Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-02-19
ANOTHER NoRToN-A PUZZLE.

Recently large number of prominent cit
liens have received, per post. weighty letters
postmarked Torino (Turin), Italy. Each let
ter contained half-sheet circular. in Italian,
with what purports to be translation. at the
foot. into English. The upper lefthand
quarter of the sheet is filed by rude wood
cut. representing long-haired and full
bearded individual, sitting upon throne
mounted on a pedestal. The figure wears
flowing robes, has scepter in his right, and
a rod or staff with banner III his left hand,
while his head is surmounted by crown
which strongly represents dilapidated bird
cage, ON the apex of which stands figure in
toga, and with his right arm uplifted, while
its left bears aloft the staff and banner. The
text which follows is the most un-
accountable gibberish, and puzzles Ital-
ian scholars to make heads or tails
out of it. The citizens who have been fav-
ored with copies of this emanation of Sec
ond Emperor Norton-which. however, Nor
ton would never have been guilty of Issuing
have in each case been compelled to pay ten
cents for extra postage, the lunatic who TOR
walded the proclamations having prepaid
but half postage. The recipients, III every
instance, on receiving the document in the
great SLNElOlty anu DedELIP VIC itnAAS-N BN"~
mark, promptly planked down the required
dime. imagining that some important business
matter was about to be communicated. A
record of the calculations following the open
ing Of the document would make up an as
tonishinely vivid glossary of lively and
irreverent phrases The alleged" transla-
ton of the unfathomable document is here
with appended A meeting OF the hundred
or so of swindled recipients Is shortly to be
held, when q purse will be made up to reward
any human being who will satisfactorily ex'
plain what the thing means
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