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which Jesus taught, but it is not found in the canonical gospels: "The days shall come in which a vine shall grow, each vine having 10,000 boughs, and on each bough 10,000 branches, and on each branch 10,000 sprigs, and on each sprig 10,000 clusters, and on each cluster 10,000 grapes, and each grape when pressed, shall yield 25 measures of wine. And when one of the saints shall take hold of a cluster, another shall cry out, I am a better cluster, take me; through me bless the Lord.'"

TO CUT A DIDO.

Whence came the expression "to cut a dido?"
INQUIRER II.

About 800 B. C. Dido (called also Elissa), daughter of Belus II, king of Tyre, and sister of Pygmalion, fled from that kingdom, on account of family dissensions and regal disputes, to the coast of Africa.

Here she desired land of the natives to found a city and queendom, but they bargained her a piece of land such as could be covered with a bull's hide. She evaded their jealous concession by cutting the hide into very small strips, tying them together, and thus surrounding a quite large tract of land. Hence, this incident is supposed to have been the foundation of the above phrase. She and her following built a city, called it Carthage, and Brysa (meaning a hide) became the citadel of the place. The name Dido means the beloved; Elissa means the joyous one. The anachronism of dates is said to be made by the poets as a matter of license. Troy's destruction is usually put down as 1184 B. C. Æneas visits Dido soon after; this would make Carthage contemporary with Troy. For a discussion of the subject further, see Anthon's "Classical Dictionary," p. 439, article Dido.

LAST WORDS OF THE ANARCHISTS.

(Vol. II. p. 497; III, p. 143; IV, p. 292.) The last words of the four anarchists hung in Chicago, November 11, 1887, were as follows:

August Spies-"There will a be time when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you strangle today!"

Adolph Fischer-" Hurrah for anarchy! This is the happiest moment of my life."

Albert R. Parsons-"Will I be allowed to speak, O men of America? Let me speak, Sheriff Matson! Let the voice of the people

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George Engel-"Hurrah for anarchy!"

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.

PORTRAITS OF CHRIST. (Vol. III, p. 441.) The portraits of Christ were taken from those of Serapis. It is idle to believe in any genuine one. I would just as soon believe in the one taken by the bloody sweat on Veronica's handkerchief-absurd alike.

DOUBLE CONSCIOUSNESS. (Vol. IV, p. 397.) The subject of "Double Consciousness," in your November No., deserves careful study. Perhaps more than one soul tampers with our physical organism. Then, too, we have two cerebral hemispheres, not identical in functions; a "head" and "heart"; a cerebral and ganglial nervous system. We feel and accordingly act; we think and determine action.

PELASGI, PELASGOS. (Vol. IV, p.) I doubt the name Pelasgi being from pelasgos, the sea. I would quicker derive it from palaios, ancient. It would be as accordant with etymology. So, too, would Pelesti, or Philistines-probably a cognate people. The Cherethites of the book of Second Samuel were Creti; and the Pelethites, Philisti. If so, they were Pelasgi. At any rate there is no other conjecture more plausible. THE ROSICRUCIANS. (Vol. IV, p. 433.) I was interested in the paragraph on Rosicrucians. If the rose had a part in the name, etymology would dictate it to be spelled Rosa-crucians. Yet the impaled rose has a phallic rendering. The rose on the cross, of course, is a phonetic ideograph. So the ass's head in the Judæan temple was phonetic of the Hebrew letters for IHVH one being Aō, and the other Yaō. The Aryan term Ros or Ras is is like Hebrew for chief, origin, leader. The crucified chief, may be so understood. All true parables have a plurality of interpretations; each true on itsown plane.

"GOD IS A CIRCLE WHOSE CIRCUMFERENCE IS EVERYWHERE, AND WHOSE CENTER IS NOWHERE TO BE FOUND." (Vol. III, p. 62; IV, p. 412.) Emerson says: "St. Augustine described the nature of God as a circle whose center was everywhere, and its circumference nowhere." I supposed this was from Hor-Apollo. A. WILDER.

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We have always observed that the words were ascribed to Hermes Trismegistus, but have never seen them in his works "The Divine Pymander," nor "Virgin of the World." H. P. Blavatsky, in her work, "Isis Unveiled," credits the quotation to Hermes, and further

more adds that she would put it: "God is a circle whose center is everywhere, and whose circumference is nowhere to be found."

THE "THREE KINGS" OF ORION. (Vol. V, p. 16.) The kings referred to are generally believed to be the "three shepherd-kings" who are said to have followed the Star of Bethlehem at the Nativity of Jesus the Christ. Their names are given as Caspar, Melchior, and Balthasar; while the names of the "three star-kings" are Alnitak, Anilam, and Mintaka. These three stars always point to the Pleiades or Seven Stars on one side, and to Sirius or the Dog-Star on the other side. In Job these stars are called the Bands of Orion (xXXVIII, 31); the ancient husbandmen called them Facob's Rod, and sometimes the Rake. The University of Leipsic, in 1807, gave them the name of Napoleon. In Green's "Astronomical Recreations" they are called the Golden Girdle; while the more common appellation is the Yard, because they are about three degrees in length and are use in estimating distances between other stars. The stars forming Orion's sword are called the Ell because they are one and a quarter the length of the Yard.

PSEUDO-JONATHAN. (Vol. IV, p. 299.) The term pseudo, "false," has been applied to several person, but its meaning is more in the sense of mistakened than false. Jonathan ben-Uzziel was called PseudoJonathan because tradition credits him with a Targum on the Pentateuch subsequent to that of Onkelos, in which some commentators think he undertook to rival Onkelos.

Pseudo-Athanasius is applied to Athanasius (Junior), or Celetes, surnamed Herniosus, bishop of Alexandria, A. D .590. He is supposed to be the author of several works ascribed to Athanasius the Great, hence the name.

Pseudo-Daniel is appied to the author of the book of Daniel by Hengstenberg in his "Christology of the Old Testament," p. 251. Some commentators like Hitzig, in Verbemerk § 3, imagine that the Daniel of Ezekiel (XIV, 14, 20), was purely a mythical personage, whose prototype is to be sought in Melchizedek, and that the character was borrowed by the author of the book of Daniel as suited to his design. The order of the names, "Noah, Daniel, Job," seems to indicate the antiquity of the three persons. Job was one of the early

husbandmen (Gen. XLVI, 13), while the book that bears his name is considered one of the oldest poems extant.

Pseudo-Daphne is applied to the asteroid numbered 47 whose real name is Melete, because its discoverer Goldschmidt, mistook it for Daphne, No. 41. (See N. AND Q. Vol, V, pp. 8, 14).

Pesudo-Matthew is appiled in the same manner to Saint Matthew the reputed author of the first synoptic gospel, because some commentators think he wrote the "Gospel of the Hebrews," or copied his gospel from it; while others say he elaborated his from Saint Mark and still others claim that Mark's gospel is an epitome of Matthew's. Pseudo-Orpheus is applied to the author of one of the Sibylline Books because of the close resemblance of some of the sentiments to those in the songs of Orpheus.

Pseudo-Smerdis is applied to Ahasuerus the successor of Cambyses who seized the throne of Persia B. C. 522, and was murdered after a brief reign of eight months. Herodotus and Josephus do not agree as to this person's real name. He is supposed to be Artaxerxes I of Ezra VI, 7-24.

Pseudo-Sibyl is applied by Drummond, in "The Jewish Messiah," p. 13, to an Egyptian Jew, the author of Book III of the Sibylline Oracles, and prophesies the advent of the Messiah, and the author is assigned to Ptolemy Physcon B. C. 170-117.

PETRIFIED BODIES. (Vol. IV, 412.) The body of a child, nine months old, was buried in the "Old Burying-Ground," Stoddard, N. H., in January, 1818. In 1856, the body was disinterred, with others adjacent to it, for the purpose of removal to another lot. The body of this child alone had petrified. It was nearly as white as marble, and the features were as natural as the day it was buried, though the body soon crumbled on being exposed to the air. As the adjacent bodies were not petrified, it would be natural to suppose that another buried in the same place would not necessarily petrify.

S. L. G., Hollis, N. H.

THE "CROAKERS PIECES." The first four of the once famous Croaker Pieces were written by Joseph Rodman Drake for the New York Evening Post, in which they appeared between the 10th and 20th of March, 1819. Then Drake made Fitz-Greene Halleck a partner, and the remainder of the pieces were signed "Croaker & Co." The paper written by Drake was "The American Flag"; and the last of the series, "Curtain Conversations," was written by Halleck.

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If added in the following manner each sum is 1888 :

I.

Added virtically, horizontally, and diagonally.

2.

The sum of the four numbers composing the corners. 3. The sum of the quadrate group comprising a corner.

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The sum of the four numbers forming the center. Such squares are more perfectly magical than ordinary magic squares. H. A. WOOD, Cleveland, Ohio.

HOW TO ARRANGE AND ADD THE DIGITS AND CIPHER TO 100. Many persons have tried their their skill at this problem. There are more ways than one.

Here is one way :

95

4038

100

LOGARITHMS. The logarithm of 1.2345679 (omitting the 8) has a remarkable peculiarity which renders the computation of its logarithm very simple.

Thus log. 9.99999999 0.999999999
log. 8.1
= .908485018

log. 1.2345679 = .091514980

log. 10 - I

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