The Queer, the Quaint and the Quizzical: A Cabinet for the CuriousStauffer, Frank H.
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The Queer, the Quaint and the Quizzical: A Cabinet for the Curious
Stauffer, Frank H.
Literary curiosa
Curious epitaphs, 110.
Custom in Strasburg, 59.
Historical coincidence, 61.
Lantern, 100.
Law, 60.
Locality for saying prayers, 169.
Parallel, 80.
Play bill, 32.
Post-office, 76.
Old memorandum, 38.
Oranges, 304.
Time-piece, 85.
Signs in New York, 74.
Wagers, 184.
Curse of Scotland, 227.
Curse of innocent blood, 228.
Cuttle-fish, eyes of the, 290.
Customs, Hallow E'en, 232.
Cutting off the fiddler's head, 236.
Cutting timber by the moon, 213.
Cynocephalic apes, 278.
Dance, gipsy, 181.
Danger, animals forecasting, 282.
Dairus, tomb of, 106.
Day, first sale of the, 338.
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.
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