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Replies to Minor Queries.
_Ashes of "Lignites"_ (Vol. ix., p. 422.).--RUSTICUS is obliged to the
Editor for so soon giving a reply to his Query; but seems convicted of
being a bad penman, like many other rustics. For the strange word,
respecting which he asked for information, having seen it used in a
newspaper, was not _lignites_ but _liquites_. RUSTICUS could have guessed
that the ashes of _lignites_ were but wood-ashes under a pedantic name; but
a term which looks, to a rustic, as if chemists meant to persuade him to
burn his beer for a valuable residuum, is more perplexing.