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VOLUMES VII AND VIII.

Abracadabra, Ablanathanalba, 206, 416, 417.
Abraxas, 416.

Acrostic-across stick, 159.

Acrostic, Lord's prayer, 351, 352.
Acrostic from Beaconsfield, 183.
Acrostic from H. W. Beecher, 182.
Acrostic from R. G. Ingersoll, 176.
Acrostic, Ichthic, 190, 395.

Acrostic on Benedict Arnold, 182.
Acrostic on Kitty "Stephens," 41.
Acrostic Valentine Song, 183.
Acrostics on names, 181.

Adam, epitaph on, 63.

Adam, legends of, 64.

Adam's bones, legend of, 94.

Addressing the chair in the Orders, 241.

Aldura Manasach, prophecy, 250.

Allegory, symbol, parable, 245.
Alliteration-"Sho !" 175.

Aliterative quotation, 356.

Almoner, Saint John, 239.

Alphabet in short sentence, 323.

Alphabet, proportion of letters, 323.

Alphabet, tetragrammaton, human body, 253.

Amicable and perfect numbers, 224.
Anachronisms of Literature, 79.

Anagrams, full list of, 200.

Anagrams on "Notes and Queries," 374.

Analemma, dilemma, lemma, lemniscate, 212.
Ancient name of Manchester, 382.
Ancient oracles, 285.

Animal life, earliest type of, 147.
Anthony, St., legend of, 127.
Antonomasias of Cities, 87, 153.

Antonomasias of Countries, other places, 118.
Antonomasias of Islands, 119.

Antonomasias of rulers and warriors, 197.

Antonomasias of States, 155.

Aphorism acrostics, 176, 182, 183.

Apostles, emblems of the, 142.

Apostles, names of the, 122.

Arabian legend of a monastery, 71.
Archimedes' problem, 381.
Argument of sorites, 316.

Arithmetic, Fundamentals of, defined 165.

Arius Babinus, his vow,
Ark-born man, 422.

Arsenic detection, 78.

Arval Brothers, 414.

275.

Arval Brothers, song of, 415.
Asclepius and Esculapius, 313.

Asteroids and discoverers, 184, 314, 346.
Astral origin of zodiacal signs, 372.
Asymptote, 227.

Barbarians, Origin of term, 39*

Base of logarithms, calculation of, 384.
Beautitul allegory, 245.

Bernard (Saint), labyrinth of, 324,

Bhagavad-Gita, 219.

Bible, Supreme court, 188.

Bibles, Odd American, 96.

Biblical Information, 9.

Biblical Riddle, 238.

Bibliography, across the dark continent, 317.

Bight-Levant, 75, 94.

Biography, shortest. 40*

Bodies polarize if pivoted, 78.

Books on Oracles, 413.

Books of the Bible-a poem, 103.

Boustrophedonally, 40.*

Bridal Veil and Flowers, 42.
Brahminical cord, 271.
Bummer-its derivation, 188.
Buonaparte's cipher, 325.

Buried Monastery, Árabian Legend of, 71.

Cabiri-Kabeiri, 2.

Calendar suggestion-thirteen months, 121.
Calculation of base of logarithms, 385.
Cali-Yuga, beginning of, 357.

Calypso, 70.

Camel, Day of the, 68.

Cannon Ball, Velocity of, 143.
Carcassonne (poetry), 237.
Catechesis Arcani, 427.

Categories of existence, ten, 280.
Cats of Kilkenny, 367.

"Cecropia's pillared state," 420.
Celts, or Kelts, 411.
Centrobaric theorem, 241,

Certitude, problem on, 9*

Cessation of oracles, 422.

Charles the Third, propheey, 251.

Charles the Fourth, description, 252.

Chemistry of human body, 148.
Chinese rings, puzzle, 283.
Chitty-faced, 160.

Chronological life of Pythagoras, 257.
Cipher, Buonaparte's, 325.
Cinque Ports, 149.

Circe, 70.

Cities (100) of Crete, 285.

Clavicle, King Solomon, 61.

Clay birds, 256. 284.

Cleombrotus, wonderful predictions, 243.

Codex Guelpherbytannus, 404.

Colored Targets, 148.

Combination of Cards in Whist, 92.

Common, Napierian, natural logarithms, 385,

Confucius, Golden Rule of, 48.

Corollaries, Sibylline oracles, 259.

Cosmic Egg, 159.

Cosmic Evolution, 109.

Cosmos, first use of word, 272, 285, 313.

Counties in U. S. named from presidents, 371.

Counties of New Hampshire, 52.

Cross, inscription on, 412.

Creation, planetary configurations, 236.
Cyclic poets, 356.

Crete, 100 cities, 285.

Cryptonymous defined, 134.

Curious old Bibles, 394.

Curious results in numbers, 312.

Curse of Scotland, 317.

Cush, ark-born man, 422.

Damocles, sword of, 180.
Daniades (50) 269.
Dandy and dude, 157.

Dark continent, bibliography, 317.
David's (Saint), Day, 382.
Day of the camel, 68.

Death of little Jane (months), 327.
Death on anniversary of birth, 312.
Decimal notation-its origin, 66, 93.
Defoe, Daniel, 65.

Democrates, Golden Sentences of, 45.
Demophilus, similitudes of, 228, 231.
Derivation of word religion, 403.
Desent of Istar (poem), 244.
Devil-Lore, 192.

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Eridanus, 391.

Esculapius and Asclepius, 313.
"Eternal Fitness of Things," 68.
Etymologies, flying, 260, 276.
Evil Eye, 140.

Executions and tortures, Prices for, 202.

Fairies, Queer facts of, 126.
False Messiahs, 405.

"Familiarity breeds contempt," 50,
Field, George,-who was ? 69.
Fifteen articles of Masonry, 400.
Fifteen-girl problem, 11.*
Filopanti, 49 lives, 288.

First Gentleman of Europe, 390,

Five ages, The, 208.

Flag, Ü. S. standard, 226.
Flakes of Fact, 120.

Flaming Sword, 185.

Flying Etymologies, 260, 276.

Fools, quotation on, 365.

Forty-nine lives, Filopanti, 288.

Fourth Dimension, 51, 51* 117. 302, 380.
Fractions containing all the digits, 305.
Freemasons, Early mention of, 160.
Fuachsia, Orthopy of, 189.

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India-Rubber, 42.

Indian Names in Massachusetts, 123.
Indian river names, 388.

Inscription on Soldiers' Monument, 51, 52.
Invisible writing, 148.

Ionithus, who was he? 253.

Inscription on temple of Isis, 408.
Inscription on the cross, 412.

Intimations of Immortality (poetry), 419.

Introgyrant figures, 376.

Iron rails, magnetism of, 156.
Isis, inscription on temple, 408,

I, too, am of Arcadia, 4.

Jack o' the Clock, 158.
Jesus-paper, 420.

John, Popes by name of, 411.
John (Saint), the Almoner, 239.
Kabeiri-Cabiri, 2.
Kelts, or Celts, 411.
Ketchup, 42.

Kilkenny cats, 367.
Kisses Varieties of, 159.
Knights of Kadosh, 239.

"Know Thyself," a prayer, 326.

Labyrinth of St. Bernard, 324, 423.

Land projection, equal surface, 350.
Latin inscripton, 325.

Law of Manu, beautiful lines from, 235.
Law of phyllotaxis, 291.

Laws, planetary, 291.

Laws of repetends, 307.

Laws of Zaleucus, 330.

Legend of Adam's Bones, 94.

Legend of Enoch, 61.

Legend of St. Anthony, 127.

Legend of Seth, 64.

Legends of Adam, 64.

Levant, Bight, 75, 94.

Legends and Myths, 173.

Literature of the Lunar Man, 144.

Logarithms, calculation of bases, 385.

Logarithms, three kinds, 385.

Logic of early rising, 327.

Logos, 404.

Long measure, origin of, 189

Long name, 328.

Loot, derivation of, 156.

Lord's Prayer, 86.

Lost chapter of Genesis, 234.

Lost spirits, their fall computed, 10.*

Lost ten tribes, 392, 424.

Lord's prayer, acrostic, 351, 352.
Lotteries-their origin, 149.
Lotus symbol, 226.

Love is a comedy, 347.

Lunar, Man, Literature of the, 144.

Macaronics, 205.

Maelstroms, 73.

Magnetism of bars, 78.

Magnetism of iron rails, 156.
Magnus Maharba, 365.

Mahabharata, English version, 284.
Mahatmas, 399.

Mahomet's name (and 666), 321.
Mahomet's personal appearance, 374.
Manchester, ancient name, 382.
Mansions of the moon, 284.
Manuscript Volumes, 114.

Manu, law of, beautiful lines, 235.
Masonic degrees, 296.

Masonic Fifteen Articles, 400.
Masonic term "bright," 132.
Massachusetts Indian names,
Mare's nest, 399.

123.

"Maryland, My Maryland," 138.
Materials of a Man, 148.

Mathematical meaning of Pi, 364.
"Mayflower" passenger-list, 147.
Messiahs, false, 405.

Meaning of Greek letter Pi, 364.
Modes of execution, 374.

Mephistophilus, 49.

Minerals, Relative hardness of, 124.

Mitten, Getting the, 4.

Mnemonics, 95.

Mohammed's seal, 256.

Molecules, sizes, 398.

Music, Taste for, 189.

Mustard Seed, Order of, 240,

Mysteries (10), 395.

Mysterious formula, 364.

Myths and Legends, 173.

Naboth's vineyard, 371.

Names, Curious Complication of, 150.

Names, discoverers of satellites, 265.
Names, notes about, 348.

Names of the Apostles, 122.

Napoleon's bees, 374.

Napierian, natural, common logarithms, 385.
Natural, common, Napierian logarithms, 385,
Nasik Magic Squares, 12.*

Naughty Greek Girl (poetry), 264.
Neck-Verse, 155.

Neshobe Island, 75.

New Gospel of Peace, 382.

New Hampshire, Counties of, 52.

Niagara, Falls of, 240.

Nine, Properties of, 49.

Night-mare, 399.

Nixon, Robert, Predictions of, 177.

Olives, Eating, 188.

Omens, 90, 168.

One hundred cities of Crete, 285.
Onomatopoeia in Homer, 206.
Opsopous, Johannis, 302.
Oracles, ancient, 285.
Oracles, books on, 413.
Oracles, cessation of, 422.
Order of Golden Fleece, 422.
Origin of drinking toasts, 223.
Orthographic test-words, 145.
Orthographies of Winnipeg, 415.
Orthography of Turgeneff, 97.

Paranatellon, 421.

Pater Noster, 326.

Parable, symbol, allegory, 245.
Parasang defined, 170.

Parallax, perihelion, periphery, 364.
Passengers of "The Mayflower," 147.
Patents, Rival, 42.

Path of Rectitude, or Ye Samian Y., 53.
Penelope and Helen, suitors, 350.
Pentateuch preserved, 163.

Perfect and amicable numbers, 224.
Perhelion, periphery, parallax, 364.
Permutations in whist hands, 92.
Permutation of verses, 283.
Perpetual Calendar, 119.
Perspiration, 304.

Perry, the beverage, 160.
Philosophic Facts, 78.
Philitis or Philiton, 353.
Phoenix-period, 255.

Phyllotaxis, law, 291.

Pi, meaning of the letter, 364.

Plar etary configurations at creation, 236.

Planetary laws, 291.

Platonic love, 347.

"Plus-One Sayings." 52.*

Poe as a Puzzler, 181.

Popes named John, 411.

Portraits on currency, 213.

Portraits on postage stamps, 407,

Postage stamps, portraits, 407.

Postulate, definition, 329.

Pouring puzzle, 306.

Prayer, "Know Thyself," 326.
Prayer of Cyrus, 392.

Predictions of Cleombrotus, 243.
Pre-existence, hypothesis of, 418.
Presidents, double names, 312.
Problem of Archimedes, 301.

Problem, 15 christians and 15 turks, 270.
Problem, the courier, 395.

Projectile, Velocity of vertical, 143.

Pronunciation, Puzzles in, 170.

Prophecy, "Star out of Jacob," 413.

Properties of the number "9," 49.

Prophets by Time, 122.

Pulteney Guinea, 157.

Puritan passengers of" Mayflower," 147.

Puritan Surnames, 143.

Puzzle, a maid's age, 174.

Puzzle of Chinese rings, 283.

Pythagoras, chronological life of, 257.

Notes about names, 348.

Notes and Queries, anagrams on,

274.

Puzzle on pouring, 306.

Nouns of multitude, 205.

Novel Advice, 124.

Novel Tragedy, 156.

"Now I lay me down to sleep," 137.

Numbers, perfect and amicable, 224.
Numbers, curious results in, 312.

Number Seven in the Bible, 246.

Oannes, the fish God, 269,275 3
Odd Names, 240.

Old Bibles, 394.

Old Shoes, 172.

Pythagoras, Golden verses of, 203.

Pythagorean Symbols, 106.

Quadrature of the circle, 383.

Quaternions, 267.

Queer Literary Family, 183.

Quetelet's numbers, 243.

Queens-regnant and queens-consort, 281.

Quotation, alliterative, 356.

Quotation from Elias the prophet, 326.

Quotation from Filopanti, in Miranda, 390.

Quotation from Hesiod on fools, 365.
Quotation from Homer's Margites, 425.
Quotation from Watts, 401.
Quotation," Will of Jove," 329.
Quotations on the months, 328,
Railroad Trip Fifty Years Ago, 73.
Re-incarnation, 411.

Religion, derivation of word, 403.
Repetends, laws of, 807.
Rhyme and Rhythm, 426.
Ringing the changes, 378, 424.

Robinson Crusoe, 65.

Roman Crowns of Triumph, 149. ·
Rosebush, Oldest, 161.
Rosicrucianism, 99.

Rosicrucians, brotherhood of, laws, 214.

Rosicrucian prayer to God, 266.

Rotten Row, 42.

Rubber, Discovery of, 161.

Rules of Sir Matthew Hale, 410.

Runaway Pond, 130.

Sadducees, Books of the, 207.

St. John and St. Paul,-poem, 128, 129.

Salt in the sea, 184.

Sanscrit quotation, 425.

Satellites, discoverers, names, 265.

Satellites of Veuns, 282.

Salutation, Forms of, 171.

Sscret Discipline, 427.

Secret Doctrine, 419, 427.
Secret name-"Ieue," 50.
Selkirk, Alexander, 65.
Sentence of Jesus, 74.
Septemtriones, 420.
Sethe, Legend of, 64.

Seven heroines of Christendom, 201.

Seven pillars, pre-existence, 418.

Seven, the number in the Bible, 246.
Seven stars, in verse, 247.

Shelomo, Solomon's Hebrew name, 411.
Shema, tetragrammaton, 318.

Shemhammephorash, tetragrammaton, 318.

Shiloh, 422.

Sho-an alliteration, 175.

Sibyl or Sybil, 420.

Sibylline Oracles, 413.

Sibylline enigmas, 319.

Sibylline oracles, corollaries, 259.

Sign of the cross, 272.

Similitudes of Demophilus, 228,231.

Simon pure, 347.

Sis, Sissy, 169.

Sivartha or Sidartha, 69.

Six hundred sixty-six, Mahomet's name, 321.

Socratic, beauty, 218.

Solar zodiac, Hindu, 284.

Soldiers' monument, Inscription on, 51, 52.*
Solomon, Clavicle of, 61.

Solomon, Hebrew name, 411.

Sorites, argument, 306.

Sortes sanctorum, 371.

Soubriquets of cities, etc. See Antonomasia s.
Southworth, Mrs., full name, 311.

"Star out of Jacob" (Num. xxvi, 17), 414.

Stone of Scone (poetry), 393.

Suitors of Helen and Penelope, 350.

Sun's distance-latest facts, 174.

Superstitions, 90, 168.

Surnames of Puritans, 143.

Swallow, 145.

Sword of Damocles, 180.

Sybil or Sibyl, 420.

Symmes' Theory Concentric Spheres 6.

Symbol of the crescent, 256.

Symbol, parable, allegory, 245.

Table of fourth dimension, 302, 380.
Test Words, 145.

Teh, words ending in, 213.

Temple of Isis, inscription, 408.
Ten categories of existence, 280.
Ten mysteries, 395.

Ten virtues of the virgin, 375.

Tetragrammaton, alphabet, human body, 253.
Tetragrammaton, shema, 318.
Texas-its derivation, 126.

Thanksgiving day, (months), 327.
Thebes, arkite, arcane, 422.

Theosophic interpretation, 298.
Theory of Will-Power, 115.
Thirteen at Table, 152.

Thoth, an Egyptian deity, 208.
Thoughts for Thinkers, 77.
Three Globes, 108.

Tishya, Asterism of, 5.

Toasts, custom of drinking, 223.
To, tu, two, etc., 1.
Tobacco, Riddle on, 11.*

Tower of Gad, 50.

Translation of Enoch, 141.

Translations of Iliad and Odyssey, 362.

Trees imported to England, 167.
Tri-Mountain, 40.*

Trilobite, the earliest type, 147.

Tritogenea, 69.

Triumphal crowns, Roman, 149.

Tunnels of the World, 179.

Turgeneff, Orthography of, 97.

Twelfth-Day Eve, 189.

Twelve angels of Zodiac, 238.

Twelve Apostles, Emblems of the, 142.
Twice born, 398.

Typo's Romance, 193.

Ulysses, 70.

"Uncle Tom," Original of, 169.
United States standard flag, 236.

Value of base of logarithms, 385.

Varieties of Kisses, 159.

Velocity of vertical projectiles, 143.

Verbal Snares, 170, 202.

Vermont" Autograph and Remarker," 365.

Veronica (A), 238.

Victim of Etiquette, 170.

Virgil and Homer, their poems, 272.

Virtues (10) of the virgin, 375.

Vow of Arrius Babinus, 275.

Vowels in certain words, 303. Vowel E, 328.

Waste basket of words, 315,387.

Wedding anniversaries, 313.

Will of Jove, 329.

Whist, Combinations in, 92.

Will power, 424.

Will-Power, Theory of, 115.
Winnipeg, orthographies, 415.
Wire first mentioned, 202.
Wit, Practical, 42.

Witch-hazel, witch-grass, 4.

Wonderful predictions of Cleombrotus, 248
Words, Fantastic, 207.

Words, Inappropriate, 205.

World moves, 77.

Words ending in tch, 213.

Words with all the vowels, 303.

Ye Samian Y., or the Path of Rectitude, 53.

Zaleucus, Golden rule of, 48.
Zaleucus, laws of, 330.
Zarathrushtra, Zoroaster, 377.
Zodiac, twelve angles, 238.

Zodiacal Latin distich, 398.

Zodiacal signs, astral origin, 372.

Zoroaster, Zarathrush tra, 116, 377, 425.

Names and Noms de Plume of Correspondents.

A. A. O., 194. A. G. L. A. Achsah, 243, 258,
424. Agnostic, 72, 380. Alanson, 52*, 72. Al-
bion, 273. Alexander, 369, Alonzo, 12, 49, 65.
Alphonzo, 364. Altruist, 69. Andrew, 134. 259,
Angelo, 173. Antony, 399. Archibald, 194.
Ayme, L. H., 51, 382, 383.

B., 98. B. C., 322. Barrett, T. S., 12*,
310, 312. Beacon, 40*. Benjamin, Selden C.,
355. Benoth, 258. Bolles, J. A., 50. Bolton,
H. C., 71. Bonum, 366, 370. Boyle, A. J., 50.
Bond, Andrew, 365. Burton, 72.

C. B. B., 404. C. B. S., 162. C. W. G.,
94. Cannon, Caleb, 242. Carroll, 242. Cax-
ton, 82, 158, 160. Colby, Fred. Myron, 83.
Coleman, William Emmette, 5, 384, 385, 392.
Compton, Alfred G, 143. Cruse, J. G. T., 68.
Cynthia, 369.

D., 98, 136, 162. D. M. D., 98, 162. Dame,
Noah, 365. Delos, 258, 267. De Medici, C. 8.
Dexter, 87, 97, 98, 118, 119, 120, 124, 137, 146,
155, 156, 160, 162, 176, 180, 181, 182, 183, 194,
281. Djafar, 8, 160. D. M. Drury, 8, 68, 72, 162.

Edgeworth, 377. Editor, 311. Garden, E.,
370. Ellen, D. T., 52*. Elwin, 75.

F. J. P., 40*.

G., 190, 273. G. G. E., 369. G. R. H.,
12. G S. C., 70, 98, 134, 242. George, Mrs.
L. G., 4, 39, 65, 68, 73, 75. Godlove, 411.
Goodale, H. T., 108. Greene, Allen, 274, 391.
Greene, C. A., 394. Gyll, Gordon W. J., 260.

H.. 146, 243, 370, 402, 412. H. H. H., 146,
242. H. K. R., 274. H. W. H., 8. Ham, 207.
Harmon, Geo. M. 315. Hannah, 73. Harbin-
ger, 134. Hargrove, John, 92. Horatio, 412.
Hendricks, J. E., 10. Henrietta. 258. Hen-
ry, 411.
Herbert. 146, 194. Hermit, 370.
Hiero, 69. Hindu, 242. Howard, Wellington,
162, 242.

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S., 146, 272. Searcher, 49, 98, 146, 194 238.
258. Schneider, Edward, 350. Seven, 273.
Smith, Herbert, 40*. Smith, Horace, 398.
Soule, G. B. L., 264. Stowe, H. B., 169.
Student, 146, 242.

T., 369. Tildie, 311, 312.
Van Dieman, Henry, 258.

W., 269, 398. W. B., 98,
W. W., 273. W. W. H., 361.
thy, 188. Wiksell, G. P., 425.
49, 71, 313, 354, 355. Wood. H.

Tyro, 146, 322.

W. H. K., 94.
Walker, Timo-
Wilder, A., 4,
A., 68, 225.

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Number of questions in Volumes VII and VIII,

Number of questions answered,

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175
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Number of questions unanswered,

Number of questions Volumes I to VIII,

Number of questions answered,

Number of questions unanswered,

114

1866

1067

799

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