Pacific Island Folk-lore

in the ïonga-tabu group I was amused by a curious custom the natives there have, of saying, when one sneezed, "Ofa," which means love. I asked the reason for this, and was told that when a man sneezed he was thinking of his wil'e, and that when a woman did so she was thinking of her husband, so that they consider it only a polite little attention to say "Ofa" to one at those times. Here in Satnoa I lind a very different phrase in voguo on similar occasions, and, on account of its likeness in meaning to one still used in England, of much greater interest. Ilere when one sneezes they say "Soefua," whose meaning is, as near as possible, "God bless you." It is strange that in two countries so far apart as Kngland and Samoa, there should be a custom so very mueli alike. - Notes and Queries. Itrequires twice as much heat to raise water to a given temperatura as it does to bring oil oL turpentine to the same point. Nature bas given us two ears, but only one mouth.