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Among the simple words of this kind or instances of whole sen- 

 tences, are deed, deified, gog, Hannah, level, minim, redder, nun, 

 repaper, reviver, rotator, sexes, shahs, and tat. " Was it a cat I saw?" 

 is palindromic. 



Barring the spelling, the following sentence may be given : " Lewd 

 did I live & evil did I dwel." Another example is : " Desserts I desire 

 not, so long no lost one rise distressed." It is said that Napoleon 

 was once asked whether he could have invaded England, when he 

 replied : " Able was I ere I saw Elba." This is a good specimen of a 

 palindrome, but of course the reply was never made, as he would have 

 answered in French. Here is one in Latin : " Subi dura a rudibus." 

 " Endure hard things from the rude." 



The following list of five words furnishes a remarkable combination 

 of letters. With one exception they are all Latin words in good re- 

 pute, and the letters are capable of many regular transformations : 



SATOR 

 AREPO 

 TENET 

 OPERA 

 ROTAS 



The first letter of each word, read downward from the top of the 

 list, spells the first word ; and the second letter of each word read in 

 the same way, spells the second word ; and so on through the list. 

 Beginning at the top of each word, read backward, spells the corre- 

 sponding word in the list under it, that is, the top word spells the bot- 

 tom word, the second word from the top spells the second word from 

 the bottom ; and so on. Again, beginning at the bottom of the list 

 the last letter of each word, read upward, spells the word at the top ; 

 and in the same way the second letter of each word spells the second 

 word from the top ; and so on through the list again. 



DR. JOSHUA GREEN. 



The following obituary notice of Dr. Green was printed in 

 " The New-England Historical and Genealogical Register " 

 (XXX. 126) for January, 1876: — 



Joshua Green, M.D., of Groton, Mass., died June 5, 1875, at 

 the residence of his son-in-law, Dr. Charles Y. Swan, in Morristown, 



