Tenacity of life in an elephant, 276. Tenant, good, 209. Thackeray's geographical blunders, 23. Thirty years in blossoming, 305. Thomas the Rhymer, 148. Thorn, Glastonbury, 219. Three borrowed days, 209. Throwing an old shoe, 319. Thunder and lightning, 323. Time-piece, miniature, 88. Time-piece, curious, 85. Time, royal dinner, 318. Timber, cutting by the moon, 213. Tinkers, roving, 168. Title pages which mislead, 31. Toad-stone rings, 317. Magpie, stoning a, 278. Whipping, to produce rain, 349. To disappoint his wife, 192. Toilet, absurdities of the, 160. Toilet box, Carara's, 100. Tomb of Darius, 106. Toppling flower pots, 62. Too many watches, 89. Toothache, preservative against, 338. Tooth, golden, 226. Tooth-picks, 60. Tooth-picks, magnetic, 231. Tortoises afraid of heat and rain, 288. Touch, ordeal of, 310. Traders, earliest, 197. Tradition, Abysynnian, 213. Artist, 213. Temple, 230. Trains in the fourteenth century, 158. Treasure, fairy, 220. Digging, 164. Normandy, 201. Treatment of lepers in England, 237. Trees, oysters growing on, 301. Planting in Java, 302. Shirts growing on, 300. Whistling, 301. Trifoliated plants considered sacred, 304. True-lover's knot, 187. Trumpet, Kircher's speaking, 198. Trying land titles in Hindostan, 163. Tub, Diogenes and his, 27. Turban in Arabia, 159. Turkish superstition about the geranium, 302. Twelfth-night omens, 244. Twins in Africa, 197. Twofold apparition, 244. Twopence, drunk for, 66. Tyrian purple, 139. Unicorn's horn, 319. Unique library, 13. Unlucky, stumbling, 311. The hinder well-spout, 247. May marriages, 344. Umbrellas, 185. Vagaries of spelling, 33. Value of a long Psalm, 210. Vascillating newspapers, 22. Vase, Portland, 93. Vegetable fungus, 306. Veneered diamonds, 141. Veneration for the lily, 311. Very long word, 178. Vermin, exterminating, 327. Verse, echo, 78. Victory, cock-crowing an omen of, 319. Vienne, Pontius Pilate at, 149. Vinegar Bible, 11. Virtue in the number seven, 325. Vicious horses, curing, 211. Visions of destiny, 342. Vision, Captain Kidd's, 242. Vocal clock, 83. Voracity of the mole, 285. Vow, Hindoo, singular, 231. Vow, Queen's, 171. Wager, curious, 184. Bating for a, 184. Grinning for a, 183. Waggery, ancient bit of, 191. Walking apothecary shop, 192. Wall paper pattern, 176. Wandering Jew, 145. Warlike bantam, 201. Washing but once in a lifetime, 317. Wassailing the orchards, 235. Watches, borrowing, 88. Book-shaped, 87. Cruciform, 88. Death, 330. Papers, 78. Resurrection, 88. Skull, 86. Striking, 89. Too many, 89. Wearing two, 89. Watchman imitating the clock at Hernhuth, 55. Water, digging for, 346. Water, Hungary, 141.