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Temperance and Intemperance: Obelisk

Obelisk, the Egyptian, in New York Central Park, 844 Obelisk, remarkable, near Forres, in Scotland, 573 Okey Hole, 458 Orang-Outang, 178 Origin of That's a Bull,' 635 Pulpit, curious, 801 Pyramids of Egypt, 544 Quaint lines, 772 Q Queen Charlotte, curious address to, 769 Queen, a blacksmith's wife become a, 749 Queen Elizabeth's dinner, curious account of the ceremonies at, 749 Queen Elizabeth, quaint lines on, 772 R Races, the five human, 817 Railroads, elevated, 842 Railroad, the Pacific, 836 Recreations, amusing in optics, etc., 905 Recreations, amusing, with numbers, 848 to 855 Religions, ancient, 636 Reproduction, 781 Respiration, interesting facts concerning, 26 Rhinoceros, 162 Rings, on the origin of, bob Rome, ancient, 818 Rome from the capitol, 819 Rosin bubbles, 879 Royal progenitors, 744 Origin of the old adage respecting St. Swithin, Ruin at Siwa in Egypt, 534 and rainy weather, 635 Ornithorhynchus paradoxus, 166 Ostrich, curiosities of the, 231 Owl, adventure of an, 247 Palmyra, ruins of, 535 P Park, New York Central, 844 Parr, old, III Pascal, Blaise, IIO Passion, or holy week, 633 Pausilippo, 419 Peacock, the common, 226 Peak in Derbyshire, description of, 409 S Salutation, various modes of, 598 Sand floods floods, account of, 521 Savage, Richard, extraordinary character of, 128 Scaliot's lock, 712 Scarron, Paul, account of, 119 Schurrman, Anna Maria, 123 Scorpion, 213 Sea, curiosities of the, 471 Sea, on the saltness of, 476 Sea, to measure the depth of the, 857 Sea serpent, American, 218 Peg, to make a, to fit three differently shaped Seal, common, account of, 180 holes, 900 Seal, ursine, 181 Pelican, the great, 229 Seeds. germination of, 365 Sensibility of plants, 368 Sensitive plant, 369 Seraglio, 564 Penance, curious account of a, 643 Performances of a female, blind almost from her infancy, 53 Persons born defective in their limbs, wonderful instances of adroitness of, 54 Peruke, 783 Peru, mines of, 465 Serpents, fascinating power of, 219 Sexes, difference between the, 34 Sexes at birth, comparative number of the, 36 Shark, 198 Pesce, Nicholas, extraordinary character of, Sheep, extraordinary adventures of one, 190 117 Petroleum, 824 Pharos of Alexandria, 549 Phonograph, the, 841 Photophone, the, 840 Phosphoric fire, sheet of, 669 Phosphorus, 670 Pichinca, 415 Pico, 422 Pigeon wild, its multiplying power, 245 Pigeon, carrier, or courier, 244 Pin-making, 721 Pitch wells, 468 Shelton oak, description of, 382 Ship worm, 224 Ship Great Harry, 836 Ship at sea, to find the burden of a, 857 Shoes, curiosities respecting, 724 Shoemakers, literary, 764 Shower of gosamers, curious phenomenon of a 523 Shrovetide, 630 Silk-mill at Derby, 800 Silk stockings, electricity of, 870 Plague, dreadful instances of the, in Europe, Skiddaw, 414 747 Plant, curious, 386 Plants, curious dissemination of, 366 Sleeping woman of Dunninald, 70 Silkworm, 220 Singular curiosity, 405 Sleep-walker, 69 Smeaton, John, 113 Snow grotto, 451 Solfatara, the lake of, 488 Plants upon the earth, prodigious number of, Sneezing, curious observations on 33 367 Plough-Monday, origin of, 632 Poison-eater, remarkable account of, 94 Pompey's pillar, 547 Portland vase, 800 Praxiteles' Venus, 712 Praying machines of Kalmuck, 642 Priest, Jewish High, 822 Printing, invention of, 823 Psalmanazar, George, noted impostor, 112 Sound, experiments on, 868 Spectacle of a sea fight at Rome, 711 Spectacles, a substitute for, 807 Spectre of the Broken, 420 Spider, curiosities of the, 314 Spider, tamed, 316 Spider, ingenuity of a, 316 Spider, curions anecdote of a, 318 Spirit rappings, 827 Spontaneous inflammations, 786 Sports, book of, 766 Springs, hot and burning, 492 Springs, hot, of Arkansas, 847 Stalk, animated, 392 Star, falling or shooting, 401 Steamboat, the first, 835 Steamship Great Eastern, 836 Steel, to melt, 858.