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NOTES AND QUERIES:
A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
"When found, make a note of."—Captain Cuttle.
| No. 229. | Saturday, March 18. 1854 |
Price Fourpence Stamped Edition 5d. |
CONTENTS.
Notes:— | |
Gossiping History | |
Works on Bells, by the Rev. H. T. Ellacombe | |
Inedited Letter of Lord Nelson, by E. W. Jacob | |
Folk Lore:—Herefordshire Folk Lore—Greenock Fair—Dragons' Blood—Charm for the Ague | |
Psalms for the Chief Musician: Hebrew Music, by T. J. Buckton | |
Minor Notes:—"Garble"—Deaths in the Society of Friends—The Eastern Question—Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin—English Literature—Irish Legislation—Anecdote of George IV. and the Duke of York | |
Queries:— | |
Anonymous Works: "Posthumous Parodies," "Adventures in the Moon," &c. | |
Blind Mackerel | |
Minor Queries:—Original Words of old Scotch Airs—Royal Salutes—"The Negro's Complaint"—"The Cow Doctor"—Soomarokoff's "Demetrius"—Polygamy—Irish, Anglo-Saxon, Longobardic, and Old English Letters—Description of Battles—Do Martyrs always feel Pain?—Carronade—Darcy, of Platten, co. Meath—Dorset—"Vanitatem observare"—King's Prerogative—Quotations in Cowper—Cawley the Regicide | |
Minor Queries with Answers:—Dr. John Pocklington—Last Marquis of Annandale—Heralds' College—Teddy the Tiler—Duchess of Mazarin's Monument—Halcyon Days | |
Replies:— | |
Dogs in Monumental Brasses, by the Rev. W. S. Simpson, &c. | |
Sneezing, by C. W. Bingham | |
Sir John de Morant | |
Inn Signs | |
"Concilium Delectorum Cardinalium" | |
Pulpit Hour-glasses, by Dr. E. F. Rimbault, &c. | |
Photographic Correspondence:—A Prize for the best Collodion—Double Iodide of Silver and Potassium—Albumenized Paper—Cyanide of Potassium | |
Replies To Minor Queries:—Sawdust Recipe—Brydone the Tourist—Etymology of "Page"—Longfellow—Canting Arms—Holy Loaf Money—"Could we with Ink," &c.—Mount Mill, and the Fortifications of London—Standing while the Lord's Prayer is read—A dead Sultan, with his Shirt for an Ensign—"Hovd maet of laet"—Captain Eyre's Drawings—Sir Thos. Browne and Bishop Ken, &c. | |
Miscellaneous:— | |
Books and Odd Volumes wanted | |
Notices to Correspondents |