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NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



[2nd s. NO 85., Aug. 80. '56. 



':fA sunbeam passes through pollution unpolluted." 

 (2°^ S. i. 114. 304. 442. 502.) — Diopfenes Laertius, 

 in his Life of Diogenes the Cynic (§ 63.), records 

 the following saying of that philosopher : 



" Ilpbs TOc oveiSl^ovTa oti eis roirous aKaddprovi elcrCoi, KoX 

 yolp 6 i}A.io«, iij>ij, eis Toirs aTron-arovs, aAA' ou fxiaiverai." 



Zeus. 



Great Heat (2"" S. ii. 131.) — To us, in Scot- 

 land, it is an extraordinary idea to compare the 

 heat of 1856 to that of 1826, as your correspon- 

 dent Karl seems inclined to do. Here rain has 

 fallen almost daily all summer, and the air felt 

 cold, the thermometer seldom exceeding 70°. In 

 1826 the air was dry and the heat intense for 

 three months. The disastrous consequence to 

 the crops was, that oats on light soils were pulled 

 by hand, and barley was with difficulty mown 

 with either sickle or scythe. The straw of the 

 wheat was short, but was capable of being reaped 

 and shocked. There was very little hay, and the 

 pastures were burnt up, the cattle being half 

 starved. And yet sheep never throve better than 

 in that season, and wheat was of the finest quality, 

 not a single grain being unfilled in the ear. No 

 such state of crops has occurred since 1826. As 

 to potatoes, they were scanty, but of fine quality, 

 and at that time no dire disease had overtaken 

 them. The turnips were small and hard. For 

 want of straw and turnips the stock were with 

 difficulty brought through the ensuing winter. 

 Having some acres of rough boggy land in Forfar- 

 shire, I had a considerable quantity of its coarse 

 hay to support my stock upon, and they devoured 

 it with avidity. Henkt Stephens. 



Grain Crops (2°'i S. ii. 88.) — There is no 

 doubt that when the straw becomes ripe at the 

 root, before the ear, that the crop may be cut 

 down, with the advantages of securing it against 

 shaking by the wind, and of ripening the ear in 

 the shock. Such always occurs in early and fa- 

 vourable seasons ; but in late seasons the ear 

 ripens before any part of the straw, in which case 

 early cutting would find the straw in too green a 

 state. It will not, therefore, do to wait in all 

 seasons for the ripening of the straw at the root. 

 "Whatever be the state of the straw, it is safest to 

 reap grain crops before the maturing of the ear, 

 and not run the risk of a wind-shake, which at 

 times is very disastrous, especially in Scotland. 

 No loss will arise from cutting straw in a greenish 

 state. One year I cut down a ridge of potato 

 oats, quite filled, it is true, but in a very fresh 

 green state, to make a way for hay to be built 

 into a stack in a convenient place. Both straw 

 and grain ripened fully in the shock, and afibrded 

 the most beautiful sample of each I ever saw. 



Henry Stephens. 



I' Hey Johnny Cope" (2'«> S. ii. 135.) — The 

 original air of this song was composed by Thomas 



Connallon, the Irish harper, in 1660, in honour of 

 " Lady Iveagh." Thomas Connallon was born at 

 Cloonmahon, co. Sligo, in 1640 ; and in after life 

 he settled at Edinburgh. He introduced into 

 Scotland the fine air of " Lochabar," which was 

 composed by Miles O'Reilly, harper, of Killincarn, 

 CO. Cavan, as " a lament for the battle of Augh- 

 rim." O'Reilly was born in 1635. I shall be 

 happy to send Dr. Rimbault the score of " Lady 

 Iveagh," if he desires it. Fras. Crosslet. 



Ancient British Saints (2"^ S. ii. 68.) — Two of 

 the saints of whom Mr. Bitng speaks are noticed 

 in A Memorial of Ancient British Piety, or a 

 British Martyrology, London, 1761 ; and the third, 

 " Judicael," whose feast-day is December 16, is 

 enumerated in the — 



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 elucidanda videntur." 



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