Mar. 9. 1850.] 
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Journeyman. — Three or four years since, a 
paragraph went the round of the press, deriving 
the English word “journeyman” from the custom 
of travelling among work-men in Germany. ‘This 
derivation is very doubtful? Is it not a relic of 
Norman rule, from the French journée, signifying 
a day-man? In support of this, it may be ob- 
served, that the German name for the word in 
question is Tageliéhner, or day-worker. It is also 
well known, that down to a comparatively recent 
period, artisans and free labourers were paid 
daily. Gomer. 
Balloons. — In one of your early numbers you 
mention the History of Ringwood, &e. Many years 
since I sent to a periodical (I cannot recollect 
which) a circumstance connected with that town, 
| which I never heard or read of anywhere, and 
| which, as it is rather of importance, I forward to 
you in hopes that some of your correspondents 
may be able to throw some light upon it. When 
my father was in the Artillery Ground at the as- 
cension of Lunardi’s balloon, he remarked to 
several persons present, “ This is no novelty to 
me; I remember well, when I was at school in 
Ringwood [about the year 1757], an apothecary in 
that town that used to let off balloons (he had no 
other name, I suppose, to give them) on a smaller 
seale, but exactly corresponding with what he then 
saw, many a time.” 
I had several letters addressed to me, request- 
ing further explanation, which, as my father was 
dead, I was unable to give. It is highly impro- 
\® bable that any persons now living may have it in 
their relations or descendants may. I suppose 
they must have been fire-balloons, and these of the 
rudest construction; and my father, being a boy at 
the time, would have given perhaps little valuable 
information except as to the name of the apothe- 
cary, which however I never heard him mention. 
Baila 
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