NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. * * * * * "When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. * * * * * No. 36.] SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1850. [Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d. * * * * *{81} CONTENTS NOTES:-- Further Notes on Derivation of the Word "News", by Samuel Hickson 81 More Borrowed Thoughts, by S. W. Singer 82 Strangers in the House of Commons, by C. Ross 83 Folk Lore:--High Spirits considered a Presage of impending Calamity, by C Forbes 84 The Hydro-Incubator, by H. Kersley 84 Etymology of the Word "Parliament" 85 "Incidis in Scyllam, cupiens vitare Charybdim," by C. Forbes and T. H. Friswell 85 A Note of Admiration! 86 The Earl of Norwich and his Son George Lord Goring, by CH. and Lord Braybooke 86 QUERIES:-- James Carkasse's Lucida Intervalla 87 Minor Queries:--Epigrams on the Universities--Lammas'Day--Mother Grey's Apples--Jewish Music--The Plant "Haemony"--Ventriloquism-- Epigram on Statue of French King--Lux fiat-Hiring of Servants-- Book of Homilies--Collar of SS.--Rainbow--Passage in Lucan--William of Wykeham--Richard Baxter's Descendants--Passage in St. Peter-- Juicecups--Derivation of "Yote" or "Yeot"--Pedigree of Greene Family--Family of Love--Sir Gammer Vans 87 REPLIES:-- Punishment of Death by Burning 90 To give a Man Horns, by C. Forbes and J.E.B. Mayor 90 Replies to Minor Queries:--Shipster--Three Dukes--Bishops and their Precedence--Why Moses represented with Horns--Leicester and the reputed Poisoners of his Time--New Edition of Milton--Christian Captives--Borrowed Thoughts--North Sides of Churchyards--Monastery--Churchyards--Epitaphs--Umbrellas-- English Translations of Erasmus--Chantrey's Sleeping Children, & c. 91 MISCELLANIES:-- Separation of the Sexes in Time of Divine Service--Error in Winstanley's Loyal Martyrology--Preaching in Nave only 94 MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, Sales, & c. 95 Books and Odd Volumes Wanted 95 Notices to Correspondents 95 Advertisements 96 * * * * * NOTES FURTHER NOTES ON DERIVATION OF THE WORD "NEWS".