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The above is a hasty, but I trust an intelligible, view of the scope of the Psalm.
MOSES MARGOLIOUTH
Wybunbury, Nantwich.
INSCRIPTIONS ON BELLS.
The inscription on one of the bells of Great Milton Church, Oxon. , has a better and rhyming form occasionally.
In Meivod Church, Montgomeryshire, a bell has the inscription--
"I to the church the living call, And to the grave do summon all."
The same also is found on the great bell of the interesting church of Llanbadarn Fawr, Cardiganshire.
E. DYER GREEN.
Nantcribba Hall.
I beg to forward the following inscription on one of the bells in the tower of St. Nicholas Church, Sidmouth. I have not met with it elsewhere; and you may, perhaps, consider it worthy of being added to those given by CUTHBERT BEDE and J. L. SISSON:
"Est michi collatum Ihc istud nomen amatum."
There is no date, but the characters may indicate the commencement of the fifteenth century as the period when the bell was cast.
G. J. R. GORDON.
At Lapley in Staffordshire:
"I will sound and resound to thee, O Lord, To call thy people to thy word."
G. E. T. S. R. N.
Pray add the following savoury inscriptions to your next list of bell-mottoes. The first disgraces the belfry of St. Paul's, Bedford; the second, that, of St. Mary's, Islington:
"Thine incomparable oil, Macassar!"
J. YEOWELL.
A friend informs me, that on a bell in Durham Cathedral these lines occur:
"To call the folk to Church in time, I chime. When mirth and pleasure's on the wing, I ring. And when the body leaves the soul, I toll."
J. L. S.
ARMS OF GENEVA.
Your correspondent who desires the blazon of the arms of the "town of Geneva," had better have specified to which of the two bearings assigned to that name he refers.
The correct blazon, I believe, would be: Or, an eagle double-headed, displayed sable, dimidiated, and impaling gu. a key in pale argent, the wards in chief, and turned to the sinister; the shield surmounted with a marquis' coronet.
With regard to the former shield, I may just remark, that the dimidiated coat is merely that of the German empire. How or why Geneva obtained it, I should be very glad to be informed; since it appears to appertain to the present independent Republic, and not to the former seignorial territory.
Nothing, in an heraldic point of view, would be more interesting than a "Regal Heraldry of Europe," with a commentary explaining the historical origin and combinations of the various bearings. Should this small contribution towards such a compilation tend to call the attention of any able antiquary to the general subject, or to elicit information upon this particular question, the writer who now offers so insignificant an item would feel peculiarly gratified.
L. C. D.
PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE.
I have repeatedly performed the operation above described so far as the production of the positive, and so perfect is the impression that I see no reason why the second negative should be at all distinguishable from the original.
GEO. SHADBOLT.
GEO. SHADBOLT.
THE READER OF PHOTOGRAPHIC WORKS.
Replies to Minor Queries.
B. H. C.
Having frequently read the portion of English history containing the narrative of the transactions in which Major Andr? was so actively engaged, and for which he suffered, I have often asked myself whether he was altogether blameless in that questionable affair.
TRIVET ALLCOCK.
Norwich.
P.S.--This account was furnished to me by Mr. E. Mills, husband of the late Mrs. Mills.
"Its stereotype Testament ... was proved to abound in gross errors; hardly a copy of it could be sold; and, in the end, the plates for continuing it have been of late presented by an illustrious personage, into whose hands they fell, to one of our prelates , who will immediately employ the cart-load of them for a good purpose, as they were intended to be, by disposing of them to some pewterer, who will convert them into numerous useful culinary implements, gas-pipes, and other pipes."
F. C. H.
The advocates for a Celtic origin of the name of these islands are perhaps not aware that--
BIBLIOTHECAR. CHETHAM.
J. H. B.
"In longitude is sorely scanty."
In fact, it terminates abruptly at the length of a few inches, as if amputated, having altogether a very ludicrous appearance.
G. TAYLOR.
Reading.
The breed of cats without tails is well known in the Isle of Man, and accounted by the people of the island one of its chief curiosities. These cats are sought after by strangers: the natives call them "Rumpies," or "Rumpy Cats." Their hind legs are rather longer than those of cats with tails, and give them a somewhat rabbit-like aspect, which has given rise to the odd fancy that they are the descendants of a cross between a rabbit and cat. They are good mousers. When a perfectly tailless cat is crossed with an ordinary-tailed individual, the progeny exhibit all intermediate states between tail and no tail.
EDWARD FORBES.
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