NUTS FOR NOTES AND QUERIES.
There is a fine field opened to the editor and contributors of Notes and Queries by the prominence just now being given to the names of Wallachia and Moldavia. We shall leave Wallachia to our contemporary—merely observing by the way that it may have been founded by the Wallack family—but we have taken a fancy to Moldavia, and shall speculate a little on its origin. We are inclined to regard the first syllable, MOL, as a clear corruption of Mary; and there can be no doubt, in the world that davia is no other than Davis, who was probably some relation to the identical Davis, whose most unpleasant Straits have conferred upon him such extensive notoriety. Moldavia may, therefore, be regarded as the discovery of one Mary Davis; but which one is a little bit of mystery—a sort of bone that we generously throw to our old friend Notes and Queries to "lazily mumble" over during the hot season.