{141} NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. * * * * * ="When found, make a note of."=--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. * * * * * No. 198.] SATURDAY, AUGUST 13. 1853. [Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition, 5_d._ * * * * * CONTENTS. NOTES:-- Page Bacon's Essays, by Markby 141 The Isthmus of Panama 144 FOLK LORE:--Legends of the County Clare--Moon Superstitions--Warwickshire Folk Lore--Northamptonshire Folk Lore--Slow-worm Superstition--A Devonshire Charm for the Thrush 145 Old Jokes 146 An Interpolation of the Players: Tobacco, by W. Robson 147 MINOR NOTES:--Curious Epitaph--Enigmatical Epitaph--Books worthy to be reprinted--Napoleon's Thunderstorm--Istamboul: Constantinople 147 QUERIES:-- Strut-stowers, and Yeathers or Yadders, by C. H. Cooper 148 MINOR QUERIES:--Archbishop Parker's Correspondence--Amor Nummi--The Number Nine--Position of Font--Aix Ruochim or Romans Ioner--"Lessons for Lent," &c.--"La Branche des réaus Lignages"--Marriage Service--"Czar" or "Tsar"--Little Silver--On Æsop's (?) Fable of washing the Blackamoor--Wedding Proverb--German Phrase--German Heraldry--Leman Family--A Cob-wall--Inscription near Chalcedon--Domesday Book--Dotinchem--"Mirrour to all," &c.--Title wanted--Portrait of Charles I.: Countess Du Barry 149 MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--"Preparation for Martyrdom"--Reference wanted--Speaker of the House of Commons in 1697 152 REPLIES:-- Inscriptions in Books 153 The Drummer's Letter, by Henry H. Breen 153 Old Fogies 154 Descendants of John of Gaunt, by William Hardy 155 PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE:--Lining of Cameras--Cyanuret of Potassium--Minuteness of Detail on Paper--Stereoscopic Angles--Sisson's developing Solution--Multiplying Photographs--Is it dangerous to use the Ammonio-nitrate of Silver? 157