Page:Notes and Queries - Series 10 - Volume 2.djvu/286

 234

NOTES AND QUERIES. [io* s. n. SEPT. 17, wo*.

in the list. I may also mention Jim, Sir Henry Cole's little dog, as well known at the South Kensington Museum as himself, and portrayed in the caricature of his master in Vanity Fair in 1871. HENRIETTA COLE.

names : The Duchess, Peter, Toby, Wasp, Jock, Crab, John Pym, Puck, Bawtie of the Inn ; Keeper, the carrier's bull-terrier ; Tiger, & huge tawny mastiff from Edinburgh, which I think must have been an uncle of Rab's ; all the sheepdogs at Callands, Spring, Mavis, Yarrow, Swallow, Cheviot, &c.
 * Our Dogs,' by Dr. John Brown, author of
 * Rab and his Friends,' contains a lot of dog-

R. J. FYNMORE.

Sandgate.

Let me add a few more, several from Dickens :

Bull's-Eye. Bill Sikes's dog in ' Oliver Twist,' whom he attempts to destroy.

Diogenes. Little Paul Dombey's favourite dog, and afterwards Florence's.

Carlo. Name of one of the dancing dogs accompanying Jerry to the " Three Jolly Sandboys."

Jip. The favourite pet of poor Dora Cop- perfield.

Ponto. The sagacious pointer mentioned in the 'Pickwick Papers,' who declines to ^nter the plantation on which is the board, "The gamekeeper has orders to shoot all <logs found in this enclosure." An etching by Seymour represents Ponto eyeing the board with suspicion.

Chowder. Tabitha Bramble's favourite dog in * Humphry Clinker.'

Jowler and Vixen. Two dogs mentioned in Croxall's '^Esop's Fables.'

Caesar and Jowler. Two dogs belonging to the young squire in 'Roderick Random.'

Toby. Punch's favourite dog.

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

"Will generally kept ten or twelve dogs, of which three were his particular favourites ; their names were Charlie, Phoebe, and Peachem." ' The Life of James Allan, the Celebrated Northumberland Piper,' 1818, chap. li. p. 11.

W. E. WILSON.

Hawick.

Mr. W. Hastings Kelke, referred to by O., was the Rev. W. Hastings Kelke, in 1854 rector of Drayton Beauchamp, Bucks.

NORTH MIDLAND.

VANISHING LONDON (10 th S. ii. 125). A house in Cavendish Square, that has been the home of art and artists in its day, is doomed, and will very shortly disappear. Built by F. Cotes, R.A., occupied by George liomney, "the man of Cavendish Square,"

who portrayed Lady Hamilton in fourteen of his beautiful pictures, it was subsequently tenanted by Sir Martin Archer Shee, the Irish President of the Royal Academy, who died in 1850. HENRY GERALD HOPE.

119, Elms Road, Clapham, S.W.

CLOSETS IN EDINBURGH BUILDINGS (10 th S. ii. 89, 154). For a diagram which shows one of these closets in the south-west corner of the building, see Hone's 'Year- Book,' col. 1127. For an illustration of the houses themselves, with an exhaustive description, see cols. 1359- 1364. CHAS. F. FORSHAW, LL.D.

Baltimore House, Bradford.

FETTIPLACE (10 th S. i. 329, 396, 473, 511). Mr. James Coleman has (br lately had) some deeds for sale of the Fittiplace family. His address is 9, Tottenham Terrace, Tottenham, London, N. ARTHUR L. COOPER.

Reading.

ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH ANTICIPATED (10 th S. ii. 66, 135). In " New Atlantis, begun by the Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, and continued by R. H., Esquire," published in 1660, on pp. 67 and 68, we find the following passage :

" Thereupon he carried me to a little closet at the end of that gallery, whose door at his first knock one of the Fraternity opened ; who with a complacent desire to satisfy my greedy curiosity, was willing to expose whatsoever rarity Joabin pleased to call for. Joabin told him, that for his part he durst not be so bold ; but whatsoever he pleased freely to communicate, or let us see, he should take it for a very great favour. Hereupon he immediately reached forth a little Ark, wherein many rarities were placed, a Loadstone far bigger then that which holds up Mahomets tomb in Mecha. This is the truely pretious stone, of such divine use (said he) that by its charitable direction it not only ciments the divided World into one body politic, maintaining trade and society with the remotest parts and Nations, but is in many other things of rare use and service. I shall not open all its properties (said he), most of them being already known amongst you Europeans : 1 will only unfold this usefull and most admirable conclusion upon it, and which hath been but lately here experimentally discovered ; which is this. Two needles of equal size being touched together at the same time with this Stone, and severally set on two tables with the Alphabet written circularly about them ; two friends, thus prepared and agree- ing on the time, may correspond at never so great a distance. For by turning the needle in one Alphabet, the other in the distant table will by a secret Sympathy turne it self after the like manner. This secret was first experimented here by one Jamoran, who being suspected of Apostacy, because of his great intimacy with one Alchmerin, his friend and a Jew, and his little adhesion to some of his opinions, was sent into the Island of Conversion close prisoner : who there to hold constant intelligence with his intimate first found out this admirable invention."