ALLITERATIVE RHYMES BUNKER HILL MONUMENT CELE BRATION. The following alliterative rhymes were written on a celebration of the monument : Americans arrayed and armed attend; Beside battalions bold, bright beauties blend, Guards greeting guards grown gray, guests greeting guests, Kith kenning kin, kind knowing kindred key. Mixed masses, marshalled, Monumentward move. Usurpers' unjust usages unfold. Victorious vassals, vauntings vainly veiled, Where, whilesince, Webster, warlike Warren wailed. 'Xcuse 'xpletives, 'xtra queer 'xpressed, Yielding Yankee yeomen zest. IRON MENTIONED IN THE ILIAD. "Is Iron mentioned in the Iliad?" asks a new correspondent, "MENTOR." yes, according to the translation of Walter Leaf. Iliad v, 722-31: We answer Thus in the wheels of Glden is "And Hebe quickly put to the car the curved bronze, eight spoked, upon their axle tree of iron. their felloe, imperishable, and tires of bronze are fitted thereover, a marvel to look upon; and the naves are of silver, to turn about on either side. And the car is plaited tight with gold and silver thongs, and two rails run about it. And the silver pole stood out therefrom; upon the end bound she the fair golden yoke, and set thereon the fair breast straps of gold." I. QUESTIONS. Who is the author of the stanza quoted on top page 30 oft he current number of N. AND Q.? (We will present the volume for 1900 to the first three persons, each, who send us the name of the author.) PUBLISHERS. 2. One of our new exchanges, just at hand, No. 1, for December, 1900, Wyoming, Ohio, is called "Adiramled.' What is the meaning of the name? EDITOR. 3. Where is the monthly magazine called "The Mahatma " published? 4. EDITOR. Some a dozen years ago, or so, a work was published on the circular orbits of the solar system by a quite young man. Can any one inform me of title, author, and where published? Or any other works on circular orbits? J. T. U. 5. Please explain what a "harmonic circle" is, which expression is used in somo scientific works. ANDREW. 6. How many asteroids have been discovered up to January 1, 1901, and has each received a proper name? OTTO. 7. What will be the exact date and time that the spring equinox will arrive at the constellation Aquarius? Отто. 8. Who first translated the Iliad of Homer from the Greek into English? 9. H. S. T. Has the Maelstrom and the surging of the waters there ever been satisfactorily explained? Is there any other similar commotion of waters on the globe? THOMAS. 10. Who changed the name of the Isthmus of Darien to that of Panama, and why? THOMAS. 11. Why is the decimal part of a logarithm called its mantisa? II. 12. best"? Where and how originated the phrase PHAROS. "He did his level CARL CROWell. 13. Who was "Dr. Paulus," author of the " Magion, with Predictions Relative to America, the End of the World and the Formation of the New Earth." New York, 1869. ÆONS. I. QUESTIONS. How many correct words, reading horizontally from left to right, and downward, can be found in the Square of the FourFaced Demon, on the back of the title-page of this volume? Words not in common use to be defined a. d cited where used. Examples: Saturnus Abou, Bel, Sambula, Scorpio, horn, etc. The volume of N. AND Q. for 1900 will be given to the two largest lists, each, before February 20, 1901. PUBLISHERS. 2. Is there a more prolific word in the English language than "maiden"? Here is the ingenuity of a child, clipped from an exchange : "Ida a maiden, and Media a mad dame, and a mean man named Ned Dean, made me mend a die and a dime, and mind a mine in a dim den in Maine." (33) MAIDEN. 3. Leonine verses are those in which the terminations rhyme with the central words. The following is an example, and is an inscription found in the chapter house of York cathedral ? "Ut rosa flos florum, sic est domus ista domorum." Will some reader give an English translation? DELTA. 4. Where can I find a poem, sntitled "There's room in the world for all that is in it." B. G. R. 5. Who wrote the poems the "Loves of the Triangles," and the Loves of the Plants"? Lever. 6. Who was the author of the following epigram who must have expected something from Pope in return ? 7. So much, dear Pope. thy English Homer charms, LEON. Will some one give a list or short account of the several remarkable stones or slabs that have been unearthed from time to time, containing history, records, inscriptions, etc., such as the Smaragdine Tablets, the Coronation Stone, etc.? M. 8. How many translations ofthe Homer's poems have been made from the Greek into English by Americans? 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