an
imperative "flee," with the word "flee" sounding in his ear, or,
facetiously, "with a _flea_ in his ear."

_Apropos_ of proverbial domestic entomology, is there more than lies on the
surface in the elegant simile "As snug as a bug in a rug?" A rough variety
of dog was termed a "rug" in Shakspeare's time; quartered on which, the
insect might find good entertainment--a plentiful board, as well as a snug
lodging. It appears, however, that the name has not long been applied to
the _Cimex_, so that the saying may be of greater antiquity, and relate to
bugbears.

C. T.

_Zeuxis and Parrhasius._--In the Preface to Mr. Grote's _History of
Greece_, there occurs the following passage:

"If the reader blame me for not assisting him to determine this--if he
ask me why I do not undraw the curtain, and disclose the picture?--I
reply in the words of the painter Zeuxis, when the same question was
addressed to him on exhibiting his master-piece of imitative art: 'The
curtain _is_ the picture.'"

Compare this with Pliny, _Nat. Hist._ XXXV. 36. s. 3.; from which it
appears that Parrhasius, not _Zeuxis_, painted the curtain.

ARCH. WEIR.

_Cure for Hydrophobia._--A gentleman named Monsell, who lived at Kilrush in
the county Clare, possessed a cure for hydrophobia which was never known to
fail. He required that the patient should be brought to him within nine
days from the time of being bitten, and his first proceeding was to cause
the person to look in a looking-glass or pail of water: if the patient bore
that trial without showing any uneasiness, he declared that there was no
doubt of his being able to effect a cure. He then retired to another room,
leaving the patient alone for a short time; and when he returned, he
brought two bits of cheese which he said contained the remedy, and caused
the person to swallow them. He then desired that the patient should return
home, and for nine days frequently drink a few sips of water; and also take
opportunities to look at water or a looking-glass, so as to accustom the
nerves to be under control. I knew a case of a peasant girl, who was bitten
by a mad dog, and who had to be brought to him tied on a car, whom he
cured. The dog, before he was killed, bit several valuable dogs, all of
{323} which had to be destroyed; he also bit two pigs, which, after showing
most frightful symptoms of hydrophobia, had to be shot and their flesh
burned. Mr. Monsell always refused to de