Heare Lucie Quinsie Bromfield buried lies, With neighbours sad deepe weepinge, hartes, sighes, eyes. Children eleaven, tenne livinge me she brought. More kind, trewe, chaste was noane, in deed, word, thought. Howse, children, state, by hir was ruld, bred, thrives. One of the best of maides, of women, wives, Now gone to God, her heart sent long before; In fasting, prayer, faith, hope, and alms' deedes stoare. If anie faulte, she loved me too much. Ah, pardon that, for ther are too fewe such! Then, reader, if thou not hard-hearted bee, Praise God for hir, but sighe and praie for mee. Here by hir dead, I dead desire to lie, Till, rais'd to life, wee meet no more to die. 1618." RUBI. _"A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!" Richard III., Act V. Sc. 4._--In the edition of the _Walewein_ published by Professor Jonckbloet, Leyden, 1846, is found, vol. ii. p. 178., a remarkable parallel passage to the world-famed line of Shakspeare, the verses 16007-8 of the _Lancelot_, a romance of the Middle Ages: "Addic wapine ende een pard, In gaeft niet om een conincrike." "Had I weapons and a horse, I would not give them for a kingdom." _From the Navorscher._ J. M. _Weight of American Revolutionary Officers._--On the 10th of August, 1778, the American officers at West Point were weighed, with the following result: Lbs. Gen. Washington 209 Gen. Lincoln 224 Gen. Knox 280 Gen. Huntingdon 182 Gen. Greaton 166 Col. Swift 319 Col. Michael Jackson 252 Col. Henry Jackson 238 Lt.-Col. Huntingdon 212 Lieut.-Col. Cobb 182 Lt.-Col. Humphreys 221 Only three of the eleven weighed less than two hundred pounds,--a result which does not confirm the Abbé Raynal's theory of the deterioration of mankind in America. UNEDA. Philadelphia. _The Patronymic "Mac."_--The _Inverness Courier_ of 1823 gives a list of genuine Celtic surnames beginning with _Mac_, amounting to no less than 392. KIRKWALLENSIS. _Erroneous Forms of Speech._--Should you consider the following as worth a place in your publication, they are at your service. 1. The much used word _Te_e_total_ is wrong: it ought to be written _Te_a_total_. It implies the use of _tea_, instead of intoxicating liquors: that was its original meaning. Let us return to the proper spelling. Better late than never. 2. The expression, lately become very common, "_Up_ to the present time," and so forth, is wrong. It ought to be "_Down_ to the present time." The stream of time, like all other streams, is always descending. In tracing a thing backwards, from the present time, it is quite right to use the word _up_.