VOLUMES VII AND VIII. Abracadabra, Ablanathanalba, 206, 416, 417. Acrostic-across stick, 159. Acrostic, Lord's prayer, 351, 352. Acrostic on Benedict Arnold, 182. 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. 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. Anagrams, full list of, 200. Anagrams on "Notes and Queries," 374. Analemma, dilemma, lemma, lemniscate, 212. Animal life, earliest type of, 147. Antonomasias of Countries, other places, 118. 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. Arithmetic, Fundamentals of, defined 165. Arius Babinus, his vow, Arsenic detection, 78. Arval Brothers, 414. 275. Arval Brothers, song of, 415. Asteroids and discoverers, 184, 314, 346. Barbarians, Origin of term, 39* Base of logarithms, calculation of, 384. 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. Buried Monastery, Árabian Legend of, 71. Cabiri-Kabeiri, 2. Calendar suggestion-thirteen months, 121. Calypso, 70. Camel, Day of the, 68. Cannon Ball, Velocity of, 143. Categories of existence, ten, 280. "Cecropia's pillared state," 420. Certitude, problem on, 9* Cessation of oracles, 422. Charles the Third, propheey, 251. Charles the Fourth, description, 252. Chemistry of human body, 148. Chronological life of Pythagoras, 257. 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. 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. Dark continent, bibliography, 317. Death of little Jane (months), 327. Democrates, Golden Sentences of, 45. Eridanus, 391. Esculapius and Asclepius, 313. Executions and tortures, Prices for, 202. Fairies, Queer facts of, 126. "Familiarity breeds contempt," 50, First Gentleman of Europe, 390, Five ages, The, 208. Flag, Ü. S. standard, 226. Flaming Sword, 185. Flying Etymologies, 260, 276. Fools, quotation on, 365. Forty-nine lives, Filopanti, 288. Fourth Dimension, 51, 51* 117. 302, 380. India-Rubber, 42. Indian Names in Massachusetts, 123. Inscription on Soldiers' Monument, 51, 52. Ionithus, who was he? 253. Inscription on temple of Isis, 408. Intimations of Immortality (poetry), 419. Introgyrant figures, 376. Iron rails, magnetism of, 156. I, too, am of Arcadia, 4. Jack o' the Clock, 158. John, Popes by name of, 411. Kilkenny cats, 367. "Know Thyself," a prayer, 326. Labyrinth of St. Bernard, 324, 423. Land projection, equal surface, 350. Law of Manu, beautiful lines from, 235. 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. Love is a comedy, 347. Lunar, Man, Literature of the, 144. Macaronics, 205. Maelstroms, 73. Magnetism of bars, 78. Magnetism of iron rails, 156. Mahabharata, English version, 284. Mahomet's name (and 666), 321. Manu, law of, beautiful lines, 235. Masonic Fifteen Articles, 400. 123. "Maryland, My Maryland," 138. Mathematical meaning of Pi, 364. Meaning of Greek letter Pi, 364. 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 of the Apostles, 122. Napoleon's bees, 374. Napierian, natural, common logarithms, 385. Naughty Greek Girl (poetry), 264. 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. Paranatellon, 421. Pater Noster, 326. Parable, symbol, allegory, 245. Parallax, perihelion, periphery, 364. Path of Rectitude, or Ye Samian Y., 53. Perfect and amicable numbers, 224. Perry, the beverage, 160. 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. Predictions of Cleombrotus, 243. Problem, 15 christians and 15 turks, 270. 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. Number Seven in the Bible, 246. Oannes, the fish God, 269,275 3 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. Religion, derivation of word, 403. Robinson Crusoe, 65. Roman Crowns of Triumph, 149. · 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. Seven heroines of Christendom, 201. Seven pillars, pre-existence, 418. Seven, the number in the Bible, 246. Shelomo, Solomon's Hebrew name, 411. 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, Hebrew name, 411. Sorites, argument, 306. Sortes sanctorum, 371. Soubriquets of cities, etc. See Antonomasia s. "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. Teh, words ending in, 213. Temple of Isis, inscription, 408. Ten virtues of the virgin, 375. Tetragrammaton, alphabet, human body, 253. Thanksgiving day, (months), 327. Theosophic interpretation, 298. Thoth, an Egyptian deity, 208. Tishya, Asterism of, 5. Toasts, custom of drinking, 223. Tower of Gad, 50. Translation of Enoch, 141. Translations of Iliad and Odyssey, 362. Trees imported to England, 167. 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. Typo's Romance, 193. Ulysses, 70. "Uncle Tom," Original of, 169. 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. Witch-hazel, witch-grass, 4. Wonderful predictions of Cleombrotus, 248 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. 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, B., 98. B. C., 322. Barrett, T. S., 12*, C. B. B., 404. C. B. S., 162. C. W. G., D., 98, 136, 162. D. M. D., 98, 162. Dame, Edgeworth, 377. Editor, 311. Garden, E., F. J. P., 40*. G., 190, 273. G. G. E., 369. G. R. H., H.. 146, 243, 370, 402, 412. H. H. H., 146, S., 146, 272. Searcher, 49, 98, 146, 194 238. T., 369. Tildie, 311, 312. W., 269, 398. W. B., 98, Tyro, 146, 322. W. H. K., 94. Number of questions in Volumes VII and VIII, Number of questions answered, X. Y. Z., *** 242. 175 Number of questions unanswered, Number of questions Volumes I to VIII, Number of questions answered, Number of questions unanswered, 114 1866 1067 799 |