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.