Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-09-02


troth." is changed to "blighted froth, j."
and "sub rosa" to ''snub noss," )"
and "battle-soarred veterans" into "bot-
tle-scared veterans" it must be that some
Spirit of Evil is at work, misguiding the
agile fingers of the compositor, and blind
ing the piercing eye of the proofreader.
What writer's suffer from these atrocities
can never be appreciated by those people
who are fortunate enough not to bs
writer's. They really believe in q m ysteri-
ous power that turks about the case, and
the form and the printing press, and gets
| IN Its Witchy work whenever 1t has oppor-
tunity. The mightiest genius, the most
obscure space writer, experience these tor
lures. Even in this very column-and It
Is not ths fault of the manuscript, for the
writing thereof is like "little Em'ly's," $50
large you can see it anyw'sres"-agonizIpg
mistakes occur. For single instance out
OF the many, there was that pretty quota
ton:
''swarms of firefies flash their lamps
| In their atmospheric camps"
And Something made it read "atmospheric
| cramps" giving the reader the impression
that the dsar little lightning bugs had
besn eating gresn apples, and that the
! usual contortions ensued.
Positively, there is some freekish power
that hovers about the printing Office
| something underlined, mysterious, scareful.
It may occasionally "obsess" the person of
| the lad who makes fires end paste, but the
| charitable prefer to believe that 1t is some
thing entirely apart from mot off him. He
himself is possibly on the roaS to renown.
Ben. Franklin was a printers devil once,
| and was much harried and imposed upon By
the boss, his big brother. Doubtless he was
blamed for every error, of every kind, that
T., L.
England Courant, and the brother ''even
had recourse to blows, a circumstance
which took in very Ill part" says Ben,
adding, In reference to his brothers bad
temper-"psrhsps my manners had too
much impertinence not to afford it very
natural pretext." But was this natural
impertinence? Was he not, rather, domi-
mated by that mysterious power to which
we have alluded ss being ever-present and
ever malicious-the demon of the types2
The printers lad may never rise to be a
famous scientist, philosopher and states
man, but he may mount upon the stepping
stones of outgrown occupations until he
| reaches that one of earth's highest thrones
the editors chair, where he will sit and
bend ponderous brows over "lesders" that
shall shake the world.
Respect him, therefore He Is youth
of immense possibilities. Some day he may
hold the balance of your fate in his inky
hand. Salute!
ANAGRAMs.
L. Is a rather interesting amusement to
form new combinations from the letters of
a given word. To bring out some new
meaning that has been concealed in them,
to find in ones own name or the name of
friend or public character a series Of
words that are appropriate, even seemingly
prophetic, appeals somewhat to lively i'm
sginations.
The more apt the sentence produced by
the transposition of the letters, the more
one is impressed, and almost inclined to
believe, With Plato, that ansgrams are of
value as truly indicating character. No
one, 1t is to be hoped, will be 30 supersti-
| tious as Frenchmsn named Andre Pu-
| jom, who finding his name could be trans
posed to "Pendu q Riom," (Hanged at
Riom) concluded that the soonsr he fulfilled
his destiny the better, and committed q
| capital crime for which hs was actually
| hanged at Riom.
Another who followed the fancied lead
| ing of en- anagram of his own name was
| Andreas Rudiger. When at college study
| ing medicine he amused himself by trans
form being Rudigerius, with this result:
| "Arsre Rus Del Dgnus," "Worthy to Gull
tivate tho field of God" He fancied that
he saw in this a call to tho Church, SO he
laid aside his medical books and began the
study of theology. friend to whom he
gave this explanation of his course pointed
out to him that "Rus Dei' meant indeed
"the field of God, +" but not as he under
stood 1t. 1t was "God's acre." the ceme-
terry, that was intended, and it was that for
which he should labor. Whether he was
convinced by this grswsome jest Is not
known, but it is certain that he turned
again to the study of medicine and became
famous as physician.
Then there was Eleanor Davies, wife of
Sir John Davies, who lived in the reign
of Charles l. She mansged to turn her
mans into "Rsveal o Daniel" and consid
cred that abe had thus sufficiently estab-
lished her possession of prophetic soul.
so she INDUCED herself in prophecies, very
uncomplimentary and distastsful to the
government, and was at last brought to
trial. She claimed right to prophesy by
reason of the anagram, and was not dis
com6ted when 1t was shown to lack the
"s" and to have one ''r too many. At
last one of the judges made an anagEam
upon Dame Eleanor Davies, and "Never so
mad lsdle" quite crushed her prophetic
spirit. She does not seem to have discov-
cred that to do this he had bsen obliged TO
omit an g." or she might have rallied and
treated him to dissgreeable forecast of
his future.
An anagram very pleasing to the lady
was that made from the name of Marie
Touchet, one of the beauties of the court
of Charles TX. of FrGnce-"Je charme
tout"-I charm all.
We are told that all England thrilled
with pleasure when an ingenious fancy de-
rived from tie name of its idol of the day
Horstio Nelson, the Latin motto, "HonoI
eat Milo" Honor Is from the Nile; and
again when from the name of the beloved
Florence Nightingale was formed the
sentence, "Flit on, cheering angel.
Authors not infrequently invent a nom de
plume in this way, and Bryan Waller
: Proctor found in these letters both per
name and title, thus, "Bsrry Cornwall
Poet" which must have bsen eminentlJ
satisfactory.
A little later IN the season, when stormy
evenings keep the family indoors, let then
bring out the box of letters and set abou
making anagrams for half an houl
or go. Names of distinguished people
l | of great lakes, rivers or mountains
of trees and plants. are good subjects fo
transportation. When satisfactory word
| or sentence has been made let 1t be writer
down, the letters dlsarranRed, ana nanoee
over to another member of the party VIII
must return 1t if possible to its origina
3 form. The snsgrams and selected word
t may be read together at the close of tn
game This will afford some entertain
ment, and is but variation upon an ex
ercise that in all periods of literary history
:, has had more or lees popularity with In
f genious minds, and that was in pracac
1 centuries ago among the Hebrews and al
! Oriental nations, at later date evel
among Grecisn philosophers. HILARY.
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