When, at the General Peace of 1814, Prussia absorbed a portion of Saxony, the king issued a new coinage of rix dollars, with their German name, Ein Reichstahler, impressed on them. The Saxons, by dividing the word, Ein Reich stahl er, made a sentence of which the meaning is, “He stole a kingdom!”
A good one is—
| Henry John Templeton, Viscount Palmerston, Only the Tiverton M.P. can help in our mess. |
If we take from the words, La Revolution Française, the word veto, known as the first prerogative of Louis XIV., the remaining letters will form “Un Corse la finira”—A Corsican shall end it, and this may be regarded as an extraordinary coincidence, if nothing more. Many anagrams were made upon the name of Napoleon by superstitious persons, as—
| Napoleon Bonaparte | { | Bona rapta, leno, pone. No, appear not at Elba. |
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte. Arouse, Albion, an open plot. | ||
A very apt anagram is the one founded upon—Sir Edmundbury Godfrey, I find murdered by rogues.
Evil.
| “If you transpose what ladies wear, | Veil. | |
| ’Twill plainly show what bad folks are; | Vile. | |
| Again if you transpose the same, | ||
| You’ll see an ancient Hebrew name; | Levi. | |
| Change it again, and it will show | ||
| What all on earth desire to do; | Live. | |
| Transpose the letters yet once more, | ||
| What bad men do you’ll then explore.” | Evil. |
The following are very apposite—
| Sir Robert Peel, Terrible Poser. Christianity, It’s in charity. Poorhouse, O sour hope. Soldiers, Lo! I dress. Notes and Queries, A question sender. Solemnity, Yes, Milton. Determination, I mean to rend it. Elegant, Neat leg. Matrimony, Into my arm. Misanthrope, Spare him not. Radical reform, Rare mad frolic. Melodrama, Made moral. Arthur Wellesley, Truly he’ll see war. The Field Marshall the Duke, The Duke shall arm the field. Monarch, March on. Charades, Hard case. David Livingstone, Go (D. V.) and visit the Nile. Stones, Notes. |