MARCUS FLAVIUS, anecdote of, 25.
MARRIAGES, taxed:--first celebration of, in churches:--forbidden during
Lent, 115.
MARINER bound for Africa, reaches Norway, 48.
MARSHALL, Tommy, anecdote of, 90.
MARTYRS, cremation of:--cost of burning Cranmer, Latimer, and Ridley, 24.
MASHEE, Tooley, plays corpse, 137.
MCPHEE, widow Nelly, anecdote of, 7.
MEDICINE, origin of the practice of, 107:
--practice of, among the Babylonians, Greeks, Egyptians, Israelites,
and Hindoos, 108.
MEDIUMS, some notice of, 157.
MEXICAN BEGGARS, how employed by Montezuma, 142.
MILTON, John, his marriages, 98:
--writes in favor of polygamy, 98:
--desecration of his remains, 118.
MINGLING the ashes of dear friends, in the same urn, practice of, 21.
MINISTERS of the Gospel, in Boston, in 1740, 132.
MIRTHFULNESS, its advantages, 92.
MONEY, George Herbert's address to, 31.
MONTGOMERY, Gen. Richard, his exhumation, and reinterment, 18.
MONUMENTS, Dryden's, Ben Jonson's, and Cowley's, mutilation of, 118.
MOONCURSERS, laws for their punishment:--anecdote of, 102.
MOORHEAD, Rev. John, some notice of, 99.
MOSES, an apothecary, 107.
MOURNERS, their peculiar consolations, 32:
--for the year 1848, 33.
MOURNING, time allowed for:--color of the vesture, in different
countries, 32.
Irish, consists in the number of coaches and the quantity of whiskey,
74.
MULE, a bad one, 30.