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Title: Notes & Queries, No. 36. Saturday, July 6, 1850
A Medium Of Inter-Communication For Literary Men, Artists,
Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc.

Author: Various

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A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS,
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No. 36.] SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1850. [Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d.

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CONTENTS

NOTES:--
Further Notes on Derivation of the Word "News", by
Samuel Hickson 81
More Borrowed Thoughts, by S. W. Singer 82
Strangers in the House of Commons, by C. Ross 83
Folk Lore:--High Spirits considered a Presage of impending
Calamity, by C Forbes 84
The Hydro-Incubator, by H. Kersley 84
Etymology of the Word "Parliament" 85
"Incidis in Scyllam, cupiens vitare Charybdim," by
C. Forbes and T. H. Friswell 85
A Note of Admiration! 86
The Earl of Norwich and his Son George Lord
Goring, by CH. and Lord Braybooke 86

QUERIES:--
James Carkasse's Lucida Intervalla 87
Minor Queries:--Epigrams on the Universities--Lammas'Day--Mother
Grey's Apples--Jewish Music--The Plant "Haemony"--Ventriloquism--
Epigram on Statue of French King--Lux fiat-Hiring of Servants--
Book of Homilies--Collar of SS.--Rainbow--Passage in Lucan--William
of Wykeham--Richard Baxter's Descendants--Passage in St. Peter--
Juicecups--Derivation of "Yote" or "Yeot"--Pedigree of Greene
Family--Family of Love--Sir Gammer Vans 87

REPLIES:--
Punishment of Death by Burning 90
To give a Man Horns, by C. Forbes and J.E.B. Mayor 90
Replies to Minor Queries:--Shipster--Three Dukes--Bishops