Army of women, Page 294.
Beer-casks, capacious, 269.
Black hole at Calcutta, 276.
Broken heart, a, 311.
Chick in the egg, 259.
Cloth-manufacture, celerity of, 264.
Colors, diversity of, 290.
Crown of England, 294.
Crude value vs. industrial value,
265.
Devonshire superstition, 319.
Diameter to circumference, ratio
of, 280.
Equestrian expeditions, remark-
able, 262.
Facial expressions, 310.
Fear, effects of, 309.
Feline clocks, 318.
Heaven, dimensions of, 283.
Horse, wonderful, 263.
Indian and his tamed snake, 260.
Innate appetite, 260.
Kaleidoscope, changes of, 289.
Lock, wonderful, 264.
Lofty structures, 270.
Longevity, instances of remark-
able, 295.
Mathematical prodigies, 281.
Memory, extraordinary, 282.
Minute mechanism, 279.
Noah's ark and the Leviathan, 290.
Number nine, 289.
Opium and East Indian hemp, 305.
Painters, blunders of, 278.
Presidents, facts about the, 293.
Ptolemy's mirror, 272.
Quantity and value, 265.
Rocking stones, 274.
Romans, immense wealth of the, 267.
Salt as a luxury, 277.
Sensation and intelligence after de-
capitation, 313.
Sheep, habits of, Page 261.
Skull that had a tongue, 319.
Sleep, facts about, 300.
Solomon's temple, cost of, 283.
Stone barometer, 277.
Strychnia, bitterness of, 277.
Sympathy, strange instance of, 317.
Taste, singular change of, 278.
Walking blindfolded, 317.
Wine at two millions a bottle, 269.
MONOSYLLABLES, 70.
MOSLEM WISDOM, 310.
Alexandrian library, the, 342.
Mohammedan logic, 342.
Shrewd decision of Ali, 340.
Wisdom of Ali, 341.
NAME OF GOD, THE, 95.
Orthography, 95.
ORIGIN OF THINGS FAMILIAR,-
Mind your P's and Q's, Page 195.
News, 228.
Nine tailors make a man, 210.
Old Hundred, 213.
Over the left, 203.
Paletot, the, 209.
Pasquinades, 205.
Postpaid envelopes, 213.
Potato, the, 207.
Royal saying, 204.
Signature of the cross, 212.
Stockings, 208.
Sub rosa, 202.
Tarring and feathering, 208.
Turkish crescent, 212.
Uncle Sam, 221.
Various inventions and customs,
Yankee Doodle, 217.
O. S. and N. S., 191.
PALINDROMES. 42.
PARALLEL PASSAGES, 427.
PARONOMASIA, 116.
Ben, the carpenter, 122.
Book-larceny, 124.
Classical puns and mottoes, 130.
Epitaph on an old horse, 125.
From Holmes's Modest Request, 122.
Grand scheme of emigration, 126.
March to Moscow, the, 137.
Miss-nomers, the, 136.
Old joke versified, 121.
Plaint of the old pauper, 123.
Printer's epitaph, 121.
Pungent chapter, 118.
Sheridan's compliment, 122.
Short road to wealth, 120.
Sonnet, 127.
Women, 122.
Jeu de Mots, 131.
Anagrammatic, 131.
Iterative, 131.
Bees of the Bible, 135.
Catalectic monody, 133.
Fair letter, 132.
Franklin's Re's, 135.
November, 134.
On the death of Kildare, 133.
Schott and Willing, 133.
Swarm of Bees, 135.
Turn to the left, 133.
Write written right, 133.
Spiritual, 131.
PERSIAN POETRY, EXCERPTA FROM, 343.
Beauty's prerogative, 343.
Broken hearts, 343.
Caliph and Satan, 345.
Double plot, 345.
Earth an illusion, 343.
Folly for one's self, 344.
Fortune and worth, 343.
From Mirtsa Schaffy, 344.
Generous man, to a, 343.
Heaven an echo of earth, 343.
Impossibility, the, 344.
Moral atmosphere, a, 343.
Proud humility, 344.
Sober drunkenness, 344.
Wine-drinker's metaphors, 344.
World's unappreciation, the, 345.
PROSE POETRY, 156.
Cowper's letter to Newton, 156.
Example in Irving's New York, 157.
PROTOTYPES, 450.
Falls of Lanark, 450.
Franklin, Turgot's epigraph on, 451.
Know-Nothings, the, 453.
Mecklenburg Declaration of Inde-
pendence, 452.
Similes, 113.
Surnames, 112.
PUZZLES, 172.
Bonapartean cypher, 174.
Book of riddles, 181.
Cares, caress, 176.
Case for the lawyers, 175.
Chinese tea-song, 180.
Cowper's riddle, 176.
Death and life, 180.
Galileo's logograph, 179.
Nothing, 181.
Number of the beast, 179.
Persian riddles, 180.
Prophetic distich, 178.
Quincy's comparison, 177.
Rebus, the, 181.
Bacon motto, 181.
French, 173.
Singular intermarriages, 178.
Watch-word, 176.
SEXES, THE, 335.
Female society, 339.
Happy woman, character of, 336.
Parallel of the sexes, 339.
Praise of women, 338.
Wife,-mistress,-lady, 339.
TALL WRITING, Page 147.
Borde's prologue, 150.
Burlesque of Dr. Johnson's style,
Chemical valentine, 155.
Clear as mud, 153.
Domicile erected by John, 147.
Foote's farrago, 151.
From the Curiosities of Advertising,
148.
From the Curiosities of the Post-
office, 149.
Indignant letter, 154.
Intramural æstivation, 155.
Mad poet, the, 151.
Newspaper eulogy, 153.
Spanish play-bill, 150.
Transcendentalism, definition of,
TRIUMPHS OF Ingenuity, 246.
Choosing a king, 255.
Discovery of the planet Neptune,
251.
Examples of perseverance, 246.
King John and the abbot, 256.
Lesson worth learning, 255.
Stratagem of Columbus, 252.
WEATHER-WISDOM, 183.
Davy on weather-omens, 183.
Sheridan's rhyming calendar, 183.
Signs of the weather, 186.
Unlucky days, 190.
LIPOGRAMMATA AND PANGRAMMATA.
Turpe est difficiles habere nugas
Et stultus labor est ineptiarum.-MARTIAL.
('Tis a folly to sweat o'er a difficult trifle,
And for silly devices invention to rifle.)
IN No. 59 of the Spectator, Addison, descanting on the dif ferent species of false wit, observes, "The first I shall produce are the Lipogrammatists, or letter-droppers of antiquity, that would take an exception, without any reason, against some particular letter in the alphabet, so as not to admit it once in a whole poem. One Tryphiodorus was a great master in this kind of writing. He composed an Odyssey, or Epic Poem, on the adventures of Ulysses, consisting of four-and-twenty books, having entirely banished the letter A from his first book, which was called Alpha, (as lucus a non lucendo,) because there was not an alpha in it. His second book was inscribed Beta, for the same reason. In short, the poet excluded the whole fourand-twenty letters in their turns, and showed them that he could do his business without them. It must have been very pleasant to have seen this Poet avoiding the reprobate letter as much as another would a false quantity, and making his escape from it, through the different Greek dialects, when he was presented with it in any particular syllable; for the most apt and elegant word in the whole language was rejected, like a dia
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