PREFACE. This volume, like its predessessors, requires a few general remarks by way of preface, and calls to our mind the words of Quintilian that "this business has more of labor in it than of show." So of a preface, the reader of a book expects a few words as to what the book contains, or why it is published. Hence we say that the subjects of the volume are of a great variety, more liberally extended than those limited to the seven liberal sciences. There is a cause for all things, but it is not always easy to give the reason for the effect, and However, we continue to ask questions, and never received the desired answers to all; so with many of our contributors. There is always a good supply in hand. Every questioner is especially interested in something of interest to himself, or herself. rise and explain. What is earth, sexton ? A place to dig graves. MANCHESTER, N. H., December, 1888. A in Sanskrit words, 6. "Abstain from beans," 204. Achilles' Shield, description, 188. Alwato, Andrews's, 77. Anagrams, 49, 50. Ancient symbol of the sun, 90. Ancient Word, Swedenborg's, 190. VOLUME V, 1888. Animal magnetism, Mesmer's code, 138. Athens, maiden, sentence from, 15. Bangh-naugh-claugh-paugh, 6. Biblical Canon, 2. Hampshire, (New), meaning of, 141. Hassan and Hossein, annual mourning, 176. Hindu cosmogony, 149. Mathematical publications, 213. Hogshead, derivation, 45. N. H. Registers, 23. Notes and Queries, 164. Blasphemy of Abner Kneeland, 94. Blizzard, word, 136. Bohome's wheel of birth, 55. "By the Eternal," 192. Calliope, musical machine, 187. Chemical elements, discovery, 40. Chess, origin and history, 165. Claims of descendants, 93. Coincidences, arithmetical, 102. Collection of N. H. Registers, 23. Council of Nicæa, 2. Hundreds, 160. Mad Poet, 87. Magic Lantern, history, 61. Magic square for 1888, 39. Maiden, Athens, sentence from, 15. Manufacturing, Manchester, N. H., 75. Mathematical fallacy, 7. Matter, speculations concerning, 57. Measures, palm, foot, cubit, rod, chain, 193. Moabite Stone, translation, 45, 46. Portraits of Christ, 36. Potter Christ, 178. Probability of marrying, 195. Proportions, integral, for value of pi, 129. Proverbs about the wind, 147. "6 Gaelic, 183. 66 Chinese, 186. Sayings of Seven Sages of Greece, 202. Sic vos non vobis, 179. Smaragdine Tablet, translations, 44. Solar equations, 131. Songs of a nation, 6. Sonnet on eating fruit-pie, 64. Speculations concerning matter, 57. Sum and product of two numbers are equal, 206. Tables of Stone, size and weight, 150. Terms used talking to animals, 59. Thebes, 192. Three dippers, 159. Three Impostors, 209. Three kings, in Orion, 37. Three successive eights, (1888,) 60. Triangle controversy, 157. "Train up a child," etc., 78. Tradition on sneezing, 178. "Truth like a torch," etc., 45. Twelve angles, apostles, prophets, tribes, 151. Umbrella, history, 32. Unpunctuating Dobson, 144. Values of pi, comparison, 125. "Vestiges of Civilization," author, 33. Pseudo-Jonathan, -Athanasius, -Daniel, -Sibyl, Visible Speech, Bell's, 77. Volapük, universal language, 47, 76. War of 1812-1814, pamphlet on, 145, 178. Wheel of birth, Bohome's, 55. Yggrasil, 190. Zem Zem, the well, 94. Page 16-Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 89; 11, 12. Page 148-Nos. 7, 8. Page 56-Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5. Page 68-Nos. 2. 5, 6, 7, 8. Page 69-Nos. 1, 5, 9. Page 88-Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4. Page 163-Nos. 8, 9. Page 180-Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, II, 12. Page 211-Nos. 1-14. Page 96-Nos. 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 11, Page 212-Nos. 1-11. 12, 13, 14. |