilate at, [149].
Vinegar Bible, [11].
Virtue in the number seven, [325].
Vicious horses, curing, [211].
Visions of destiny, [342].
Vision, Captain Kidd's, [242].
Vocal clock, [83].
Voracity of the mole, [285].
Vow, Hindoo, singular, [231].
Vow, Queen's, [171].
Wager, curious, [184].
Bating for a, [184].
Grinning for a, [183].
Waggery, ancient bit of, [191].
Walking apothecary shop, [192].
Wall paper pattern, [176].
Wandering Jew, [145].
Warlike bantam, [201].
Washing but once in a lifetime, [317].
Wassailing the orchards, [235].
Watches, borrowing, [88].
Book-shaped, [87].
Cruciform, [88].
Death, [330].
Papers, [78].
Resurrection, [88].
Skull, [86].
Striking, [89].
Too many, [89].
Wearing two, [89].
Watchman imitating the clock at Hernhuth, [55].
Water, digging for, [346].
Water, Hungary, [141].
Waterloo medals, [212].
Weather rhymes, [127].
Weather, signs of foul, [129].
Wedding rings, [206].
Wedding rings, posies for, [52].
Welcoming the new moon, [240].
Wesley's plate, [107].
Westminster clock, [82].
Whalebone, [177].
Whims, alliterative, [21].
Whipping toads to produce rain, [349].
Whistling, sailors, [247].
Whistling trees, [301].
White elephants, [276].
Whitening sugar, [134].
White-breasted birds, [262].
Whittington and his cat, [153].
Why the cuckoo builds no nest, [256].
Why the magpie builds half a nest, [257].
Wierix's Bible, [9].
Wife, returned, [224].
Wife, to disappoint his, [192].
Will, eccentric, [59].
Will, John O'Gaunt's, [58].
William the Conqueror, [155].
Will-with-a-wisp, [313].
Wine at two millions a bottle, [194].
Winning a pair of gloves, [237].
Wisdom, mob, [173].
Witchcraft charms, [320].
Witch-ridden horses, [340].
Witch, weighing a, [328].
Wolf superstitions, [346].
Woman's cleverness, [221].
Wonderful automata, [104].
Clock, [83].
Exhibition with bees, [217].
Lock, [91].
Spider's web, [294].
Wren, [261].
Worms, book, [291].
Worshipful cranes, [263].
Yearly food of one man, [207].
Zoological cabinet, immense, [298].

[Transcribers note:
Minor punctuation and apparent printing errors have been corrected without note. Proper names and place names sometimes appear with unfamiliar spelling but have been left in their original form.
Hyphen usage has been standardised without note where a clear preference was found, although all quoted text was left as in the original.
The following is a list of changes made. The modified line is shown first and the original line is shown second.
Alliterative Whims. [21]
confounding the cockney warblers,
confounding the cockney wablers,
Puritan Surnames. [38]
Lower's English Surnames
Lower's English sirnames
Amusements of some Learned Men. [44]
Tycho Brahe polished glass for spectacles
Tycho Brake polished glass for spectacles
Antiquity of Riddles. [63]
and the most ingenious made riddles.
and the most ingenius made riddles.
African Rain-Doctors. [152]
of old cows; serpent skins and vertebræ, and every kind
of old cows; serpent skins and and vertebræ, and every kind
House of Hen's Feathers. [164]
to pass the night in this immense dormitory.
to pass the night in this immense dormitoy.
St. George's Cavern. [165]
of wormwood, and keep large fires burning to protect
of wormwood, and keep large fires burning to ptotect
Curious Locality for Saying Prayers. 1[69]
In ascending the lofty flight of
In ascending the lofty flght of
Queen Anne's Farthings. [177]
were designed by a German named Crocker or Croker,
were designed by a German name Crocker or Croker,
Eating for a Wager. [184]
worthy is to perform a Tryal of Skill on St. James's Day,
worthy is to preform a Tryal of Skill on St. James's Day,
Candle Clock. [196]
Candlel Cock.
Musical Sand. [200]
a singular sound is heard, which is first feeble, but may be
a singnlar sound is heard, which is first feeble, but may be
One Meal a Day. [206]
Dr. Fordyce contended that as one meal a day was enough
Dr. Fordyce contented that as one meal a day was enough
A Good Tenant. [209]
unequalled in the history of landlord and tenant.
uneqalled in the history of landlord and tenant.
Force of Imagination. [224]
strength, dressed himself, plunged his head into a basin of
strength, dressed himself, plunged is head into a basin of
Spirit of Dundee. [242]
in the Castle of Edinburgh, upon a strong suspicion of attachment
in the Castle of Edinburg, upon a strong suspicion of attachment
Assuming the Form of a Bird. [248]
"Mole" was unclear in the scan:
A wild song, sung by the boatmen of the Mole, in Venice,
An Old Pike. [297]
Mannheim, Germany, with the following announcement, in
Manheim, Germany, with the following announcement, in
to the museum at Mannheim, where it now hangs, a light, desiccated
to the museum at Manheim, where it now hangs, a light, desicated
Manna Marked with the Number Six. [324]
In the Cabala, the number six was considered to be one of
In the Calaba, the number six was considered to be one of
Virtue in the Number Seven. [325]
observing number 7 after
observing number ? after
A Smuggler's Talisman. [341]
Gaol, February, 1749—
Goal, February, 1749—
Sailors whistling, [247]. moved to alphabetical order in index.
This list shows potential changes. The unmodified line is shown first and the suggested line is shown second.
[Introductory poem] Intiquities_ and blunders
Iniquities and blunders
Temple of the Sun. [105]
edifice in the Persian empire
edifice in the Peruvian empire