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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. i. JAN. 22, me.

SISTER DOHA. (Dorothy Wyndlow Pattison.)

Walsall. Sister Dora died at Walsall on 24 Dec., 1878, and practically the whole population followed her remains to the grave. At a cost of 1,0501. they afterwards erected her statue in a prominent part of the town. It is sculptured in white marble by F. J. Williamson, and represents the devoted nurse wearing a cap and apron, and in the act of unrolling a bandage. Just below her feet on the marble are carved the words :

Sister Dora. 'This is the only inscription.

The statue is placed on a tall square pedestal of Peterhead granite. Each of the iour sides contain panels in relief illustrative of incidents in Sister Dora's life. They are as follows :

1. Scene after explosion at Birchill's Iron Works, 15 Oct., 1875.

2. Sister Dora conversing with the Chair- man of the Ho&pital while nursing an infant and rocking a cradle.

3. Sister Dora and Dr. Maclachlan watch- ing by a dying patient in the adult ward of the hospital.

4. Scene after the colliery accident at Pelsall, 14 Nov., 1872.

This was the first statue erected to a woman (uncrowned) in England.

GENERAL BOOTH.

Nottingham. Over the front door of 12 Nolintone Place is a tablet inscribed as follows :

In this house was born, on the 10th April, 1829, William Booth, Founder and General of ^the Salvation Army.

In 1913 a bronze memorial tablet was placed in Wesley Chapel, Broad Street, where General Booth first preached.

London. On 9 July, 1910, a stone slab was laid in the ground in the gardens of The Waste bordering the Mile End Road, on the spot where General Booth started his mission in 1865. It is thus inscribed :

Here

William Booth commenced the work of the Salvation Army

July 1865.

Walsall. On 8 March, 1913, Lady Holden unveiled a tablet placed by the Walsall Evangelical Free Church Council on a house in Hatherton Street to commemorate the fact that William Booth and his wife Catherine Booth, with their son William Bramwell Booth, lived there in the year 1863 whilst conducting religious services in the town.

OLIVER HEY WOOD.

Manchester. Two years after Mr. Hey- wood's death a marble statue was erected to his memory in Albert Square. It is the work of Mr. Albert Bruce Joy, R.A., and stands upon a base and pedestal of Aberdeen granite. It is thus inscribed :

Oliver Heywood

1825-1892.

Erected by the Citizens of Manchester to com- memorate a life devoted to the public good.

ALEXANDER BALFOUR. Liverpool. This statue is erected in St. John's Gardens, overlooking the old Haymarket. The pedestal bears the following inscription :

Alexander Balfour

Merchant and Ship Owner

Born 2 n * Sept., 1824.

Died 16 r - h April, 1886.

His life was devoted to God in munificent efforts for the benefit of Sailors, the education of the people, and the promotion of good works. This statue, erected by public subscription, was un- veiled on the 15th day of November, 1889.

SAMUEL SMITH.

Liverpool. On 21 May, 1909, the Lord Mayor of Liverpool (Mr. H. Chaloner Dowdall) unveiled a massive granite obelisk erected to the memory of the Right Hon. Samuel Smith. It stands near the Lodge Lane entrance to Sefton Park. The cost (1,815Z.) was all subscribed before the memorial was unveiled. JOHN T- PAGE.

Long Itchington, Warwickshire. (To be continued.)

FOLK-LORE AT SEA. A short time since a small naval vessel was accidentally burnt to the water's edge, and when her officers (not her crew, be it observed) met again after losing all their possessions, they agreed on three curious facts which, they said, ought to have warned them of impending ill-luck. First, when the Admiralty took over the ship, and the crew were assembled on the poop to hear the articles of war read, the newly hoisted ensign was suddenly carried away. Second, the ship's black cat had mysteriously disappeared a day or two before the disaster. Third, some newly joined subs had talked at mess of how many rabbits they had shot the last day they were out. On hearing of this conversation, a lieutenant observed that, had he been there to hear it, he would rather have taken his baggage off the ship and gone ashore than let the sportsmen tempt fate by uttering the word " rabbit."