_Etruscan Vases._--The art of making earthenware was transported from Etruria into Greece. The Romans also borrowed this invention from the Etruscans, to whom also Greece was indebted for many of its ceremonies and religious institutions, as well as for its mechanics and artificers. * * * * * It is customary in the canton Wallis, Switzerland, for those who have found anything lost, even money, to affix it to a large crucifix in the churchyard, and there is not an example on record, of any object being taken away except by the rightful owner. W.G.C. * * * * * _Cumberland Titles._--The honorary titles arising from the different degrees of allowed consequence or property in Cumberland, appear (says Britton) singular when compared with their usual acceptation in society. The mistress of the house is a _Dame_; every owner of a little landed property is a _'Statesman_; his eldest son is the _Laird_; and where there is no son, the eldest daughter is born to the title of _Leady_. Thus we may see a '_Statesman_ driving the plough, a _Lord_ attending the market with vegetables, and a _Leady_ labouring at the churn. P.T.W. * * * * * _A string of echo puns_ surpassing all others, may be seen in a scarce work, published in the reign of James I. A specimen--a divine, willing to play more with words, than to be serious in the expounding of his text, spoke thus in one part of the sermon:--"This dyall shewes we must _die all_; yet, notwithstanding, all howses are turned into _ale-houses_; our cares are turned into _cates_; our paradise, into, _a pair of dice_; our marriage, into a _merry age_; our matrimony, into a _matter of money_; our divines, into _dry vines_. It was not so in the days of Noah, _Ah no_!"--T.G. * * * * *