Excerpt from The Bizarre Notes and Queries in History, Folk-Lore, Mathematics, Mysticism, Art, Science, Etc, Vol. 3: January, 1886 All these subjects are left for maturer years, probably to develop the brain, and to query over. Many words become petrified, and after a period of years are unearthed and again brought in to common par lance, sometimes with a modified signification. A writer of some four-score years ago thus propounds his questions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.