EVERYBODY'S ILLUSTRATED Book of Puzzles LONDUN : \.\ON & O BOUYERIE STREET, FLEET STREET, E.C 1890. LOSOOH : VE1X1JQ *SC CO., SO it 32, SAKUIhli BISECT, UJtCOLM 8 IXK Everybody's Puzzle Book, SELECTED BY Fabled History of the First Riddle. The ancients believed that the monster Sphynx was the inventor of riddles. Tho one she proposed for solution is this: "What animal is that which goes upon four legs in the morning, upon two at noon and upon three at night?" Many persons strove to ex- plain it, but failed and were torn to pieces by her. At length CEdipus solved it by say- ing that the animal was a man, who, in in- fancy, or in the morning of his life, creeps upon his hands and feet and so goes upon all fours; in the noon of his life walks on two feet, and in the night of old age requires a Stick and so totters upon three legs No. 1. Picture Puzzle. .LLKEL No. 2. Enigma In Rhyme. Green am I in spring, Late iu summer yellow; In the autumn red, When the days grow mellow. You may on me read; You may on me write; Green, red, yellow, though I am, I am always white. Wrinkle not my face; Let me live in clover; Look, but handle not; Yes, you may turn me over. No. 3. Arithmetic Tangle* A countrywoman carrying eggs to a garri- son, where she had three guards to pass, sold to the first guard half the number she had and half an egg more ; to the second, the half of what remained and half an egg beside, and to the third guard, she sold the half of the remainder and half another egg. When She arrived at the market place she had three dozen still to sell; how was this possible with- out breaking any of the eggs? No. 4. A Star. 1. A letter. 2. Mamma. 3. Recited. 4. Escaped by stratagem. 5. Relating to the moon. 6. Title of address to a lady. 7. A provider of provisions. 8. A male nickname. 9. A letter. No. 5. Conundrums. (a) How do we know that Byron never wore a wig? (b) "Why is the leaf of a tree like the human body? (c) Which is the oldest tree in England? (d) Why are feet like olden tales? (e) Why is a spider a good correspondent? (f) Why is a thief, picking a coiner's pocket, reminded of a line in Othello? (g) Why is an undutiful son like one born deaf? 1C8C?; Everybody s (h) Why are the pages of a book like the days of a man! (i) How many sides arc there to a tree! (j Why is your nose like St. Paul's? (k) What's that which every living man hath seen, but nevermore wit see again, I ween? A Metamorphosis. What a wonderful letter is N. Beside making a window of widow, it metamor- phoses a leviathan into two well known Jews, Levi N-athan ; makes a bungle of a bugle ; Norma, a Norman, and even causes a modest violet to be violent. One of the nicest uses to put an N to is to change an eclipse into necklips, which charms, on a pretty woman, eclipse many others. A Riddle Answered. "What is the difference between a widow and a window.'"' You give it up. I knew you would 1 Well, there is little if any, for the transparent griefs like the transparent panes of the other are Removed in course of repair- ing, and the latter is for mankind to look out of, while the former looks out for mankind. Pnnlana. Some one says that laundresses, like rail- roads, have their irons all over the country, and occasionally do a little mangling; but this, you know, is speaking ironically. Is anything worse than the Englishman in Paris, who said he guessed a certain French lady to be mad, as her husband continually addressed her as March hare (Ma chere). Theodore Rook was once asked to review a book called "Three Words to a Drunkard." "That I will do in three words," he said. "Pass the bottle!" Motto for grocers: "Honest tea is the best policy." Where is the ruffian who said, "My no- tion of a wife at forty is that one should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two twenties." Talking of a woman at forty, makes us think how funny it is that a woman who never knows her own age, can tell you in a minute the age of all her female acquaint- ances. It was the original learned pig who made this observation, when running away from the pork butcher, "Prevention is better than cure." Learn in your youth to beehive through life, with the regularity and industry of the bee; and then, as you kettle little holder, you will not get into hot water through bad habit*, and burn your flngera. Dream Interpretations. One or two dream interpretations that may be useful some day : To dream of a police- man is a sure sign of the "blues." To dream you are a monkey is to say the least sug- gestive. To dream your head is being punched, and, on waking, to discover that Buch is not the case, is lucky for you. To dream you have eloped with a wicked female ghost is a sure sign you have taken bad spir- its (over night). If a "gentleman of the press" dreams of donkeys, it is called a "ned- dy-torial" vision. To dream of suet shows a fat-uous mind (don't do it again). Double L amps in millions, O n the earth N ever conquered, D ayvlish pleasant, O nly shame 'tis, N oses smell such Acrostic. L ights on billions, O mnipotent; N ever failing, D em magnificent. O 'er Thames sailing, N asty stiff scent. No. C. Anagrams. For the benefit of very j-oung readers we will explain that making an anagram con- sists in forming a new word or words from the letters of other words. An illustration is: Cheer sick lands the anagram for Charles Dickens. We now invite you, with the per- mission of Good Housekeeping, to an ana- gramatical Dickens party, the guests of which nre prominent characters in Dickens* writings: Blame Crumple; We debtor to toys; Clev-sr fop I did pad; Pair my ages; His by a linen clock; Toy lily blows; Canny Skyes; Mere Walls ; O, feel my corn bed ; We kill red vies; Over it wilts; Bug ran by dear. No. 7 Enigma. I am a word of four letters, two of which are of no importance, signifying nought. For myself, I am an article of extended use, and worn by a lady, a friar, a snake, a clergyman, a flower and a bird. I gave a surname to a famous archer who lived about the time of Richard I, and to a poet of the reign of Victoria. My family is large, though I am an orphan, for when I go among them, I can count sisters and brothel's, maid- ens and mothers. I am somewhat addicted to single life, for I dwell with spinsters; yet I am fond of society, for where a great many neighbors dwell together j-ou will always find me. 1 am rather of a monastic turn, too, and have patronized Bo^nines, and Sceurs de Charite, Capuchins and 1'r.nu-iscans. Kings and querns t:ivor n p > when I as- sume knightly orders, and I flourish highest under their protection. Wherever I am I am at least sure of subsistence. In all prob- ability you have seen my like, but even when you find mo you may be puzzled, fox I of tun show two fact* Book of Puzzles* Xo. 8. A Riddle in Rhyme. I am borne on the pale in the stillness of night, A sentinel's signal that all is not ri.uht. I am not a swallow, yet skim o'er the wave ; I am not a doctor, yet patients I save ; When the sapling has trrmvn to a flourishing live Jt limls a protector henceforward in me? Xo. 9. Pictorial Reims. 5fo. 1O. Syncopation*. Syncopate (by omitting one letter in the middle of the word) to wander, and leave 1o stand still ; to enslave, and leave part of the far : a drink, and leave a ditch ; t > sail near the shore, and leave detriment : livelv, and leave fancy ; to divide and leave a prophet ; lnmul r , and leave part of the face ; to cue 1 gel, ami leave to lessen. 1 he syncopated words are all of equal length, and thy litters tak-u f om them, j.lar-tl in order, name s >:r.cth:ng seldom met with. Wide Awake. No. 11. Poetical Charade. My second sweepeth clean, 'tis said, When new ; but housewives say That 'tis no good when constant use Hath worn its strength away. Ah, lazy son, your algebra You've very badly reckoned: My first shall point my whole for you In likeness of my second. No. 12. Connntlrums. (a) If you had a strong desire to leave some property to the man in the moon, how would you go about it? (b) If you tumbled to the bottom of the first week in April, what sort of a Yankee would you suggest? {c) What is the difference between a sailor on duty and a sailor discharged? (d) What is the best way to prevent water coming into your house? (e) Why is a butler like a mountain? (f) Spell auburn locks in two letters. (g) What is it which occurs twice in a mo- ment, once in a minute and not once in 1,000 years? (h) If you suddenly saw a house on fire what three celebrated authors would you feel at onco disposed to name? (i) Whcu is a slug liko a poem of Tennyson's! No. 13. Charade. The student o'er my first doth pore From early morn till night; My next is buried 'neath the earth, And seldom sees the light. ' , My whole a fancy has for books, Devouring many a line; And now I think you ought to guess This short charade of mine. T>y starting at the right letter in one of the above words, and then taking every third letter, a quotation from Shakespeare's plays may be formed. St. Nicholas. No. 15. An Enigmatical List of Trees. What is the sociable tree (a), and the dancing tree (b), And the tree that is nearest the sea (c)? 1 The most yielding tree (d), and the busiest tree (e;, And the tree where ships may be (f) ? The Umg Khing tree (g), the least selfish tree (hX tree that bears a curse (i); Everybody The chr- .nologlst's trre (j), and the fisherman's t- (k), And the tree like an Irish nurse (1)? What s the telltale tree (m), the fisherman's tree And the tree that is wannest clad (o)? Tu* laymuu's restraint (p), and the housewife's live i.jl, And the tree that makes us sad (r)f No. 10. A Puzzler for Old and Young; (a) Add an ell to a lady's name, and ye teeth will chatter as you sit beside h^ What is her name? (b) What letter will moke a lady fit for re- straint? (c) Which two will make a chatting lady very dull? (d) Add one letter and remove another, and who becomes a beauty? (e) Take two letters away, and what lady becomes very painful? (f) Who shows bad behavior when half of her name is lost? (g) Take away her first letter, and place her last elsewhere, and she remains what she was before. What is her name? (h) Take away two letters from both ends of a lady's name, and you make a martyr of her. Who is she? Halve the lady mentioned, and she bo- comes an inhabitant of the desert. Her name, please? (i) Add ourselves to the end of a lady's name, and she becomes a village famous in Bible story. What is her name? (j) Take away the three last letters from a lady's name, and you make her a sacred song. What can it be? No. 17. The Two Traveler*. Two poor boys, Tom and Ned, walk be- tween London and Wolverhampton; Tom leaves the latter at 8 o'clock 10 the morning and walks at the rate of thnx; miles an hour without intermission, and Ned sets out at 4 o'clock the same evening and walks for \Vol- verhampton at the rate of four miles an hour constantly. Now supposing the distance be- tween the two places to bj loO miles, and suj)- pose the boys capable of continuing their Journeys, whereabouts on the rood will they in. t. ' No. 18. An 1 nltrma In irose. I am a newsvendor. I tell of births, mar- riages, and deaths. I invite people to din- ner, and carry their refusals. I send people abroad, and order their return. Through me, buying, selling and bartering are fre- quently accomplished. I speak the most poliftbed language and tho roughest tongue, wuitc, of Lou blue, aud times of the most delicate tints. I am some- times used with care, but more frequently receive little or none, and am often destroyed. I am also heard in the son r of the nightingale and the melody of the blackbird. Musical in- struments are"uelc<:s without me. and I am the foundation < ? ;c) Pray state where that celebrated actor Henry Irving \\ent on liis teuth hiithday. (d) Why is o the noisiest of the \ u\v els ? (e) Why is cufft-e like an axe with a dull edge ? (f) Why are teeth like verbs? (g) When is money dump ? (h) How would you express, in one word, having met a doctor of medicine? (i) Why is a vine like a soldier ? Xo. 2O. DoiiMe iVord Knlgiua. In l.;iL' : -> In linn! 1 i In uiMrir.tr :" In tearmi.' :" In sailoi-'.- ili:ty " or "Enip're City.' In al;no-t eve.-y country, lit al.iio-t every to'.vii, YII I've he.inl of tin- effn i.tory, Ami <>:' it- i. r iv:it ivuo-.vii : Y..n know tliat T.ITAI. i- a crime. \\ it!i a ntciii':' the criminal fear* Am 1 . \\ hen convii t>'.i. ->. \> * a term In jiil oi twenty years. (folilen Day*. No. 21. Reims. I am a word of five letters only; but if yon take a lesson from boll ringers and play the changes upon me, my combinations are infi- nite. My original word as it stands, silled with three i-o.. sonants at 1 .. I two vowols, signi- fies a veajion fomuTly in great repute, .-mil still of much use with s;iva;v nations. Trans- pose me, and I give you some fruit of a w holt-some and delicious nature, chiefly im- {M.rt.'il fnun < luornsey and Jersey. Cut off one letter, and 1 give you a seed; transpose me, and I cut your corn; again, and I j>eol your fruit. Alter the letter, and I present a large form of the monkey tnl>,' to you, which, if you transpose again, you will convert into a very largely usod leguminous food. Alter the letter again, and you will have the or- gans of a sense ; transpose, and you level me to the ground again, and you mark me with scars. AlU-r my letters again, and I grate for you, when, if you behead me, I become a poisonous reptile. Alter the letters again, and I go upon " 'Change;" transpose me, and Book of Puzzles. \ speak to a "medium." Alter me three times more and I become successively the materials for a dress, the blood of a plant, and what you must be. Finally, use my whole five letters once more, and if you are accustomed to the very useful grammatical exercise they show you, I think you ought to be able to make out all my meanings. No. 22. Wor.l Puzzles. (a) Name an English word containing eight syllables. (b) Name an English word in which the letter "i" occurs five times. (c) Name at least three English words, each of which contains all the vowels, in- cluding the "y." No. 23. Who Can Tflll? Twice ten are six of us, Six are but three of us, Nine are but four of us. What can we possibly be? Would you know more of us? I'll tell you more of us; Twelve are but six of us, Five are but four, do you see ? No. 24. Word Square. 1. Strengthens. 3. A ruler. 3. Memor- andum books. 4. The middle. 5. To make dear. 6. Adorned with stars. No. 25. Charade. I'll tell you no, it cannot be That you should guess my first so pat; I've said it, tho', and so will you. When you have puzzled long that's flat. My second is a thing like a hat : Like anything you please depend on it. I've said it twice, so, in a thrice. Resolve my whole and make an end on it. No. 20. J'ictorial Proverb. No. 27. Enigma. There Is a certain natural production which exists from two to six feet above the surface of the earth. It is neither animal, vegetable nor mineral ; neither male nor female, but something between both. It has neither length, breadth nor substance; is recorded in the Old Testament, and often mentioned in the New, and it serves the purpose of both treachery and fidelity. No. 28. Conundrums. Ca) From a number that's odd, cut oft the head, It then will even be; It's tail, I pray, take next away, Your mother then you'll see. Cb) What does man love more than life? Hate more than death or mortal strife? That which contented men desire? The poor have, the rich require? The miser spends, the spendthrift saves? And all meu carry to their graves. (c) My first makes company; My second shuns company; My third assembles company; My whole puzzles company. (d) My first is a point, my second a span; In my whole often ends the greatness of man. (e) The public credit and the public shame, Though widely different, differ not in name. No. 29. Decapitations. fa) Behead an animal, and leave a grain. CD) Behead a dance, and leave a fish, (o) Behead a gulf, and leave a cave, (d) Be- head part of the neck, and leave an animal, (e) Behead a useful article and leave a beam. The beheaded letters will spell the a famous American general. No. 30. The Number Forty-five. How can the number forty five be divided into four such parts that if you add two to the first part, subtract two from the second part, multiply the third part by two and divide the fourth part by two, the total of the addition, the remainder of the sub- traction, the product of the multiplication and the quotient of the division are all equal No. 31. Enigma in Kliyrae. I am a cheerful little thing, Rejoicing in the heat ; Whether it come from sea coal fire. Or log of wood, or peat. Again, I love a sunny day In park or grassy field, Whom 'neath my banner man and youtb Their utmost prowess wield. And there they stand with ready arm. Unflinching every one; v Everybody's Their only aim to prove themselYW "A Briton to the bonel" That I abound in man and beast, And also in mankind. No. 32. Biddla. Add 100 and nothing to 10, and 100 and othing to 1,000, then catch a B and put him at the end of it all, and the whole will pro- duce what you don't want one bit, so perhaps you had better save yourself the trouble of guessing this riddle. Ns, 23. A Card Board Puzzle. 2. Cut out of a piece of card, five piece> similar in shape and size to the annexed figures, viz., one piece of Fig. 1, three pieces of Fig. 2 and one like Fig. 3. These five pieces an- then to be so joined as to form a cross, like that represented by Fig. 4; but, of course, larger in size. No. 34. Geographical Emp/ma. (A city in Australia) and her friend (a city In Montana) went shopping. (A city in Australia) wore an (a county in Ireland) and a (city in the northern part of California) pin. (A city in .Montana) wore a (plateau in Asia) cloth suit and a (bills in Dakota) hat They bought some (mountains in Vermont) dress goods, a (river in Mississippi) ring, a m Florida) picture and some (an island of Scotland) for a dress for (a city in Swe- don). They then went home. Harper's Young People. No. 35. Charade. My whole's a word of letters five, I'm found both far and near; Behead me, and I am a Bound That strike* upon the ear. My tail cut off, a weight now comes, Most useful to mankind; Behead again, my tall replace, A unit you will find. Curtail once more, and I am left A >.!-> little word; A prvpuoition sometimes foi t . 1, An adverb often bear d. Behead me now, my tail clap on, And then I think you'll lind No. 36. -Conundrums. (a) "Why is a game of cards like a timber yard? (b) Make V less by adding to it. (c) Why is a widow like a gardener? (d) W by is a tight boot like an acorn tree! (e) Why is the largest city in Ireland likely to be the largest city in the world? (f) Why is a bad epigram like a poor pen- cil? (g) How do you swallow a door? - - (h) Why is a thump like a hat? (i) When you go to bed why are your slip- pers like an unsuccessful man? (j) Why are your nose and chin always at variance? (k) When may a chair be said to dislike you? (1) What man never turns to the left? (in) What is that which is lengthened by being cut at both ends? No. 37. Rebut. A churlish Jew, whose bags were mad* to bleed; A noble mind set to ungenial deed ; A knavish peddler, thievish as a pie} A shrew, made gentle by authority; A judge, with a false angel for his mate* A foolish justice, full of idle prate; A shepherd maid, for a great throne more fit ; A chattering constable, of empty wit; A dainty spirit of the air set free; A youthful lover full of phantasy ; One who a mistress wept more sweet than she. These lifelike forms the wondrous master wrought, With subtle skill and deeply searching thought; These few just gathered from his bounteous store Will spell his name, if right thou read them o'er. No. 38. Illustrated Proverb. Book of Puzzles. No. 39. Anagram. It LONG LIT THEN AFAB, Like a bright star, 6uidlng Its owner through darkness and llgm% Saving him from the terrible plight Of being left to his doom Lost in the gloom. No. 40. Charade. O'er distant hills the rising moon The evening mist dispersed; And, beaming radiant from her throne, She plainly showed my first. A horseman, now seen by her light, Approached with headlong speed; And, as he passed, my second said, To urge his foaming steed. For his lady love still waited, Though the trysting hour was pasft. My whole she was, in truth, because He was my third and last. No. 41. An Enigma. I am spelled in four letters, a very small word, In which only three letters of them seem to be heard. I dwell on the tree, on the bush, on the flower, On the top of the cedar, the midst of tbe bower, I am gold, I am silver, I am black and I'm white, I am tinged with all colors you see 'neath the light. I am thick, I am thin, I am narrow or broaa, I am met on the river, the meadow, the road. No. 42. Numerical Puzzle. A man had three daughters of three ages, to whom he gave certain apples to sell. To the eldest daughter, fifty apples ; to the sec- ond, thirty apples, and to the youngest, ten apples, and they all sold the same number for a penny and brought home the same money. How many did each sell for a penny' No. 43. Conundrums. (a) Why should a man always wear a watch when he travels in a waterless desert? (b) Why is the early grass like a penknife? (c) What is a bull in a china shop? (d) Why are clergymen like waiters? What Is Faith. A teacher in a school that stood on the banks of a river once wished to communi- cate to his pupils an idea of faith. While he was trying to explain the meaning of the word, a small covered boat hove in sight. Seizing upon the incident for illustration, he exclaimed: "If I were to tell you that there was a leg of mutton in that boat, you would believe me, would you not, without even see- ing it for yourselves? "Yes, sir," replied the scholars. "Well, that is faith," said the teacher. The next day, in order to test their recollection of the lesson, he inquired: "What is faith?" "A leg of mutton in a boat," was the answer, shouted from all parts of the school. Good boysl No. 44. An Extraordinary Dinner. Soups. (a) To jeer and a kind of clovo. (b) The name of "the piper's son," a letter and part of tho foot. Fish. (a) Only, (b) To roll, toss cz tumble. Entree. (a) To cower, served with a phil- osopher, on a sentiment. Roasts. (a) A country, (b) An essayist. (c) A tailor's implement. Vegetables. (a) A letter, an article and part of the foot, (b) Letters of the alphabet, (c) A watchman's course, (d) A coupe and a generation. Dessert. (a) To regret, part of an arrow and a mass of unsorted type, (b) Swimming and what Australia is. Nuts. (a) A wooden trunk. (b) Terra firma. (c) On every breakfast table. Fruits. (a) The fruit that urges you to travel, (b) The fruit that tells tales, (c) Unites in couples, (d) An anathema, an article and a conjunction. No. 45. Hollow Square. When the jiames of the four central ob- jects have been rightly guessed, and arranged like tho black dots on tho edge of the picture (the first and last letters of each word being used twice), a hollow square will be formedL_ Ifo. 46. Enigma ID Rbym* I'm high and I'm low, Pm up and I'm down{ I'm uaed by the boy* In country and town, I mostly em thick; Very rarely am thlflf Pometim-3 F rralk out; Sometimes I walk in. Pm often put on, And often put off; But hold ! I have done* I've told you enough. No. 47. Puzzler* for Wife Heads. There arc fourteen letters in a very famous book, the name of which you havo to guess by paying duo attention to the following re- marks: (a) When the first letter goes, a fruit which has it straightway becomes a wide mouth. (b) By adding tho second to another letter, you get a famous river. (c) The loss of the third turns, alas! an honest tar's room Into a murderer I (d) While tho loss of the fourth makes what fa fanciful a bit of wood. (e) Add my fifth letter twice to a vowel and straightway you havo a lady. (0 At any time of tho year by adding the sixth to the present moment you get some- thing cold and white. (g) Take away ray next, and what was made to swim can fly. (h) The removal of my eighth turns a king's seat into agony. (i) By the loss of my ninth the name of a person becomes a bird. (j) The addition to my tenth turns a car- riage into a shell fish. (k) Take away my nost from an important feature and you get an insect fond of a candle. (I) Add my twelfth to a coal mine and you get a kitchen utensil. (m) Add my thirteenth to a domestic ani- mal and you find something to wear. (n) And fur the want of my last letter a mariner's guide becomes good to eat. N'<>. 48. Conundrum*. (a) When is the soup likely to run out of the saucepan f (b) How does tho Russian nation resemble the tea? (c) What Is the di (Terence between a pcr- ton late for the train and a school mistress > (d) Would you rather an elephant killed you, or a gorilla! (c) What writer would havo been tho best angler? Some Good Simile*. AM wet u flmh a> dry aa a bone: Aa live u a blrd-oi dead as a rtonej Aa plump aa a partridge aa poor as a rat) Aa strong aa a horse as weak as a cat; As hard aa a fllnt^-aa eoft aa a mole; Aa white aa a lily as black as a coal ; As plain as a pike sufl as rough as a bear; As tight as a drum as free as the air; A3 heavy 03 lead as light as a feather; As steady as time uncertain as weather; As hot us an oven as cold as a frog; As gay as a lark as sick as a dog. "Your horse has a tremendous long bit," said a friend to Theodore Hook. "Yes," aid he, "it is a bit too long." No. 40. Riddle In Terse. If you would travel o'er our land, To Vermont's hills or Georgia's strand. Or where Maine's breezes blow, Get ia my flrst and you will speed Fur Ja-ster than the swiftest steed, Where 'cr you wish to go. Upon my second patriots turn, For it their he::rto with ardor burn, For It they live and die, For it in toil they spend their years, For it they give their prayers and tears, For it as captives sijh. My whole 13 In the pardon found, When tho cweet summer months come rouarl, Ai d flowers wake at their call. Yell )w sometime:* and sometimes rose, Snow white, deep red its color glows, Its perfume pleases all. No. 50. Word Pyramid. Arrange the word septuagenarian in a col- nmu of letters thus: And then tell a story of old age, or make some remarks on old age, 8 BO that tho whole will form a pyra- E raid, with twice as many letters P but ono at the bottom as there are T in tho word itself, namely, twice U fourteen wanting ono, that is, A twenty-coven. Tho letter S must re- O main alone, boiug tho apex ; tho next E letter, E, must have ono letter on N each side of it; P must have two on A each side; T three on each side, and R so on, until you arrive at N, tho last I letter, which must have thirteen A letters on each side of it. The N whole must form a connected sen- tence, having reference, as wo said before, to the condition of old age. No, 51. Enlsma. My flrst Is in tadpole, but not in a worm ; My next'a in the tempest, but not in the storm; My third's in a tunic, yet not in a coat; My fourth's in a bison, but not in a goat; My fifth is in yeliow, but never in blue; Book of Puzzles. n My sixth is in cinders, yet not in the flue, My seventh's in the tailor, but not in hit man; My last's not in kettle, but always in pan. If you put these together, a bard ycu will eee, And most people think him the top of the tree. No. 52. Arithmetical Puzzle. How many dinners would be necessary for a club of seven persons who had agreed to dine with each other as long as they could be differently arranged whca they sat down at table? No. 53. Connected Diamonds. 1. A crooked letter. 2. A sweet bread. 8. A sweet substance. 4. Is an animaL 5. The last of a chair. 1. The last of help. 2. A beverage. 3. A kind of fruit 4. A kind of ostrich. 5. The first in sickness. The centrals read down form the centrals across, which ia turn form a candy. No. 54. Illustrated Conundrum. These two peop.e are making the same re- mark. What is it? No. 55. Hidden Poets. Find the name of a poet in each of the fol- lowing sentences: (a) Is martyrdom a thing to desire or notl (b) Is it better to go to church ill, or stay (c) Does ever a cow perplex her mind with politics? (d) "What other animal can kick, eat, strike with her horns, and low? (e) When a man looks grim, a song will often cheer him up will it not? (f) How do you like such names as Robert, Philip, Arne, Llewellyn? (g) Who was best up in daring deeds in the Crimea? (h) What is the complexion of the Ningpc people? No. 66. Conundrums. (a) What is the difference between a chim- ney sweep and a gentleman who finds that the mourning he has purchased to wear at a friend's funeral fits him exactly? (b) Why are A, E and U the handsomest ol the vowels? (c) Why is a worn out shoe like ancienl Greece? (d) What key is best for unlocking thi tongue? (c) How can you ask a man if he is ill ir four letters? No. 57. A Monument. O O X O X X O X X X O X X X X O X X X X X O X X X X X X O X X X xxxxoxxxx (a) A vowel appearing but thrice in thil line; (b) A letter used as a numerical sign; (c) A quadruped faithful and true untt man; (d) A conjunction in use since our languag* began. (e) A certain uncertainty next is expressed (f) Then follow the places we all should love best ; (g) Then comes one who works at an arl that is plastic, (h) And next, passing over, though not a. "gymnastic," (i) The base is seen lying at length on th ground: This done, and the thing you hav builded is found. The central letters read downward give th inswer. No. 58. Card Board Puzzle. Everybody's A parallellogram, as in the illustration Fig. 1, may be cut into two pieces so that by shifting the position of the pieces two other figures may be formed, as shown bj Figs. 2 and i No. 50. Historical Knlgma. My first is what you first Jearn to do ir arithmetic. My second was the founder of the Norman duchy. My third is Latin for thou. My fourth is a great personal ornament. My fifth is two vowels. My sixth is a county in Scotland. My seventh was a heathen goddess named in the Bible. My eighth is an archangel mentioned bj Milton. My ninth is tho Greek K. My t-nth i< a beautiful forest tree. My eleventh a musical drama. My twelfth is no ornament to any one'i face. My thirteenth is two-thirds of a Scotch whaling port. My fourteenth is the name of a book in thi Bible. My fifteenth we must all obey, or we shal] catch it. My sixteenth is a sound in the singing scale. My seventeenth is anything and every- thing. My eighteenth is what everything has. My nineteenth is a favorite musical hano instrument. My twentieth is what every rnnn would like to be. My twenty-first is a famous North Ameri- can river. My hist is often hard to say. Arrange these words, and tho first letten read downward will describe a great soldier; the last, similarly read, will decribo three of his victories. No. GO. Ch:irao>. No book without my first is made, However small or large; A boat my next, which swiftly sails. And outstrips many a barge. My whole Is used to cut my first However thick it may be A very useful thing am I, As quickly you will see. No. 01. A Few Biblical Conundrum*. (n) At what time of the day was Adam born? '!) U"l: it kind of sweetmeats did the? have in tho arkf (c) What is the moat unequal contest men- tioned in the Bible I (d) When did Ruth treat Boaz badly! (e) Who can be said to be nobody's child? (f) How many neckties had Job? (g) Which of the animals took the most into the ark? (h) Where were walking sticks first intro duced? (i) At what season did Eve eat tho apple? No. 62. Half Squar*. (a) A leather bag. (b) Methods of working. (c) Settled again. (d) Elegies. (e) Things of importance. (f) Essential oils obtained from roses. (g) Nails. (h) Parts of the feet. (i) Finish. (j) Of the same kind. (k) A letter. No. 63. Poctlc:il Charade. My lady Jane had called for my first, And the curtains, cozy and warm, Glowed red in the twilight, shutting out The sight of the thick snow storm. Two little boys with my second played, With the help of my lady Jane And an ivory ball ; and they missed and laughed, Then tried the trick over again. But my first is ready, my second waits. On the ground all the playthings roll, And the children, tired out with their game, Are taking my first from my whole. No. 04. A Spring Time Pyratald. Arrange as a pyramid tho sentence below, and find out tho word which reaches from the point to the foundation stone. It will be found to be a spring tide festival, suitable more or less to the subject of the sentence: "Sweet spring at last is bursting tho Arctic chains. Genial breezes refresh us sometimes. Tho snow drop is gone. It has given place to the many later favorites, as daffodils and primroses. Birds, such as wo all do love, provide music rare, and we should bo joyful indeed were it not that we know winter de- parts not with the daffodils. Rude blasts have yet to roar around the garden. Fly away, winter! fly away I" N. B. Great care must be taken to arrange all tho letters in strictly level lines, and the letters of each line must be exactJy below those of the lino above, and exactly above those in the lines below, or confusion will l>e the result. Tho letter S will, of course, be the highest point of tho pyramid. No. ;.">. Anagram*. (a) Got a scant religion. (b) Shame proud Caty. Book of Puzzles. (c) Rare mad frolio. (d) One-half bias. (e) Queer as mad, (f) Mad policy. (g) Lady mine, (b) Cnesty. (i) Chasty. (j) Boy Ned. (k) Tea slops. (1) One hug. (m) Norse cat. (n) City life. No 66. Arithmetical Fuzzle. There was a poor man called Johannes Bull, Who children did possess, a quiver full; And who yet managed somehow to scratch on, By the true help of daughter and of son. Six little workers had he, each of whom Earned something for the household at the loom. I will not tell you how much each did gain, For I'm a puzzler, and I don't speak plain; But, as I would you should possess a clew, Home tell tale facts I'll now disclose to you. Week after week, Jane, Ann, Joe, Bet, Rose, Jim, Earn ten and tenpeace, father says, for him, And in this way: The eldest daughter, Jane, Gains seven pcuce more than sister Ann can gain; Ann eiglitpence morn than Joe; while .Too can get By his endeavor.; .- i ','(lian !!>!; Bet, not so old, earns not so much as thu.se, But by her hands gets fourpeuce more than Rose; Rose, though not up to Jane, yet means to thrive, And every week beats Jim by pennies five. Now, say what each child worker should receive When father draws the cash on pay day eve? No. 67. Pictorial Puzzle. No. 68. Conundrums. (a) Old Mother Twitchett she had but one eye, And a very long tail which she always let fly; And every time she went over a gap, She left a great piece of her tail in a trap. (b) What ice becomes in the heat of the sun, Is given the soldier by beat of drum. (c) Black we are, but much admired ; Men seek us out till they get tired; We tire the horse, but comfort man. Tell us this riddle if you can. No. 6D. Dcoupitntion. Cut off my head, and singular I am ; Cut off my tail, and plural I appear; Cut off both head and tail, and, wondrous f.-icf , Although my middle's left, there's nothing there. What is my head? a sounding sea; What Is my tail? -a flowing rivor; In ocean's greatest depths I fearless play, Parent of sweet ast sounds, though mute for- ever. No. 70. Word Progressions. I am a thing, which once was borne aloft, Over the hill, the woodland, and the croft; Yet I, who thus could rise like any lark. Am now the servant of a banker's clerk. Add but a litter, or, it may be, twain, And changes yet more strange shall I sustain, As thus: ajieap of copper I become, If c and e are added to my sum; And if a sacred mount you give to me. Cash am I still, and mount to s. d. But pounds and shillings, yea, and pennies fall, If u r y are tacked upon my taiL No. 71. Pictorial Proverb. No. 73. Acrostic. (5 letters.) Anyplace of public contest; to paralyze; fleshy ; a tertiary deposit on the banks of the Rhine; pertaining to a brittle, gray colored metal; to look steadfastly; to follow; tryst; obscure; to sing; an appointed place of meet- ing ; a weapon ; true. Primals: Excusing. Third letters dowii: a dependent. No. 73. Kiiigma In Prose.. I am a word of three letters, an animal's name. Add a planet to me, and you will dis- cover Sirius. Take it away, and replace it with a flower, and you will discover the ex- quisite piak tinted wild rose of the hedges. Change it once more and link mo to another order and you will perceive a purple scent- less blossom. Substitute a fish, and you will find in me one of the lesser shark tribe. Add me. to the 4th of July and llth of August inclu- sive, and I shall represent the hottest season. Add four letters to me, and I will recite the worst of bad verse to you ; replace these by three other letters, and I will show you a stubborn disposition ; alter these to two others, and I represent a tenet. Set mo on fire and I give you an ancient form of grate. In my crude form J ain the recognised emblem of Everybody's fidelity, and am monumentally represented so. I am the guardian of your flocks and herds, and of your threshold, under which guise I am represented at Pompeii. I follow your steps with pertinacity, am ofttimes slain in your service, and sometimes by your own hand. I rescue you from fire, water and snow. I get to the lowest depth of weariness in your behalf, and yet your gratitude is evinced by making my name a mere byword of reproach. No. 74. Conundrum*. (a) Why is the nose on your face like v in civility? ' (b) Why is conscience like the check string of a stage? (c) What snuff taker is that whose box gets fuller the more pinches he takes? Mi If a tough beefsteak could speak, what English poet would it mention? (e) What question is that to which you must positively answer "yes?" (0 Why is an author the most wonderful man in the world? No. 75. for WlMt Hearts. Take twenty lines, and put in the first Fomething hot and comfortable, though dan- gerous. , In the second write down Abram's home of ol.L In the third we will have the light of the body. In the fourth set down a very base word. In the fifth put what no one likes, or ever will Jot down for jour sixth word what is on every thorn. And for your seventh lay down two-thirds of half a dozen. While three-fourths of an arch shall be your eighth word. The ninth is the earliest navigator we know of. The tenth is how best to prosper. The eleventh is a clang word for something to eat And the twelfth is our own noble selves. We ought to eschew the thirteenth. While the fourteenth wo need not eschew If we are temperate, but it is of ten dangerout like number one. The fifteenth word is two-thirds of our mother. The sixteenth is a girl's name. And the seventeenth a thing's designation, The -i^l,t.'.-nth is half a nose. The nineteenth no man ever saw the end of. In tho twentieth and last place, or line, write down what you ought never to be qerer, never, never I When these are set down one beneath an- other, read the first letters, and you will find tho two great factions, or parties, who di- vided Italy and Germany so much in the Middle Ages ; and by reading the last letters you will find a most useful building, erected by Charles II, where better work is done than slitting throats for barren glory. No. 76. Word Syncopations. Take an age from to supply with air, and leave a goddess; take a Hebrew measure from a perfumed liquid, and leave a kind of shell ; take edges from to shrink, and leave a plant of the cabbage family ; take an pninml from an assistant and leave a fish. No. 77. The Hidden Poet. My first is in willow, and never in ash; My next is in wound, but not in a gash; My third is in wormwood, yet never in pall : My fourth's in the landlord, but not in his hall; My next's in the throstle, but not in her mate, My sixth's in all women, yet never in Kate ; My seventh's in tho tongue, but it's not in tho head; My eighth is in slumbers, but not in one's bed; My ninth is in scarlet, but not in red cl-ak ; My last's in a hammer, but not in its stroke. Together, my letters a poet declare, Who once wore the laurel about his white hair. No. 78. Enigmatical Animal*. An affirmative and continually. A ma- son's implement an! a morsel. Uninhabited and an old game at ball. A mottled appear- ance in wood and to steep in lye. No. 79. Pictorial Rebus. No. 80. Riddle*. (a) How can you spell George with one letter? (b) Why is S a noisy lettter? Why is love, like a canal boat? !!> Why is snuff Uke the letter ? Book of Puzzles. (6) What Is the center of gravity I (f) Why la n dentist likely to be a melan- choly manf Thonghts Wise and Otherwise. What a distressing thing it is, as soffls ona has said, that there are men who positively can't, any one of them, open their mouths without putting their foot in it. Some one asks: What is the difference be- tween a coat and a baby? To which the answer has been given : The one I wear, the other I was, A punster adds: That, ah] must be the reason why, ah! ladies like them both, as they are all given to, ah! pet a baby, also, to a(h) ! pet-a-coat. An Old Proverb Kevisccl. "Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise!" That's what you say really; well, we're not quite so sura of this, but there is one thing we are quite decided about, namely : Go to bod late, and get up again early, Makes a man stupid, seedy and surly. It's all right; we've tried it. Do Yon See ItT A lady who was often visited by a gentle- man, sometimes at rather unseemly hours even, was asked if ho were ahem! any re- lation. She replied: "That gentleman's mother is my mother's only child." Do you eee it? He was her son her male child her offspring. A Specimen of Ciphering. You my 0, I thee; Oh, no 0, but me, And let your my be, ThengiveOOIOthee. A Cute Customer. Justice Do you know that yon an charged with the theft of a poor laborer's dinner? Tramp Yes, sirl J. And did you know that yon violated the law? T. No, sir! It was a case of necessity, and necessity knows no law. Boston Bud- get, I Answered. "Have you any data on which to base fl prognostication of the duration of the pres- ent period of excessive caloric in the circum- ambient atmosphere?" asked a young woman with spectacles of a man at the Union station yesterday. "Yes'ra," was tho reply, "the next train for Boston leaves in half an hour * Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph. Ho Temptation. "And BO you have brought my beautiful Alphonso home, have you, like an honest man, instead of keeping him yourself, as you might easily have done!" said the delighted lady as she fondled the poodle. "Were you not strongly tempted fro keep the darling creature?" "No, mum," replied the incorruptible man, as he pocketed the $5 reward. "It weren't no temptation. I couldn't have sold his hido for two bits at this season of the year, mmm" Chicago Tribune. No. 81. Who or "What Was It and WlicreT God mado Adam out of dust, But thought best to make ino first, Bo I was mode before tho man, To answer God's most holy plan. My body he did make complete, But without Legs or Arms or Feet* I did my Maker's laws obey; From them I never went astray, But God did something in me see. And put a living soul in me, That soul of me my God di J claim, And when from mo that soul had fled, I was the same as when first made, And without hands or feet or soul, I travel now from pole to pole. To fallen man I give great light. Thousands of people, young and old, Jlay, by my death, great light behold; To heaven I can never go, Nor to the grave or hell below. No. 82. Illustrated Conundrum. No. 83. Riddle In Prose. I am the center of gravity, hold a capital situation in Vienna, and as I am foremost in every victory, am allowed by all to bo In- valuable. Always out of tune, yet ever in voice; invisible, though clearly seen in the midst of a river. I have threo associates in vice, and could name three who are In love with me. Still it is in vain you seek me, for I have long been in heaven, and even now lie embalmed in the grave. i6 Everybody* No. 84. Enigma by Cowper. I am Just two and two, I am warm, I am cold, And the parent of numbers thct cannot be told. I'm lawfully unlawful, a duty, a fault. Exceeding dear, good for nothing when bought, A - extraordinary boon, and a matter of course, A .J yielded with pleasure when taken by force. No. 85. Arithmetical Puzzle. Tho sum of four figures in value will be, Above seven thousand nine hundred aud three; But when they are halved, you'll find very fair The su. i will be nothing, in truth I declare. No. 86. Enigma. My first is in nun and not in some. My second la in nap and not in fun. . My third is in pay and not in debt. My fourth is in bone and not in bet. My fifth is in love and not in hatred. My sixth is in blue and also in red. My seventh is in boat and not in ship. My eighth is in hand and not in whip. My whole la the name of a great conqueror. No. 87. Conundrums. (a) There's a word composed of three letters alon Which reads backwards and forwards the MB*. It expresses the sentiments warm from th heart, And to beauty lays principal claim ! (b) What word is it which by changing a ingle letter becomes its own opposite? (c) When a boy falls into the water what in the first thing be does! (d) What is that which la pat on the tabl* and cut, but never eaten! (e) At what time was Adam married? (0 What is the difference between twic twenty -two and twice two and twenty? (g) A room with eight corners had a cat in each corner, seven cats before each cat and a cat on ev, f \ it's tail What was the total Dumber c'. ; ? (h) Wh:. 1 i '. at which the more you take from It the i.r v it growil Figures. Astrono i derful, And lull . ..ting, 2; The eart volves around the RUB Which makes a year 4 you, Tho moon Is dead and calm. By law of phys 6 great; It's 7 where the stars alive Do nightly scintU 8. If watchful Providence be 9 With good in 10 lions fraught, Di 1 not kwsp up IU grand design, We soon would come to 0. Astronomy H 1 derful. But It's 8 80 4 1 man 2 group, and that is wh/ I'd better say no more No. 88. A Charade Letter by Charles Fox. Permit mo, madam, with tho profoundest respect, for once to come uncalled into your presence, and, by dividing myself, add greatly to my consequence. So exalted am I in tho character of my" first that I have trampled upon the prido of kings, and the greatest potentates up .n earth have bowed doTvn to embrace mo, yet the dirtiest kennel, in tho dirtiest street, is not too foul to have me for its inmato. In my second, what infinite variety? I am rich as tho eastern nabob, yet poor as the weeping object of your benevolence; I am mild and gentle as the spring, yet savage as tho wintry blast ; I am young, beautiful and blooming, yet deformed and wretched. From tho highest authority, madam, I daro prove I am your superior, though few aro tho in- stances that prove it, and tea thousand the proofs against it. I am ; but you ore tired, and wish my reunion; it is done, and my consequence is lost, and I have no other merit than remaining, as at first, your most obedient servant, THE WHOLE. No. 89. Syncopations. I am composed of six letters: Without my 1, 2, 3, I am part of a lock. Without my 4, I am tho miser's god. Without my 5, 6, I am a member of th Roman Catholic church. Without my 1, 4, 5, 6, I am a preposition. Without my 2, 3, 4, 5, I am a pronoun. Without my 3, 4, 5, 0, I am tho initials of one of tho United States. My whole is an animal of South America. No. 00. Hour Glass, (a) Merchants. (b) To lift. (c) Frozen water. (d) A consonant. (c) A fish. (f) A stoves (g) Cut. Centrals read down A celebrated English novelist. Left diagonals Fell in drops. Right diagonals Searchers. No. 01. Mathematical Puzzle. An old woman, carrying eggs to market In a basket, met an unruly fellow, who broke them. Being taken before a magistrate, ho was ordered to pay for them, provided the woman could tell how many she had; but he could only remember that in counting them into tho basket by twos, by threes, by fours, by fives and by sixes there always re- mained one, but by counting them in by evens there were none remaining. Now, in this caae, how was th number to be ascer- tained! Book of Puzzles. Wo. 02. Word Building. Two lines containing a total of sixteen words can be made from the following: Y y uryyubicuryy for me. Ko. 03. The Grasping landlord. Suppose a certain landlord had eight ap- ple trees around his mansion, around these eight houses of his tenants, around these ten pear trees-phe wants to have the whole of the pear trees to himself, and allot to each of his tenants one of his apple trees in their place. How must ho construct a fence or kedge to accomplish it? No. 94. PI. Stlrf eth lube dan tehn eth rowshej Stingrub dub, dan slingmi lerwof ; Bkorob tes efre hwit kinglint rign; Drisb oto lufl fo gons ot gins; Bcrip dol seveal tiras hiwt dripe, Weerh eht dirnit stoveli heid Lai hingst darey hwit a ilwl Palir's mognic pu eht lihll No. 05. Riddle in Rhyme. Ever running on my race, Never staying at one place, Through the world I make my tour, Everywhere at the same hour. If you please to spell my name, Reversed or forward 'tis the same? No. 06. Combination Star. 1 4 . . Y. . 5 . . * > $ . . ***** *** 6 Prom 1 to 2, a braggart; from 1 to 3, mates happy; from 2 to 3, argues rationally; from 4 to 5, the principal gold coins of ancient Greece; from 4 to 6, to satisfy; from 5 to 6, the shortening of a long syllable. No. 07. Words Within Words. (a) An animal in a candle. (b) A path in a star. (c) A stream of water in fruit. (d) A crime in clergymen. (e) An owl's cry in tree branches. (f) A sign in a cosmetic. (g) A propeller in what it was made from. No. 08. Charade. My first from the Greek meaning "love, 1 My second's one vowel alone. My third was an oracle famous, My fourth like my second, I own. My whole is a friendly old city, That quite prides itself on its -'tone." No. 00. Entangled Scissors This is an old but a capital puzzle. A piece of double twine is fastened to a pair of scis- sors (as shown in the cut), and both the ends aro held with the hand, while some person extricates the scissors from the twine. No. 100. Beheadings. (a) Behead a tree, and leave roguish, (b) Behead on high, and leave a gallery in a church, (c) Behead thrown violently, and leave an organ of the body, (d) Behead a preposition, and leave a contest, (e) Behead a pronoun, and leave belonging to us. (f) Behead to efface, and leave to destroy, (g) Behead to reproach, and leave a relative, (h) Behead to annoy, and leave comfort, (i) Behead an occurrence, and leave to give utterance to. The beheaded letters will spell the name of a famous general, beloved by all Americans. No. 101. Gentlemen and Their Servants. Three gentlemen are going over a ferry with their three servants, who conspire to rob them, if they can get one gentleman to two of them, or two to three, on either side of the ferry. They have a boat that will only carry two at once; and either a gentle- i8 Everybody manor ft WfVt&tAUtt bring back the boat each time a cargo of them goes over. How can th gentlemen get orcr with all their errant) so as to avoid an attack! Ko. 1O2. Hidden Author** I was sitting Idly in my study, WfoTD A blazing fire, about en Hour before dinner, when, according to my physician's directions, I rang the bell and ordered my tonic, "Yes, sir," answered my old and very valued serv- ant, who had been my cellarmen (a) for years; "how do y>u find yourself, sir?" 'Very well, I thank you, John," replied I; "except for a slight pain in my brow (b), I was never better." "I'm glad of it, sir," he answered, "for Dick is very anxious to know when you intend to resume the chose "Ni-xt week, I IJOJK?," saiil I, "and I hope my old fashioned body dl) is ready for me to wear." "Ay, ay, sir," replied John, "but 'tis looking terribly whitish black (e) at the seams." "Never mind, John," said I, "'tis an old friend. And what's Hannah got for my dinnerP "She has got a leg of young mutton (0, sir," he replied. "Then tell her to cook it in hot water (g)," said I; "and beg her not to forget that I like a slice of dried salt pork (h) afterward, and above all things let lier be quick (i) about it. Just mention to her, by the way, that the shrimp sauce yesterday was rather husky (j)." "Yes, sir," answered faithful John, closing the door. "And now," said 1, poking the cheery flre, "I don't envy even Pio Mono (k) himself, with such a dinner awaiting me, a cozy chair, a good fire and twelve good authors whom 1 have already mentioned tt keep me company.* No. 103. Transposition. Read me aright, I'm useful to cooks; But by transposition, draw boys from their bookH: A rain transposed, then me you would shout Most lustily after a thief, I've DO doubt; Transpose but once more, and I may be found la each street of the cily. both steadfast and MM No. 1O4. A Doable Arroctio. mniAUB *5D rtxAi.8. Tbese two disclose an order new Lately of science born. WnoM eUicU, whether false or true, Beach us. each ui^ht and morn. ACBOM. (a) la forest dim. If one this sound should hear, He might in terror fly or crouch In abject fear. (b) lie bids adieu to comforts, friends and home, Through arctic saows and deserts drear to (d) A homely crop, though vef? good, And used by man and beast for food. (e) Behold my fifth's a woman's name, Which, back and forth, Is spelled the same. (f) Aloft on craga Trhlch join the skies, This home may greet your searching eyes, (f) What we all seek and pray that Heaven may eend, Alas! we rarely find It till the end. No. 105. The Carpenter's Puztle. (c) A poet of Italy 1 1 hero, WbuM name ut uuaic to the ar. A ship having sprung a leak at sea, and be- ing in great danger, tho carpenter could find nothing to mend it with except a piece of wood of which the accompanying cut is a correct representation. The black dots in it represent holes in the wood, thus apparently preventing him from cutting out of it the sized piece he wanted, which was exactly one- fourth of its own size, having no holes in it Can you tell how the square piece was cut from the board* No. IOC. Charades. (a) My first's a prop, my second's a prop and my whole is a prop. (L) What 1 do, what I do not and what yon are. (c) My first Is equality, my second inferi- ority, my whole superiority. (d) He can, seldom obtain my first, who labors for my second, and few like to do my whole, (e) My first Is wise and foolish, my second the physician's study, my whole the pleasant- est ornament of a house. (f) My whole is under my second and sur- rounds my first. (g) When you stole my first, I lost my second, and 1 wish you may ever possess my whole. (h) My first dreads my second, for my second destroys my first, while many delight In my wuol*. Book or Puzzles. No. 107. Enlgraa. Things In my first ore always told. My second smacks of matters old. My third is ever bought and sold In shops or in the market cold. Or, If you like it, on a stalk, When in the summer fields you vralk. My first you'll notice, ripening fast; My next's an adverb of the past: My third in mart or ware house sfanda, And is forever changing hands; My whole it has a luckless lot, It almost always goes to pot. No. 108. Half Square. Foreshown; displaced; a symbol; pertain* Ing to the sun; to declare; a jewel; a nick- name; a consonant. No. 109. A Riddle iii Rhyme. We are little airy creatures. Each have different forms and features; One of us in glass is set. Another you will find hi Jet; A third, less bright, is set in tin, A fourth a shining box within; And the fifth, if you pursue, It will never fly from you. No. 110. A Remarkable Monogram. You are requested to state what word It Is, of only three syllables, which combines in it twenty-six letters. While you are consid- ering an answer to this conundrum, your at- tention is called to the picture above, of the gentleman with the parasol and hand port- manteau. It presents a monogram of the twenty-sir letters of the alphabet, none of which are turned backward. To a quick mind it also suggests a reply to the opening query. No. 111. Two Diamonds 1. A consonant. 2. A garden tool 3. Parts of speech. 4. The terminus. 5. A con- sonant. 1. In chest. 2. A beverage. 3. Shelters. 4. Consumed. 5. In chest. No. 112. Conundrums. (a) What letter in the Dutch alphabet will name an English lady of title? (b) What word of six letters contains six words beside itself, without transporting a letter? (c) Is there a word in the English language that contains all the vowels? (d) Why is quizzing like the letter D on horseback? (e) What Christian name, besides Anna, reads the same both ways? No. 113. Enigma. I may be either alive, dead, or inanimate. In the first case I can be either curved, straight, or crumpled; in the second 1 may bo of any form, but especially hollow; in my last my appearance is rather circumscribed, but it is the most pleasing of my forms I wear no coat, yet sometimes 1 have a but- ton, and a cape is named after me. I have no head, but am possessed of a mouth, and sometimes of a tongue, and can give utter- ance to sounds without the latter; and, truly, I must bo a poor one of my kind if I cannot speak. In one sense I am generally in pairs, and in another never can appear in more than twenty-six weeks of the year. I can, when alive, inflict severe wounds, and when inanimate, in bad hands, can cause pain (to the ear). In one sense I give light, in an- other I protect it I am not averse to gayety, for I used of ten to appear at festive boards; no band is complete without me, and I am often mentioned in connection with plenty. But for all this, in my natural state 1 am sometimes rough, always sharp, and have been the death of several people, and a place merely bearing my name seemed to have such terrors as to cause a gallant captain to desist from his voyage. No. 114. Transformations. [Change one letter each move, the substi- tute retaining the same relation to the other letters in the word, and giving a legitimate word still Example Change Wood to Coal in three moves. Answer Wood, Wool, Cool, Coal] (aj Change White to Blck In eight isaTgS, 20 Everybody's (b) Chang* 5eat to Prim In eight moves. (c) Change Hat* to Ix>ve in three moves. (d) Change Saxe to I'ope in live moves. (e) Change Hand to Foot in six moves. (f) Change Blue to Pink in ten moves. (g) Change Hard to Cosy in five moves. (h) Change Sin to Woe in three moves. No. 115 Anagram*. () Spare him not (b) March on. (O Golden land. (d) Nine thumps, (e) Best in prayer. (f) Nay, 1 repent it (g) Rare mad frolic, (h) To love ruin. (i) Great helps. No. 110. A Transposition, A gentleman who was paying his addresses to a lady, at length summoned up sufficient courage to ask if they were agreeable to her, and whether he might flatter himself with a chance of ultimate success. The lady replied, "Stripes!" telling the gentleman to transpose the letters so as to form out of them another word, which word was her answer. The reader who can find out the word needs never fear being nonplused by a lady; those who cannot must either persist till they overcome the difficulty or may give up all thoughts of wooing. No. 117. Ea/iy Word Squares. (a) A narrow road; a plane surface; close to; pans of the body. (b) Not any; across; not far away; strayi from the right. Ko. 118. Floral Puzzle*. y w.rd. iie of twelve flowers or plant* uiy direction one square at a 1 same square only once In each No. 11D. TTord Building. I am a dog, a dog of lowr degree; There is, I'm told, no noble blood in me; Bo, settle that much in your mind, my boy, Then puzzle out the name that I enjoy. To aid you in your labors, let me say, Add e, and every sickness flies away; Turn e to I, aud then at once you'll see What the waves do when winds blow fresh and free. If you remove them both, and add a few, It brings a bell of eventide to view; Or if, instead, you do append an ate, A clergyman appears as sure as fate. If you would turn me into cheese, add d, If you would shorten me, 'tis done with t. If you're a horseman, 6 will help you guide The gallant quadruped which you bestride. More I could say, no doubt, but I refrain; I've said enough to make my secret plain. No. 120. A Box Puzzle. A boy made a box and divided it into sev- eral compartments. The sides and partitions were alike, the floor was different. The cover was decorat/'il with a pii-turo repre- smting the shore of a certain tropical onni- try. The boy painted the box the color of his own eyes. He put in it a common table luxury, a summer garden vegetable, fruit of a foreign tree, and a very bitter substance. What nuts are represented by the box, ita aides, picture, color and contents? No. 121. Illustrated Rebus. No. 122. A Transposition. I am a word of letters six, "Pertaining to tho mind;" Turn me around, and I will "grieve," Because you are- unkind; Turn just once more, and you have mad* "A cloak" of mo, you'll find. No. 123. Dropped Syllables. Example: Drop a syllable from an event, tod leave to mark, Answer, Book of Puzzles. 21 (a) Drop a syllable from a kind of needle- work, and leave a mineral (b) Drop a syllable from threatening, and leave the cry of an animal. (c) Drop a syllable from an absconder, and leave an animal. (d) Drop a syllable from a place of refuge, and leave a salt. (e) Drop a syllable from a meeting, and leave to come in. No. 124. Kiddle. Pour people sat down in one evening to play; They played all that eve and parted next day. Could you think when you're told, as thus they all sat, No other played with them nor was ther one bet; Yet when they rose up each gained a guinea, Though none of them lost to the amount of a penny. Puniana. Great K, little K and K in a merry mood will show you two islands and a continent: Major-ca, Minor-ca and Ameri-ca. What a pity it is when lovers fall out, isn't It? To think that hot words should produce a coolness! But, you know, everybody ia liable to the unpleasant vicissitudes of life. Even an oyster, which is one of the most placid of creatures, is liable to get into a Btew. Ah I it's stew terrible to even think of. We remember once meeting a man who had just escaped by a miracle from being run over; he couldn't speak; his heart was . . in his mouth, and he didn't appear to like it. We met him again a week after, and he told us that for the future he intended, when he got to a crossing, to ... run over himself. Poor fellowl we trust it is still well with him. Like which four letters of the alphabet is a honey producing insect when in small health? Like A B C D (a bee seedy). [Therefore, not so much of A B C B (a busy bee) as usual. Poor little insect, what N-R-G it has in working; what X-L-N-C has not its hom y ; and as for its N-M-E's, they ought never to be X-Q-Z, but to find out the P-I-K-C of its sting.] No. 125. The Bishop of Oxford's Puzzle. All of the following are in the human body. Tell us what these may be: I have a trunk with two lids. Two musical instruments. Two established measures. A great number of things a carpenter can- not dispense with. Have always a couple of good fish and a number of small ones. Two lofty trees. Two fine flowers. Two playful With a number of smaller less tame breeds. A fine stag. A great number of whips without handles. Some weapons of warfare. A number of weathercocks. The steps of a hotel. A wooden box. The house of commons on the eve of divis- ion. Two students. A number of grandees to wait upon them. Two fine buildings. A piece of money. The product of a caoutchquer (camphor) tree. Two beautiful phenomena. An article used by Titian. A boat in which balls are held. An article used for crossing rivers. A pair of blades without handles. A letter finished off with bows. Secure fastenings for the whole. No. 126. An Ocean Wonder. In the ocean's depths profound, Where is heard not human sound, Where the briuy monsters play, I am buried night and day. Like a master working soul, Who can myriad minds control, Like the planets in their course, I contain a hidden force. 'Tis the modern men of thought That the fleeting secret caught; When a captive it *vas made, For its guidance I was laid. Swifter than the flight of time Flashes it from clime to clime; Quick the distant nations hear What you whisper in my ear. No. 127. The Square and Circle Puzzle. Get a piece of cardboard, the size and shape of the dia- gram, and punch in it twelve circles, or holes, in the po- sition shown. The puzzle is to cut the cardboard into four pieces of equal size, each piece to be of the same shape, and to con- tain three circles, without getting into any of them. o O o o No. 128. Anagram. Each anagram contains but a single word, (a) Tame cats, (b) Master hope, (c) Rosa white, (d) Lovely tin, (e) As rag man. CO Lisping Fred. 22 Everybody s No. 129. ESS Enigma. Three boys, all prone to roguish jest, Drove a hen from off her nest; The eggs they stole, and home they hied, Resolved the plunder to divide. First, half of all and half an egg Was "portioned to the greatest wag; The next got half of what remained, And half an egg he, too, obtained ; The third got half of what was left And half an egg; yet none was cleft, And now to tell the poet begs, I pray you divide poor Partlett's eggs. One Way to Light a Candle. To light a candle without touching the wick, let the candle burn uutil it has a good long snuff, then blow it out with a sudden puff, a bright wreath of white smoke will curl up from the hot wick. Now if a flame be applied to this smoke, even at a distance of two or three inches from the candle, the flame will run down the smoke and rekindle the wick in a very fantastic manner. To perform this experiment nicely, there must be no draught or "banging" doors while the mystic spell is rising. No. 13O. Author'* Enigma. (a) A lion's house dug in the side of the hill where there is no water. (b) Belongs to a monastery. (<) What nn oyster heap is apt to b* (d) Always youthful you see; lint between you and me Ho never was much of a chicken. (e) Is any range of hills containing a cer- tain dark treasure. (0 Humpbacked, but not deformed. U) Brighter and smarter than the other*. (h) I do for information, I do for recreation, It can music awaken, But is easily shaken. (i) Put an edible grain 'twixt an ant and a bee, And a much loved poet you'll speedily SCO. (j) Pack very closely, never scatter, And doing so you'll soon get at her. (k) Oliver Twist's importunate demand. (1) The witches' salutation to Macbeth. Cm) A slang exclamation. No. 131. Heheiulmcnt ami < urtailiuenU Cut off my hcud, and singular I am; Cutoff my tail, mid plural 1 u|,| Cut off both head and tail, and, wondrous fact. Although my middle's left there's nothing there, ^fbat is my hea/1 f-a ioiyidlnf M^ What is my tail ? a flowing river; In ocean's greatest depths I fearless play, Parent of sweetest sounds, though mute for ever. No. 132. A Square. Snows or hails with a mixture of rain. A small European singing bird. Complete. A puzzle. Named. Bedsteads. No. 133. A Pictorial Charade. My first if 'tis lost music's not worth a straw ; My second's most graceful (?) in old age or law, Not to mention di- vines; but my whole cares for neither, Eats fruit and scares ladies in fine summer weather. No. 134. Au Old Proverb. A well known and very true proverb is contained in these stars. You will observe it has twenty-five letters. Two letters are given twice over in the lowest line to assist the sorely puzzled wise heads. OOK***OIL Now fill up the top line with the guest whom some superstitious people don't like to have at dinner. Put in the second line what all like on a winter day. In the third line set down what a book is called when the sheets on which it is printed are folded into eight leaves apiece. In the fourth what a person is who wean a mask at a ball In the fifth a part of speech. In the sixth a delicious wall fruit. In the seventh what you have who ar guessing my riddle. In the eighth what Dover is. If you rightly guess these eight, Ii00 will be (IJled up at a of Pushes, Jfo. 135. -Word Progression, By substituting new letter for one already In the word, make a newword t and thus pro- graa from word to word until the desired answer ts fOtind. Examples: Progress from Dcg to Foi in two moves; dog, fog, fox. Progress from Dog to Man in threo moves. Progress from Ape to Man in two moves. Progress from Skate to Coast in seven moves. Progress from Boy to Man in thfee moves. Progress from Bock to Read in four moves. No. 130. Poetical Charade. My first she was a serving maid She went to fetch some tea; How much she brought my second tells As plainly as can be. Now when the answer you have found, Name it to others too; My whole is just the very thing, In telling them, you'll do. No. 137. An Enigma In Prose. I am such an indispensable part of your being that a mortal creature cannot exist without me. Yet I am not exclusively of an animal nature, for the earth owns me as well. I am to be met with at Vesuvius and Etna, only yon would never be able to ap- proach near enough to see me. So you must look for me in rivers, where you will always discover me (just where you will not find me in the animal kingdom), the farthest from the head. I dwell in all caves of the earth, and in all pits, whether of coal or ore. Not even a cannon is made without me, for I am where men seek the "bubble reputation." I am large and long in the shark and alligator, small in the crab and caterpillar, deep and wide in jar and jug, long and elliptic in the human race, round in the ray and the skate, and triangular in the leech. With all the animal race I am movable, generally noisy, and can open or close at will, but in inani- mate nature I am generally noiseless and perpetually open. I dwelt in Venice, and through my means the secret messages to the Inquisition passed! I was in Egypt with Memnon, making musio when the sun touched me. In short, if the eyes are called the windows of the soul, I may be very justly considered as its portal. No. 138. Divided Words. EXAMPLE: Separate a certain kind of cloth, and make a humble dwelling and a measure. Answer, cot-ton. 1. Separate a cloister and make to study and a small aperture. 2. Separate a very hard ubstance, and make a masculine name and an insect. 3. Separate an ornament, and make part of a bottle find a delicate fabric. 1 Separate the corner of a leaf in a book, turned down, and make certain animals and epikes of cofn. 5, Separate a city in British India, and make fortune and at this time. 0. Separate a certain part Of tile day, and male? tmooth and current. 7. Separate ftii island in the North Atlantic, and mako fashioned and a masculine name. 8. Separate reci- procal succession, and make to change and a people. 9. Separate renders keen, and mako acid and entity. The initials of the first words will spell the name of a religious festival celebrated on Feb. 2. The initials of the second words will spell the name of a saint whose festival oo curs on Feb. 14. No. 139. Bcheadment and Curtailment. There is a little third, his name is discontent. Who second through the world, On mischief ever bent. Few totals of trne pleasure, In busy hours or leisure, But troubles without measure Have we when by him rent. 140. Cardboard Puzzle. Take a part you multiply by 2 and the fourth part you divide by 2, the sum of the addi- tion, the remainder of the subtraction, the product of the multiplication and the quo- tient of the division be all equal? No. 149. Enigma. In carpet, not in rug; In fish, not in bug; In fry, not in bake; In itch, not in ache; In come, not in sent; In take, not in lent: My whole is a continent. No. 150. Tangle for Sharp Wit*. My first is a thing that a tailor oft uses; A cart cannot go when my second it loses; The pauper complains that he has not my next, And is deep In my fourth, and so sorely perplext; Jly fifth's half amused, and that's better tbao weeping: My sixth throuen a great Russian city goes creeping; My next is a tree by King Solomon prized; My eighth a grand virtue to which we're advised; My ninth's an old weapon not sword, shield or lance; My tenth is three-fifths of the first stream In France; My next brings a Mush to an Austrian's face, And my last's a Spring dose, very good In iU place. Arrange all these doze^as well as you can, And the first letters show an effeminate man; The last gives the name of a Sunday that's dear To every good child in the spring of the year. No. 151. The Three Jealous Husbands. Three jealous husbands, A, B and C, with their wives, being ready to pass by night over a river, find at the water side a boat which can carry but two at a time, and for want of a waterman they are compelled to row themselves over the river at several times. The question is, how those six per- sons shall pass, two at a time, so that none of the three wives may be found in the com- pany of one or two men, unless her husband be present? No. 152. A Plebeian Waltzer. I gayly danco with my thousand feet. Making the home a place more neat; When my partner sings 'tis a waltz complete. Sometimes I suddenly stand on my head; The spider beholds this caper with drra.l, For destruction upon his work 'twill shed. When the dance is done and the fun fs o'er, My partner leads me behind the door, Where I wait till called again on the floor. No. 153. A Diamond. 1. A consonant 2. A constellation. 3. A weapon. 4. Her pile of hay. 5. A vegeta- ble. 0. A,unit 7. A consonant Read up and down and across through thf Book of Puzzles. center of the diamond and find the name of an English poet. No. 154. Anagram. N. B. Gain ten. Steve Burd. Can I let Maud? Chain me pets. M. No. 155. An Enigma. My first upon my second's deck "Departing, waved his hand. Ijcried, "My first, if 'scaping wreck, My second reach the land, Wherein your future lot is cast, Know that till death my whole shall last!" No. 156. Illustrated Rebus. Anecdote of a Bishop's Wife. Have you heard the tale of the bishop's wife, who, when she had been shopping, had her purchases put into her carriage, and was going away without paying until stopped by the counter gentleman. "Do you know who I am?" indignantly asked she; "I am the bishop's lady." "Can't help that mum," re- plied the counter gent, "you couldn't have 'em without paying for 'era if you was hia wife!" Small but Troublesome. My first is a bit of butter. My next a bit of mutton, My whole a little shutter, Put on to pinch a glutton. A but-ton. Now, what is a button? A small event that is always coming off. Acrostic. A monitor which most folk prize, W hoso precepts all too much despise; A racer set 'gainst time to run, T hat beating is itself outdone; C hained or tied, yet night and day H astening wherejlt should not stay No. 157. Poetical Conundrum. I paint with colors, I fly without wings, I people the air with most fanciful things; I hear sweetest musio where no sound ia heard, And eloquence moves me, nor utters a word. The past and the present together I bring, The distant and near gather under my wing. Far swifter than lightning my wonderful flight, Through the sunshine of day, or the dark- ness of night; And those who would find me, must find me, indeed, As this picture they scan, and this poesy read. No. 158. Literary Anagrams. In the first column are found the names of ten books; in the second column the namea of their authors: (a) Serablis Meles, (b) Four drum,unite al, (c) Nee them cows, (d) Povit L'academ, (e) Nox's cat, (f) Hove in a (g) Pery in hoi (h) be halt, (i) Let retta rhelect's, (j) Vest wil riot, (a) Touch Vigor, (b) Nickdes, (c) Harat Cyke, (d) Lambwck, (e) T. Welly Rubton, (f) Wits rest car lot, (g) Go fowl, Nell, (h) Grown vin hit in gas, (i) Hot war hen, (j) Di-Necks. No, 159. Pictorial Proverb. No. ICO. Double Acrostic. My first is a very common two wheeled ve- hicle. My second is an ancient city, captured "by Joshua. My third is a king, rather mad, but made worse by the unkindness of his children, My fourth is a sound in the singer's scale. My fifth enters into every agreement that if made. My sixth is the sign of the genitive case. My last is found plentifully in the woods. Take the first letters, and they form thj 26 Everybody s name of a flat bottomed vessel, generally used as a bomb ship against forts or bat- teries erected on the coast Take tho lost Mini, and they form the name of a singular quadruped. No. 101. An Enigma. My first in bill, but not in check. My second in build, but not in wreck. My third in love, but not in hate. My fourth in line, but not in bate. My fifth in sandal, but not in shoe. My sixth in yellow, but not in bluo. My seventh in tiger, but not in bunny. My whole is a writer, baldheaded and funny. No. 162. Kiddle*. (a) Who had the first entrance into a the- atre? (b) What is that which denotes the state of tho mind and the body? (c) Why are stout gentlemen prone to melancholy? (d) Why is a joke like a chicken? (c) Why is it almost certain that Shake- speare was a broker? (f) When is a fast young man nearest heaven? (3) What is it wa all of ten say we will do and nobody has ever yet done? (u) Why do little birds in their nests agree? (i) When is love deformed 1 (j) When does a fanner double up a sheep without hurting it? (k) Why is a kiss like a rumor? (1) What confection did they have in tho ark? (m) I live upon my own substance and die when I have devoured myself. (n) Why is a dog biting bis tail like a good manager? To Stand an Egg Upright. Tho unceremonious manner in which the great navigator performed this feat by breaking one end of the egg, is familiar to all who have read the anecdote of Columbus and the egg. Evidently at that time it was considered impossible to stand an egg on its point But a modern genius declares it may may bo done thus: Take an egg (a long one IB best), shake it well so as to break tho yolk and mix it with tho white; then with a "steady band'' balance it on its broad end upon a smooth, even surface, glass or slate being best. No. 163. A Showman'* Cemetery. (Many animals collected from all parts of the globe are buried here. Find them.) To a drama reader, Mine Heir; You being A bachelor of Oxford, I Infer, retarded "E'er True," or attempted, on Keystone's denounce ment of it, to squelch or secrete a famous effort But I, German that 1 am, cannot be arbitrarily crushed by your bulldoze, but will seize bravely my opportunity, and Abel Kasson & Co. will produce my musical farce, with sceuio attractions, on the Buck- ingham stage. All amateurs, able critics, here or o'er the sea, love to applaud my In- do-English artistic effects. My partner, Lovejoy a kinsman of mine emulating Nueland, has sold, in the boxes, his wines, lo 1 these many years, and each eve, we, as elder brothers, share the spoils. O. 164. A Charade for Young Folks. The roseate clouds drift through the sky* The sun goes down; And soft tho total's gentle cry Sounds through the town A second is he, wise and old, So people say; Who carries with him, I've been told. First, white and gray, To sprinkle on all wakeful eyes Black, bluo or brown ; As on his busy round ho hies Straight through the town. ."so. 165. A Diamond () ,A letter, (b) A preposition, (c) Inner parts of things, (d) An instrument used by dentists, (e) A fine kind of chinaware. (f) To choose again, (g) Interval (h) To rest (i) A letter. No. 166. A Rlddlo In Rhyme. I'm the offspring of shame, by modesty bred, I'm the symbol of virtue and vice; Neither written nor printed, yet constantly red; A critic discerning and nice. I'm a marplot, and terribly self willed withal, I'm not to be argued or tasked; And although I obey not a positive call, I. come when not wanted or asked. xso. 167. Problem of Money. Place ten half dimes in a row upon a table. Then taking up any ono of the series place it upon some other, with this proviso, that you pass over just one dime. Repeat this till thcro is no single half dimo left No. 168. Beheadings. (a) Behead to impute, and leave a Jewish r of the law. (b) A premium given for a privilege, and leave tho burden. Book of Puzzles. (B) An arch on a beam, and leave a car- bonaceous mineral, highly electrical and gen- erally transparent. (d) The plain part of a column, and leav trouble. No. 169. Pictorial Decapitation* Behead the first word in each lino to find the second ; then behead the second to find the third. Several Swallows. The proverb says ''One swallow does not make spring," but the proverb is certainly wrong when the swallow is one gulp at a big boiling hot cup of tea in a railway station, as, if that one swallow docs not make one spring, wo should bo glad to hear what does. A traveler writes from Naples: "Standing on Castle Elrno, I drank in the whole sweep of the bay." What a swallow the writer must have. But perhaps tho queerest feat In the eating and drinking line ever recorded is that of a man who commenced by boltiug a door, after which he threw up a window, aiid then sat down and swallowed a whole story I Varieties in Prose. A cannibal's favorite soup is a "broth of a boy." A pretty, well made, fashionable girl and a thrifty housekeeper are alike; for each makes a great bustle about a small waist. When a man attempts to jump a ditch and falls, he is likely to miss the beauties of sum- mer. Because the fall follows right after the spring, unless he makes a summer set be- tv. it'll them. No. 170. Enigmatical Writeiw My first was famed for beauty; My second bids you seek ; My third, a brave old soldier, For tariff bold did speak. My whole, a noble woman With earnest mind, essayed To ask for justice to a race Whom man for greed betrayed. No. 171. Anasram of Authors, (a) Tell Mary Bill can win.U. (b) Reient her blow, (c) We rule a tobogin. (d) Ben, M'O cry hard here, (e) Then lames her. (f) Call her verse, (g) Vowing I shant grin, (h) Trace one whine, (i) See my nag fling Ma, (j) Clare L. Wilton, (k) Hear Jo roar gilt. (1) Join the left rear wing, eh? (in) Father Bert (n) So dace cured her. (o) Old Jay Gould rares. (p) W. D. Howells, Lawn Forge, Troy, N. H. No. 172. Word Rebus. Not long ago I saw a man Who looked to me peculiar; His left hand held a cobbler's tool With which we are all familiar. And a cutting tool was in his right Well known to many nations; But all at once the scene was changed To useful publications. No. 173. A Figurative Epitaph. 04128 04120 2 80 4 1 2 8 2 45 4 The above verse, said to have been trans- scribed from the grave of a soldier during the lato war, expresses in tho alternate lines, in poetical antithesis, tho hardships endure. 1 by tho campaigner during life, contrasted with the peacefulness of his state in death. The -nt indicates Hibernian origin. No. 174. Beheadings. (a) Behead to bruise, and leave to hurry, (b) Behead a fastening, and leave a poison- ous serpent (c) Behead a stone, and leave an entrance, (d) Behead a grain, and leave a summer luxury, (e) Behead solitary, and leave a numeral. (0 Behead a kind of wood, and leave lean, (g) Behead to vibrate, and leave part of a fowl (h) Behead a track, and leave a generation, (i) Behead to com- ply, and leave a personage in high authority. (j) Behead to reckon, and leave a paint. The beheaded letters will spe.l the name of a well known city. Everybody 's No. 173. Octagon Puzzle. I have a piece of ground which is neither square nor round, But an octagon; and this I Lave laid out In a novel way, though plain in appearance, aim retain Three posts Jn each compartment; but I doubt Whether you discover how I apportioned it, e'en tho' I inform you 'tis divided Into four. But If you solve It right, 'twill afford you much delight And repay you for tho trouble, I am sure. No. 170. Numerical Enigma. The 5, C, 2, 1, 37, 23, is an idea. The 21, !3, 1>, 2D, 12, 14, SJ, 31 is defamed, The 4, 28, 29, 33, 35 is an animal The 8, 7, 22, is a heathen goddess. The S3, 13, 10, 11, 17 is to portion. The 25, 39, 15, 10, 40 is to steal The 27, CO, 34, 10 is recent The 30, 18, 24, 38 is a necessity. Tho answer, composed of 40 letters, Is a beautiful and well known quotation. It matters not if he has twelve OT one; But has he daughters? then 'tis plainly shown That I to them am seldom but a loan. No. 177.-Qnlbblcs. (a) I can stretch my hands apart, having a coin in each band, and, without bringing my hands together, I can cause both coins to come into the same hand. How is this to be done! (b) Place a candle in such a manner that every person shall seo it, except one, although be shall not bo blindfolded or prevented from examining any part of tho room, and the candle shall not bo hidden. No. 178. Enigma. Enigma guessers, tell me what I am. I've been a drako, a fox, a hare, a lamb. Yon all possess mo, and in every street In varied shape and form with me you'll meet; With Christians I am never singly known, Am green, or scarlet, brown, white, gray or ' : . I dwelt in Paradise with Mother Eve, And went with her, when she, alas! did ] To Britain with Caractacns I cam<, And made Augustus Caesar known to fame, The lover gives me on bis wedding day, The poet writes me in bis natal lay; {fa* f*Lher aiwajs gives me to each son. No. 179. Illustrated Puzzle. All of the ten objects may be described by words of equal length. When these have been rightly guessed and placed one below tho other, one of the perpendicular rows of letters will spell tho name of a famous battle fought in July. No. 180. Tho Landlord Tricked. Twenty-one persons sat down to dinner at an inn, with the landlord at the head of the table. When dinner was finished it was re- solved that one of the number should pay the whole score, to bo decided as follows: A per- son should commence counting tho company, and every seventh man was to rise from his seat, until all were counted out but one, who was to lx* tho individual who should pay tho whole bill One of tho waiters was fixed upon to count tho company out, who, owing his master a grudge, resolved to make him the person who should have to pay. How must he proceed to accomplish this! No. 181. Double Acrostic. My initials a term for tho east will name, My finals a word expressing tho same. CROsswonos. (a) At operas 'tis often found. (b) It has a certain lawlike sound. (c) A beauteous queen of ancient clime. (d) A fruit abundant in our clime. (e) A woman who tho world would shun, (f) Life of tho world since time begun. No. IS*. Geographical Pnzzlc. An old man gave a dinner, which was not rery elaborate, for he only had (first half of a city in Germany), (a country in Europe), fid a [first half of a city in lUJj) Book of Puzzles. Sis wi?e belonged to a sewing (islands In the Pacific ocean). The old man was on the (cape off North Carolina) for the (other islands in the Pacific ocean) members of his wife's club. In the evening they had a foot (cape off Newfoundland) on a (island on the eastern coast of the United States) course. Then they said (cape of Greenland), and went home. No. 183. The Two Drovers. Two drovers, A and B, meeting on the road, began discoursing about the number of sheep each had. Says A to B: "Pray give me one of your sheep and I will have as many as you." "Nay," replied A, "but givo me one of your sheep and I will have as many again as you." How many sheep had each? No. 184. Enigma. In rat, but not in kitten; In oar, but not in sail ; In gloves, but not in mitten ; In pitcher, but not in pail; In trumpets, but not in tune; The whole appears in June. No. 185 Acrostic. In the lamp globe my first is, but never In heat; In the anchor my second, yet not in the fleet; My third's in all ropes, yet it's not in a ship; In no faces my fourth, still 'tis ever in lip; My next's in all bakers, yet not in one man, And my sixth's in the pot, but it's not in the pan; My seventh's in the thoroughfare, not in the way, My eighth's in the mower, but not in the hay; My ninth's in the jury, but not in their box; My tenth's in my stockings, but not in your socks, And my last's in the harbor, but not in the docks. An English soldier in this puzzle lies, A general famous for his victories ; Some judges think all other captains yield To this man's prowess in the battle field. No. 18G. Word Dissection. Take away my last seven letters, and I am a useful article. Without my first three and last four, I am the noblest animal. Take away my first six letters, and I am an ar- ticle of commerce. Minus my last four I am a desirable thing. Without my first seven, I am a portion of the body. My whole is an Important branch of education. No. 187. Familiar Quotations. (a) Twas in the prime of summer time, (b) She blessed me with her hand; (c) We strayed together, deeply biest^ 4dJ Into thff dreaming 1n i"j_ (e) The laughing bridal roses blow, (f) To dress her dark brown hair; (g) My heart is breaking with my woe. (h) Most beautiful 1 most rare I (I) I clasped it on her sweet, cold hand, (j) The precious golden link I (k) I calmed her fears and she was calm (1) "Drink, pretty creature, drink 1" (m) And so I won my Genevieve, (n) And walked in Paradise; (o) Tho fairest thing that over grew (p) Atween mo and the skies I Each line of the above is a poetical quota- tion. Can you name the authors? No. 188. Pictorial Proverb. No. 189. Word Building. My first syllable implies equality; my sec- ond is tho title of a foreign nobleman; my wholo is asked and given many times a day with equal indifference, and yet it is of so much importance that it has saved the lives of many. No. 190. Conundrum in Rhyme. I'm strangely capricious, I'm sour and I'm sweet; To housewives I'm useful, to children a treat; I freely confess 1 more mischief have done Than anything else that is under the sun. No. 191. Word Puzzle. A whole is in all vessels found, That captains may not run aground. Cut off ray hoad, and you will see That I am where the roe rnns free. Behead again, and I am still What Webster will define as skill. Transpose, and In a vessal's hold. I ofttimes mak* myself quite bold. \i}''s Again transpose, and in the cracks And Hams of ships I stick like was. Except when suns of warmth profuse Come out and make me run Like juice. Ko. 199. Concealed Animal*, Four animals are to be found in each sen- (a) 1 saw Eli on the sofa when I came later In the evening; be seemed to suffer at times from a severe cat and the doctor thought he would have to trepan the right sido of tho boys' bead, (b) Do not disturb earnest scholars or repel ambitious ones; do not be harsh or severe with dullards or pronounce them beyond help. No. 103. Five hundred begins it, five hundred ends it, in the middle is seen; The first of all letters, the first of all figures, Take op their stations between. My whole was a king of very great fame; If you wish to know who, you hero have his Wo. 104. A Hidden Adae Ko. 10X-nair Rqnare. II'- Mght a Containing ochre. R. One who changes. 1 Too variations which verbs undergo for the indication of time, 5. Priism . Spawn of fishes. 7. A knot in wood. & A Iloman coin. 0. A letter. No. I o. A Charad*. A plunge Is beard. b will drown, b* will fak Ho calls for my first Oh. haste to the brink. ut this moment appear* in . Mjr ronod U tb-ri. arooag the craw. The man is saved, and at once doth exclaim l "Ah, my whole will rejoice to embrace me again, For she's a companion whom ever I find, In joy or iu sorrow, most loving and kind, No. 197. Arithmetical Nut. From six take niiie; from nine take ten; from forty take fifty, and have six left. No. 108. Conundrum. Thero is a noun of plural number, Foe to peace and tranquil slumber; But add to it tho letter s, And wondrous metamorphosis- Plural is plural now no more, And sweet what bitter was before. No. 199. Riddles. (a) How wcro Adam and Eve prevented from gambling! (b) Why do wo buy shoes? (c) Why is a Jew in a fever like a diamond? (d) What musical instrument invites you to fish? (e) Why is a person who never lays wagers as bad as a regular gambler? (f) Why is it dangerous to take a nap on a train? (g) What thing is that that is lower with a head than without one? (b) Why is the soul like a thing of no con* sequence? (i) Why is a nail fast in the wall like an old man? (j) Why does an aching tooth impose si- lence on tho sufferer? Thoughts \VU and Otherwise. When one receives a letter which is dull he should file it A man with a cork leg ought to have a springy step. "Most people neglect the eyes," says a mod- ical paper; but very few neglect the I. Driving a street car is not a very high call- Ing, but it can scanx-ly bo classed as among tho lower walks of life. A man is said to be personally involved when ho is wrapped up in himself. A hungry sailor should wish for a wind that blows fowl and chops about A five dollar note is more valuable than five gold dollars, because when you put it in your jKK-ket you double it, and when you toko il out again you see it increases. Puniana. The real "home rul" Curtain lectures. The best early closing movement Shutting your eyes when you go to bed early. Book of Puzzles. The sort of paper to write love letters on Foolscap. Kitchen dressers Swell cooks. A simple fraction Breaking a plate Better than a "promising" young man A paying one. Book markers Dirty thumbs. Forced politeness Bowing to circum- stances. Quick consumption Bolting one's food. The greatest curiosity in the world A woman's. No. 2OO. Double Acrostic. Two words are here to be found out, Both you have heard of, I've no doubt; One is a thing that gives its aid To ships engaged in peaceful trade. The other thing is often found To war's chief weapon closely bound. These stars replace with letters true, And both the things will look at you. In the first letters, downwards read, Is that by which the vessel's sped ; And in the last, if downwards spelt, That which adorns the soldier's belt * * * * *** * * ***** * * ***** * * * * 1st line What a bull does, if he can. 2d line What is the most beauteous span. 8d line Hog in armor is my third. 4th line Boy in barracks often heard. 5th line What the street boys often run. 6th line What gives light, not like the sun. 7th line What makes doctors oft despair. 8th line What is black, with curly hair. 9th line What is very hard to bear. No. 201. Burled Citlea. (a) To baffie the mob, I let him out by a secret door. (b) They built a mole, and thus made the harbor safe. (c) They say I cannot do it; but I can and I will succeed. (d) The Gauls said that Ariovistus was mad, rash and cruel. (e) I made the child take a nap, lest she should fall asleep during the service. (f) What, for three thousand ducats kill a manl (g) When the sense demands a colon, do not use a period. (h) { consider the pasha no very great sight (I) I can see the red berries of the sumac on the hills. (j) Where are the barbarian tribes of yoref The Goth, the Hun, the VaudaL I ask in vain. (k) They offered up a horrible holocaust in that hotel. No. 202. A Trick Puzzle. Golden Days, which is responsible for the puzzle here illustrated, gives the following directions: Copy this diagram, and, after cutting it into the fifteen small squares which we have marked out, lay the pieces back in the position they occupy in the en- graving. Now move them, cue piece nt a time, like the movements in the famous fif- teen puzzle, and when you get them in a cer- tain succession, you will find a representation of a president with only one ejje. No. 203. Word Building. My first is a sailor; my second is used by sailors; reversed, I am a uozious animal twice over ; and my whole is looked upon aa an ugly party to meet No. 204. Mutation. Two women meet, they nod and smile; They stop, shake hands and chat awhile; They treat each other with complete, And outwardly seem glad to meet. YET SCOUR from off them the false coat Which all demands, and you will note That other thoughts are cherished there, And for each other naught they care. No. 205. rnljpnas. (a) I'm slain to be saved, with much ado and pain, Scattered, dispersed, and gathered up again, Withered, though young; sweet, yet un- perfumed, And carefully laid up to be consumed. A word of one syllabi*, easy and short, ' Which read* backwards and forwards the same; It expresses the sentiment* warm from ., And to beauty lays principal claim, Soon as I'm made I'm sought with care; one whole year consulted; time elapsed, I'm thrown aside, Neglected and insulted. No. tOO. Illustrated Central Acrostic. The nine words of this acrostic are pictured Instead of described. When the words are rightly goessed and placed one below the other in the order in which they are num- bered, the central letters will spell the name of a famous sorereign of ancient history. 81 Nicholas. Xo. 107.- A Wild Flower of Autumn. My 1, 3, 3, 4 many seek until th.-yYe 2, 3,9, Aw.l i.,, 1, a, 8, 4, if so they do m- ..:. . A color bright is 7, 5, 4-1 cannot tell you If yon can rucss my mnanlng just please to 0,8,4 Ho. 0. A Disserted Word. ..uk beur.. , tree) eurUil me, and I am small but useful ; behead me again, and you will find me at hornet again curtail me, and you will find myself. No. 209. Anagram*. (a) Arma on, (a) Laiik hec Jones, (b) Kos fownd toll, (b) Mows rest, (c) Ao vow if fried kale, (c) D'log miths, (d) Tiny Faviar, (d) Kacho tray, (e) Holrait, (o) Earl Siid, (f) Col rate Frebrn. (f) D Carnal gond. In the first column are tho names of books, and opposite each, in the second coluiuu, the name of i; .. author. No. 210. Compound Acrostic. Words of eight letters: (a) Deposited by water, (b) A variety of cauliflower, (c) To curb, (d) Pertaining to the sense of hearing, (c) Unto this, (f) Be- longing to au artery, (g) Tho highest point. Whole was a president Of these United States; Ho ruled in troubled times, 60 history relates. No. 211. Quibbles. (a) If you cut thirty yards of cloth into one yard pieces, and cut one yard every day, how long will it take! (b) A person tells another that he can put something in his right hand which the other cannot put into his left. (c) A person may, without stirring from tho room, seat himself in a place where it will be impossible for another person to do so. Explain this. Oddities. Broken bones begin to make thentselvei useful wheu they begin to knit. Two people may be said to be half witted when they have an understanding between them. Many people in China must be obliged to travel on foot because there is but one Cochin-China (coach in China). Common pins undergo a strange trans- formation when they fall to the earth and be- come terra-pins. The last day of February would hardly be thought to resemble one of Shakespeare's plays, yet it i* winter's tail (Winter's Tale). People traveling in tho Sahara should never bo hungry, because of tLo sandwiches -and which is there). There is a simple thing which is above all human ini]>erfections, und yet shelters the t as well as the wisest of mankind. It is a hat. Ho. 81V.'. Word Syncopations. (a) Takean Hi-vnti.in ,>f land from a coin, and leuve u utter musical bound*. Book of Puzzles. 33 flb) Take the conclusion rrom an aromatic plant, and leave a washing utensil. (c) Take an animal from a muscle of the lower jaw that assists in chewing, and leave a measurer. (d) Take a period of time from relating to an opera, and leave relating to sight. No. 213. Proverbs AVithin a Maze. R E N W N E D T II A H W 8 Y O u R C A K E A N D A 8 T E T O B E F E A R n R E A R K S 8 P O I L E A F L E O n E R 8 N T D V O T M T L I N n T E U N O 8 C A L A G M E n I R 8 N I Y R S O B A T 8 E N a N E N O T S R N P A I A A 31 O O T S A E W R C D E V I L A n T D A 8 O U o Y N I L D A E C A T C i V R E n II T A n E Z This is a sort of maze. You should find the first letter of the first word, and then follow on till you have solved the secret. You may read from one letter to the next, north, south, east or west, but never in a northeasterly, northwesterly southeasterly or southwesterly direction. You will find here a small bundle of proverbs which, if attended to, will be as useful to you as they have been to others. No. 214. A Bill of Fare. (a) Take u one, I two, n one, o two, i one 6 one; (b) Of I one, a two, s two, c one, b two, to one; (c) Of o three, c two, w one, fc one, d one; (d) Of e three, / one, t one, fc one, b one, * one, a one; (e) Of h one, b one, d one, a three, g one, r two, m one, e one ; (f) Of r one, s two, a one, p two, n one, e or t one; (g) Of c two, o one, m one, r one, a three, n two, s one, e three, d ono, 7i one, i one; (h) Of o two, t two, p one, c one, e one, a one; (i) Of u one, c two, s two, o one, h one, ona, a one; (j) Of i one, e two, I one, m one, p ona, o ona, n one; (k) Of r three, a one, c one, s one, 6 one, * one, i one, e two; Q) Of a two, p two, d two, g one, u one, o Qua, o one, t one, i two, n oca; (m) Of r one, a one, i one, n one, c one, two, g one, o one; (n) Of a one, r one, n one, f two, s two; (o) Of 7 DebMd an isUmnu near the Malay , ' -"' l- ! f Australia, abd leave to be In debt. (, j Behead a river of West Australia, and leave pale. (0 Behead an Island in the Malay archipelago, and leave a city of T ndia. (g) Behead a town of British India, and leave a girl's name, (h) Behead a fortified town of Spain, and leave a girl's name, (i) Be- head a large river of Europe, and leave a tone used for sharpening instruments. No. 223. Enigma In Rhyme. Places of trust I oft obtain, And protect the house from vermin; I act as shepherd on the plain, And at fairs I'm shown for learning; In northern climes a horse I'm seen, And a roasting jack I, too, have been; Strange as it seems, it's no less true, That I eat on four legs and beg on two, No. 224. Riddles. (a) Why is an elephant like a brick? (b) "Why is the death of Socrates like a garret? (c) Why are weary people like carriage wheels! (d) What musical instrument should we always distrust? (e; Why are some great men like glow worms? (f) Why are potatoes and corn like certain sinners of old? (g) In case of an accident what is better than pres- ence of mind? (h) Of what trade is the sun? (i) What is queen of the rose, and why? (j) An old woman in a red cloak was crossing a field in which a goat was feeding; what strange transformation suddenly took place? (k) Why is a widower like a house in a state of dilapidation? 0) If tue gd all die early, why are the bad like tho pupil of the eye? (n) When do two and two make rnoro than four? No. 223. The Unlucky Hat tor. A traveler passing through a town bought a hat for $8 and gave in payment a $50 bill. The Latter called on a merchant nearjby, who changed the bill for him, and the traveler having received his $42 change went his way. Next day the merchant discovered the note to lie counterfeit, and called upon tho hatter, who was compelled to borrow $50 from an- other friend to redeem it with. On turning to search for the .traveler he had left town, so that the note was useless on the hatter's bands. What did tho hatter lose by the transaction? No. 220. Prefixes. Trrflx a letter to a word, And make a common cry a bird, A maid a fish, a beast a bound; A stone a pest, a count a sound. No. 217. Hour Glasses. 1. A city, 12. Dun. 3. Duration. 4. A ft. Crafty. 0. Turns. 7. Bravery. i a !.-> read down a poetess. Book of Puzzles. 35 1. A vessel and a plant. 2. An author. 8. Single. 4. A letter. 5. Biting. 6. A prefix and a hint. 7. An obstruction of stones. Diagonals read down from left to right a poetess; from right to left a preacher; cen- trals a general. No. 228. A Riddle. "We travel much, yet prisoners are, And close confined to boot; We with the swiftest horse keep pace, Yet always go on foot. No. 229. The Square Puzzle. Cut out pieces of card board In the shape here indicated and arran ;e these pieces so that when set close together they shall form a perfect square, No. 230. A Problem of Numbers. A poor woman, carrying a basket of apples, was met by three boys, the first of whom bought half of what she had and gave her back 10; the second boy bought a third of what remained and gave her back 2; the third bought half of what she now had left and returned her 1, after which she found that she had 12 apples remaining. IIow many had she at first? No. 231. Numerical Enigma. My 10, 11, 8, 9 is a handle. My 7, 1, 15, 5 is a side glance. My 4, 2, 3, 6 is to mend. My 12, 13, 14, 16 is the Scriptures. My whole of 16 letters is a name given to part of the United States. No. 232. For Sharp Wits. (a) What pleases in the air, and what a horse docs not like, gives tho name of a flower. (b) Half a carman, and a whole country, will form the name of a beautiful flower. (c) My first is a lady, uiy second a noble- man and my whole a blunder. (d) My first is a prop, my second is a prop, my whole is a prop. (e) My first is useful to the earth, my sec- ond is worn by ladies and my whole is seen In the sky. (f) My first is an animal, my second an article, my third should be used every day and my whole is a place for the dead. (g) My first is a weapon used in war, my second lives in the sea, my whole is a species of fish found in warm climates. (h) My first is a vehicle, my second a prep- osition, my whole is a part of a ship. (i) My first is to spoil, my second is a vowel, my third is a precious metal, my whole is a flower. (j) My first is a human being, my second is to walk, my whole is an Indian fruit. No. 233. A Charade. My first's a precious stone, My next a well known tree; Or call my first a fruit, The next a thong will be. Whichever way you choose This puzzle to divide, You still will find my whole A powder will abide. No. 234. Word Squares. 1. A gem. 2. A girl's name. 3. A part. 4. Borne aloft. 5. Affected smiles. 1. A poet 2. A lady's name. 3. Ancient. 4. Rows. 5. An herb. No. 235. Hidden Birds. No. 236. Geographical Conceits. What river is able to catch its own fish? What city to eke out your lunch do you wish? What city will never be apt to rebel? What city could printers work through very mill C 2 Everybody s What lake most enticing to your thirsty steeds? What city rnfvt surely a curtailing needs? What city sin >ui