Villi Frontispiece and Vignette, 3s. Gd. in cloth, 



Things not generally Known, 

 Familiarly Explained. 



A BOOK FOR OLD AND YOUNG. 

 fremiti ^mc£. 

 By JOHN TIMBS, F.S.A. 

 reafew of the more char acU es in this Second Series: 



The Distal!' and Spindle, their histories 

 Shoes s icks. 



Silk Stockings, first worn in England. 

 Use of Starch. 



ig the Watch. 

 iil of Green Cloth. 

 Cock-crow Customs. 

 History of Sedan-chairs. 

 The Bather's Chair, and Forfeits in a 



Barbel's Shop. 

 " The Scratch-cradle." 

 Origin of Christmas Boxes. 

 Antiquity of Tooth-picks. 

 Above or helow the Salt. 

 Rushes strewed in Rooms. 

 Ale and its Associations. 



as, Honey, Mead, and Wax. 

 Black Jacks and Hooped Mugs. 

 Spits, Turnspits, and Jacks. 

 Antiquity of the Warming-pan and the 



Latch-key. 

 History of Punch and Judy. 

 Whitsun Plays at Chester. 

 What was Bankes's Horse? 

 Grant of Arms. 

 Peers' Audience of the Sovereign hv 



Right. 

 Parliament sitting on Sundays. 

 Baking on Sundays. 

 Origin of out Law Courts. 

 The Exchequer Tally. 

 Oaths — Swearing with the Glove on. 

 The Great Seal of Queen Victoria. 

 Charters signed with the Cross. 

 Origin of Trial by Jury. 

 Cutting off the Heir with a Shilling. 

 Origin of the Coventry Act. 

 Pressing to Death, and the Rack. 

 The Standard of Measures. 

 Mile and Yard in various Countries. 

 " A Cunning File." 

 What is a Plum of Money? 

 Hall-marks on Plate. 

 Expectation of Life. 

 Marriage : Responsible Ages. 

 The Old licit 



Fruits, when introduced into England. 

 To lay in Lai 



and Apples in England. 

 of Creation. 

 How Ha : tl the Circula- 



• the Blood. 



insensibility of the Heart. 



Rapidity of Thought measured. 



Pre-existence of Souls. 



Phrenology demolished. 



Distances at which Bells may be heard. 



Colour and Moon Blindness. 



Air breathed by a Man during the Day. 



Degrees of Sleep and Sensitiveness. 



How to avoid Sleepless Nights. 



Death from Want of Sleep. 



A Domestic Medicine Chest. 



Cold-Water Cure not new. 



Effect of Tea upon Nervous Persons. 



Are Qualities hereditary? 



How tall was Adam? 



Was Adam created in Spring or Au- 

 tumn 1 



Time of Year when our Saviour was 

 born. 



The Cross of Christ. 



Broken Heart: Death of our Saviour. 



Premature Burial and Trance. 



Object of Doles. 



Burial without Coffins. 



The Passing and Souls' Bell. 



Wax-work Show in Westminster Abbey. 



Lying for the Whetstone. 



The Forlorn Hope. 



The Ameroid Barometer. 



Worth of Weather Predictions. 



What to do in a Thunderstorm. 



Framing, Hanging, and Varnishing 

 Pictures. 



Care of Pictures. 



Picture Cleaning and Restoring. 



How to look at a Picture. 



The term " Ceramic." 



How to choose a Carpet. 



A few of the Wonders of India-Rubber. 



Divisibility and Consumption of Gold. 

 Relative Value of Manufactured Iron. 



How to examine a Watch. 

 Egyptian Locks. 



Drop. 



by the Sea. 

 llow the Oyster makes its Shell. 

 How the concentric Chinese Ivory Balls 

 are carved. 



Writing-ink. 

 How to split a Sheet of Paper. 

 How to detect Forged Bank-notes. 



Invention of the Railway. 



" The Second Scries of Mr. Timbs is quite as good as the first." — Critic. 



KENT AND i iSTER ROW. 



