Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1877 — A Letter Puzzle. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A Letter Puzzle.

By following the directions this curious combination of letters may afford some puzzling amusement for the Utile ones. Tell some one to think of a word or name. Then ask if the first letter of the word thought of Is on the first line, then If on the second, third, fourth and fifth. Add together the figures at the top of each line in which the letter is said to be found, and the total will be the number of the letter in the alphabet counting from the beginning. Then do the same for the second letter, and so on. Thus: if the word thought of is Home, the first letter fl is on the fourth line, and the figure at the top is 8, and H is the eighth letter of the alphabet His on the 8 Bth letter, H. Oi* on the 1,2, 4,8 Mis on the 1,4, 8 Ei* on the 1, 4 sth letter, & —CAHsMm* ffisfon.