"In travelling to Bordeaux you must go to Orleans." V. T. STERNBERG. _Jewish Custom._--In a recently published music-novel of some merit, called _Charles Auchester_, occurs the following: "'I shall treat him as my son, because he will indeed be my music-child, and no more indebted to me than I am to music, or than we all are to Jehovah.' _'Sir, you are certainly a Jew, if you say Jehovah_; I was quite sure of it before, and I am so pleased.'" There is a great error as to custom here, for the Jews never attempt to pronounce the "four-lettered" Name, and in reading and speaking always use instead Adonai or Elohim. And even converted Jews retain for the most part the same habit. The writer of _Charles Auchester_ can only defend himself by the example of the writer of {619} _Ivanhoe_, who has made the same oversight; and a still more glaring one besides in making Isaac the Jew wish his daughter had been called Benoni, _i.e._ the _son_ of sorrow. The vowel letters of Jehovah are merely those of Adonai, inserted by the Massorites; but this is another subject. W. FRASER. Tor-Mohun. _Lachlan Macleane._--This individual, whose claim to the authorship of Junius has been lately revived, was in Philadelphia ninety-five years ago, and his name figures there in the accounts of the overseers of the poor, under date of November 9, 1758: "By cash received of James Coultass, late sheriff, being a fine paid by Laughlane McClain for kissing of Osborn's wife (after his commissions and writing bond were deducted) £24 : 5 : 0" This was in Pennsylvania currency; but it was an expensive kiss even in that, being (besides the commissions and sheriff's charge for writing the bond) equivalent to sixty-four dollars and fifty cents of our present currency. M. E. Philadelphia. _German Tree._--The following extract concerning this accessory to Christmas, which is now so popular, may perhaps be interesting at the present season. It is taken from the _Loseley Manuscripts_, edited by A. J. Kempe, F.S.A., 1836, p. 75. note. "We remember a German of the household of the late Queen Caroline, making what he termed a _Christmas tree_ for a juvenile party at that festive season. The tree was a branch of some evergreen fastened on a board. Its boughs bent under the weight of gilt oranges, almonds, &c.; and under it was a neat model of a farm-house, surrounded by figures of animals, &c., and all due accompaniments. The forming Christmas trees is, we believe, a common custom in Germany: evidently a remain of the pageants constructed at that season in ancient days." Is this the first notice of a German tree in England? The adjunct of the farm-house seems now to be dispensed with in this country. ZEUS. _The late Duke._--The following curious coincidence, which lately appeared in the _Meath Herald_, deserves transplanting to the literary museum of "N. & Q.":