Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1900 — An Ingenious Dance. [ARTICLE]

An Ingenious Dance.

One of the most Ingenious and elaborate and grammatic attempts to tickle the vanity of a monarch was that gotten up in honor of the safe return of Stanislaus, king of Poland. To congratulate him a large number of prominent persons assembled at Lissa, and arranged a dance by thirteen warriors, each of which bore a shield upon which was emblazoned one of the letters of the words Domus Lescinia, “The house of Leczinki,” the king’s family name. The first position of the dancers brought the above words into notice. They then proceeded with the dance so that the letters on the shields, which were kept facing the audience, were completely disarranged; in another moment they stood still, and it was then found that the order in which the same letters appeared produced the words, Ades in Columis, “May you be present In safety.” Again the shields wound in and out, and when the next pause came and words were, Omnls es luetda, “Thou art all glorious.” The same thing was done again, and the words Mane sidus loci appeared, meaning “Remain the star of this place.” Two more dances were executed, after ttie first of which the sentence formed was Sis columna Dei, “Be God’s pillar;” and after the second, I scande sollnmt; “Go,-ascend the throne.”