Rebus

a word, name, sentiment or pithy saying set forth in pictures or various devices, such as the position of words, syllables, letters, etc., with reference to some other part of the rebus. Like the charade, the rebus serves for parlor amusement. A few may be given by way of illustration:

:A

An American author and one of his chief works.

The answer is: Mark Twain, Innocents Abroad (in no sense, A broad).

In the same way Wyandotte, a town in Kansas, is represented by

Y.

The following, based entirely on the position of syllables, purports to be a post-office address:

The postal authorities are supposed to interpret: John Underhill, Andover, Massachusetts.

A variety of rebuses may be expressed in a simple way by a picture or two, as:

A noted discoverer--A column and an omnibus.

A state of the American union--Noah's ark and a handsaw.

A city of Massachusetts--A sail bearing the letter M.

The Keystone state--A lead pencil, a weather vane and A.