Medal of about the size of a silver dollar, and which bears | | an inscription of presentation not precisely known, but | | believed to be either "To Sampson Simpson, President of the | | Jews' Hospital," or, "To Benjamin Nathan, President of the | | Jews' Hospital." | | | |

Thus we read such inscriptions as the following: RIGINE VENEMEREMTI FILIA SVA FECIT VENERIGINE MATRI VIDVAE QVE SE DIT VIDVA ANNOS LX ET ECLESA VIXIT ANNOS LXXX MESIS V DIES XXVI Her daughter Reneregina made this for her well-deserving mother Regina, a widow, who sat a widow sixty years, and never burdened the church, the wife of one husband, who lived eighty years, five months, twenty-six days.

The Romans used white walls for writing inscriptions on, in red chalkanswering the purpose of our posting-billsof which several instances were found on the walls of Pompeii.

These pamphlets contained the following inscription: "'German soldiers, attention!

It was cultivated more particularly by the disciples of Plato, who placed over his school this inscription: "Let no one ignorant of geometry enter here."

He has spent long years of labor in deciphering the inscriptions found upon ancient pillars, Egyptian and Arabic, dating five thousand years before Christ.

" Thurston glanced at the paper, and saw printed thereon in bold capitals the following inscription: "BE IN TIME BY THE SCHOOL CLOCK.

About fifteen paces from the central tower, and within its shadow, I found a weather-worn slab of marble, seven or eight feet long, the inscription on which interested me somewhat.

What is more, here comes a rather interesting local character of ours, who cut the inscription and put up the monument.

So wherever he was, he visited every ruin and tried to copy every inscription.

Gordon, obliterating the inscription, sent it anonymously to the Coventry relief fund.

Having performed this painful duty, the surviving companions of these unfortunate lovers fixed a large wooden cross over the grave, on which they carved the inscription which Machin had composed to record their melancholy adventures; and added a request, that if any Christians should hereafter visit the spot, they might erect a church in the same place, and dedicate it to Christ.

My friend showed me inscriptions of that sort in, I believe, every European dialect extant.

The idea struck me of engraving an inscription upon the stalk of this reed.

Behind him were three circular towers with pointed roofs surmounted by crosses, while around, in bold early Gothic letters, ran the inscription + S. BENEDITI .

I had never seen him before; but I remembered an inscription which I had read, in a certain churchyard far away, upon the stone that marked the resting-place of his young wife, who had died many years before.

The Pharisees on horseback passed by first, followed by the boy who carried the inscription.

A few houses were still standing untouched, and on the door of each of these was scrawled in chalk the inscription: "GUTE LEUTE, NICHT ANZUNDEN, BREITFUSS, Lt." One wondered at what cost the approval of Lieutenant Breitfuss had been obtained.

But, as the burial-ground is closed, there might be some difficulty about erecting a new monument, whereas there would probably be none in adding an inscription to one already existing.

They gazed at one another, and fancied that some magic power had really begun to smooth away the deep and sad inscriptions which Father Time had been so long engraving on their brows.

" Over the entrance stands boldly forth this solemn inscription, whilst angels, wonderfully carved in white stone, watch and guard the sacred precincts.

And now as the tears cleared away he saw also, what Angy's eyes had already noted, the inscription in warm crimson letters on the shining blue side of the cup, "To Our Beloved Brother.

Afterward, in imitation of his example, some, by no means his equals in his victories, affixed splendid inscriptions on their statues and gave honorable surnames to their families.

"Mr. Seyffarth must be a remarkable man; he has translated a great many inscriptions, and is said to surpass Champollion.

This dreadful little paper bore the inscription "By the wife of a beneficed clergyman"; what would happen if the "wife of the beneficed clergyman" were identified with Mrs. Besant of Sibsey?