, 1874-03-01

And one friend Old ys WORTH . hundred new.
Wien the anasrammatists arc most successful,
fheG tell us nothing new re are none the wiser
for being informed tia, astronomers are moon
etarers, and lawyers ely-Tare that Parliament
is IN asselnblssc Of partial men, and tho tels-
graph great help nor is it news to us that
Livingstone was given IN lost, or That tho great
traveller will "go D.V) and visit Nile ! and
The ingenious individual who lately evolved, q So
note the contrary man," aud so boar, are not
thy manners cool'" out Of o certain Minister's
Il not likely to get rensioned
for his pains. rs happened to :, 6 fortu-
nate French anaSraua-naker IN the reign
of Louis XIII. Anagca1ns arc passably amusing,
which is more than We sny of clironosticons,
wherein the capital letters do chronological duty,
Is in
NY Day Is Closed IN Immortality,
out Of which tho date Of Queen Bess' death Is to
be picked
Scholars, poets, and wits hare often tried their
skill at inliting
EcHo-yEnsE5,
somo Of them producing extraordinary specl-
mems OF polyglot RHYMES. Half-a-dozen short
stanzas from IA English echo-poem may be &C
cepted IS ) fair sample Of this sort Of compost
ton:
."oh, vondrous Echo, tel me, bless 'e',
"siuy Dessy!"
aft neither being grave funny
NIL WILL l-44 W2l4 u 04"tLIlu'As
"T1y money!"
@f should try to gain her heart,
Shall 60 pL4in, Or r4thsr sn'-t 2: p
"she r1syn't love drces, and I, sgan, tlen,
May como Too smart, and she'n corplaio then"
"Come plain, then!"
ATheu If to marry ms tea.s her
wn=t viii she SLY If that sAoaid A pleasse her7"
f'pice2c sir!"
And love her nusaznd le*s than I9uor"
Then lick hex!
No yerse was perfect in tho e;cs Of pangram-
Erstlst unless it contained every letter Of tho
elphabet fatal blemiel1, in the opinion OF
Ipocrammatists, who plu1ned themselves upon
Their clcyerness in excluding one Or other OF
them. Pindar condceccndcd to write an ode
without making uao OF the letter S; another
Greek poet produced TN epic in tWeatc-four
books, each named after tie letter not to be
fcund in it; work possibly on par IN literary
merit with the sonnet submitted to the Persian
critic By its author, and returned with the re-
marx, TINT ho might improve it By leaving out
al tue letters
n EVERY WORD IT CONTAINED.
Lone de Vega wrote series OF hye novels,
emitting 4 IN the first, E in tie second, in tho
fifth, reading Which impelled Lord
Holland to write his "Ere's Legend Without
ecrobats should think they deserved the worlds
s7rlause for such performances is not 80
strange, when we rene CHER no" greater Writers
have sometimes exulted IN trlumphlng over
trivial troubles Of their own making. LIE Sage
rpostrophized the pen which had served to write
tie whole OF "Gil Gias = and Byron thought it
\ notable thing to writs "Manfred" with q
Enee ray gooseGuiL L slaye = s,ofo Of MS snoughtg
in such economy. Tho poet was surpassed by
Philemon Holland, the translator OF Camden's
Britannia, who in his delight at finishing .
folio volume with the same pen No began 1t WILD,
Eroke out into verse:
With one sole pen wrote this book,
l. ,,en j: Was when it took,
And pen loaro It still
Hemight as wellhayc recorded how many times
be mended it. Holland, again, vas beaten by
History" Of two folio volumes. and two copies
Of his folio DiEsert alton On the Book OF COM
mon Prayer" with 3 per that was already an Old
one when lie commenced his work, and not, &c
cording to lila notions, woru out when he ended;
then. Welding to feminine Establishments, ro-
s.Gned what remained OF his faithful instrument
to lady Of title, to be enshrined in gold case,
End deposited in her cabinet OF cur1o6ltlcs
penuen gniltlcss Of aspiring TO the honors Of
authorship, tasked their fingers and endangered
tleir eycs in order to cram the greate3t possible
number Of words in
TIE ..11LEsr POSSIBLE SPACE:
Peter Bale, sometime clerk OF the Chancer5,
wrote the Lords Prayer, the Creed, tlo Command,
ments, couple Of prayers, his own name snd
oiciai position, with the dase OF the year, month,
md Queens reign, in such small characters that
ho was able to inclose tho paper bearing tAem IN
1.-THE head OF ring" This odd piece OF ToIk
nsster Peter presented to Queen GheDein, h EN-,
toeethe- with IAN excellent spectacle, Dg htm :
vhcresi.h ~ the ~ Queen cen read ali that wes
written We wonder her p!ain-speaking Majea-
II did not tell Ealo ho was tool Tor ms
pains; but, being in gracious humor, placed
the ring upon ha1 royal finger, in token OF her
acceptance Of the gift, to the great GloE1ncation
Of the happy givcr. 1 1lr. scarle, who had put
Two useful fingers at Ills command, wrote tue
Lords Prayer, the Apostles Greed, seven Of tho
Gomnand1leEtE, tho 1o0.h, 133d, ano ta4sa
fea!ns with his name, address, and the dste'
Within the circumference OF q al1pence. An
other adept at microscopic pcnmansMp con
t11red to get the Lords Prayer, tho Greed, tue
whole of the COMMANDMENTS, and his nsme
, nlth'n the compass OF HuFeT pennay,'
smiths "Irave,llr," containing 46s lines,
u ! square Of three and haG inches; the en-
l!fe book OF Malachi in sort OF pyramid the
We Of an ordinary little finger; while circle
1oree-EEteenths Of an iuch in diameter gave MN
room enough foz the Lcrls Prayer. Pliny et,
Inns the existence Of copy Of the luad "
nalch could be Kept in q nutshell, which per-
Eapa accounts for lrof. Schneider taking the trou-
t.e 10 procure stereograI,hc copy OF German M
.Aaa:a:lca OF HoE1ers famous Wo7E, hlnng CIV
taEes, but yet SO dlnsnu.ive that nutshell
iQlaeed to hold it ; an achievement surpassed
~ tha Toledo printers edition OF "Don Qulx-
VIZ. occ1pying only ffty-oco cigarette papers,
x,lhs noti5n that extreme lttleness must per-
4o1ee mako thing admirable, has led to
4, 4 DEAL OF INGENUITY BE!SG WASTED
19 sa1s might Rare been TUNED to good account.
- - nas hee., .rarely recorded that m artist OF
W ~ h1leentl century con1lyed to de!ineate i
~! On Euch 8 minute Ecale that Hy would coV-
y NE eas:gs Da!ntlug. VIC believe the story Just