"Both of them hath he instructed with wisdom, to do ... tapestry and embroidery in blue and purple, {386} and scarlet twice dyed, and fine linen, and to weave all things, and to invent all things."--Exod. xxxv. 35. And Christian women are reminded that all their skill in such work is the gift of God. The learned Benedictine Rupertus has a comment upon this passage of Exodus, so apposite that its substance may appropriately conclude this Note: "Disce hinc, artes omnes, etiam mechanicas, esse dona Dei, saltem naturalia, neque in iis ut suis, suaque industria inventis aut partis, _homini gloriandum esse_ (q. d. vanitatem observare), sed illas Deo adscribendas, ab eoque petendas, et in ejus obsequium expendendas esse." F. C. HUSENBETH, D.D. The passage which your correspondent R. H. G. quotes from the Council of Ancyra, A.D. 314, is not to be found in the canons of that Council, which are printed in their original Greek, with several Latin translations, in Labbe's _Concilia_, vol. ii. p. 513. The meaning of the sentence does not seem very abstruse; but before any suggestion is made for its interpretation, it will be desirable to ascertain to what Council it belongs. L. _Divining Rod_ (Vol. viii., pp. 350. 400.).--Your correspondents do not tell us what was discovered in the places to which the rod pointed in the hands of the ladies named; but although they cannot for a moment be suspected of wilfully deceiving, may there not have been, as in table-turning, an unconscious employment of muscular force? I have long since read, and have tried with success, the following mode of producing the effect:--Holding the rod in the usual position, one branch of the fork in each hand, and grasping them firmly, turn your hands slowly and steadily round inwards, _i. e._ the right hand from the right to left, and the left from left to right--the point of the rod will then gradually descend till it points directly downwards. J. S. WARDEN. _Orange Blossoms_ (Vol. viii., p. 341.).--The compliment of Captain Absolute to Mrs. Malaprop in _The Rivals_, contains, I have no doubt, the allegorical reason of the employment of these flowers on bridal occasions; and in that view they seem highly appropriate, at least in our colder climates--where we often see many "flowers" still on the parent stem, while the "fruit" has attained its full perfection. J. S. WARDEN.