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
Long lost book recovered, 8.
Long psalm, value of a, 216.
Long-toed shoes, 209.
Looking back, 317.
Glass, in search of, 70.
For the head of the bed, 283.
Lord Bacon's dream, 246.
Lord Kingsborough's Mexico, 15.
Lotteries, 65.
Lottery, ancient, 64.
Lottery, cashing prizes, 63.
Lottery of women in India, 64.
Lost book, 13.
Lost in a fog, crows, 267.
Love birds, 271.
Charms, 314.
Handkerchiefs, 185.
Knot, true, 87.
Luck of Eden Hall, 101.
Of birthdays, 336.
Fisherman's, 335.
Lundyfoot's, 136.
Spitting for, 343.
Lucky find, 205.
Luminous human bodies, 178.
Luncheon, 210.
Luxury in 1652, 158.
Macduff's cross, 221.
Machinery, delicate, 86.
Magpie, 257.
Stoning a toad, 278.
Half a nest, 257.
Magnetic cures, 230.
Magic rain stone, 203.
Magnificent Latin Bible, 10.
Magnus, Albertus, recipes from, 74.
Mammoth bottle, 109.
Bell of Buddah, 119.
Feast, 181.
Pawnbroker's shop, 170.
Man carries his house on his head 176.
Man, yearly food of one, 207.
Manna marked with the number six, 324.
Manner of watchmen imitating the clock at Hernhuth, 55.
Manufacturing feat, 175.
Mark of the cross on the ass, 276.
Marriages, Gretna Green, 41.
Marriages in May unlucky, 344.
Martin Luther's tankard, 94.
Martyrs, blood of the, 338.
Martyrdom of Isaiah, 154.
May dew a cure for freckles, 231.
Mazarine Bible, 9.
Meal, one a day, 206.
Mecca, black stone of, 92.
Medallions only for the royal, 171.
Medical prescriptions, Chinese, 182.
Medicine, ancient practice of, 337.
Meerschaum pipe, first, 130.
Memnon, statue of, 103.
Memorandum, curious old, on the crucifixion of the Saviour, 38.
Menageries, phantom, 60.
Mexico, Lord Kingsborough's, 15.
Mezzotinting, 134.
Midsummer, rose at, 307.
Military salute, 75.
Minute mechanisms, 90.
Miniature time-piece, 88.
Missal, Bedford, 14.
Mixed moons, 338.
Mob wisdom, 173.
Moles (on the skin), 349.
Mole-skin eyebrows, 189.
Mole, voracity of the, 285.
Money, breaking a piece of, 314.
Monkish prayers, 180.
Monks, gluttony of the, 181.
Monks ordered to shave, 62.
Monkeys demanding their dead, 279.
Moons, mixed, 338.
Moon, cutting timber by the, 213.
Welcoming the new, 240.
Struck, 168.
Most curious book in the world, 7.
Motherly sacrifice of the gall insect, 294.
Mountain highway, 321.
Mouse ear, 305.
Moving gods, 167.
Mugwort, 305.
Mullet, colors in a dying, 298.
Mummies converted into paint, 174.
Museums, temples, the first, 107.
Muscles of the caterpillar, 292.
Muslins, fineness of India, 174.
Musical stones, 199.
Musical sand, 200.
Music, queer arctic, 174.
Mutilated Saint, efficacy in a, 216.
Mystic gifts, 327.
Name, simply on account of her, 240.
Nankeen, infamous, 75.
Napoleons and the letter M, 161.
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