Antony of Padua, Saint, happy in his hearers. 
Apocalypse, beast in, magnetic to theologians. 
Apollo, confessed mortal by his own oracle. 
Apollyon, his tragedies popular. 
Appian, an Alexandrian, not equal to Shakespeare as an orator. 
Applause, popular, the summum bonum. 
Ararat, ignorance of foreign tongues is an. 
Arcadian background. 
Ar c’houskezik, an evil spirit. 
Ardennes, Wild Boar of, an ancestor of Rev. Mr. Wilbur. 
Aristocracy, British, their natural sympathies. 
Aristophanes. 
Arms, profession of, once esteemed, especially that of gentlemen. 
Arnold. 
Ashland. 
Astor, Jacob, a rich man. 
Astraea, nineteenth century forsaken by. 
Athenians, ancient, an institution of. 
Atherton, Senator, envies the loon. 
‘Atlantic,’ editors of.  See Neptune. 
Atropos, a lady skilful with the scissors. 
Austin, Saint, prayer of. 
Austrian eagle split. 
Aye-aye, the, an African animal, America supposed to be settled by.

B., a Congressman, vide A.
Babel,
  probably the first Congress,
  gabble-mill. 
Baby, a low-priced one. 
Bacon, his rebellion. 
Bacon, Lord, quoted. 
Bagowind, Hon. Mr., whether to be damned. 
Balcom, Elder Joash Q., 2d, founds a Baptist society in Jaalam, A.D. 1830. 
Baldwin apples. 
Baratarias, real or imaginary, which most pleasant. 
Barnum, a great natural curiosity recommended to. 
Barrels, an inference from seeing. 
Bartlett, Mr., mistaken. 
Baton Rouge,
  strange peculiarities of laborers at. 
Baxter, R., a saying of,
Bay, Mattysqumscot. 
Bay State, singular effect produced on military officers by leaving it. 
Beast, in Apocalypse,
  a loadstone for whom,
  tenth horn of, applied to recent events. 
Beaufort. 
Beauregard real name Toutant. 
Beaver brook. 
Beelzebub, his rigadoon. 
Behmen, his letters not letters. 
Behn, Mrs. Aphra, quoted. 
Sellers,
  a saloon-keeper,
  inhumanly refuses credit to a presidential candidate. 
Belmont.  See Woods. 
Bentley, his heroic method with Milton. 
Bible, not composed for use of colored persons. 
Biglow, Ezekiel,
  his letter to Hon. J.T.  Buckingham,
  never heard of any one named Mandishes,
  nearly fourscore years old,
  his aunt Keziah, a notable saying of. 
Biglow, Hosea, Esquire,
  excited by composition,
  a poem by,
  his opinion of war,
  wanted at home by Nancy,
  recommends a forcible enlistment of warlike editors,
  would not wonder, if generally agreed with,
  versifies letter of Mr. Sawin,
  a letter from,
  his opinion of Mr. Sawin,
  does not deny fun at Cornwallis,
  his idea of militia glory,
  a pun of,
  is uncertain in regard to people of Boston,
  had never heard of Mr. John P. Robinson,
  aliquid sufflaminandus,
  his poems attributed to a Mr. Lowell,