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
Immense zoological cabinet, 298.
Incredible liars, 223.
India, library of the king of, 19.
India, muslins, fineness of, 174.
Indian Bible, Eliot's, 12.
Inducements to subscribers, 34.
Infamous nankeen, 75.
Ingenuity, literary, 18.
Injury, adding insult to, 179.
Ink, river of, 200.
Innate appetite, 290.
Innocent blood, curse of, 228.
Inordinate self-esteem, 76.
Inscriptions on bells, 122.
In search of a looking glass, 70.
In search of a rhyme, 26.
Insects, phosphorescent, 292.
Instance of remarkable perseverance, 21.
Instance of sympathy, strange, 241.
Interesting manuscript Bible, 10.
Introducing a soul into a bird, 249.
Inventor, legend of, 228.
Inventors, how the ancients rewarded, 143.
Iron crown of Lombardy, 99.
Isabella color, 138.
Island, supposed to be a genuine, 18.
Isaiah, martyrdom of, 154.
Isthmus of Panama suggested three hundred years ago, 52.
Japan, children's day in, 195.
Java, leaf-butterfly of, 290.
Java, tree-planting in, 302.
Jericho, rose of, 303.
Jersey, bells of, 120.
Jew, wandering, 145.
John O'Gaunt's will, 58.
Judas Iscariot, legend of, 151.
Judy, Punch and, in 1669, 77.
Jumping jack, 185.
Jump of a flea, 291.
Kant's eccentricity, 44.
Kicked by a camel, 281.
Killing a robin, 254.
King, fine for insulting a, 187.
Fisher, 264.
Healing by the, 232.
Of India's library, 19.
King's cock-crower, 188.
King's health, a swallow drinks the, 258.
Kircher's speaking trumpet, 198.
Kissed while asleep, 237.
Kneeling statue of Atlas, 109.
Knives, grace, 108.
Knotted tails, cats with, 287.
Knot, true-lover's, 187.
Koran, huge copy of the, 12.
Ladies, feathers for the, 176.
Lantern, curious, 100.
Lark, honoring the, 252.
Lathe, oval, 131.
Latin Bible, magnificent, 10.
Lawyer, astonished, 70.
Law, curious, 60.
Lead pencils, no lead in, 177.
Leaf-butterfly of Java, 290.
Led by a gander, 267.
Legend, fish, 296.
Inventor, 228.
Judas Iscariot, 151.
Pontius Pilate, 149.
Strange, 229.
Wandering Jew, 145.
Lepers in England, treatment of, 237.
Letiche, 226.
Letters, gold, printed in, 10.
Letter M and the Napoleons, 161.
Letters, oddly addressed, 43.
Letter, superscription to a, 70.
Liars, incredible, 223.
Library, King of India's, 19.
Library, unique, 13.
Life in death, 225.
In the elephant, 276.
Time, washing but once in a, 317.
Light from potatoes, 178.
Lightning prints, 72.
Lightning, thunder and, 323.
Lilly's predictions, 36.
Lily, belladonna, 305.
Lily, veneration for the, 311.
Limb, first artificial, 198.
Lincoln, accidental rhymes of, 43.
Lincoln, Great Tom of, 118.
Lion, re-tailing a, 277.
Literary ingenuity, 18.
Locality, strange, for saying prayers, 169.
Lock, wonderful, 91.
Lock, hundred families', 188.
Lombardy, iron crown of, 99.
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