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 9* s. vi. SBPT. 22, i9oo.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 227 hiace fumosis deliciis addictus, vix ullum obibat negotinm, quin sibi, at patuit, fatalem auccum hauriret. Ubi enim orebna quasi pulsata ictibua, natura fatiscere, atque in mot-bum collabi ciepit; ille nigricantem materiam per anticum, per posti- cum, per utrumque guttureni tamdiu ejicere, donee fuacam ainiul evomeret animam, quam Plutonia visentem regna comitari non lubet; suapicor uniin nigroa illos et vaporum Stygiorum globis fumigantes lacua potius ex conauetudme, quam lucida ceelorum sydera adamaase, utpote fumis semper paatam et innutritam ; hospitium certe, quod ilia reliquerat, visitavi et peragravi, fultus cultro anatomico. Quid viderim, quneris? domum mihi intrare visus sum vere Plutoniam; eoce tibi in foribua atrato colore tincta, et quasi venenato aucco imbuta intinniii-rut lingua. Quid trachea? camino aimilia, nigra fuligine undique obducta. Pulmones aridi, exaucci, et pene friabilea: hepar, tanquam si prie ceteria traxisaet incendium, totuiu erat inflam- ni.it urn ; a cujua flammia ne bilis quidem in cystide •ua i in in ii nia erat; colorem enini contraxerat ex purpureo vireacentem. Ad inteatina vero, ut aunt corporia saburra, confiuxerant totius adustionis carbonea: plena etcnim erant nigricante materia, 'in1-- non mitiorem ipao Averno apirabat odorem. Ecce frequentia hujua suctionia medicoa fructua." RICHARD H. THORNTON. Portland, Oregon. THE MISTLETOE BOUGH' TRAGEDY RE- PEATED.— " A horrible diacovery haa been made at Aboyue, Aberdeenahire. A boy named Charles Thomaon, a crofter'a aon, was missed on Saturday evening at the farm of Balnacraig. It waa aupposed he nad gone away with hia father, who waa viaiting the Farm, but this morning the body of the lad waa found in a corn cheat. He had fallen in, and the lid had closed on him with a anap."—Edinburgh Evening News, 16 August. W. E. WILSON. Hawick. THE LOCOMOTIVE AND GAS.—The following occurs in the Western Daily Mercury for 16 August:— " The district of Redruth and neighbourhood has not been without its influence on modern progress. Two of the greatest inventions of the early part of the century nailed from there. The house in which William Murdoch resided when he invented gaa lighting atill exists, and bids fair to outlast many more modern edifices. It atands on the site, ana its foundationa are aupposed to be part, of an ancient church. It is commonly supposed that Stephenson invented the locomotive, but Murdoch himself made a model locomotive in 1784, full forty years before the advent of Stephenson's Rocket in 1829. Murdoch's engine bore a liliputian resem- blance to the old-fashioned tricycle, with two large wheels and a smaller steering one in front. The engine and boiler, which occupied the back of the locomotive, were very amall and on the non- condenaing principle. The driving wheela were only '.< inches in diameter, and the leading wheels 4j inches. One of the commonest atories told by the older people of the district is how the little model ran away from its master. In a biographical notice of the inventor published about I i f ty years ago, we find the following account: ' One night, after returning from hia duties at the mine in Redruth, Cornwall, where he resided for some time in charge of the mining engines, he wished to put to the teat the power of his engine; and, as railroads were then unknown, he haa recourse to the walk leading to the church, situated about a mile from the town. This was very narrow, but kept rolled like a garden walk, and bounded on each side by high hedges. The night was dark, and he alone sallied out with his engine, lighted the fire, a lamp under the boiler, and off started the locomotive with the inventor in full chase after it. Shortly after he heard distant despair-like shouting. It was too dark to perceive objects, but he soon found that the cries for assistance proceeded from the worthy pastor, who, going into the town on busineaa, was met on this lonely road by the fiery monster, whom he aubaequently declared he took for the evil one inpropriapersona.' Some years ago the daughter of the pastor in question was sought out, and although only a child at the time of the occurrence, she vouched for the truth of the main details, aaying that' one dark evening her parents, return- ing from Redruth to the vicarage, were somewhat atartled by a fizzing aound, and aaw a little thing in the road moving in a zigzag way. Murdoch was with it; her parenta knew him well.' The model appeara to have been a forerunner of the traction engine rather than of the railway locomotive ; but that Murdoch waa the inventor of the steam loco- motive there is little room for doubt." According to the above, England's most south - western county lays claim to having produced the men whose inventions have practically revolutionized the world. HARRY HEMS. lie I'Ouessant, Finisterre. WILLIAM CARRINGTON, WATCHMAKER.— Britten, in his ' Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers,' mentions on p. 386 five differ- ent members of this family, although the above is not included in that number. It seems worth recording the following inscrip- tions on two ordinary headstones on the south side of All Saints Churchyard, Epping, which I copied some time back. The churcli is pleasantly situated about two miles north- west from the old town of Epping :— " Here Lyeth Interr'd y" Body | of M' William Harrington | of London, Watch-Maker | (Son of Mr Henry Carrington | of this Pariah) who Departed I this Life October the 19"- 1748 | In the 22d Year of His Age." " Mr Henry Carrington Junr | of this Parish Dyed the 20th of | August 1761, Aged 31 Years." CHAS. H. CROUCH. Nightingale Lane, Wanstoad. SHAKESPEARE'S PRONUNCIATION OF "ORI- SON." (Seearate, p. 52.)-! agree with C. C. B. that in 'Hamlet,' III. L 88, "orisons" is accented on the first syllable. As, how- ever, Nares has quoted this line as affording an instance of accentuation on the penult, I