The Queer, the Quaint and the Quizzical: A Cabinet for the Curious
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Reproduction of the original: The Queer, the Quaint and the Quizzical by Frank H. Stauffer
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- THE QUEER, THE QUAINT AND THE QUIZZICAL A CABINET FOR THE CURIOUS
- Introduction.
- Books with Unpronounceable Names.
- Most Curious Book in the World.
- A Long Lost Book Recovered.
- The Bug Bible.
- Illuminated Manuscript Bible.
- The Mazarine Bible.
- A Book without Words.
- Wierix's Bible.
- Gilt Beards.
- Printed in Gold Letters.
- Magnificent Latin Bible.
- Interesting Manuscript Bibles.
- The Vinegar Bible.
- Queen Elizabeth's "Oone Gospell Booke."
- Eliot's Indian Bible.
- Silver Book.
- Huge Copy of the Koran.
- A Lost Book.
- Book of Riddles.
- Unique Library.
- The New England Primer.
- The Bedford Missal.
- Lord Kingsborough's Mexico.
- Imperishable Prison Literature.
- Puffing their own Books.
- Sibylline Books.
- Prophetic Almanacs.
- Diaries.
- Literary Ingenuity.
- Supposed to be a Genuine Island.
- King of India's Library.
- Palindromes.
- Chronogram.
- Instance of Remarkable Perseverance.
- Alliterative Whims.
- Alliterations carried to Absurd Excess.
- Vacillating Newspapers.
- Dr. Johnson's Blunders.
- Blunders of Painters.
- Thackeray's Geographical Blunders.
- A Stupid Critic.
- Crooked Coincidences.
- The Bride of Abydos.
- Grandiloquent Outbursts.
- Dialect Rhyme.
- In Search of a Rhyme.
- Noted Anachronisms.
- Diogenes and his Tub.
- Slave Advertisements.
- Sir John Moore not Buried at Night.
- Cleopatra a Myth.
- Abelard and Heloise.
- Odd Titles of Old Books.
- Title-Pages which Mislead.
- A Carmelite Friar's Poem.
- Striking Parallel Passages between Shakspeare and the Bible.
- Curious Play Bill.
- Boone's Spelling.
- Vagaries of Spelling.
- Singular Specimen of Orthography in the Sixteenth Century.
- High-Sounding Prologue.
- Inducements to Subscribers.
- Composition During Sleep.
- A Bill of Particulars.
- Lilly's Predictions.
- Puritan Surnames.
- Curious Old Memorandum.
- Double-Entendre.
- Changes of Signification.
- Don Quixote's Sheep.
- The Oldest Ballad.
- Two Certificates of Gretna-Green Marriages.
- Swift's Latin Puns.
- Rhyming Charter.
- Cæsar's Wife must be above Suspicion.
- Oddly Addressed Letters.
- Amusements of some Learned Men.
- Kant's Eccentricity.
- Death Warrant of the Saviour.
- Quaint Recipes.
- Chronological Table of Remarkable Events.
- Hymn in the Form of a Cross.
- Curious Piece of Antiquity, on the Crucifixion of our Saviour and the two Thieves.
- Copy of a Letter written by Cardinal Richelieu to the French Ambassador at Rome.
- Passage through the Isthmus of Panama, Suggested Three Hundred Years Ago.
- A False Conclusion.
- Posies from Wedding Rings.
- Private Expenses of Charles II.
- First Brick House in Philadelphia.
- The Pillory in Philadelphia.
- One Hundred Years too Soon.
- The Manner of Watchmen Imitating the Clock at Herrnhuth, in Germany.
- Household Rules in the Sixteenth Century.
- Hindoo Oaths.
- Saturday a Fatal Day to the Royal Family of England.
- Edicts Against Fiddlers.
- John O'Gaunt's Will.
- Eccentric Will.
- Curious Custom at Strasbourg.
- Tooth-Picks.
- Phantom Menageries.
- Curious Law.
- Curious Historical Coincidence.
- Born within the Sound of Bow Bells.
- Refreshments for the Pulpit.
- Birthdays.
- Toppling Flower Pots.
- Electioneering in 1640.
- Monks Ordered to Shave.
- Odd Bill for Repairs.
- Antiquity of Riddles.
- Cashing Lottery Prizes.
- Lottery for Women in India.
- Ancient Lottery.
- Child Played For.
- Lotteries.
- Babes in the Wood.
- A Little Bird Told Me.
- Dead Drunk for Twopence.
- How the Prophecy of the Destruction of Bath came About.
- Drop-Letter Retort.
- Dean Swift's Marriage Ceremony.
- Pious Guide-Posts.
- A Bogus Dragon.
- Donation to a Fair.
- Confectionery Decorations.
- Superscription to a Letter.
- In Search of a Looking-Glass.
- Bleeding for Nothing.
- An Astonished Lawyer.
- Duels Fought by Clergymen.
- A Singular Coincidence.
- Tavern Screens.
- Ancient Antipathy to Red Hair.
- Lightning-Prints.
- No Buttons but Brass Buttons.
- Curious Signs in New York.
- Recipes from Albertus Magnus.
- Infamous Nankeen.
- The Military Salute.
- Book-keeping in Norway.
- Curious Post-Office.
- Inordinate Self-Esteem.
- He's a Brick.
- Punch and Judy in 1669.
- Offending Barbers.
- Primitive Tavern Signs.
- Watch-Papers.
- Echo Verse.
- Signature of the Cross.
- Simply on Account of her Name.
- Richelieu's Boast.
- Curious Parallel.
- Earliest Clocks.
- Famous Astronomical Clock.
- Clock that Strikes Thirteen.
- Westminster Clock.
- Wonderful Clock.
- Vocal Clock.
- Harrison's Clock.
- A Cat-Clock.
- Curious Time-Piece.
- Clock Presented to Charlemagne.
- Delicate Machinery.
- Ancient Dials.
- Skull Watches.
- Book-Shaped Watch.
- Cruciform Watch.
- Miniature Time-Piece.
- Resurrection Watch.
- Borrowing Watches.
- Striking Watches.
- Too Many Watches.
- Wearing Two Watches.
- Minute Mechanisms.
- Wonderful Lock.
- Roman Stamp.
- Talisman of Charlemagne.
- The Black Stone at Mecca.
- The Portland Vase.
- Martin Luther's Tankard.
- Brass Medal of the Saviour.
- Friar Bacon's Brazen Head.
- Crucifix of Columbus.
- Scipio's Shield.
- Horn of Oldenburg.
- Nebuchadnezzar's Golden Mask.
- Iron Crown of Lombardy.
- The Sacro Catino.
- Curious Lantern.
- Carrara's Toilet Box.
- Executioner's Sword.
- Luck of Eden-hall.
- Bernini's Bust of Charles I.
- Burn's Snuff-box.
- Statue of Memnon.
- The Head of Orpheus.
- Wonderful Automata.
- Temple of the Sun.
- Tomb of Darius.
- Temples the First Museums.
- Wesley's Plate.
- Grace Knives.
- Religious Relics.
- Mammoth Bottle.
- A Drinking Glass a Yard Long.
- Kneeling Statue of Atlas.
- The Druid's Seat.
- Curious Epitaphs.
- Great Tom of Lincoln.
- Mammoth Bell of Buddah.
- Great Bell of Rouen.
- St. Fillan's Bell.
- The Bells of Jersey.
- Subterranean Christmas Bells.
- St. Sepulchre's Bell.
- The Passing Bell.
- Bell-ringing in Holland.
- Babes of Bethlehem.
- Ringing the Changes.
- Bell Inscriptions.
- Old Weather Rhymes.
- Signs of Foul Weather.
- First Meerschaum Pipe.
- The First Oval Lathe.
- Porcelain.
- Origin of Blue-tinted Paper.
- Following His Nose.
- Discovery of Composition for Printing-Rollers.
- Mezzotinting.
- Whitening Sugar.
- Discovery of Glass.
- Essence of Pearl.
- Diminutive Note Paper.
- Etching upon Glass.
- Lundyfoot's Luck.
- Citric Acid.
- A Half-Starved Tramp.
- Fiddling to some Purpose.
- German Silver.
- Isabella Color.
- Parisian Scarlet.
- Tyrian Purple.
- Odor of Patchouli.
- Veneered Diamonds.
- Hungary Water.
- Cork Jackets.
- Nothing New under the Sun.
- How the Ancients Rewarded Inventors.
- Deutsche Luft.
- The Great Hero of the Bretons.
- The Wandering Jew.
- The Pyed Piper.
- Thomas, the Rhymer.
- Pontius Pilate at Vienne.
- The Sea-woman of Haarlem.
- Legends of Judas Iscariot.
- Blue Beard.
- African Rain-Doctors.
- Whittington and his Cat.
- Head of James IV. of Scotland.
- Discovery of the Body of Canute the Great.
- Martyrdom of Isaiah.
- Courtship of William the Conqueror.
- Court Fools.
- A Cunning Astrologer.
- Stone Barometer.
- Crinoline in 1744.
- Pagoda-shaped Head-dresses.
- Preserved in Salt.
- Luxury in 1562.
- Trains in the Fourteenth Century.
- Foppery in Eminent Men.
- The Turban in Arabia.
- Queen Elizabeth's Dresses.
- Absurdities of the Toilet.
- Gambling for Fingers.
- Pigmies.
- The Letter "M" and the Napoleons.
- The Physician's Symbol.
- Chinese Giants.
- Trying Land Titles in Hindostan.
- An Asylum for Destitute Cats.
- Treasure Digging.
- House of Hen's Feathers.
- St. George's Cavern.
- Remarkable Echoes.
- Moving Gods.
- Roving Tinkers.
- The Freischutz.
- Moon-struck.
- Curious Locality for Saying Prayers.
- Egyptian Physicians.
- Not Divine until Smeared with Red Paint.
- Gipsy Reticence.
- Carrying Coals to Newcastle.
- Mammoth Pawnbroker's Shop.
- Half-Penny and Farthing.
- An Egg Mistaken for a Pearl.
- Spacious Halls.
- Medallions only for the Royal.
- The Queen's Vow.
- Swearing on the Book.
- Chinese Oath.
- Color of the Hat for Cardinals.
- Cat-Concert.
- Mob Wisdom.
- Queer Arctic Music.
- Fineness of Indian Muslins.
- Mummies Converted into Paint.
- Swallowed by an Earthquake and Thrown out Again.
- Scripture Prices.
- Manufacturing Feat.
- Wall Paper Pattern.
- Feathers for the Ladies.
- A Man Carries his House on his Head.
- Queen Anne's Farthings.
- No Lead in Lead Pencils.
- Whalebone.
- Light from Potatoes.
- A Very Long Word.
- Cobblers' Stalls in Rome.
- Luminous Human Bodies.
- Sacred Anchors.
- Anne Boleyn's Gloves.
- Adding Insult to Injury.
- St. Anthony's Fire.
- Before Houses were Numbered.
- Monkish Prayers.
- A Mammoth Feast.
- Gluttony of the Monks.
- Ancient Smokers.
- Gipsy Dance.
- Chinese Medical Prescriptions.
- Queer Evidence of Divinity.
- Picnics Centuries Ago.
- Skeletons at Feasts.
- Hair Cutting in Russia.
- Antiquity of Tarring and Feathering.
- Grinning for a Wager.
- Eating for a Wager.
- Curious Wagers.
- The Jumping Jack.
- Love-handkerchiefs.
- Umbrellas.
- Fashionable Disfigurement.
- Fine for Insulting a King.
- True-Lovers' Knots.
- Hundred Families' Lock.
- The King's Cock-crower.
- Mourning Robes.
- Mole-skin Eyebrows.
- Praying for Revenge.
- Selling Snails.
- Coral and Bells.
- Bagging his Rival.
- Deepened Damnation.
- Ancient Bit of Waggery.
- A Walking Apothecary Shop.
- To Disappoint his Wife.
- Boots an Object of Honor.
- St. Cuthbert's Beads.
- Eating Animals that have Died a Natural Death.
- Embalmed in Honey.
- Perfumed Butter.
- Wine at Two Millions a Bottle.
- Opal of Nonius.
- Children's Day in Japan.
- Cock-Fighting among the Ancient Greeks.
- Colors Most Frequently Hit in Battle.
- Immense Value Placed upon Gems by the Ancients.
- Candle Clock.
- Twins in Africa.
- Right and Left Hand.
- Earliest Traders.
- The First Hermits.
- The First Opera.
- The First Artificial Limb.
- Kircher's Speaking-Trumpet.
- Fish Market at Scarborough.
- Few Fish Found at Sea.
- Musical Stones.
- Musical Sand.
- A River of Ink.
- A Warlike Bantam.
- Oyster-dredging Chaunt.
- Normandy Treasures.
- Tenacity of Odors.
- Antiquity of Acrobatic Figures.
- Saffron as a Perfume.
- Spontaneous Combustion.
- Egyptian Perfumes.
- Magic Rain Stone.
- Decapitation by the Guillotine.
- Chateaubrun's Escape from the Guillotine.
- A Lucky Find.
- Paradise of Old Hats.
- Wedding-Rings.
- The Prince of Charlatans.
- One Meal a Day.
- Gold-headed Canes for Physicians.
- Yearly Food of one Man.
- Eating Tea.
- Human Hair.
- Durability of Bricks.
- Origin of Long-toed Shoes.
- A Good Tenant.
- Three Borrowed Days.
- Luncheon.
- Value of a Long Psalm.
- Barbers' Basins.
- Strained Politeness.
- Can a Clergyman Marry Himself?
- Novel Way of Curing Vicious Horses.
- Pope's Skull.
- Pawning Bibles and Waterloo Medals.
- A Drum made of Human Skin.
- Groaning Boards.
- Abyssinian Tradition.
- Cutting Timber by the Moon.
- An Artist Tradition.
- Born of a Peri.
- A Regal Hunting Party.
- Care of the Beard.
- A Royal Sportsman.
- Origin of Attar of Roses.
- Effect of a New Nose.
- Cader Idris Couch.
- Rights and Lefts.
- Efficacy in a Mutilated Saint.
- Feasts at Coronations.
- A Baker's Dozen.
- Wonderful Exhibition with Bees.
- A Treacherous Talisman.
- The Cavern Chapel.
- Glastonbury Thorn.
- Buying and Selling.
- Fairy Treasure.
- Hour Glasses in Coffins.
- Macduff's Cross.
- Woman's Cleverness.
- Queer Place to Secrete a Diamond.
- Incredible Liars.
- Force of Imagination.
- A Wife Returned.
- Life in Death.
- Remedy for Bad Dreams.
- The Letiche.
- Hell-stones.
- The Golden Tooth.
- The Devil Regarded as a Benefactor of the Human Race.
- Curse of Scotland.
- Curse of Innocent Blood.
- Legend of an Inventor.
- A Strange Legend.
- Abraham and Sarah.
- Tradition of the Temple.
- Magnetic Cures.
- May Dew a Cure for Freckles.
- Singular Hindoo Vow.
- Satanic Superstitions.
- Healing by the King.
- Hallow E'en Customs.
- St. Agnes' Eve.
- St. Patrick's Birthday.
- Wassailing the Orchards.
- Cutting Off the Fiddler's Head.
- Striking with Nettles.
- Singular Burial Customs.
- Treatment of Lepers in England.
- Kissed while Asleep.
- How the Chinese Secure a Pastor.
- Easter-Box.
- Antipathies.
- Superstitions Respecting Bees.
- Welcoming the New Moon.
- The Bodach Glas.
- Strange Instance of Sympathy.
- Double Apparition.
- Spirit of Dundee.
- Captain Kidd's Vision.
- Sir Henry Wotton's Strange Dream.
- Supernatural Appearance at Holland House.
- Old Grimaldi's Death.
- Twelfth-night Omens.
- Twofold Apparition.
- Dr. Donne's Apparition.
- Picture Omens.
- Felling Oaks.
- Lord Bacon's Dream.
- Reckless Disregard of Omens.
- Sailors' Whistling.
- The Hinder Well-spout Unlucky.
- Assuming the Form of a Bird.
- Talismanic Stones in Birds.
- Birds Prognosticating Death.
- The Crossbill.
- The Ostrich.
- Honoring the Lark.
- The Nightingale.
- The Blackbird originally White.
- The Dove.
- Killing a Robin.
- The Cuckoo.
- Why the Cuckoo Builds no Nest.
- The Magpie.
- Why the Magpie Builds but Half a Nest.
- A Swallow Drinks the King's Health.
- Birds of Paradise.
- The Owl.
- The Phœnix.
- The Wren.
- White-breasted Birds.
- The Penguin's Solitary Egg.
- The Crocodile Plover.
- Peacocks' Crests.
- Worshipful Cranes.
- The Great Auk.
- The Kingfisher.
- The Albatross.
- The Stork.
- Cocks and Hens.
- Led by a Gander.
- Crows Lost in a Fog.
- The Peacock at Home.
- Story of the Dodo.
- An Old Gander.
- Chaffinch Contest.
- The Fabulous Roc.
- Fable of the Pelican.
- Night Owls.
- Imprisoned During Incubation.
- Love-Birds.
- Penguin Breeding Grounds.
- The Ear of Birds not to be Deceived.
- A Bird Hammock.
- Sagacity of a Bird.
- Change of Sight in Birds.
- Nest of the Flamingo.
- Barking of Dogs.
- Superstitions about Eggs.
- The Camel as a Scape-Goat.
- The Mark of the Cross on the Ass.
- White Elephants.
- Tenacity of Life in an Elephant.
- Ears of the Elephant.
- A Shaved Bear.
- Retailing a Lion.
- Magpie Stoning a Toad.
- Cynocephalic Apes.
- Monkeys Demanding their Dead.
- Can Dogs Count?
- Can Hens Count?
- How Rats and Mice use their Tails.
- Kicked by a Camel.
- Crocodiles of the Nile.
- Alligators Swallowing Stones.
- Animals Forecasting Danger.
- Singular Provision against Famine.
- Looking for the Head of the Bed.
- Getting Himself Outside of his Dinner.
- Superstition about the Camel.
- Pedigree of Arabian Horses.
- Voracity of the Mole.
- Cat Worship.
- Horses Feeding one Another.
- Odd Mode of Revenge.
- Cats with Knotted Tails.
- Tortoises Afraid of Heat and Rain.
- Pea Crabs.
- Extraordinary Muscular Strength of the Bat.
- Great Digestive Powers.
- The Earwig.
- Eyes of the Cuttle-Fish.
- Innate Appetite.
- Leaf-Butterfly of Java.
- The Jump of a Flea.
- Book-Worms.
- Spider Barometers.
- Muscles of the Caterpillar.
- A Persistent Fly.
- Phosphorescent Insects.
- Eating Clouds.
- A Hundred Stomachs.
- Motherly Sacrifice by the Gall Insect.
- Wonderful Spider's Web.
- Horrible Mode of Assassination.
- Fighting Fish.
- A Snake's Attachment for Home.
- Queer Legend about Fish.
- An Old Pike.
- Colossal Shells.
- Changing Colors in a Dying Mullet.
- An Immense Zoological Cabinet.
- Chank-Shell.
- Edifices of the Polypi.
- Showers of Blood.
- Shirts Growing on Trees.
- Whistling Trees.
- Aconite.
- Oysters Growing on Trees.
- The Shaking Aspen.
- Tree Planting in Java.
- Turkish Superstition about the Geranium.
- Four-leaved Clover.
- Bitterness of Strychnia.
- Copied from Nature.
- Rose of Jericho.
- Curious Oranges.
- Trifoliated Plants considered Sacred.
- The Belladonna Lily.
- Thirty Years in Blossoming.
- Mouse-Ear.
- Mugwort.
- The Shoe-black Plant.
- St. John's Wort.
- Vegetable Fungus.
- The Rose at Midsummer.
- The House Leek.
- Ordeal of the Cross.
- Ordeal of the Eucharist.
- Ordeals in Africa.
- Ordeal of Cold Water.
- Ordeal of Chewing Rice.
- Ordeal by Fire.
- Ordeal of Touch.
- Chinese Veneration for the Lily.
- The Passion Flower.
- Burned Wastes Replenished.
- Unlucky Stumbling.
- Patagonian Superstitions.
- Superstition about the Caul.
- The Will-with-a-Wisp.
- Cramp Rings.
- Horseshoes.
- Breaking a Piece of Money.
- Love Charms.
- Spellbound.
- Amulets Inserted under the Skin.
- Divining Rods.
- Washing but Once in a Lifetime.
- Looking Back.
- Toad-Stone Rings.
- Royal Dinner Time.
- Throwing an Old Shoe.
- Cock-crowing an Omen of Victory.
- The Unicorn's Horn.
- The Evil Eye in Spain.
- Witchcraft Charms.
- A Mountain Highway.
- A Buffalo's Skull.
- Superstitious Notion of the Number One.
- Thunder and Lightning.
- Manna Marked with the Number Six.
- The Seventh Son of the Seventh Son.
- Virtue in the Number Seven.
- Onomancy.
- Mystic Gifts.
- Exterminating Vermin.
- Perforated Stones.
- St. Helena Coins.
- Weighing a Witch.
- Poetry of Omens.
- House Crickets.
- Sitting Cross-Legged.
- The Death-Watch.
- Sundry Rural Charms.
- Charm against Dogs.
- Barnacles.
- Odd Way to Discover a Dead Body.
- The Salagrama Stone.
- Charm for the Cramp.
- Fisherman's Luck.
- Luck of Birthdays.
- Sleeping on Stones.
- Spilling Salt.
- Charm for the Ague.
- Ancient Practice of Medicine.
- Amethyst Amulets.
- Preservative against Toothache.
- Mixed Moons.
- The Blood of the Martyrs.
- The First Sale for the Day.
- Arsenic as an Amulet.
- Red Tape a Protection against the Plague.
- Owl's Claws.
- Witch-ridden Horses.
- A Smuggler's Talisman.
- Rubbing with a Gold Ring.
- Divination of the Bible and Key.
- Visions of Destiny.
- Selecting an Avocation.
- Spitting for Luck's Sake.
- May Marriages Unlucky.
- Pin Superstitions.
- Superstitions about Children.
- Digging for Water.
- Wolf Superstition.
- Stanching Blood.
- Arab Charms.
- Superstitions among the Bretons.
- Blessing of Beasts.
- Moles.
- Whipping Toads to Produce Rain.
- The First Butterfly.
- Child-Stealing Elves.
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