Horses first brought to America.. How Cazette was saved from the guillotine.. 37 217 265 ....... 192 182 96 235 ........... 139 ..... 183 271 190 148 32 44 How the phrase "Where the shoe pinches" originated.. How the "Star-Spangled Banner" was written.. Incident causing Roger Ascham to write the Schoolmaster....... 259 152 248 26 198 233 216 164 56 172 26 Invention of the sofa.. Island of Atlantis.... Indian presenting Oglethorpe with buffalo-skin. Indians believed to be the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel. In memory of Pocahontas.. Invention of the art of printing. Is the sponge an animal or a vegetable?.. JANE MCCREA's lover. PAGE ......... 241 ....... 265 239 89 223 174 238 Noted quotation from lives of Saul and Jonathan... Noted skulls in a British museum.. Noted soldier, father of twenty-four children. Noted writer engaged in a fatal duel.... OLD Grimes..... Old Lady of Threadneedle Street. Old Nick. Old St. David's at Radnor. Oldest bank-notes.. Oldest house in the United States. Oldest woman in the world.. Opening of noted graves. Origin of Agate.... Origin of "album". Origin of All Fools' Day. Origin of Bachelor of Arts... Origin of expression "a feather in his cap". Origin of "I'll cook your goose for you”. Origin of name Columbiana... Origin of St. Valentine's Day.. Origin of the bean.... Origin of phrase, "Witness my hand and seal". Origin of the expression "Tally one". Origin of the potato.... 140 25 105 130 31 91 255 95 78 Origin of the proverb, "Don't leave a stone unturned". PAGE PALATINE light.. Palm-play... Pancake Day.. Parliamentary “whip”. Patagonia and its settlement.. Peacock the symbol of the resurrection..... Peculiar present sent to Alexander the Great. Peculiar weed growing in Arkansas Valley. Person talking without a tongue. "Pierian" and its meaning... "Pine Robbers of the Revolution". Plant causing criminals to confess.. Plant known as "food of the gods". Plutarch's story of the Theban magistrate.. Pocahontas and her real name.......... 71 81 28 72 260 167 137 146 39 268 192 29 230 171 211 210 132 245 231 President that "could not be kicked into a fight". Prettiest creature that lives under water.. Pronunciation of two words without sounding single letter.. 85 226 161 51 205 Proverb "Hell is paved with good intentions". Reason breath can be seen on a frosty morning. |