d say 'God speed them well,' the clerk and
congregation responding, Amen! Owing to the recent death of the person
who officiated in this ceremony, last Sunday, after the banns of
marriage were read, a perfect silence prevailed, the person chosen,
either from want of courage or loss of memory, not performing his part
until after receiving an intimation from the clerk, and then in so
faint a tone as to be scarcely audible. His whispered good wishes were,
however, followed by a hearty Amen, mingled with some laughter in
different parts of the church."

I do not know whether any notices of the above have appeared in "N. & Q.,"
and send to inquire respecting 1. and 3. whether a similar custom holds
elsewhere; and whether 2. has any connexion with the disused practice of
cock-shying?

FURVUS.

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Minor Notes.

_A Centenarian Couple._--The obituary of _Blackwood's Magazine_ for August,
1821, contains the following:

"Lately, in Campbell, County Virginia, Mr. Chas. Layne, sen., aged 121
years, being born at Albemarle, near Buckingham county, 1700. He has
left a widow aged 110 years, and a numerous and respectable family down
to the fourth generation. He was a subject of four British sovereigns,
and a citizen of the United States for nearly forty-eight years. Until
within a few years he enjoyed all his faculties, and excellent health."

The above extract is followed by notices of the deaths of Anne Bryan, of
Ashford, co. Waterford, aged 111; and Wm. Munro, gardener at Rose Hall,
aged 104.

CUTHBERT BEDE, B.A.

_"Veni, vidi, vici."_--To these remarkable and well-known words of the
Roman general, I beg to forward two more sententious despatches of
celebrated generals:

_Suwarrow._ "Slava bogu! Slava vam!
Krepost Vzala, yiatam."

"Glory to God and the Empress! Ismail's ours."

It is also stated, I do not know on what authority, that the old and
lamented warrior, Sir Charles Napier, wrote on the conquest of Scinde,
"Peccavi."

Perhaps some of your correspondents could add a few more pithy sentences on
a like subject.

G. LLOYD.

Dublin.

_Autumnal Tints._--Scarce any one can have failed to notice the unusual
richness and brilliance of the autumnal tints on the foliage this year. I
have more particularly remarked this in Clydesdale, the lake districts of
Cumberland and Westmoreland, and in Somersets