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world, from “nations” down to ‘‘ nobodies,” talks 
by telegraph, the érea mrepdevra of Homer ceases 
to be a metaphor. I cannot at this moment cite 
any passage of the Iliad in which the poet's 
“winged words” are ascribed to Paris! But, 
even devoid of this nominal identity, the following 
paragraph recording the telegraphic announce- 
ment to English, Swedish, and other European 
courts, of the birth of an imperial prince, furnishes 
a pretty literal translation of the Homeric phrase, 
while it illustrates the velocity with which court 
news may travel now-a-days through civilised 
space in any number of lines, at any moment, 
when radiating from a great centre like Paris. 
The paragraph appeared in a certain quarter of 
the Globe: 
“Within a few minutes of the birth of the prince, at a 
quarter past three this morning, the Emperor sent messages 
in his own name, announcing the event to the Pope, the 
Queen of England, the King of Piedmont, the Queen of 
Sweden, the Grand Duchess Dowager of Baden, and some 
other courts. Telegraphic messages of congratulation 
were received in answer before six o’clock from the Pope, 
Queen Victoria, and the Coeth of Sweden ” — €zeo. mre- 
pocvTa, 
F, Psrxorr. 
Epitaph from Ryan's “ Antiquities of Carlow.” — 
“The following lines were written, I am told, by the 
late Henry Tighe, Esq., of Rosanna, in the county of 
Wicklow. Ralph, the subject of them, was wood-ranger 
to Mr. Tighe. Perhaps his lady, the gifted author of 
Psyche, lent a hand to the production :— 
“<¢ To the Memory of William Ralph, of Kilcarry, who died 
on the 21st February, 1818, aged 71 years. 
“¢ Guard of the wood in settled low content, 
Lived William Ralph, a ramble paid his rent: 
A boy, in sportive toil he climbed the trees; 
A man, he loy’d them rustling in the breeze, 
As he grew old, his old companions spread 
A broader, browner shadow o’er his head; 
While those he planted shot on high, and made 
For many a rook an hospitable shade. 
With this one change, life gently crept away, 
A placid stream it flowed from day to day. 
His friends and children loy’d him, as the tear 
Well spoke, profusely shed upon his bier. 
If he had faults, thou also hast thy share; 
Strike thy own breast, and feel what lurketh there. 
He who sees all, shall judge both him and thee; 
Repent, for as it falls, so lies the tree,’ ” 
J. M. 
Judge Jeffreys.—I hope the following Note is 
not of too professional a nature for insertion in 
your pages : — 
Mr. FR. Daviss, in his Note on Judge Jef- 
freys (2717S, i. 128.), says,—‘‘though he was a 
bad man, he was undoubtedly a great lawyer ; and 
the Reports published by Vernon were his work, 
but his name was too unpopular to be prefixed to 
them.” Mr. Davies refers to no authority for this 
statement, which is evidently altogether doubtful, 
and certainly inaccurate in some respects. The 
Reports, which are known as Vernon's, were not 
published by Vernon at all, but were compiled 
from his MSS. after his death, and published by 
order of the Court in 1726. The notion that they 
were the work of any one else seems entirely in- 
consistent with the dedication to Lord Chancellor 
King, prefixed to the first volume. As Jeffreys 
had then been dead thirty-seven years, it does not 
appear very probable, if he really was the author, 
that the fear of prejudice, arising from the odium 
in which his memory was held, would have been 
sufficient to induce the editors to suppress his 
name, and ascribe a mere professional work of his 
to another. But be this as it may, one thing is 
quite certain, whoever might have reported some 
of the earlier cases, Jeffreys could not possibly 
have had anything to do with the greater part of 
the second and larger volume of the two; for it 
contains cases down to Trinity Term (1719), 
thirty years after his death. 
I therefore cannot help doubting the accuracy 
of the statement altogether. J. W. Pritts, 
Haverfordwest, 
Military Costume.—The Grenadiers, in 1678, 
according to Evelyn wore “ furred caps with coped 
crowns, and long hoods hanging down behind ;” 
the uniform being “ piebald, yellow and red.” 
Macxkenzit Watcott, M.A. 
Punishment of Dishonest Bakers. — The old 
mode of punishing dishonest bakers in Dublin was 
good, and at the same time more humane than 
that of the ancient Egyptians, who baked such 
persons in their own ovens: 
“mocox. The bakers of Dublin were punished after a 
new way for false weights; for, on St. Sampson the 
Bishop’s day, they were drawn upon hurdles, at the 
horses’ tails, along the streets of the city.” — Pembridge’s 
Annals of Ireland. 
The cost of a cranock of wheat was 20s. 
ABHBA, 
Rurerics. 
ORIGIN OF FASHIONS, 
Can any of your correspondents furnish me 
with references on this subject, or give me the 
names of any works in which such a subject 
is discussed. I should like to know, for in- 
stance, who or what induced the ladies to put 
their heads into those coalscuttles in which one 
sees them depicted in prints, &c., of the last 
century? And, by and by, some one else will 
doubtless seek for a true and particular account 
setting forth the reason why in this present 
and the past year of grace, they were induced 
to wear that same article of dress of such a size, 
and in such a position, as to necessitate its being 
skewered—in order to enable it to retain its 
position in society— to that frail support, the 
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