1863. 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
57 
'l'lie Game of Initials. 
R. F. Roberts, Racine Co., Wis., writes to the American 
Agriculturist : “ I used, when a boy, io think tire follow¬ 
ing game was very interesting and somewhat instructive, 
and indeed have joined in it since I attained my 21st year. 
One of the company selects the name of some animal, 
reptile, fish, or insect, and gives the initial letter, mention¬ 
ing to which class it belongs ; the company to guess the 
name. For instance : “ P., in birds.” Those guessing, 
give the name of the birds they think of whose names 
commence with P.; as pigeon, pelican, peacock, partridge, 
etc. The one who gives the right answer proposes the 
next question. Of course those names are selected which 
are supposed to be least known. I recollect once the in¬ 
itials G. IF. T., in birds, were proposed, and the whole 
company had to give it up. The name may not be in the 
books, but the bird Is so known to hunters in the West. 
Can any of your boys or girls najneit? [It would add 
very much to the instructiveness of this game to require 
the questioner to give a few particulars of the habits, lo¬ 
cality, etc., of the bird whose initials he selects.— Ed.) 
The ISoll of Honor. 
A year ago we published a series of 52 Bible Lessons 
averaging about verses each, or 394 verses in all. Our 
young readers were invited to commit them to memory, 
and we promised to publish in this paper the names of 
those whose teachers or parents should send a statement 
that they had learned them all, and recited them during 
December. Printing paper being too high to allow of a 
supplement, we omitted calling for the names during the 
last two months. But many remembered our promise, 
and the following 53 names have been sent in as having 
accomplished the task. (Many others have written that 
the lessons were learned, but were not repeated together, 
and so the names were not sent. Indeed, we have heard 
of hundreds who learned nearly all the lessons, and prob¬ 
ably thousands of others have done so.) Here is the 
*************** ************** ******************* ******** 
J ROLL OF HONOR. J 
Name. 
County. 
State. 
Abigail V. Young. — 
.Cape May, 
New-Jcrsey. 
Alexander Thompson. 
.Orange, 
New-York. 
Amanda King . 
New-York. 
Angeline Carter. ... 
• Clay, 
Indiana. 
Anne Wade . 
Oregon. 
Annie Emelie Cole... 
.Bristol, 
Rhode-Island. 
Aristides Mills . 
.Crawford, 
Wisconsin. 
Augustus Thompson Jr.O range, 
New-York. 
Bartlett C. Church.. 
.Cheshire, 
New-Hampshire. 
Charles C. Stuart... 
. New-York, 
New-York. 
Charles E. Pinney. 
.Addison, 
Vermont. 
Charles Farquhar ... 
.Address not given. 
Charlotte Goeble . ... 
Kings, 
New-York. 
Elizabeth C. Trott.. 
.Niagara, 
New-York. 
Eliza M. Sherwood ... 
.Fairfield, 
Connecticut. 
Eliza West . 
Canada West. 
Emily Healy. 
.Rock-Island, 
Illinois. 
Emma C. Homan. 
.Queens, 
New-York. 
Emma Jane Carpenter 
..Queens, 
New-York. 
Emma Jane French. ... 
.Queens, 
New-York. 
Ermina N. Edwards.. 
. Fairfield, 
Connecticut. 
Fannie Morton. 
.Queens, 
New-York. 
Fannie White. 
■ Queens, 
New-York. 
Freddie W. Smith_ 
.New-Haven, 
Connecticut. 
Georoe C. Dickerson. 
.Kings, 
New-York. 
George H. Thompson. 
.Orange, 
New-York. 
George Robinson.. 
.Address not given. 
Gilbert C. H. Stiles.. 
.Queens, 
New-York. 
Hattie M. MoNTGo.UERYJefferson, 
Wisconsin. 
Irving Hoagland. 
.Warren, 
New-Jersey. 
Jennie K. CuNNiNGHAMAdams, 
Pennsylvania. 
Jennie Buckleu . 
.Cayuga, 
New-York. 
John F. Bell. 
. .Kent, 
Delaware. 
Joseph C. Fuller. 
.Pierce, 
Wisconsin. 
Lizzie S. Cunningham..A dams, 
Pennsylvania. 
Lucretia E. DANiELsoNRockingham, 
New-Hampshire. 
Margaret I^ckie_ 
Perth, 
Canada West. 
Mary E. Lawrence ... 
. Queens, 
New-York. 
Mary G. Pease... 
.St. Lawrence. 
, New-York. 
Mary Lamb . 
.Louisa. 
Iowa. 
Mary Morton . 
. Queens, 
Ne w-York. 
Robert Matthews.... 
.Randolph, 
Illinois. 
Russell D. Martin. .. 
..Cattaraugus, 
New-York. 
Sarah Ford Judd . 
• Queens, 
New-York. 
Sarah Jane Udall. ... 
.Niagara, 
New-York. 
Selina J. Robinson - 
. Address not given. 
Sophia C. Giddinos _ 
.Dutchess, 
New-York. 
Susan Buckbee . 
.Queens, 
New-York. 
Susie H. Thompson _ 
• Orange, 
New-York. 
Theo. I. King . 
.Cumberland, 
Maine. 
WilburS. Edwards.. 
.Fairfield, 
Connecticut. 
Wm. H. Eustis . 
.Jefferson, 
New-York. 
Wm. Orange Judd _ 
.Queens, 
New-York. 
A SleraarSiabie Bouquet. 
The above engraving looks, at first sight, simply like an 
ordinary bunch of violets, but those who have learned to 
use their eyes properly, may discover something more. In 
the group of flowers are contained profile likenesses of 
Napoleon I, his wife Maria Louisa, and of Napoleon II. 
To find them, examine each leaf, carefuily : when once 
seen, they will appear so plainly, the wonder will be that 
they were not discovered at the first look. It is said that 
after the banishment of Napoleon and the restoration of the 
Bourbons to the throne, it was forbidden by law to exhibit 
the portraits of Napoleon or his family, but an ingenious 
Frenchman, who loved Napoleon, devised this method of 
presenting thedesired likenesses without much fearof de¬ 
tection. Thousands of them were readily sold in France. 
A Musical Horse. 
The Genesee Farmer gives, at considerable length, a 
good story of a musical horse, which we condense for the 
young readers of the American Agriculturist. The horse 
was named Fib. She was a powerful animal, rather lazy, 
and occasionally balky, for which she had been beaten 
and tortured many times without effect. When she chose 
not to go, not a step would she stir, until at last they ceased 
trying to conquer her with force. It was noticed that Fib 
worked well in clear weather, but when it was damp and 
oppressive, she was almost sure to balk. At last a novel 
way was found to start her. One hot day in harvest, when 
a shower was rapidly coming, the last load was on thewag- 
on, and all was going smoothly ; but about ten rods from 
the barn, Fib stopped short. The men were furious, and 
would have beaten her cruelly, but her owner stopped 
them? and called on the driver, who was a capital singer 
to strike up a tune. He immediately commenced a Meth¬ 
odist hvmn, two lines of which had a ringing chorus. 
The shower drew nearer. “ Sing away,” cried the own¬ 
er, “sing away Hart, the old hag is relenting, I see it in 
her eye, and the tips of her ear are playing to your music 
like a lady’s fingers on the guitar.” Sure enough, in a 
moment more off she started, and the load was safely 
housed just as the rain commenced falling. After this a 
Methodist hymn would always start her, and Hart de¬ 
clared that Fib knew a Methoffist hymn from any other, 
but this was merely his imagination. 
X!ie Euraged Musiciun. 
Handel the great German Musician was a very nervous, 
irritable man, and like most musicians, particularly sen¬ 
sitive where music of his own composition was concerned. 
It is related that on one occasion he wished to have one 
of his great pieces performed in a country village, and in¬ 
quired if there were any musicians to be had. A large 
number were recommended as particularly skillful, and 
he at once sent for them—“ Can you read music ?” asked 
Handel, when they were assembled. “Yes sir,” “cer¬ 
tainly,” was answered from all parts of the room. “ We 
play in the church,” remarked one old gentleman w ho 
had brought his bass-viol. “Well then,” said Handel, 
“ let me hear you play that,” at the same time distributing 
the manuscripts on which werew'ritten the musjcal notes. 
After giving them a few instructions as 
to their various parts, he retired to a dis¬ 
tant corner of the room to listen to the 
effect. They commenced playing, but 
were soon puzzled, and made most out¬ 
rageous discords. Handel sprang from 
his seat in a rage, and rushing furiously 
toward the frightened old gentleman with 
the bass-viol exclaimed: “You play in 
the church —very well, you may play in the 
church, for we read the Lord is long suf¬ 
fering, of great kindness, forgiving ini¬ 
quity, transgression and sin ; you shall 
play in the church, but you shall not play 
for me and gathering up his manuscripts 
he rushed furiously from the room. * 
Curious Sentence. 
It requires no little ingenuity to make a 
sentence which shall be the same w hen 
read either forward or backward. There 
are a few such in English, but here is one 
from the Latin language which is ahead 
of any thing we have met with elsewhere. 
“ Sator arepo tenet opera rotas.” The 
words are the same at whichever end 
you commence: but there is something 
about it more curious still. Arrange the 
words, one under another thus: Now 
the sentence reads the same SATOR 
by beginning at the top of AREPO 
the first column and going T E N E T 
downward, or by beginning O P E R A 
at the bottom of the last ROTA S 
column and reading upward. The author of Ibis singular 
arrangement must have spent time enough upon it to 
have written at least anumber of the Agriculturist. Who 
can tell what the words of the sentence mean ? * 
A soliloquising schoolmaster, being asked why he talked 
so much to himself, replied ; “In the first place I like to 
talk to a sensible man ; and in the second place I like to 
hear a sensible man talk.” Two very good reasons. 
ProWctns and Puzzles. 
No. 28. Arithmetical Problem. —“J. D. M.,” Hudson, N. 
Y., contributes the following, which, though not intri¬ 
cate. will give good exercise in careful figuring: “In 
what time would a bond of $1000 be liquidated by paying 
$80 a year, interest being 7 per cent, per annum. 
No. 29. Cent Puzzle. — Find on the head of a new cent, 
a fruit; flowers ; a house of worship ; an animal; a quan¬ 
tity of grain ; and a protection against thieves. 
No. 30.— Transposition. — O. F. ICinslev, Welland Co., 
C. W., asks “ How to make one word out of the two 
words new door.” 
No. 31. Illustrated Rebus. —An excellent motto. 
Answers to Puzzles and Problems in Jan¬ 
uary No. (page 25). Picture Puzzles ; No. 24, Fig. I rep¬ 
resents an economical man, because he is tiying to make 
both ends meet. No. 25, Fig. 2, represents an enterprising 
business firm, because both are trying to get a-hcad j it al 
so is like a fortress, because it shows a strong-hold. 
Riddle, No. 26 : The answer is a pen. 
Illustrated Rebus , No. 27, reads: S tea dig a in sin small 
thin g s in crease wealth mower than watch in g'and 
weighting four sum great t h in g. That is: Stvidv 
gains in small things increase wealth more than watcTiing 
and waiting for some great thing. 
The following have sent in correct answers up to the 
date of January ltith ; viz.: Alice P. Talbot, 2fl: Ed¬ 
mund J. Young, 21, 22, 23 ; Thos. S. Peck, 20, 22, 23 : W. 
S. Van Meter, 20 ; Dewitt C. Challls, 20, 22. 23 ; “ T. B.’/ 
26; “J. D. M.” 20, 22,23; H. K. Morrell, 27 (nearly) ; 
I “Georgius Rex," 24, 25, 26, 27; John Tempest, 20; J. 
Me.Kinstry, 27 (nearly) ; Elbert M. Swan, 24; Miss E. 
W. A., 27 ; C. J. Shrysburs 24 , 25 , 20 ; E. W. Jones, 27. 
