[36]: The poisonous Boa Upas, beneath which one loses one’s hair in a few minutes.
[37]: The musicians among the ancients wore them. Bartholin de Tib. Vet. iii. 4.
[38]: The common German dinner-time then.—Translator.
[39]: So do men forget it, though in a lesser degree. Suppose a man who does ninety things every day, accurately remembering them, should once or twice forget a ninety-first thing, he’ll go on forgetting that afterwards, though he remembers all the rest. There’s no remedy for this unless some person happens to come in, or something chances to occur just at the instant of forgetting, and recalls the ninety-first thing to his mind. If he once forgets to forget, he won’t forget any more.
[40]: According to the Rabbin, the pains of the damned are intermitted on the Sabbath; the Christians hold that the same was the case during the descent into Hades.
[41]: In Bern and the Pays-du-Vaud, two male witnesses, or four female, are necessary for a legal proof.
[42]: The sand-glass is upright during the time the torture goes on.
[43]: We cannot say, however, that it is by carrying away noxious vapours that the wind purifies the air, since while it blows my noxious emanations to the person behind me, it brings me those of the person before me; and because stagnant water does not become putrid solely because there is no current to carry away decaying matter.
[44]: A woman finds it much easier to yield and say nothing when she is in the right than when she is in the wrong.
[45]: Heller = half-a-farthing.