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 450 NOTES AND QUERIES, do- s. iv. DEC. 2,1905. Both these, however, might refer to piglings; but how about Peter Pindar's ' Stanza on the Death of Lady Mount Edgecumb's Favourite Pig, Cupid ' 1 It runs :— Oh dry that tear, so round and big ; Nor waste in sighs your precious wind ! Death only takes a single Pig; Your lord and son are still behind. E. E. STREET. The fat pigs sold in the markets about Christmas time, as well as those which the cottager feeds up for the main part of his Christmas cheer, are, I believe, in most parts of the Midlands called " porker-pigs," while those fed for other killing times are "bacon- pigs." The main difference between a porker- pig and a bacon-pig is that while the former is sold in pieces, the latter is salted as "sides of bacon," which when cut in slices makes "streaky-bacon" suitable for breakfast, as •well as for that most favourite combination "eggs and bacon." A porker is fed up rapidly, •while a bacon-pig is more slowly fed. and with more changes in the diet, in order to produce the " streaky rasher." THOS. KATCIIFFE. Worksop. I should like to point out that though Johnson seemed to Know the word "pig" only as meaning the young of a swine, he himself appears to have used the word in the wider sense which DR. MURRAY is look- ing for. In vol. ii. of Boswell's 'Johnson,' 1904 (Frowde) edition, p. 612, replying to Miss Seward, who had been telling him of a "wonderful learned pig," Johnson replied, "Then the Pigs are a race unjustly calum- niated." Possibly the whole paragraph is a little doubtful as to the sense in which the word is used; but any ordinary reader would certainly understand he was speaking of the animal in the generic sense. A. H. ARKLE. ' THE DEATH OP NELSON ' (10th S. iv. 365. 412).—The following advertisement, whicl appeared in The Observer of 17 November 1805, at the moment all England was ringing with theglorious yet tragic news of Trafalgar should be of importance in this connexion :— " MUSIC.—Published yesterday, LOKD NEL SON'S VICTORY ANo'DKATfl' sung and com posed by Mr. Brahani, at the Theatre Royal Drury-lane, in the Melo-Draroatic Piece, writtet by R. Cumberland, Esq., price 1*. 6rf. — Lor< Kelson's Elegy, as spoken by Mr. Wroughton, ana written by the same Author, by D. Corri, Is.— 'Love and Glory,' for the Piano-forte, by ditto s. 6rf.—'Home,'a favourite Ballad, by ditto. Is.— Arise Fair Maid,' by M. Corri, In.—' The Bomb Skatche,' by Pittman, Is." If a copy of 'Lord Nelson's Victory and 3eath,' thus sung and composed by Braham and rendered at Drury Lane in November, .805, is extant, it would be of much interest 0 compare it with the same singer and com- xwer's immortal ' Death of Nelson.' which is always understood to have been first given at the Lyceum in 1811 in an opera. 'The Americans,' written by the lessee, Samuel James Arnold. ALFRED F. BOBBINS. ' ULM AND TRAFALGAR ' (10th S. iv. 407).— [n ' The Year of Trafalgar,' by Henry New- jolt, this poem is given at length, and is ascribed to the Bight Hon. George Canning, M.P. It contains 121 lines, commencing " While Austria's yielded armies." J. T. B. Canning is the author of this poem :— "Very few persons know that the poem called ' I iin and Trafalgar* was written by Canning. He composed it (as George Ellis told me) in about two days, while he walked up and down the room. Indeed, very few persons know that such a poem exists." — ' Table-Talk of Samuel Rogers,' 1856, p. 159. The editor (Alexander Dyce) adds the follow- ing foot-note: "A short poem printed for Ridgeway, 1806, 4to." 'Ulm and Trafalgar' has been reprinted during the present year. R.'L. MORETON. " PHOTOGRAPHY " (10th S. iv. 367, 435).—I have to thank MR. LYNN for his suggestion as to the probable source of Sir John Herschel's terminology. Unfortunately, the passage to which he refers in 'The Penny Cyclopaedia' is only another of the iqna falui in pursuing which I have wasted so much precious time while trying to run down the first appearance of "photography,'' and which arise from the habit that historians and biographers have of carrying back current nomenclature to times when it did not exist. It is true that on 7 January, 1839, M. Arago made a communication to the Aca- domie des Sciences " sur la fixation des images formees au foyer de la chambre obscure, la decouverte de M. Daguorre " ; but neither he nor M. Biot, who at the same time associated himself with M. Arago in a brief commu- nication, spoke of "photography," or "photo- geny," or " holography, or anything other than " the discovery of M. Daguerre," as may be seen in the Comptes Rendut of the Academic, tome viii., January to June, 1839. Under date of 4 February there is a ' Recla- mation de Priorite' by Mr. Fox Talbot, and