[Transcriber's note: Original spelling variations have not been standardized. _Underscores_ have been used to indicate _italic_ fonts. Some Hebrew or Chaldee words may not be shown in an adequate way in this version. A list of volumes and pages in "Notes and Queries" has been added at the end.] NOTES and QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. "When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. VOL. V.--No. 117. SATURDAY, JANUARY 24. 1852. Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition, 5_d._ CONTENTS. Page NOTES:-- The Pantheon at Paris 73 Churchill the Poet 74 English Medals: William III. and Grandval, by W. D. Haggard 75 Readings in Shakspeare, No. I. 75 Folk Lore:--Salting a New-born Infant--Lent Crocking--Devonshire Superstition respecting Still-born Children 76 Goldsmith's Pamphlet on the Cock Lane Ghost, by Jas. Crossley 77 Minor Notes:--Traditions of remote Periods through few Links--Preservation of Life at Sea--Epigram 77 QUERIES:-- Minor Queries--Count Konigsmark--"O Leoline! be absolutely just"--Lyte Family--Sir Walter Raleigh's Snuff-box--"Poets beware"--Guanahani, or Cat Island--Wiggan, or Utiggan, an Oxford Student--Prayers for the Fire of London--Donkey--French and Italian Degrees--The Shadow of the Tree of Life--Sun-dials--Nouns always printed with Capital Initials--John of Padua--St. Kenelm--Church 78 MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:--Hieroglyphics of Vagrants and Criminals--Muggleton and Reeve--Rev. T. Adams--The Archbishop of Spalatro--Bishop Bridgeman--Rouse, the Scottish Psalmist--"Count Cagliostro, or the Charlatan, a Tale of the Reign of Louis XVI."--Churchyard Well and Bath 79 REPLIES:-- Collars of SS. 81 On the First, Final, and Suppressed Volume of the only Expurgatory Index of Rome, by the Rev. J. Mendham 82 The First Paper-mill in England, and Paper-mill near Stevenage, by A. Grayan 83 The Pendulum Demonstration 84 The Cross and the Crucifix, by Sir J. Emerson Tennent 85 Yankee Doodle, by C. H. Cooper 86 Perpetual Lamp 87