_Acrostic._--I send you a very curious acrostic, copied from a monument in the Church of St. Germans, Cornwall. You will perceive that it is in memory of "Johannes Glanvill, Minister;" and it is surmounted with the arms of that ancient family: A. D. +-------------------------+ A. D. 1599. | | 1631. 24^{to} | ARMS. | 20^{mo} Novemb^r | | Octob^r natus est. +-------------------------+ denatus. I nditur in gelidum G regis hujus opilio bustu M, O mnibus irriguus L achrymis simul urbis et agr I. H ujus erit vivax A tque indelebile nome N, A rtibus et linguis N ecnon virtute probat I. N obis ille novae V atem (pro munere) legi S N aviter et graviter I ucunde et suaviter egi T. E rgo relanguenti L icet eluctetur ab or E S piritus; aeternum L ucebit totus ut aste R. W. D. F. Walton. _Simmels._--The Vienna correspondent of _The Times_, whose letter from "Vienna, March 5th," appeared in that paper on Friday the 10th, mentions a Viennese loaf, the name of which so strongly resembles the _simmel_ of our ancestors as to deserve a Note: "The Viennese witlings, who are much inclined to abuse the hyperbole, affirm that a magnifying glass will soon be requisite in order to discover the whereabouts of the _semmeln_, the little wheaten loaves for which Austria is famous." W. J. T. _Ogborne's History of Essex._--I lately fell in with (at a marine store-shop in Somers Town) some scattered materials in Mrs. Ogborne's handwriting for the above highly interesting but unfinished work. I have not yet sorted them, but I perceive that the MSS. contain some information that was never published, relating to Rochford Hundred, &c. The shopkeeper stated that she had used the greater part of Mrs. Ogborne's papers as waste-paper, but I am not without hopes that she will find more. There is a letter from Mr. Leman of Bath, which is published in the work. I am aware that Mr. Fossett has Mrs. Ogborne's MSS.; but those now in my possession are certainly interesting, and might be, to some future historian of Essex, even valuable. Should I discover anything worth inserting in "N. & Q." on examining the MSS. I will send it. G. I. S. _Fleas and Bugs._--Has the following explanation of an old saying ever been brought forward, and is it satisfactory? When a person is sent off "with a flea in his ear," the luckless applicant is peremptorily dismissed with an imperative "flee," with the word "flee" sounding in his ear, or, facetiously, "with a _flea_ in his ear."