ENGLISH KINGS AND QUEENS.

William the Conqueror died from enormous fat, drink, and the violence of his passions, Sept. 9, 1087. William II, Rufus, killed by an arrow, while hunting, Aug. 2, 1100, Henry I, Beauclerc, died of a surfeit, Dec. 1, 1185.

Henry II, Plantagenet, died of a broken heart, July 6, 1189. Richard I, Cœur de Lion, died from a wound made by an arrow, April 6, 1199.

John, died no body knows how, Oct. 19, 1216.

Henry III is said to have died a natural death, Nov. 16, 1272. Edward I. Longshanks, died from "natural sickness," July 7, 1307. Edward II, murdered at Berkeley Castle, Sept 21, 1307.

Edward III died from dotage, June 27, 1377.

Richard II, the Black Prince, murdered at Pomfret Castle, Feb. 19, 1310.

Henry IV died from fits of "uneasiness," March 20, 1314.

Henry V died from " painful affliction, prematurely,” Aug. 31, 1422. Henry VI murdered by Kichard, duke of Gloucester, in the Tower, June 20, 1471.

Edward IV died a natural death, April 9, 1483.

Edward V murdered in the Tower, by duke of Gloucester.

Richard III slain at Bosworth, Aug. 22, 1485.

Henry VII wasted away, died April 21, 1509.

Henry VIII died from carbuncles, Jan. 28, 1547.

Edward VI (by Jane Seymour) died of decline of years, July 6, 1553.

Queen Mary is said to have died of a broken heart, Nov. 17, 1558. Queen Bess (by Anne Boleyn) died of melancholy, March 24, 1603. James I died from drinking, March, 1619.

Charles I beheaded at Whitehall, Jan. 30, 1649.

Charles II died suddenly of apoplexy, Feb. 6, 1585.

William III, Prince of Orange, died from effects of the stumblin

of his horse, March, 8, 1702.

George I died from apoplexy, June 11, 1727.

George II died from a rupture of the heart, Oct. 25, 1760.

George III died a natural death, Jan. 29, 1820.

George IV died of gluttony, June 26, 1830.

William IV, brother of George IV, died June 20, 1837.

Queen Victoria, born May 24, 1819; succeeded to the throne June 20, 1837; crowned June 28, 1838; married Feb. 10, 1840; reigning.

10.

II.

Red rum did emit revel ere Lever time did murder.
Stiff, O dairyman, in a myriad of fits.

12. No, it is opposed, art sees trade's opposition.

13. Now stop, Major General, are negro jam-pots won. But ragusa stare, babe, rats a sugar tub.

14.

15. No, its a bar of gold, a bad log for a bastian.

16. Stop, Syrian, I start at rats in airy spots.

17.

18.

Desserts desire not, so long no lost one rise destressed.
No sot nor Ottawa law at Toronto, son.

19. Paget saw an Irish tooth, Sir, in a waste gap.

20.

Name tarts, no medieval slave, I demonstrate man. 21. Eureka, till I pull up ill, I take rue.

25.

O had I Idaho.

Evil Elba I may amiable live.

26. Madam, Adam did live ere evil, did Adam, Madam? 27. Madam saw Aaron tar a rat; Nora A. was madam.

I.

Ablata at alba.

2. Si nummi immunis.

3.

Sator arepo tenet opera rotas.

4.

Odo tenet mulum, madidam, mulum tenet Odo.

5. Anna tenet mappan, madidam, mappan tenet Anna.

6. Signa te signa; temere me tangis et angis.

7. Roma tibi subito motibus ibit amor.

8. Acide me malo, sed non desola me, medica.

9.

Arca serenum me gere regem, munere sacra. 10. Solem, arcas, animos, omina, sacra, melos.

Questions and Answers.

THE CYCLADES. Where are the Cyclades, and what are the modern names? ANDREW.

The name Cyclades was applied by the ancient Greeks to that cluster of islands encircling (kuklos) Delos on the south-east of Greece. Strabo says at first the Cyclades were only 12 in number, but were afterwards increased to 15. Anthon gives 16. Their ancient and modern names are :

Ghioura.

Prepesinthus, Spotiko, Despotiko. Gyǎrus,

The Sporades (scattered) are the islands scattered around the Cyclades, and those also that lay toward Crete and the coast of Asia Minor. They are the following:

ISAIAH THOMAS. Who can give me a brief sketch of Isaiah Thomas, the antiquarian? ELPIS.

Isaiah Thomas was the son of Moses Thomas. He was born in

1749. His father died when he was young. At the age of six years he was put out as an apprentice to Z. Fowle, with whom he remained eleven years. In 1770, he commenced in Boston the publication of the Massachusetts Spy, in which paper he published many spirited articles against the oppressive laws of the British Parliament towards the New England Colonies. In 1771, Gov. Hutchinson and Council, on account of an article that appeared in the Spy, endeavored to bring Mr. Thomas before them, but so much resistance was made that the measure was finally dropped. In 1775, he removed his paper to Worcester, and three years after opened a bookstore in Boston. At

one time he had under his control sixteen presses in use, and eight bookstores. He issued a folio edition of the Bible in 1791. In the latter part of his life Mr. Thomas founded the American Antiquarian Society, for which he erected a brick block at Worcester, and of this Society he was president and a most liberal patron. The honorary degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred upon him by the Alleghany College, Pennsylvania. In 1810 he published in two volumes, octavo, a valuable "History of Printing in America," which show an immense amount of research. He died at Worcester, April 4, 1831, at the age of 82 years.

"MILLIONS." (Vol. VI, p. 236; 246.) Your correspondent asks where the word millions is first found (p. 236,) and later on he is referred to Genesis XXIV, 60. The Latin Vulgate version reads "mille millia" (a thousand thousands), although the Douay translation reads "thousands of thousands." In Robert Recorde's arithmetic no menThe edition of 1557 is entitled :

tion of "millions" is made. "The whetstone of witte, whiche is the seconde parte of Arithmetike: containyng the xtraction of Rootes: The Cossike practise, with the rule of Equation: and the workes of Surde Numbers." Quarto.

It is scarcely remembered that the old name of Algebra, the cossic art (from cosa, a thing), gave this first English work on algebra the punning title," the whetstone of witte," Cos ingenii. The following example from Recorde illustrates decimal enumeration when above 999,999:

"A general rule.-Scholar. If I make this number 91359684, at all adventures there are eight places. In the first place is 4, and betokeneth but four; in the second place is 8, and betokeneth ten times 8, that is 80; in the third place is 6, and betokeneth six hundred; in the fourth place 9 is nine thousand; and 5 in the fifth place is XM times five, that is fifty M. So 3 in the sixth place is CM times 3, that is CCCM. Then I in the seventh place is one MM; and 9 in the eighth is ten thousand thousand times 9, that is XCMM, i. e. XC thousand thousand CCCLIX thousand, 684, that is VICLXXXiiij.” It is obvious the word million had no popular currency at this period. SAMUEL T. HAMCOMB.

We are informed by an

Origin of the Word "OnTONAGON.” eighteen-years' resident of the town of Ontonagon in the north of Michigan, near the border of Lake Superior, that a legend says an In

dian maiden was sent to the stream to bring a bowl of water. She stepped into the canoe floating on the side of the stream and reaching over the side to scoop up the clear water, the swift current forced the bowl from her hand and it went floating down with the current. The maiden, with uplifed hands, exclaimed Ontonagon! Ontonagon! "I've lost my bowl!" "I've lost my bowl?" CLARK.

WHO MADE THE FIRST BOAT. A correspondent (T. H.) asked this question several months ago, and we copy for his information from the "Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs," Zebulun 6:

"I was the first who made a boat to sail upon the sea, for the Lord gave me understanding and wisdom therein; and I let down a rudder behind it, and I stretched a sail upon the upright mast in the midst; and sailing therein along the shore, I caught fish for the house of my father until we went into Egypt and through compassion I gave fish to every stranger. And if any man were a stranger, or sick, or aged, I dressed the fish well and boiled them, and offered them to all men as every man had need, bringing them together and having compassion upon them. For five years I caught fish, and gave to every man whom I saw, and brought sufficient to the house of my father."

MDCLXVI=1666. (Vol. V, p. 148.) We do not think the era adopted by the Materialist (1666) had anything whatever to do with the Roman numerals (IVXLCDM) reversed, but regard this fancy as a coincidence. Will some Materialist explain why they date their era E. M. (Era of Materialism) from 1666?

There was a tract in the possession of Mr. Wrangham, England, entitled Romæ Ruina Finalis, Anno Dom. 1666. Some apocalyptic student discovered the date in "ALEXANDER EPIS-COPUS ROMÆ ": L (50), X (10), D (500), I (1), C (100), V (5), M (1900) = 1666. This contained the full complement of the Roman numerals. Hence Rome was to fall in 1666.

HIGHEST PEAK IN THE WORLD. According to Gaskell's "New Family Atlas," Mount Hercules in New Guinea, is now claimed to be the highest peak in the world. The height is given as 32,768 feet; while the same authority gives Mount Everest, of the Himalaya Range, as 29,002 feet; so that Mount Hercules leads the world as the highest peak by 3,766 feet; or Mount Hercules is 6 miles high, 1088 feet more.

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