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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9* s. ii. SEPT.

Si tribus Anticyris caput insanabile nunquam Tonsori Licirio commiserit.

He was the freed man and barber of Augustus, and by him was brought into the Senate. His epitaph is well known : " Marmoreo tumulo Licinus jacet."

The exile Cinnamus in Martial (' Ep.,' vii. 63):

Qui tonsor fueras tota notissimus urbe.

The slow barber Eutrapelus, under whose razor the beard grew (ib., 82).

The youthful Ceditianus (ib. t viii. 52).

The unskilful Aritiochus (ib., xi. 59).

P. Ticinius Mena, who first brought barbers from Sicily into Italy (Varro, 'De Re Rus- tica,' 1. ii. c. 11). An inscription at Ardea states that this was A.u.c. 454. Cf. Plin., 'Nat. Hist.,' vii. 59.

The Barber Poet, a name given to Jacques Jasmin, 1798-1864, a poet of Gascony, who was a barber.

The tempted barber, just before the French Revolution (' Percy Anecdotes,' "Integrity").

Chambers, vol. i. p. 245, has a statement of the petition of the perruquiers to George III. on 11 February, 1765.

There are more notices of barbel's in ' N. & Q.' than I have time at the moment to examine. ED. MARSHALL, F.S.A.

One man who began life as a barber, and became famous later on, was Arkwright, the inventor of the spinning jenny. Another was the elder Craig, who committed suicide, owing to expected revelations as to his con- duct after the bursting of the South Sea Bubble. The report of his having been a barber, which is not credited in the 'Dic- tionary of National Biography,' is given by Justin McCarthy in his ' History of the Four Georges.'

Several French barbers have acquired fame in the literary world. A list of them and their achievements may be found under the heading 'Coiffeur' in Larousse's 'Encyclo- paedia.' T. P. ARMSTRONG.

Putney.

Perhaps the most entertaining book on this subject is : " The Barber's Shop. By Richard Wright Procter. Illustrated by William Morton. Revised and Enlarged, with an Introduction by William E. A. Axon. Man- chester, 1883," 4to. It contains several por- traits of distinguished hairdressers.

C. W. S. [Other replies are acknowledged.]

' TELEGRAPH ' (9 th S. ii. 128). A newspaper of this name must formerly have been in cir- culation, for on 3 July, 1796 a verdict of 1001.

was obtained against the Morning Post for sending a copy of L Eclair, a forged French newspaper, to the Telegraph. On the fol- lowing day a verdict of 1,000^. was given against Mr. Dickinson for falsely accusing Mr. Goldsmid, a money-lender, of forging the above. The date of the birth of the Tele- graph or its death I have not ascertained.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

PUNCH (9 th S. i. 346, 431). The late G. P. R. James, in ' The Brigand ; or, Corse de Leon,' chap, xxxviii. par. 1, says :

" and though there is every reason to believe

that the fragrant, potential liquor called punch was then [1559, the date of Henri II.'s death] unknown in France, and ardent spirits seldom, if ever, to be met with, yet a more generous substitute was found in the red blood of the rich grape of the Rhone, which, mulled with sugar and spices, was flowing copiously."

The " boisson de jus de citron, d'eau-de-vie, de the et de sucre," which is kept perpetually stewing in a sort of brass-bound china tea- pot, fitting into a brass-bound china stove, is anything out " potential."

THOMAS J. JEAKES.

LOCAL NAMES OP THE COWSLIP (9 th S. ii. 87). Folkard, in his ' Plant Lore, Legends, and Lyrics ' (p. 297), says :

"The flowers of the common cowslip, petty mullein, or paigle (Primula veris), are in some parts of Kent called fairy cups."

Respecting the name "paralysis," Folkard writes :

"Culpeper, the astrological herbalist, says that the Greeks gave the name of paralysis to the cow- slip because the flowers strengthened the brain and nerves, and were a remedy for palsy."

In the north of England, according to Halliwell, cowslips are called "cow-striplings." "Culver-keys" is given as an old Kentish name by a writer on ' The Rustic Names for Flowers ' in Chamber s^s Journal for 15 May, 1886. H. ANDREWS.

Herba paralysis, paralysis, and palsy wort are names given to the cowslip because, as Gerard says, it was "thought to be good against the paines of the joints and sinues." For the same reason the cowslip, in common with the daisy, was also called bone-heal, but this name, as well as that of St. Peter's wort (Herba Sancii Petri), due to its resemblance to a bunch of keys, the plant has, I believe, now entirely lost. " Hose-in-hose " is a name given by Parkinson to a variety of double cowslip which he calls in Latin Paralysis inodora flore geminato, figured in the second edition of Gerard's ' Herbal' as "Primula veris