changed in an advertisement, and the
Calamites, a species of fossil plants of
the coal measures, with but slight change
appeared as ``The True Fructification of
Calamities.'' This is a blunder pretty sure
to be made, and within a few days of
writing this, the author has seen a
refer

ence to ``Notes on some Pennsylvanian
Calamities.'' As an instance of less
excusable ignorance, we shall often find the
word _gauge_ printed as _guage_.

One of the slightest of misprints was
the cause of an odd query in the second
series of _Notes and Queries_, which, by the
way, has never yet been answered. In
John Hall's _Hor Vaciv_ (1646) there is
this passage, alluding to the table game
called _tick-tack_. The author wrote:
``Tick tack sets a man's intentions on
their guard. Errors in this and war can
be but once amended''; but the printer
joined the two words ``and war'' into one,
and this puzzled the correspondent of
the _Notes and Queries_ (v. 272). He
asked: ``Who can quote another passage
from any author containing this word?
I have hunted after it in many dictionaries
without avail. It means, I suppose,
antagonism or contest, and resembles in