"When found, make a note of."—CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
VOL. IV.—No. 100.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27. 1851.
Price Sixpence. Stamped Edition, 7d.
Our Hundredth Number 217
NOTES:—
Notes on the Calendar, by Professor de Morgan 218
Inedited Letters of Swift 218
Nineveh Inscriptions, by T. J. Buckton 220
Inedited Letter of Alfieri 222
Stanzas in Childe Harold 223
Notes on Oxford Edition of Jewel 225
Anagrams, by Henry H. Breen 226
Folk Lore:—Cure for Hooping Cough—Cure for the Toothache—Medical Use of Pigeons—Obeism 227
Notes on Julin, No. II., by K. R. H. Mackenzie 228
Minor Notes:—Curious Epitaph in Dalkeith Churchyard—Device of SS.—Lord Edward Fitzgerald—The Michaelmas Goose—Gravesend Boats—Scullcups 230
QUERIES:—
Minor Queries:—Equestrian Figure of Elizabeth—Indian Ants—Passage in George Herbert—The King's-way, Wilts—Marriages within ruined Churches—Fees for Inoculation—"Born in the Eighth Climate"—Aubrey de Montdidier's Dog—Sanford's Descensus—Parish Registers—Briefs for Collections—Early Printing Presses—Bootikins—Printers' Privilege—Death of Pitt—"A Little Bird told me"—Baroner—William III. at Exeter—History of Hawick—Johannes Lychtenberger—Lestourgeon the Horologist—Physiological Query—De Grammont's Memoirs—"Frightened out of his Seven Senses"—Fides Carbonaria—Bourchier Family—Warnings to Scotland—Herschel anticipated—Duke of Wellington 231
MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:—An Early Printer—"Nimble Ninepence"—Prince Rupert's Balls—Knock under—Freemasons