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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2»« S. VII. April 23. '59. 



application to those of them who are members of 

 the Worshipful Company of Stationers, for I find 

 that there is still published in this very year 1859, 

 at any event one almanac, in which that highly 

 respectable Company — distinguished for its cha- 

 rities no less than for its intelligence and its good 

 dinners — still inculcates these marvels. For some 

 reason which I cannot divine, they set apart in 

 one of their almanacs now before me, and perhaps 

 in others, a column which, beginning at the 1st 

 of January, runs literally thus : " Hips, thighs, 

 knees and hams, legs, ancles, feet and toes, head, 

 face, neck, throat, arms, shoulders, breast, sto- 

 mach, heart, back, bowels, belly, veins, loins — 

 Scorpio dominant." And then it proceeds over 

 again ; " Plips, thighs," &c., as befoi'e, through- 

 out the year, the list always ending with " Scorpio 

 dominant," the meaning of which may be guessed 

 from one of the lines I have been obliged to alter 

 above. These gentlemen — all of them most esti- 

 mable men, and some of them, I am proud to say, 

 my personal friends — of course understand their 

 own publication, and will probably enlighten me. 

 If I read their enumeration correctly, it agrees, 

 not with the knight's, but with the manuscript in 

 the State Paper Office, " neck and throat " being 

 assigned to Taurus, but it would be highly satis- 

 factory to hear the sentiments of these living 

 teachers of Medical Astrology. John Beuce. 



5. Upper Gloucester Street, Dorset Square. 



Reo. George Whitefield. — Who is the author of 

 a well written, but unjust and exaggerated, satire 

 on Mr. Whitefield and his preaching, viz. — 



" A Plain and Easy Road to the Land of Bliss, a Turn- 

 pike set up by Mr. Orator ; on which a man may 



travel more Miles in one D&y, than any other Highway 

 in Forty Years. With a Dedication such as never was, 

 or will be in vogue. Honi soit qui Mai y pense. London, 

 printed for W. Nicoll in St. PauVs Churchyard, and W. 

 Tesseyman in Fork, 1762. 12mo., pp. 210." 



It affects very much the wit and style of the 

 Tale of a Tub. G. N. 



Serjeant John Ball. — Will you kindly refer 

 me to any biographical sketch (and what I want 

 to see appeared, I think, in an Irish periodical of 

 the day,) of Serjeant John Ball, in memory of 

 whom a monument was erected in the cathedral of 

 St, Patrick, Dublin, shortly after his death in 

 1813, "by the unanimous vote of the Irish Bar?" 

 A copy of the inscription, which is perfect in its 

 way, is given in Monck Mason's Histoi'ij of St. 

 Patrick's Cathedral (Appendix, p. lix.) ; and an 

 extract from Mr. Peter Burrowes's speech on 

 moving that a monument should be erected, ap- 

 pears in Phillips's Specimens of Irish Eloquence, 

 pp. 300-2. I may add that the Mr. Miller, whose 



honourable case comes immediately after in the 

 same volume (pp. 302-8.) was subsequently well 

 known as the Kev. George Miller, D.D., author of 

 The Philosophy of Modern History, and for many 

 years a Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. 



Abhba. 



Vitality of Eggs. — In the Gardener's Chronicle 

 for August 20th, 1853, a statement was made re- 

 specting some eggs which had been dug out of .an 

 old wall of a sacristy, near Lago Maggiore, after 

 being buried for 300 years, and found to be in a 

 perfect state. It is possible some reader of " N. 

 & Q." can refer me to an authentic account of the 

 discovery, or say Avhat became of the eggs ? and 

 whether the vitality was proved by chickens being 

 hatched from them ? and if so, what was the kind 

 of fowl produced ? T. W. Wonfor. 



Brighton. 



Miracles of J. J. Bousseau, Sfc. — To what does 

 the following quotation refer? it is extracted from 

 " Questions sur les Miracles," forming part of the 

 7th vol. of Melanges Philosophiqiies, Litteraires, 

 Historiques, 8fc. (Geneve, mdcclxxvii.), p. 310.: 



" Je veux croire aux miracles que M. Rousseau a faits 

 a Venise; mais j'avoue que jo crois plus fermement _a 

 ceux de notre comte de Neuchatel. Resistor 5, la moitie 

 de I'Europe, et h quatre arme'es d'environ cent mille 

 hommes chacune, remporter dans I'espace d'un mois deux 

 victoires signalees, forcer les ennemis a faire la paix, jouir 

 de sa gloire en philosophe, voilk des vrais miracles." 



Is there any foundation for the following state- 

 ment taken from p. 58. of the same volume : — 



" Savez-vous bien que dans plus d'une province, il n'y 

 a pas un sibcle que Ton condamnait les gens qui man- 

 geaint gras en careme h, Stre pendus ? " 



Libya. 



Cambridge. 



Yeodl and Neighbourhood. — I am collecting 

 from all sources information respecting the his- 

 tory of families settled in this neighbourhood, and 

 should be greatly obliged by assistance from your 

 Somerset correspondents. CoUison, in his county 

 history, has given very little attention to gene- 

 alogy, and an additional volume, remedying this 

 deficiency, would be a great boon to the public. 



C. J. R. 



" The Fal of the late Arriaii." — I should he 

 obliged to any correspondent favouring me with 

 information respecting- the following tract : 



" The Fal of the late Arrian : Colophon. Imprynted 

 at London in Flete Strete, at the Signe of the George, by 

 Willis Powell, An. Dni. ji.ccccc.xlix." * 



C. J. R. 



Robert Huisli. — Can any of your readers give 

 me any information regarding Robert Iluisb, au- 

 thor of The Management of Bees, published about 

 1816. Mr. riuish is also the author of a life of 



[* This work is by John Proctour : see Herbert's Ames, 

 A copy of it is in the Bodleian Library. — Ed.] 



