Feb. 12. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



153 



14. New Moon. " You may see as many new- 

 moons at once through a silk handkerchief, as there 

 are years before you will marry." (Leicestershire.) 



15. Onions. "In buying onions always go in 

 by one door of the shop, and come out by another. 

 Select a shop with two doorways. These onions, 

 placed under your pillow on St. Thomas's Eve, are 

 sure to bring visions of your true-love, your future 

 husband." (London, &c.) 



16. Parsley. "Where parsley's grown in the 

 garden, there'll be a death before the year's out. 

 (London and Surrey.) 



17. Ring-finger. " The ring-finger, stroked 

 along any sore or wound, will soon heal it. All 

 the other fingers are poisonous, especially the 

 fore-finger." (Somerset.) 



18. Salt. " Help to salt, help to sorrow." 

 (Various.) 



19. Three Dogs. " If three dogs chase a rabbit 

 or a hare, they can't kill it." (Surrey.) 



20. White Cow. " A child that sucks a white 

 ■cow will thrive better." (Wilts.) 



J. Westbt Gibson. 



12. Catherine Street, Strand. 



Minat §^aUi. 



Mormon Etymologies. — W. Richards, " His- 

 torian and General Church Recorder" of the Mor- 

 mons, says : 



" Mormon is the name of an ancient prophet, and 

 signifies more good. ' Mormonism,' a new coined word 

 by the enemy, signifies all truth, present, past, and 

 ruTURE; and the 'Mormon's' creed is the truth, the 

 tohole truth, and nothing but the truth. And this creed 

 is what the devil and all his imps are eternally fighting 

 against, and not against the believers of that creed only, 

 so far as the truth influences their actions." — Millenial 

 Star, 1850, p. 341. 



This certainly displays the wisdom of the ser- 

 pent, if not the meekness of wisdom. Pray pre- 

 serve it in your cabinet of literary curiosities. 



B. H. C. 



Bandalore and Tommy Moore. — 



" What this toy was, we have no means of knowing," 

 &c. — JFraser's Mag., January, p. 5. 



Had our reviewer stepped in at Dunnett's toy- 

 shop, instead of searching all his French diction- 

 aries, he would have learned, I doubt not, that 

 bandalore is still a living toy, just as it was when 

 Moore was young. 



At Tunbridge it is still made in their pretty 

 ware ; and sufficiently portable for any kind- 

 hearted grandpapa to carry in his pocket. J. J. 11. 



Electric Clock. — It is said that the electric tele- 

 graph win annihilate time and space. Of the 

 former we have visible proof. Look at the new 

 clock in West Strand. The minute-hand moves 



only once in each minute, and then it jumps a 

 whole minute at once» and occupies a second of 

 time in doing so. Now, supposing the clock to 

 indicate true time at the Instant of each movement, 

 it is obvious that it must indicate untrue time at 

 every other instant : hence it only indicates true 

 time during one second in each minute, twenty- 

 four minutes in each day, and six days and two 

 hours In the whole year, or less than two years in 

 a century ; whilst, during the remaining ninety- 

 eight years and more, it is annihilating true time, 

 by imposing upon an unwary public that which is 

 false ! J. J. R. 



Desirable Reprints. — Will you allow me to com- 

 mence a series of Notes, which your readers can 

 easily amplify, viz. suggestions of old books de- 

 serving to be reprinted, with the authorities quoted 

 recommending them. 



1, Glanvll's Scepis Scientifica. 



" Few books, I think, are more deserving of being 

 reprinted." — Hallam's Literature of Europe. 



J.M. 



The Earldom of Oxford. — The following is so 

 remarkable a coincidence, that I am sure many of 

 your readers will be obliged to me for bringing it 

 under their notice, particularly those who are in- 

 terested in heraldry. 



The same individual who has been for many 

 years the nearest heir male to Aubery de Vere, 

 twentieth and last earl of Oxford of that family, 

 who died in 1702, has become, by the recent death 

 of Alfred, sixth Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, the 

 nearest heir male to that race also, which title is 

 likewise extinct. An M. D. 



Literary Attainments of the Scottish Clergy in 

 the Seventeenth Century. — In a deed granted by 

 Andro Andersone, minister of Loth, in Suther- 

 landshlre, anno 1618, wherein he is designated 

 " Minlstro verlti Dei apud Loithe," the instrument 

 is signed with his mark, after which is added, 

 " Cannot wreitt myself." Kibkwallensis. 



QUERIES AS TO MB. COLLIER's " NOTES AND 

 EMENDATIONS." 



Query 1. Does Mr. Collier claim a copyright 

 in the Emendations on the Text of Shakspeare lately 

 published by him, and derived from MS. correc- 

 tions in his old copy of the folio of 1632 ? He 

 seems to intimate as much in what he says at p. 13. 

 of his Introduction, when he speaks of a certain 

 phrase never being again seen in any edition of 

 Shakspeare, " unless it be reproduced by some 

 one who, having no right to use the emendations of 

 our folio 1632, adheres of necessity to the anti- 



