Number one, superstitious notion of, 323. Seven, virtue in the, 325. Six, manna marked with the, 324.
Odd bill of repairs, 63. Mode of revenge, 287. Titles of old books, 29. Way to discover a dead body, 334.
Omens, cock-crowing, 319. Picture, 245. Poetry of, 329. Reckless disregard of, 247. Twelfth-night, 244.
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.
Paint, not divine until smeared with, 169.
Parallel passages between Shakespeare and the Bible, 32.
Passage through the Isthmus of Panama suggested three hundred years ago, 52.
Physicians, Egyptian, 169. Gold-headed canes for, 207. Symbol, 162.
Plague, red tape a protection against, 339.
Prayers, curious locality for saying, 169.
Queer arctic music, 174. Evidence of divinity, 182. Legend about fish, 296. Place to secrete a diamond, 222.
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.
Remarkable events, chronological table of, 47.
Rhymes, accidental, 43. Dialect, 26. In search of, 26. Old weather, 127. Foul weather, 129.
Richelieu, copy of a letter written by, 51.
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.
Roasting a black hen's heart at midnight, 267.
Rollers, discovery of composition for, 133.
Roses, attar of, 215. Jericho, 303. Midsummer, 307.
Rules, household, in the sixteenth century, 56.
Saturday a fatal day to the royal family of England, 57.
Shoes, horse, 314. Rights and lefts, 216. Origin of long-toed, 209. Throwing an old, 319.
Singular burial customs, 236. Coincidence, 71. Hindoo vow, 231. Provision against famine, 283. Specimen of orthography, 34.
Skull, buffalo's, 322. Pope's, 211. Watches, 86.
Striking parallel passages, 32. Watches, 89. With nettles, 236.
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.