Like many other things in his Exposition, this is not original with Henry. It is here traced to the _Speculum Humanae Salvationis_ of the earliest and rarest printed works. Some of your readers can probably trace it to the Fathers. The verses which follow are engraven in block characters in the first edition of the work named, and are copied from the fifth plate of specimens of early typography in Meerman's _Origines Typographicae_: Hague, MDCCLXV.: "Mulier autem in paradiso est formata De costis viri dormientis est parata Deus autem ipsam super virum honestavit Quoniam Evam in loco voluptatis plasmavit, Non facit eam sicut virum de limo terrae Sed de osse nobilis viri Adae et de ejus carne. Non est facta de pede, ne a viro despiceretur Non de capite ne supra virum dominaretur. Sed est facta de latere maritali Et data est viro pro gloria et socia collaterali. Quae si sibi in honorem collata humiliter praestitisset Nunquam molestiam a viro unquam sustinuisset." O. T. D. _Singular Way of showing Displeasure._-- "The earl's regiment not long after, according to order, marched to take possession of the town (Londondery); but at their appearance before it the citizens clapt up the gates, and denyed them entrance, {594} declaring their resolution for the king (William III.) and their own preservation. Tyrconnel at the news of this was said _to have burnt his wig, as an indication of his displeasure with the townsmen's proceedings_."--_Life of James II._, p. 290. E. H. A. _The Maids and the Widows._--The following petition, signed by sixteen maids of Charleston, South Carolina, was presented to the governor of that province on March 1, 1733-4, "the day of the feast:" "To His Excellency Governor Johnson. "The humble Petition of all the Maids whose names are underwritten: "Whereas we the humble petitioners are at present in a very melancholy disposition of mind, considering how all the bachelors are blindly captivated by widows, and our more youthful charms thereby neglected: the consequence of this our request is, that your Excellency will for the future order that no widow shall presume to marry any young man till the maids are provided for; or else to pay each of them a fine for satisfaction, for invading our liberties; and likewise a fine to be laid on all such bachelors as shall be married to widows. The great disadvantage it is to us maids, is, that the widows, by their forward carriages, do snap up the young men; and have the vanity to think their merits beyond ours, which is a great imposition upon us who ought to have the preference. "This is humbly recommended to your Excellency's consideration, and hope you will prevent any farther insults. "And we poor Maids as in duty bound will ever pray.