Reference is frequently made upon the origin of printing, to the _fasciculus temporum_, or _Cologne Chronicle_. In one place I find a citation in support of the Gutenberg Bible having been commenced in 1450; in another citation it is only affirmed that printing was first done in that year. The only edition I have the means of consulting at this moment is that of Ratdolt, 1484. And here I find nothing about printing except that, of the year 1457 and thereabouts, it is said that "Artifices mira celeritate subtiliores solito fiunt. Et impressores librorum multiplicant in terra." In the preface Ratdolt says that he had printed the _fasciculus_ three times already, of which Hain mentions two. He says, moreover, that this fourth (Venice) edition was _cura et opera diligentiori_. Did Ratdolt, after inquiry, abandon the more specific account above cited, and content himself with the above sentence, as expressing all that could be verified; or, as I have sometimes supposed, do _different books_ circulate under the title of _fasciculus temporum_? Be this as it may, Ratdolt expressly refers to the great impulse which the mechanical arts in general received just about the time when printing became common. Now we may hope the same thing of the decennium on which we are entering, the beginning of which is made conspicuous by the great forcing-house of art, which has not yet got the name it is to keep. M. FOLK LORE. _Bible divination in Suffolk._--In Suffolk it is a practice on New Year's Eve to open a Bible at midnight, and the passage upon which they stick a pin will be the luck (good or bad) that attends them the following year. R. J. S. _Mode of Discovering the Bodies of the Drowned._--What must we think of the following, transcribed from the _Gentleman's Mag._, vol. xxxvii. p. 189.? Can such things be? "WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1767. "An inquisition was taken at _Newbery_, _Berks_, on the body of a child near two years old, who fell into the river _Kennet_, and was drowned. The jury brought in their verdict _accidental death_. The body was discovered by a very singular experiment, which was as follows:--After diligent search had been made in the river for the child, to no purpose, a two-penny loaf, with a quantity of quicksilver put into it, was set floating from the place where the child it was supposed had fallen in, which steered its course down the river upwards of half a mile, before a great number of spectators, when the body happening to lay on the contrary side of the river, the loaf suddenly tacked about, and swam across the river, and gradually sunk near the child, when both the child and loaf were immediately brought up, with grabbers ready for that purpose." Is this experiment ever tried at the present time, and do there exist any authentic accounts of such trials and their results? * & ? Manpadt House.