"Formerly there were many persons surnamed 'the Devil.' In an ancient book we read of one Rogerius Diabolus, Lord of Montresor." "An English monk, Willelmus, cognomento Diabolus. Again, Hughes le Diable, Lord of Lusignan. Robert, Duke of Normandy, son of William the Conqueror, was surnamed 'the Devil.' In Norway and Sweden there were two families of the name of 'Trolle,' in English, 'Devil;' and every branch of these families had an emblem of the devil for their coat of arms. In Utrecht there was a family called 'Teufel' (or Devil); and in Brittany there was a family of the name of 'Diable.'"
W. R. DEERE SALMON.
Hendurucus du Booys; Helena Leonora de Sieveri.
—Their portraits engraved by Cornelius Vischer from paintings by Vandyke. Who were they?
G. A. C.
Can a Clergyman marry himself?
—If a clergyman were to perform the marriage service in his own case, would it be valid? Has such an occurrence ever been known?
CONSTANT READER.
Ground Ice.
—Has any satisfactory explanation been given of the mode in which the peculiar substance termed ground ice is formed in certain rivers. I am most familiar with it as seen in the Wiltshire Avon. It is seen in some rivers in Lincolnshire, where I am told it is called ground-gru. One who has noticed it in the Teviot says, that the inhabitants there call it "sludge."