---- Rewarded by a Mendicant, 257 Charlemagne, Clock presented to, 145 Charles I., Anecdote relative to, 174 ---- II., Privy Purse, Expenses of, 234 Cherry Tree, 458 Chess, in India, How it Originated, 305 Chieftain, Ancient Scottish, 500 Chilcott, the Giant, 71 Child, Test of Courage in a, 132 Children of Aged Parents, 319 China, Origin of the Great Wall of, 233 Chinese Dainties, 91 ---- Ivory Balls, 144 ---- Method of Fishing, 315 ---- Punishment of the Kang, 134 ---- Ladies, Small Feet of, 475 ---- Mirrors, 425 ---- School, 525 ---- Therapeutics, 369 Chocolate, Early use of, 52 Christmas Customs, Bygone, 14, 19 Christening, Novel Mode of Celebrating a, 393 Chronology of Remarkable Events, 218 Church of Donore, James II. and the, 557 Cigars, Extraordinary Fashion in, 274 Circumstance, a Curious, 430 ---- Extraordinary, 15 Cistern of Majolica Ware, 597 Clock at Hernhuth, Watchmen Imitating, 20 ---- Wonderful, 167 Clocks, Early, 171 Clonmacnois, Ruins of, 289 Coachmen of the Time of Charles II., 257 Cock Fighting at Schools, 219 Coffee, 153 Coffee and Tea, 122 Coffee-house in London, the First, 4 ---- Attractions in 1760, 41 Coin, The First, with Britannia on it, 468 Coinage, Variations in the, 650 Coincidences, some Curious, 434 Collars, Stone, Ancient, 665 Column at Cussi, 533 Comb, Curious Indian, 657