women and animals. The basin is twenty-six Danish inches in diameter, but scarcely eight inches high. One or two pieces are apparently wanting, but it is hoped they will turn up when the moss is minutely examined. The eyeholes of the figures are now empty, but had evidently been filled with colored glass. One of the plates, which is nearly seventeen inches long, shows warriors with helmets and other ornaments. One figure is a god with a wheel at his side, and on another are two elephants. A third shows a horned god in a sitting posture, with his legs crossed Oriental wise.

"All these have apparently nothing to do with Northern mythology, as was at first supposed. The whole find has now reached the Danish National Museum, and we see that these pieces belong to the god-lore of the Gallic peoples. The god with the wheel, for instance, is the Gallic sun god. The whole is the work of a Gallic artist at that early period when the Roman and Gallic peoples first came in contact. Allowing time for these things to wander so far north, the date would seem to be, as regards Denmark, the first century before Christ. Other things belonging to this Gallic group have been found previously in this country. The total weight of precious metal hitherto exhumed is about twenty Danish pounds' (The Academy).

Life, nothing is more necessary, as all Philosophers agree (and the Derivation of the very Word Air, from the Greek word aw, spiro, denotes the same being composed of two Vowels, Alpha and Omega, as principium and finis vitæ, which is the Beginning and the End of Man's Life) is here clear, serene, lucid, void of any stinking Mephitis, or Damps arising from Bogs or Fens, which may occasion epedemical distempers in the Blood" ("A Philosophical and Medicinal Essay of the Waters of Tunbridge," by Pat. Madan, M.D., 1687).

Improvisation (Vol. vii, p. 125). -Macdonald Clarke, the eccentric poet, once rushed into a newspaper office in great wrath, declaring that Lang, another editor, had called him a man with zig-zag brains and demanding a column and a half of space to reply. The presiding genius of the sanctum said: "No, you shall have only four lines, and must compress what you have to say in that space." following:

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Clarke at once dashed off the

"I can tell Johnny Lang, by way of a laugh, In reply to his rude and unmannerly scrawl, In my humble opinion, 'tis better by half, To have brains that are zig-zag than no brains at all."

Lord Erskine, who made the very ungallant observation mentioned below, was rightly punished by the reply that will always go with it. He declared at a large party that a "wife was a tin cannister tied to one's tail." Upon which Sheridan, who was present, handed Lady Erskine the following lines:

'Lord Erskine, at women presuming to rail, Calls a wife a tin cannister tied to one's tail;

And fair Lady Anne, while the subject he carries on,
Seems hurt at his lordship's degrading comparison.
But wherefore degrading? Considered aright,

A cannister's polished and useful and bright;
And should dirt its original purity hide,
That's the fault of the puppy to whom it is tied."
E. P.

Artificial Egg-hatching (Vol. vii, p. 135). Let me call your attention to the following passage in Moore's "Utopia:"

"They breed an infinite multitude of

chickens in a very curious manner; for the hens do not sit and hatch them, but vast numbers of eggs are laid in a gentle and equal heat, in order to be hatched, and they are no sooner out of the shell, and able to stir about, but they seem to consider those that feed them as their mothers, and follow them as other chickens do the hens that hatched them."

When I was a boy the wives of Chester county (Pa.) farmers sometimes hatched eggs by keeping them in cotton before the fire and occasionally turning them.

PHILADELPHIA, PA.

E. HUNN, JR.

For a corroboration, now five hundred years old, of your note, p.135, see Sir John Maundevile's "Voiage and Travaile :"

"There is a common Hows in that Cytee [Cayre], that is alle fulle of smale Furneys; and thidre bryngen Women of the Toun here Eyren of Hennes, of Gees and of Dokes, for to ben put in to tho Furneyses. And thei that Kepen that Hows coveren hem with Hete of Hors Dong, with outen Henne, Goos or Doke or any other Foul; and at the ende of three wekes or of a monethe, thei comen azen and taken here Chickenes and norissche hem and bryngen | hem forthe: so that alle the Contree is fulle of hem. And so men done there both Wyntre and Somer." L. M.

The Gunpowder Age.-"The use of powder and shot *** is one of the most damnable inventions that ever was forged in the Devil's Conclave; against the Fury whereof neither the Courage of the Valiant, nor the Strength of the Mighty can prevail; so that if Hercules himself, whom the Poets falsely, or Sampson, whom the Scriptures truly deliver for the strongest of men, were living in these Times, a Child might Kill them with a Pistol. Let us examine the Invention, State and Progress of this pernicious and cruel Engine.

"All Writers do agree, that a German Monk was the first Inventor of the Materials thereof; and, as it is thought, not without the Devil, to shew his Hatred to Mankind. The first Invention was but rude and simple,

but Time and the Wickedness of Men have added to the first Project, even to the Mounting them upon wheels, that they might be the easier transported, and run, as it were, to the Ruin of Mankind. From hence hath proceeded these Monsters of Cannons, and double Cannons, and Culverins, these furious Basilisks and Murtherers, those fiery Falcons and Sakers; wherein it seems the Inventors knew well what they did, when they imposed on them the Names of Snakes, Serpents, and ravenous Birds; the very Names of them being terrible, and apt to beget in us a Horror and Detestation of them. I forbear to speak of lesser Engines, but of greater Danger; as, the Dagger and Pistol, which may be concealed in a Man's Pocket, wherewith many have been treacherously slain without any Prevention.

Out

of this miserable and cruel Magazine have issued these Mines, Counter-mines, Firepots, Fire-pikes, Oranges, Granados, Hedgehogs, Petards, and the like; a most cursed Invention, wherein the Malice of Man to Man is grown to that Height, whom we ought to love as our Brother; that such, as can invent the most wicked, cruel, and execrable Project to destroy Men withal, are held the most worthy to receive the greatest Honour, Respect, and Reward; and now, if ever, it may truly be said, Homo homini Damon; that is, One Man is a Devil to Another" ("Harleian Miscellany," 1744).

Visions (Vol. vi, pp. 299, 274, 259, etc.). The following from Richmond, Ind., supplies another instance in this connection:

"Some months ago Samuel Nutting, of this city, was run down by a switch engine and instantly killed. He had no relatives here, but had a sister somewhere in the West, of whom nothing had been heard for years. Yesterday Postmaster Jenkinson received a letter from the sister, who lives near Davenport, Ia., asking for information as to her brother, and stating that she had dreamed that her brother had been killed in an accident and had felt worried over the matter, so she determined to write and learn if something had happened to him. Particulars were sent to her to-day of the death of her brother."

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NOTES:-Glass-making in Maine, 169-Fossil Patents (with cuts), 170-Genesis li, 171.

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GLASS-MAKING IN MAINE.

The United States Census Report for 1880, Vol. ii, p. 1135, states that so far as has been ascertained, no glass was ever made in Maine. But in the house in which I was born, 1840, the windows were glazed with Maine glass. When I was quite a lad, there were still left in the storeroom in the rear of the house, several boxes marked "Wayne Cylinder Glass, North Wayne, Me." The report in question was prepared by Joseph D. Weeks, of Pittsburg, Pa.

MASSACHUSETTS.

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GENESIS LI.

The following, copied from a newspaper clipping which I have had in my possession for a long time, may be deemed worthy of preservation in the columns of AMERICAN NOTES AND QUERIES:

"Over one hundred years ago the following so-called Genesis li' was used to puzzle Biblical scholars, and to-day, were it read aloud in any mixed company, it is questionable if its fraudulent nature would be discovered, so beautifully is the spirit and language of the Old Testament imitated :

"1. And it came to pass after these things, that Abraham sat in the door of his tent, about the going down of the sun.

"2. And behold, a man, bowed with age, came from the way of the wilderness, leaning on a staff.

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'3. And Abraham arose and met him, and said unto him: Turn in, I pray thee, and wash thy feet, and tarry all night, and thou shalt arise early on the morrow, and go thy way.

4. But the man said: Nay, for I will abide under this tree.

"5. And Abraham pressed him greatly; so he turned, and they went into the tent, and Abraham baked unleavened bread, and they did eat.

"6. And when Abraham saw that the man blessed not God, he said unto him: Wherefore dost thou not worship the Most High God, Creator of heaven and earth?

666 7. And the man answered and said: I do not worship the God thou speakest of, neither do I call upon His name; for I have made to myself a God which abideth alway in my house and provideth me with all things.

66 6 8. And Abraham's zeal was kindled against the man, and he arose and drove him forth with blows into the wilderness.

"9. And at midnight God called unto Abraham, saying: Abraham, where is the stranger?

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And Abraham answered and said: Lord, he would not worship Thee, neither would he call upon Thy name, therefore have I driven him out from before my face into the wilderness.

"II. And God said: Have I not borne with him these hundred ninety and eight

12. And Abraham said: Let not the anger of my Lord wax against His servant; lo! I have sinned, forgive me, I pray Thee.

"'13. And Abraham arose and went forth into the wilderness, and sought diligently for the man, and found him and returned with him to the tent, and when he had entreated him kindly, he sent him away on the morrow with gifts.

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"14. And God spake unto Abraham, saying: For this thy sin shall thy seed be afflicted four hundred years in a strange land. 15. But for thy repentance will I deliver them, and they shall come forth with power, and with gladness of heart, and with much substance.'

"In 1759, when in England as agent for the Colony of Pennsylvania, Benjamin Franklin privately printed this' Chapter,' as he always termed it. Taking only a sheet of paper, he kept it laid in his Bible at the end of Genesis, and used to amuse himself by reading it aloud to his friends and hearing them express their surprise that they had never recollected reading it, and their openly expressed admiration of the moral it carried with it. Its origin is unknown. has been traced back seven hundred years to a Persian poet who simply says 'it was so related.'

HARRISBURG, Pa.

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