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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[9 th S. I. JAN. 1, '98.

colonel). Canning studied for a year, and was called to the English bar ; but he sub- sequently became a wine merchant, and died in 1771, a broken-hearted bankrupt, one year after the birth of his son. His widow, in her misfortune, was only too happy to support herself and her child by keeping a small school. Mrs. Canning composed the follow- ing loving inscription for her husband's tomb- stone in the cemetery in Paddington Street :

Thy virtue, and my woe, no words can tell ;

Therefore a little while, my George, farewell !

For faith and love like ours, heaven has in store

Its last best gift to meet and part no more.

HENEY GEEALD HOPE. Clapham, S.W.

FEATHEESTONE (8 th S. xii. 488). The cleric inquired for took his B.A. degree as "Utred Fetherstone" at Trinity College, Oxford, 1739, and was probably born about 1717. His M.A. degree he took as "U. Fetherston-haugh" at St. John's College, Cambridge, 1747. Of his descendants I am sorry I know nothing. C. F. S. WAEEEN, M.A.

Longford, Coventry.

"TIELING-PIN" (8 th S. xii. 426, 478). I observed in a recent list of " donations and additions " to the Kelvingrove Museum here that one of these curiosities had been acquired and I have no doubt will now be on ex- hibition. EOBEET F. GAEDINER.

Glasgow.

SAND-PAPEE (8 th S. xii. 468, 490). The fish- skin referred to was an article of ordinary trade with wholesale country ironmongers up to within the last thirty years, or even less, and was usually sold to wheelwrights. The skins were about thirty inches long and twelve inches wide in the middle. They appeared to have been dried stretched out, and cost about half-a-crown each. When the ironmonger received them they were marked inside with a brush into pieces at sixpence or ninepence each, according to the size and shape. Each piece would wear out a quire of sand-paper. The skins had no scales, but

hanging to a nail, not having had a piece cut from it for many years. Sand-paper was in use at least a century ago, but is now quite gone out of doors, glass-paper having entirely superseded it, being in every respect far superior.

JAS. B. MOEEIS. Eastbourne.

Sand-paper has been in general use fifty or sixty years. Prior to that the skin of the

dog-fish was used for smoothing down the faces of mahogany and other such woods, prior to polishing. I was apprenticed in Sheffield, 1856-63, and although at that period sand -paper was getting to be more generally used, the rough face 'of dogfish skin was still most in favour with the "old hands."

HAEEY HEMS. Fair Park, Exeter.

When emery, &c., cloth was invented, in 1830, sand-paper was already in extensive use ; but when it was first made I do not know. The dried skin of the dogfish was at one time very widely used for polishing purposes.

RHYS JENKINS.

1 IN MEMOEIAM ' LIV. (8 th S. xii. 387, 469). I agree with the HON. LIONEL A. TOLLEMACHE in thinking that when Tennyson speaks of moths and worms he means moths and worms; but when he says that Tennyson hoped there would be a heaven even for them, I do not suppose that he means for them as moths and worms; but that, as no "life from the Ever Living" (to use Browning's expression) can die, the life which animates their humble forms passes through the suffering of their present existence to a higher stage of being, and thus, consecutively, from stage to stage. In the progress towards a perfection which shall never be attained, because the attribute of God alone, man and the worm, though with a vast lineal interval between, may be moving along the same asymptote.

R. M. SPENCE, M.A.

Manse of Arbuthnott, N.B.

LOCAL SILVEESMITHS (8 th S. xii. 347, 491). Silver spoons were long made in this city, the last maker of them, silver cups, &c., being Tom Stone, of High Street, Exeter. He died in the early fifties. The Assay Office for hall- marking was closed here in 1885. I possess a quaint silver brooch ; it forms a curious repre- sentation, in miniature, of our parish church (St. Sidwell's), spire and all. Upon the inner side is engraved, "Made by Thomas Edward Talbot Herbert, silvermith, St. Sidwell's, Exeter, A.D. 1852." The only son of this long deceased, but expert white-metal worker is at present one of the most prominent and popular men in Exeter. HAEEY HEMS.

Fair Park, Exeter.

Teaspoons can be had in Carlisle of dif- ferent patterns, some with the arms of the city (old and new), and some with roses and thistles interwoven. Y. Y.

STEATHCLYDE (8 th S. xii. 488). The Britons of Strathclyde are noticed in the 'Encyc. Brit.,' xxi, 473, 475, sq. We are there told, as