Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1863-12-25

the talk of "dead beats" "suall-pota-
toes, few in hill" !" bully boys" !" big
things" and things that one cant see. I"
The initials o. K" which meun "OlI
Korrect, are at least twenty years old.
INGENIUs USES OF LANGUAGE.
Let us notice some of the ingenious
things that can be done with the lam
guage. The repetition of the same
class of rhymes is quite common, but
the following epistles may be readable !:
Most worthy of estimation, after long oOnsidcra-
ton
And much meditation, of the great reputation,
Is worthy Of observation, and can obtain consid-
Grafton,
1t will be agrandization beyond all calculation,
TO the joy and exultation
ofyours, SANS DISSEMINATION.
perused your Grafton with much deliberation,
And little CONSERVATION, at the great infituation
Of yonr weak imagination, to show such q venera-
On SO slight foundation; but after examination
And serious contemplation, suppose your admi-
To display your education by odd remuneration
Or rapid Multiplication, of words of the same ter
IMITATION,
Though Of great variation in each respective sig
Not without disputatiOn, your laborious applica-
tion
To SO tedious an occupation deserves commenda-
And thinking ::imitation suficient qualification,
am, without hesitation,
Yours, MARY MoDERAr1oS
Palindromes, or lines that read the
same backward and forward, are fre-
quent in Latin or Greek, but it is quite
difficult to construct them in English.
The lawyers motto, Isl nunsDai iDlnu7a-
is" is good specimen of Latin one.
The bestin English is Adams first OF
servation to Eve, Madam I'm Adam"
The one by Taylor, the water poet,
"Lewd | did live and evil did l dwell,
lacks completeness in two points
Here is a sentence of thirty-two words,
which some ingenious child has CON
structed with just the letters found in
the word maiden "Ida, a maiden,
mean man named Ned Dean, and Media
mad dame, made me mend die and
dime, and mind mine in dim den
in Maine -
The following queer sentence origine-
ted, like many other odd things, in one
of Our monthly magazines
.-..-' Sdtor arepo tenet opera fotas."
l. This spells backward and forward
all the same.
2 Then, taking all the first letters of
each word, spells the first word. ss
3. Then taking all the second letters
# each word, spells the second word
4. Then all the third, and so on
through the fourth and fifth.
D. Then, commencing with the last
letter of each word spells the last.
g. Then the next to the last of each
word and, so on through
Here is the way a grammarian con u
gated the increasing heat:
Hot hotter, hottest, hottentot hot
tentotter, hottentotist; hottentotissimo,
hottentottissimus, hut as an oven, hot as
two ovens, hot as four ovens, hot as seven
ovens hot :"
A gentleman who could not pronounce
the letter Il, was asked to read the fol-
lowing:
q Robert gave Richard rap in the ribs
For roasting the rabbit so rare
He evaded the difficulty in the following
ingenious mannerf
g9 Bobby gave Dickey u. thump in the side,
Cd. For cooking the bunny so little"
We will close by relating a marvel in
the waH of logic dome by Granger. He
ed that he was the handsomest thing
in the world He proved it thus: "The
handsomest part Of the world, . ''is Eu-
rope; of Europe, France; of France,
Paris; of Paris, the University of the
University, the College f; in the
College of -; the handsomest room is
mine; in my room | am the handsomest
thing; ergo, am the handsomest thing
in the rzorld -