_Names of Planets--Spade._--Would any of your correspondents give me some
information respecting the _names_ of the different planets of our system,
whether their titles are coeval with the apotheosis of the various denizens
of Olympus whose names they bear; or whether such names were bestowed upon
the heavenly bodies at some later date in honour of those divinities?
I should also like to hear explained, how the word _spade_, which from its
affinities in other languages would appear to have originally meant
_sword_, ever came to be transferred from a weapon of war to the useful and
harmless implement it now designates.
[Greek: Ouden].
_Arms in painted Glass._--The following arms have recently been found in
some decorated windows of the early part of the fourteenth century.
Information as to whom belonging would be esteemed a favour.