coats; invented all the costumes of the University, and drew the model for the uniform of the council, which drawing ac- | companied the decree by which it was established.

In one of Webster's plays (vol. 1, p. 148), a ghost enters in his leather cassock, breeches,

and boots.

"AND, O contemptible physic! that dost take

So long a study, only to preserve
So short a life, I take my leave of thee!"
WEBSTER, Vol. 1, p. 154.

“TRUE, my lord, I myself have heard a very good jest; and have scorned to seem to have so silly a wit as to understand it." -Ibid. p. 182.

"He had worn gunpowder in his hollow tooth, for the toothach.”—Ibid. p. 247.

"THE robin-redbreast and the nightingale Never live long in cages."-Ibid. p. 267.

"PHYSICIANS are like kings, They brook no contradiction."-p. 292.

"GIVE it me in a breath!—

They that think long, small expedition win, But musing much o' the end, cannot begin." Ibid. p. 295.

NORFOLK's correspondence with the Bishop of Ross, Leicester, and Throckmorton was carried on by letters which were sent in ale bottles.—CAMDEN's Elizabeth, p. 132. "It makes me smile in scorn, That wise men cannot understand themselves, Nor know their own proved greatness." WEBSTER, Vol. 2, p. 150. Appius and Virg.

"It was wholesome advice that one gave his lewd friend, that he should hang the picture of his grave and serious father in the room where he was wont to celebrate his debauches; imagining that the severe eye of the good old man, though but in effigy, could give a check to the wanton sallies of the intemperate youth."-SCOTT'S Christian Life, vol. 1, p. 100.1

ARISTOTLE commends Archytas for his invention of rattles, because children, by playing with them, are kept from breaking vessels of use.-Ibid. p. 108.

"-ET aussi pour fuir la trop grande prolixité, pour laquelle certes je me sens trèscapable."-BRAntome, vol. 1, p. 120.

"THE Hebrew conjugations, Pihel and Puhal, signify to do a thing diligently, earnestly, fervently, &c., and are only distinguished by the vowel points from the conjugation Kal, which simply states that the thing is done."-ADAM CLARKE, Chron. Suc. of Sacred Literature, vol. 1, p. 23.

CLEMENS ALEXANDRINUS advises white

raiment, and condemns dies of every kind as useless and unbecoming.-Ibid. p. 119.

He recommends women to wear shoes that should cover the upper part of the foot as well as the sole.-Ibid.

TERTULLIAN says that the apostate angels when they fell in love with women, taught

This refers to the folio edition. Southey thought very highly of J. Scott's works. They were reprinted at the Clar. press in 1826. J. W. W.

them the use of gold and silver, the virtues of plants, and the power of incantations.Ibid. p. 135.

ORIGIN thought that the bodies of the saints at the resurrection would be spherical.-Ibid. p. 163.

As Mr. Clarke says of St. Jerome (Ibid. p. 485), "the tone of reflection varies as his own skilful hand draws forth the music of a well strung mind, or as he allows his intellect to be played on in submission to the higher, or wild, or rude performance of another."

UPON a misinterpretation of Job xxv. 5, "Yea, the stars are not pure in his sight;" it was affirmed by some of the old heretics (Priscellianists, I believe,), that the stars have rational souls, and are capable of sin. -CLARKE'S Ecc. Lit. vol. 2, p. 30.

VICTOR, who wrote against Augustine, and held that unbaptized infants might be saved, asserted that the cause of their happiness or misery was "God's foreknowing what works they would have done had they lived, and rewarding them accordingly."Ibid. vol. 2, p. 39.

ELIZABETH'S accession, English exiles. "I knew one right well," says FULLER," whose father amongst them, being desperately diseased, was presently and perfectly cured with the cordial of this good news."-Ch. Hist. p. 52.

THO. NEWTON translated from the Latin of Gul. Gratarolus, A Direction for the Health of Magistrates and Students, namely, such as be in their consistent age, or near thereunto. A.D. 1574.

There are extracts from it in the British Bibliographer, vol. 2, p. 414.

NIC. BYFIELD the Puritan died at fortyfour of the stone, after fifteen years' suffering. It weighs more than thirty-three

ounces, was fifteen and a half inches in measure about the edge, about the length above thirteen, about the breadth almost thirteen. -Wood's Athena. vol. 2, p. 326.

HOPLOCRISMA spongus, or a sponge to wipe away the weapon salve; wherein is proved that the cure taken up among us, by applying the salve to the weapon, is magical and unlawful, A.D. 1631, by W. Foster. Dr. Richard Fludd answered him, "not without some scorn;" and Osborne also ridicules him in an Essay, "on such as condemn all they understand not a reason for."-Ibid. vol. 2, p. 573.

WM. WHATELY, vicar of Banbury, who laid the foundation of Puritanism there, published, A. D. 1624, A Care - cloth, or Treatise of the Cumbers and Troubles of Marriage.—Ibid. p. 639.

Names.

FAUNT the Jesuit "altered his Christian name of Arthur, because, as his kinsman tells us, (W. Burton, in his Description of Leicestershire, p. 10,) no kalendar saint was ever of that name." He assumed that of Laurence.-FULLER'S Church History, p.

213.

CLASSIFICATION of ships from A 1, to 0 1. -Report on Manufactures, 1833, p. 232.

SCRIMANSKY and George Stone were bears in the days of the bear garden.-GREY, Hudibras, vol. 1, p. 127.

SACKERSON, whom Master Slender had seen loose twenty times, and taken him by the chain. Merry Wives of Windsor, act i.

sc. 1.

IN one of Wolsey's inventories, is one bed called the Infantelage, and another called the Sun.-ELLIS's Original Letters, vol. 2, p. 15.

the grease of moles, bats, and dormice; together with an intimation of the art used at Bononia to dwarf their dogs, by often washing (from the first day they are whelped) their feet and back bone, thereby drying and hardening those parts, and so hindering their extension.

From a Miscellanea Curiosa Medica Physica, published at Leipsic, 1670; the commencement of an intended series. — Ibid. vol. 1, p. 562.

"Jeremiah Horrox died 1640, in the twenty-second year of his age; born at Toxteth, Lancashire, and began to study astronomy at fourteen. He was the first who predicted or saw Venus in the sun, and made from it many useful observations, though he was not aware of the great use that was to be made of it. And his new theory of lunar motions Newton made the groundwork of all his astronomy relative to the moon.-Ibid. vol. 2, p. 12.

Christian Adolphus Baldiunus, who accidentally discovered phosphorus, thought that it contained the red spark, yea, the most secret soul (secretissima anima) of the fire and light of nature, consequently the innate and invisible fire of philosophers, attracting magnetically the visible fire of the sun, and afterwards emitting and diffusing in the dark the splendour of the same. -Ibid. vol. 2, p. 368.

One Signor Zagonius had a way of making out of the Bologna stone calcined statues and pictures, variously shining in the dark.-Ibid. vol. 2, p. 382.

WHEN the king of Fetou was dying of consumption, at Cape Corse, the Fetishers not only made several pellets of clay, which they ranged in order in his room, and sprinkled them with blood; but besides they eat several muttons to his good health.-Phil. Trans. Abr. vol. 4, p. 201.

At Copenhagen, a perspective of the late king of Denmark's family, the queen's face being in the middle, and eight princes and princesses round her, yet all conspire to form the king's face, when seen through the hole of a glass tube.—Ibid. vol. 5, p. 48.

Increase of a turnip from its seed to its full growth.—Ibid. vol. 6, p. 404-5.

AN English gentleman showed me once in Holland, in 1687, a cherrystone, with 124 heads on the outside of it, so that you might distinguish with the naked eye popes, emperors, kings, and cardinals by their crowns and mitres. It was purchased in Prussia, where it was made, for £300 English, and is now in London (1703), there having been a law-suit not long since commenced about it in Chancery.—Phil. Tran. Abr. vol. 5, p. 49.

Dr. William Oliver.

LEUWENHOECK says, that in any quantity whatever of sand you cannot find two particles that are entirely alike. He gives drawings of them magnified.—Ibid. p. 94.

his observations on the motion of sound may DERHAM (ibid. p. 394), says that some of

be useful to the Echometrician. "Several learned men, both ancient and modern, have carefully examined into that ludicrous and agreeable phenomenon of sound called echo. I am persuaded, though any reflecting object were capable of returning all the syllables of the following verse,

Vocali nymphæ, quæ nec reticere loquenti, yet it could not reflect all the syllables of this other, because its pronunciation is a little longer,

Corpus adhuc Echo, non vox erat, et tamen

usum :

and much less repeat all the rough and long syllables of the following verse, though fewer in number,

Arx, tridens, vostris, sphinx, præster, torrida, seps, strix.

"A BARE clinch will serve the turn; a carwichet,' a quarterquibble, or a pun." Wild Gallant, Dryden, vol. 1, p. 12.

A COLLECTION of Geometrical Flowers, presented to the Royal Society by Guido Grandi, Abbot of the Cameldales, and Professor of Mathematics at Pisa, 1723.

This handful or bouquet of geometrical roses is a dissertation on certain curves geometrically described in a circle, of a nature more curious and fanciful than any way useful.-Phil. Trans. Abr. vol. 6, p. 664.

MR. DOWNES has observed in several countries, distinguished by what he calls a local physiognomy, that it is most perceptible in the women.—Letters from the Continent, vol. 1, p. 202.

HALF the diary of Philip the Fair, on waxed wooden tablets, is in the library at Geneva. Queen Christina purchased the other half at Paris, and presented it to the p. 248.

Vatican.-Ibid.

WILLIAM MANUEL (Mansel ?) a Welsh prodigy, three and a half years' old, reads Welsh and English fluently in the usual, or in an inverted, or thwart position, "but appears to prefer reading upside-down."— Manchester Courier, February 15, 1834.

In an island near Bombay, a large snake was found dead with a porcupine in its belly. The snake had seized the porcupine by the head, and had so sucked it in. When it was quite in, the quills, which were flatted down while it was going in, killed it: so that there was a monstrous rose, ran through the snake's belly and snake dead, with the quills of a porcupine sticking out of it in many places."— Phil. Trans. Abr. 9, p. 102.

PIGEONS for many ages built under the roof of the great church at Pisa; their dung church was consumed.—Ibid. (spontaneously) took fire at last, and the p. 143.

APPLES, as well as pears and coleworts, &c. are affected by their neighbours; so that it may be of importance to the curious in fruits to take care how their trees are sorted, and what company they keep.Ibid. p. 169.

VIVIPAROUS animalculæ, ergo, all animalculæ are not produced from eggs. Ibid. p. 203.

The ergo not conclusive, because, as in the aphis, an impregnation might suffice for many generations.

AN altar to Silvanus, erected by C. Tatius Veturius Micianus, Præf. Alæ Sebosianæ, ob aprum eximiæ formæ captum, quem multi Antecessores ejus prædari non potuerunt. V. S. L. P. i. e. votum solvens lubens posuit. "Silvano morato sacrum" is the first line, and this makes the inscription complete. It was found near Stanhope, in the bishoprick of Durham.-Ibid. p. 470.

THE first anecdote relating to Sir Wil