S. G. O.

Woodstown, N. J.

CONTENTS

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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]

QUEER QUESTIONS AND READY REPLIES.

1. What town in Vermont was taken by the Confederates during the late Civil War?

On the 19th of October, 1864, between twenty and thirty armed Confederates left Canada, entered St. Albans, Vermont, robbed the banks, stole horses and stores, fired and killed one man, wounded others, and returned to Canada. Thirteen were arrested Oct. 21, but they were discharged on account of some legal difficulty by Judge Coursol, Dec. 14. This raid caused great excitement in the United States; Gen. Dix proclaimed reprisals; volunteers were called out to defend the Canadian frontiers; but President Lincoln rescinded Dix’s proclamation in December. The raiders were all discharged March 30, 1865, and Secretary Seward gave up claim to their extradition in April.

2. What is a “left-handed” marriage?

A morganatic or left-handed marriage, as it is sometimes called, is a lower sort of matrimonial union, which, as a civil engagement, is completely binding, but fails to confer on the wife the title or fortune of her husband, and on the children the full status of legitimacy or right of succession. The members of the German princely houses have for centuries been in the practice of entering into marriages of this kind with their inferiors in rank. Out of this usage has gradually sprung a code of matrimonial law, by which the union of princes with persons of lower rank, in other than morganatic form, involves serious consequences, especially toward the lady. The penalty of death was actually enforced in the case of the beautiful and unfortunate Agnes Bernaur. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries a fashion began among the German princes of taking a morganatic wife in addition to one who enjoyed the complete matrimonial status,—Landgrave Philip of Hesse setting the example, with a very qualified disapprobation on the part of the leading reformers. An energetic attempt was made in the first half of the last century by Anton Ulrich, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, to upset the established practice, and to obtain for his morganatic wife the rank of duchess, and for her children the right of succession. The most recent morganatic marriage was that of the late Czar of Russia, Alexander II., to the Princess Dolgorouki, 1880.