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 10* s.i. FEB. 27, low.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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Folger, Norwegian ; Ilonka, Italian (?) ; Iowa, American Indian ; Jaime, Porto Rican ; Lito, origin uncertain ; Luman, origin uncertain ; Lumir, Bohemian ; Manasseh, Hebrew ; Modie, origin uncertain : Neata, origin un- certain ; Sik, Korean ; Soa, Chinese ; Tayo- hikq, Japanese ; Vilhjalmr, Icelandic ; Wata, origin uncertain ; Welmer, origin uncertain ; Yetta, Norwegian ; Zenas, origin uncertain ; Zenhici, Japanese ; Zillah, origin uncertain ; Zulema, Bohemian.

CHARLES BUNDY WILSON. .State University of Iowa, Iowa City.

[Zillah, Gen. iv. 19.]

In Lincoln Cathedral before the spoliation was a monumental brass to Anne Armyn (ob. 1616), in the inscription of which occurred the (female) name Prothasey. I have never seen this name before or since ; but I take it to be a familiar corruption of Prophthasia, an obviously appropriate name for a daughter born before her time. In a serial novel now running in the Queen one of the characters is called Advena. In Marion Crawford's novel 'Paul Patoff' one of the characters is called Chrysophrasia. Has MR. GANTILLON ever come across these names ?

H. K. ST. J. S.

Some eight or ten years ago I saw the name Palacia in a list of shareholders of a public company. I have heard of Venetia and Roma as the names of two daughters of an Italian gentleman settled in London. About two hundred years ago one of my ancestors married a Dutch lady, and her Christian name Dilliaua is still a favourite one amongst her descendants.

ALFRED MOLONY.

The most curious Christian name I ever came across was Adnil, given to a girl born in Aberdeen. Her mother's name was Linda. At the time of her birth the child's parents were not on very good terms, and the father, in a moment of freakishness, inverted the mother's name with the above result. The child died in early girlhood. J.

About thirty years ago the wife of a green- grocer named Wright, living in York Street, Westminster, nearly opposite to the Niagara Hall, gave birth to twins. My brother-in- law, the late Mr- William Enne Needham, the Registrar of Births for the District of St. Margaret, Westminster, including the Hamlet of Knightsbridge, was called upon to register them. The father gave them the names of William the Conqueror and Peter the Great, and, notwithstanding the regis- trar's protest against this absurdity, they

were entered in the books as above, the protest being unavailing. I also see in the Sun of Thursday, 7 January, a paragraph recording that "at Lambeth to-day an inquest was held respecting the death of a child named Ireni Jacobi Fanny Jessop Cavendish de Rienzi Selina Anna Susannah Skelton Peter. What a dreadful encum- brance ! No wonder an inquest was necessary. W. E. HARLAND-OXLEY.

Among curious Christian names Acts of the Apostles ought to take precedence. I remember in my schooldays, near Canter- bury, a woodman, of Blean Woods, known as Ax-o-postles Pegden. Scholarship was not of a high order there, at the time when the notorious madman Thorn was so easily imposing upon the simple-minded people, and a Bible was the only generally known household book. A worthy churchgoing father had named his four sons respectively Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, but being blessed with a fifth, and unable to think of anything better, decided upon the next in order under his Christian authority, viz., the Acts of the Apostles, and the rector, we were told, could, upon the emergency, think of no other course than so to christen this fifth sprig of an old block. I have once seen this name referred to in a magazine article upon 'Curiosities of the Registry,' but cannot remember where. CHARLES COBHAM.

Shrubbery, Gravesend.

[For Acts of the Apostles see 9 th S. iii. 225, 312-.]

FRENCH MINIATURE PAINTER (10 th S. i. 86, 137). I am much obliged for the replies to my query, but I was not aware that Madame Yigee Lebrun ever painted miniatures. Do any miniatures by her exist?

EVELYN WELLINGTON.

'MEMOIRS OF A STOMACH' (10 th S. i. 27, 57, 111). 1 possess a copy of the eleventh edition of this little book, published by Chapman & Hall. The title-page, which has no date, bears " Memoirs of a Stomach. Written by Himself, that all who Eat may Read. Edited by a Minister of the Interior:'

Among the advertisements on the boards of the book is the following : " Helionde ; or, Adventures in the Sun. By Sydney Whiting, Esq., Author of ' The Memoirs of a Stomach,' ' A Literary Melange,' &c. Chapman & Hall."

Sir James Eyre, physician, is mentioned occasionally in the ' Memoirs,' and at p. 61 he is said to have written " an agreeable little book, ' The Stomach and its Difficulties.' "

The Columbine May Day song at p. 87 was set to music, and published by P. B. Shee, Paddington Street, Marylebone. W. S.