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as stage doctors. John kept a dancing-school in 
Dunse, in 1807. He afterwards resided at Larke- 
hall, near Hamilton, and died there a few years 
afterwards. M. G. F. 
Value of Money in past Times (1* S, xii. 494.) 
— This is a subject on which historians are so 
much divided, as to preclude the hope of a satis- 
factory conclusion. Without attempting “rules 
or data,” the following opinions may be con- 
sidered. Dr. Henry and Adam Smith make the 
value of money at the present time to be fifteen 
times greater than in the thirteenth century. 
But as the query of L. relates to the reign of 
Elizabeth, the following authorities may be taken. 
Maitland, in his History of London and Westmin- 
ster, considers the present value six times greater 
than about the period of the Reformation. 
Lingard says six or seven times. Taylor, in his 
Index Monasticus, estimates it at fifteen times. 
Mackintosh, in his History of England, says six- 
teen times ; and finally, Cobbett, in his History of 
the Reformation, puts it down at twenty beat, 
1ST Ga 8 
“ Right” and “ Left Hand” (1* S. xii. 404.) — 
Will Hermes inform us “ What is instinct?” I 
do not think Sir B. Brodie’s explanation right, as 
to the use of the right in preference to the left 
hand. ‘There is no anatomical difference. 
A clergyman, a relative of mine, has been long 
investigating what is called the instinct in the 
lower animals of creation, and has collected a 
great many very curious and extraordinary anec- 
dotes concerning it; and he has come to the con- 
clusion, that it is mind and not instinct! Now 
mind is a function of the brain; and this natural 
function must depend on the form and develop- 
ment of that organ. The superiority of the mind 
of man is; he says, the consequence of the Almighty 
having breathed into him a portion of the Divine 
Spirit —the soul ; which, at death, returns to Him | 
who gave it. But the lower animals, having no 
such Spirit given to them, have lower mental 
faculties, depending on the formation of their 
brains. 
I have just recollected the epigram on a school- 
master, who was born without a right hand : -— 
“Tho’ of thy right hand Nature hath bereft thee, 
Right well thou writest with thy hand that’s left thee.” 
W. Cottyns, M.R.C.S. 
Drewsteignton. 
Weather Proverb (1* §, xii. 260.) —As a com- 
panion proverb to the above, perhaps you will 
find a corner for the following : 
“ A plum year, 
A dumb year.” 
Abundant proof of the one has been furnished 
by the year which has just closed. The other is 
as well known as the former in Norfolk, and is 
equally true. 
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