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Rh lassies." "They hiv anew o' them already; but a needna say that, she maun jist hae her nummer," was the answer.

It is a notion among many that children brought up on the feeding-bottle are bad tempered. The minister, after baptizing a farm-servant's child, was taking tea with the parents and a few of their friends, when one of the children, the one next in age to the infant, began to show a good deal of temper. Said the mother, "Nae winner she's ill-naitirt, she wiz fessn up (brought up) o' the bottle." The minister expressed a doubt, but was assured that such was the fact. In proof one of the men present stated as his own experience that a foal brought up on cow's milk always proved a vicious animal.

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NOTES, QUERIES, NOTICES, AND NEWS.

Death-warning.—Not long since, a few months ago, a gentleman of my acquaintance, living in an isolated country-house, distant from any railway, was very ill. He was not more than forty years old, and his friends and family had no reason to anticipate an early death. One night the cook came upstairs in a state of considerable agitation and said to her mistress, "Oh, ma'am, I am sure master is going to die soon, for there is a chattering jug on one of the shelves in the kitchen!" The lady said, "Nonsense, Mary!" but she went down and found that it was quite true that one of the jugs on a shelf kept chattering or vibrating without any visible cause. She said. "There must be a mouse in it;" but the jug was empty, and when replaced on the shelf it continued to vibrate as before. The gentleman died in three days, and the omen is now believed in as a fact. I do not remember to have heard of this form of the death-watch superstition before. E. S.

Easter-Eggs and the Hare.—Some time ago the question was raised how it came that, according to South German still prevailing