Chapter D: Dark day, The 142

Day of Barricades, The 143

Day of Corn-sacks, The 170

Defects of the Confederation 118

Deliverer of Washington’s funeral oration 76

Derivation of Alaska 122

Derivation of Canada 124

Derivation of magnet 130

Devil’s Wall, The 81

Deviser of our decimal coinage 107

Diamond necklace affair 23

Discovery of the Pacific Ocean 82

Dynamite 99

E

Easter 25

Eight motions of the earth 172

El Dorado 144

Election on which the price of flour depended 77

Explorer of the Mississippi with La Salle 64

Explorer who drove a herd of hogs before him 72

F

Famous men killed by lice 168

Father of Ridicule, The 41

Fat man’s misery, The 11

“Fiery serpents” of Numbers xxi 8

First American bird taken to England 156

First Bible printed in America 138

First bloodshed in the Civil War 75

First bloodshed in the Revolution 52

First census of the United States 38

First circumnavigator of the globe 166

First Colonial Congress 117

First duel in the United States 13

First English book 147

First English child born in America 147

First English child born in New England 27

First flag of a republic set up in America 80

First gun of the Civil War 75

First land discovered by Columbus 21

First legislative assembly in America 74

First martyr to American liberty 59

First national political convention 87

First national political platform 88

First paper-makers 46

First post-offices 12

First President nominated by national convention 87

First purchaser of United States postage-stamps 159

First temperance society 145

First watches 168

First white child born in America 173

First woman hung in the United States 162

Foul-weather Jack 81

Floral emblem of the United States 172

Flying Dutchman, The 65

Franklin’s oft-quoted epitaph 55

French game-cock, The 95

G

Gate of Tears, The 175

Gems emblematic of the Twelve Apostles 111

General fired at fifteen times but unharmed 164

Goblets used as preservatives against poison 157

Golden number and how determined 115

Golomynka 53

Grandest funeral pageant ever known 54

Granite City, The 174

Great American Commoner, The 100

Ground Hog Day 105

H

Hæmadynamometer 4

Hagar’s well 63

Hairy men, The 115

Handsome Englishman, The 164

Heaviest metal 134

Hebrew manner of naming the books of the Bible 138

Height of Goliath 126

Highest spot inhabited by human beings 142

Highest tides known 25

History changed by a flight of birds 20

History of the poem “Sheridan’s Ride” 109

Holy Grail, The 80

Horse Latitudes, The 148

How all the greenbacks, etc., are destroyed 96

How Napoleon was paid for Louisiana 80

How the Red Sea gets its color 46

How the schooner obtained its name 43

How the swallow obtained its name 176

How to determine the years of a Congress 39

How umbrellas are put together 17