Chinese, whether they in- vented gunpowder before the Christian era not considered, 167.
Choate hired, 250. Christ shuffled into Apocrypha, 168-conjectured to disap- prove of slaughter and pil- lage, 171-condemns a certain piece of barbarism, 204. Christianity, profession of, ple- beian, whether, 154. Christian soldiers, perhaps in- consistent, whether, 180. Cicero, an opinion of, disputed, 223.
Cilley, Ensign, author of ne- farious sentiment, 168. Cimex lectularius, 161. Cincinnatus, a stock character
in modern comedy, 243. Civilization, progress of, an alias, 206-rides upon a pow- der cart, 219.
Clergymen, their ill husbandry, 205-their place in proces- sions, 242--some, cruelly banished for the soundness of their lungs, 258. Cocked-hat, advantages of be- ing knocked into, 217. College of Cardinals, a strange one, 168.
Colman, Dr. Benjamin, anec- dote of, 180.
Colored folks, curious national diversion of kicking, 162. Colquitt, a remark of, 201-ac- quainted with some princi- ples of aerostation, ib. Columbia, District of, its pe- culiar climatic effects, 185- not certain that Martin is for abolishing it, 251. Columbus, a Paul Pry of gen- ius, 215. Columby, 246.
Complete Letter-Writer, fatal gift of, 221. Compostella, St. James of, seen, 165.
Congress, singular consequence of getting into, 184. Congressional debates, found instructive, 194.
Constituents, useful for what, 186.
Constitution trampled on, 198 -to stand upon, what, 218. Convention, what, 185. Convention, Springfield, 185. Coon old, pleasure in skinning, 200.
Coppers, caste in picking up of, 232.
Copres, a monk, his excellent method of arguing, 194. Cornwallis, a, 158-acknowl- edged entertaining, ib., note. Cotton Mather, summoned as witness, 165.
Country lawyers, sent provi- dentially, 172.
Country, our, its boundaries more exactly defined, 173- right or wrong, nonsense about exposed, ib. Courier, The Boston, an unsafe print, 192.
Court, General, farmers some- times attain seats in, 244. Cowper, W., his letters com- mended, 216.
Creed, a safe kind of, 235. Crusade, first American, 166. Cuneiform script recommend- ed, 224.
Curiosity distinguishes man from brutes, 214.
Davis, Mr., of Mississippi, a re- mark of his, 200. Day and Martin, proverbially on hand," 148. Death, rings down curtain, 212. Delphi, oracle of, surpassed, 191, note-alluded to, 222. Destiny, her account, 190. Devil, the, unskilled in certain
Indian tongues, 165-letters to and from, 217. Dey of Tripoli, 196. Didymus, a somewhat volumi- nous grammarian, 222. Dighton rock character might be usefully employed in some emergencies, 224. Dimitry Bruisgins, fresh supply of, 213.
Diogenes, his zeal for propagat- ing certain variety of olive, 238.
Dioscuri, imps of the pit, 166. District-Attorney, contemptible conduct of one, 196. Ditchwater on brain, a too com- mon ailing, 195. Doctor, the, a proverbial saying of, 164.
Doughface, yeast-proof, 210. Drayton, a martyr, 196-north star, culpable for aiding, whether, 202.
D. Y., letter of, 216.
Earth, Dame, a peep at her housekeeping, 197. Eating words, habit of, con- venient in time of famine, 189. Eavesdroppers, 214. Echetlæus, 166. Editor, his position, 205-com- manding pulpit of, 206-large congregation of, ib.-name derived from what, 207- fondness for mutton, ib.-a pious one, his creed, ib.-a showman, 211-in danger of sudden arrest, without bail, 212.
Editors, certain ones who crow like cockerels, 152. Egyptian darkness, phial of, use for, 224. Eldorado, Mr. Sawin sets sail for, 237.
Gawain, Sir, his amusements, 198.
Gay, S. H., Esquire, editor of National Antislavery Stand- ard, letter to, 214. Getting up early, 150, 163. Ghosts, some, presumed fid- getty, (but see Stilling's Pneumatology,) 216. Giants formerly stupid, 197. Gift of tongues, distressing case of, 193.
Globe Theatre, cheap season- ticket to, 212.
Glory, a perquisite of officers, 232 her account with B. Sawin, Esq., 236. Goatsnose, the celebrated, in- terview with, 224. Gomara, has a vision, 165-his relationship to the Scarlet Woman, ib.
Gray's letters are letters, 216. Great horn spoon, sworn by, 199.
Greeks ancient, whether they questioned candidates, 223. Green Man, sign of, 176.
Ham, sandwich, an orthodox (but peculiar) one, 202. Hamlets, machine for making, 226.
Hammon, 191, note, 222. Hannegan, Mr., something said by, 200.
Harrison, General, how pre- served, 221.
Hat-trees, in full bearing, 237. Hawkins, Sir John, stout, some- thing he saw, 237.
Henry the Fourth of England, a Parliament of, how named, 182.
Hercules, his second labor prob- ably what, 259.
Herodotus, story from, 156. Hesperides, an inference from, 238.
Holden, Mr. Shearjashub, Pre- ceptor of Jaalam Academy, 222-his knowledge of Greek limited, ib.-a heresy of his, ib.-leaves a fund to propa- gate it, 223.
Hollis, Ezra, goes to a Cornwal- lis, 158.
Hollow, why men providential- ly so constructed, 183. Homer, a phrase of, cited, 206. Horners, democratic ones,
plums left for, 187. Howell, James, Esq., story told by, 182-letters of, commend- ed, 216.
Human rights out of order on the floor of Congress, 199. Humbug, ascription of praise to, 210-generally believed in, ib.
Husbandry, instance of bad, 170.
Icarius, Penelope's father, 174. Infants, prattlings of, curious observation concerning, 155. Information wanted (universal- ly, but especially at page) 216.
Jaalam Centre, Anglo-Saxons unjustly suspected by the young ladies there, 164
"Independent Blunder- buss," strange conduct of editor of, 205-public meet- ing at, 217-meeting-house ornamented with imaginary clock, 239. Jaalam Point, light-house on, charge of prospectively offer ed to Mr H Biglow, 220.
Jakes, Captain, 254-reproved
for avarice, ib. James the Fourth of Scots, ex- periment by, 156. Jarnagin, Mr., his opinion of the completeness of Northern education, 200.
Jerome, Saint, his list of sacred writers, 216.
Job, Book of, 154-Chappelow on, 206.
shape, 217-of candidates, 221-often fatal, ib. Lewis Philip, a scourger of young native Americans, 191 -commiserated (though not deserving it,) ib. note. Liberator, a newspaper, con
demned by implication, 177. Liberty, unwholesome for men of certain complexions, 207. Lignum vitæ, a gift of this
valuable wood proposed, 164. Longinus recommends swear- ing, 157, note, (Fuseli did same thing.)
Johnson, Mr., communicates some intelligence, 201. Jonah, the inevitable destiny of, 202-probably studied in- ternal economy of the ceta-Long cea, 215.
Jortin, Dr., cited, 180, 191, note. Judea, every thing not known there, 172.
Juvenal, a saying of, 190, note.
sweetening recommended,
Lost arts, one sorrowfully added to list of, 258.
Louis the Eleventh of France, some odd trees of his, 237. Lowell, Mr. J. R., unaccounta- ble silence of, 175.
Luther, Martin, his first ap- pearance as Europa, 165.
Kay, Sir, the, of modern chiv- Lyttelton, Lord, his letters an
alry, who, 197.
Key, brazen one,
Keziah, Aunt, profound obser-
Kingdom Come, march to, Macrobii, their diplomacy, 224.
Mahomet, got nearer Sinai than some, 206.
Mahound, his filthy gobbets, 165.
Mangum, Mr., speaks to the point, 199.
Manichæan, excellently con- futed, 194.
Man-trees, grew where, 237. Mares'-nests, finders of, beney- olent, 215. Marshfield, 243, 249. Martin, Mr. Sawin used to vote for him, 251.
Mason and Dixon's line, slaves north of, 199.
Mass, the, its duty defined, 199. Massachusetts on her knees, 152-something mentioned in
connection with, worthy the attention of tailors, 185- citizen of, baked, boiled, and roasted (nefandum!) 233. Masses, the, used as butter by some, 187.
M. C., an invertebrate animal, 189.
Mechanics' Fair, reflections suggested at, 226.
Mentor, letters of, dreary, 216. Mephistopheles at a nonplus, 202.
Mexican blood, its effect in rais- ing price of cloth, 241. Mexican polka, 167. Mexicans charged with various breaches of etiquette, 163- kind feelings beaten into them, 210.
Mexico, no glory in overcom- ing, 185.
Military glory spoken disre- spectfully of, 160, note—mili- tia treated still worse, ib. Milk-trees, growing still, 237. Mills for manufacturing gabble, how driven, 193. Milton, an unconscious plagi- ary, 184, note—a Latin verse of, cited, 207.
Missions, a profitable kind of, 208.
Monarch, a pagan, probably not favored in philosophical experiments, 156.
Money-trees desirable, 238- that they once existed shown to be variously probable, ib. Montaigne, a communicative old Gascon, 215.
Monterey, battle of, its singu-
lar chromatic effect on a species of two-headed eagle, 190.
Moses held up vainly as an ex-
ample, 206-construed by Joe Smith, 207. Myths, how to interpret readily, 223.
Naboths, Popish ones, how dis tinguished, 167. Nation, rights of, Nation, rights of, proportion. ate to size, 163. National pudding, its effect on the organs of speech, a curi. ous physiological fact, 168. Nephelim, not yet extinct, 259. New England overpoweringly honored, 188—wants no more speakers, ib.-done brown by whom, ib.-her experience in beans beyond Cicero's, 223. Newspaper, the, wonderful, 210 -a strolling theatre, 211- thoughts suggested by tear- ing wrapper of, 212-a vacant sheet, ib.-a sheet in which a vision was let down, 213- wrapper to a bar of soap, ib. -a cheap impromptu platter, ib.
New York, Letters from, com- mended, 216.
Next life, what, 205. Niggers, 151-area of abusing, extended, 186-Mr. Sawin's opinions of, 252.
Ninepence a day low for mur- der, 158.
No, a monosyllable, 167-hard to utter, ib.
Noah, inclosed letter in bottle, probably, 215.
Nornas, Lapland, what, 239. North, has no business, 200- bristling, crowded off roost, 220.
North Bend, geese inhumanly treated at, 221-mentioned, 243.
North star, a proposition to in- dict, 202.
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