_Den._--The names of places ending in den, as Biddenden, are perhaps not generally known to signify the situation to be in a valley, or near woods. J.E.J. * * * * * _Mock-heroics._--Cowper, in one of his letters to Joseph Hill, reminds his friend of the following mock-heroic line, written at one of their convivial meetings, called the Nonsense Club-- "To whom replied the Devil, _yard-long-tail'd_;" And adds, "there never was anything more truly Grecian than that triple epithet; and were it possible to introduce it either into the _Iliad_ or _Odyssey,_ I should certainly steal it." This of course was written in jest; and had the translator been disposed to exemplify his own pleasantry, he might have found an opportunity in the well-known line of the sixth book of the _Iliad_-- [Greek: Aideomas Trôas ai Trôadas elkesipeplous.] I dread the Trojan ladies, yard-long-tail'd; Of which Pope makes this sweeping periphrasis-- "And Troy's proud dames, whose garments sweep the ground." E.B.I. * * * * * _Burton Ale._--Many of our readers may recollect the dispute, about three years since, between the Burton Ale brewers and the Useful Knowledge Society, when the excellence of the ale was proved to be the result of the hard water of which it was manufactured flowing over a limestone rock. A chemist was dispatched to Burton, and the settlement of the matter assumed the importance of a discovery; though in the last century this fact was ingeniously explained by Dr. Darwin, in a letter to Mr. Pilkington, upon the supposition that some of the saccharine matter in the malt combines with the calcareous earth of hard waters, and forms a sort of mineral sugar, which, like true sugar, is convertible into spirits. _Read-y Wit._--A young man, in a large company, descanting very flippantly on a subject, his knowledge of which was evidently very superficial, the Duchess of Devonshire asked his name. "'Tis _Scarlet_," replied a gentleman who stood by. "That may be," said her Grace, "and yet he is not _deep read_." CANTON. * * * * * _Anti-free Trade._--An odd instance of the restrictive system occurred in the embassy from the emperor Otho to Nicephorus Phocas. The Greeks making a display of their dress, he told them that in Lombardy the common people wore as good clothes as they.--"How," they said, "can you procure them?"--"Through the Venetians and Amalfitan dealers," he replied, "who gain their subsistence by selling them to us." The foolish Greeks were very angry, and declared that any dealer presuming to export their fine clothes _should be flogged_. * * * * * _Printed and published by J. LIMBIRD, 143 STRAND, (near Somerset House,) London; sold by G.G. BENNIS, 55, Rue Neuve, St. Augustin, Paris; and by all Newsmen and Booksellers._