- BEID (Omicron-1 Eridani). In the middle of the first southerly turning of Eridanus (the River) lie a seeming pair of fourth magnitude stars, Beid and Keid, which Bayer placed far down in the Greek alphabet as Omicron-1 and Omicron-2.
- Lake Elmo, Washington County, Minnesota, was named by A. B. Stickney, now of St. Paul, Minn.,, from a nearby lake, that had been named from the novel “St. Elmo.” The town was formerly called Oakdale from the many Black Oak (Quercus nigra) trees that grow hereabouts. It is not known where the novelist found the name for her book, but it is supposed she “evolved it out of the depth of her own consciousness.” She did not get it from that corposant known as “St. Elmo’s fire,” which was named for St. Elmo, the patron saint of navigators.