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OUR CHIMNEY CORNER.
An Optical Amusement.
If a coin be placed in a basin, so that to one
standing at a certain distance it be just hid from
the eye of an observer by the rim or edge of the
basin, and then water be poured in by a second
person, the first keeping his position, as the water
rises the coin will become visible, and will appear
to have moved from the side to the middle of the
basin.
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NO. 78. — LOGOGRIPII.
Perfect I signify imperfect; behead me and cut
off my tail, and I become a verb ; again cut off my
head and restore my tail and I refer to myself;
behead me again, and I am found in the sea.
NO. 79. — REBUS.
1411 aud 50
ENIGMAS. —No. 80.
’Tis true, I have both face and hand,
And move before your eye ;
But when I move I always stand,
And when I stand I lie.
Nm 81.
‘Tis in the church, tm not in the steeple;
’Tis in the parson, but not in the people ;
’Tis in the oyster, but not in the shell;
’Tis in the clapper, but not in the bell.
No. 82.
There is a thing that nothing is,
And yet it has a name ;
’Tis sometimes long and sometimes short,
It joins our walks —it joins our sport —
And plays at every game.
NO. 83. — CHARADE.
My first is a pronoun ; my second is a plural
noun, and signifies mankind ; my third is a pre
position ; my whole is a souvenir.
NO. 84. — ENIGMA.
I am composed of thirty-three letters:
My 17, 18, 23, 3, 13, 12 is a boy's name.
My 24, 16, 22, 11 is a girl’s name.
My 6,4, 2is a small singing insect.
My 32, 20, 9, 7 is what girls and boys often are
at school.
My 31, 14, 2, 21 is what we should do when
spoken to.
My 28 and 12 is a neuter verb.
My.l9, 28, 13, 1, 21 is what nearly every one
keeps.
My 25, 6,3, 20 is a girl’s name.
My 5, 16, 8, 21 is also a girl’s name.
My 27, 20, 1,2, 28, 29 is what we do to an ap
ple, pear or peach.
My 33, 20, 8, 21 is a measure.
My 15, 32, 2, 19 is a verb.
My 30, 16, 29 is a covering for the head.
My 10, 13, 21 is something very useful.
My ichole is a part of one of the Ten Command
ments.
Carrie E. B.
BURKE’S WEEKLY.
NO. 85. —CHARADE.
My first denotes equality; my second inferior
ity ; my udiole superiority.
no. 86. —PUZZLE.
A single letter will make the following a com
plete sentence. What is it?
Prsvryprfctmnvrkpthsprcptstn.
NO. 87. — CONUNDRUMS.
1. When is a man not a man?
2. Wherein is a doctor unlike a shoemaker ?
3. Why is a coachman like the clouds?
4. When is a rose not a rose?
5. Why is a young goat asleep like a man steal
ing children ?
6. When is a sick man like a river ?
7. What kind of wine is mock agony?
NO. 88. —GEOMETRICAL PUZZLE.
A horticulturist having nineteen fruit trees, de
sires to put five in each row and have nine rows.
How can he do it? G. T. P.
no. 89.—REBUS.
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Answers to Puzzles, etc., in No. 7.
No. 54 — Illustrated Rebus. —Piques (peaks)
lead love, as well as prayers.
No. 55 — Arithmetical Question. —He bought
seven oxen at $lO each, seventy-one sheep at $1
each, and seventy-two chickens at 121 cents each.
Shepherd Benson sends us the following answer :
5 oxen at $10 # each; 49 sheep at $1 each, and 8
chickens at 121 cents each. George S. Crowell
sends the following: 9 oxen at $10: 9 sheep at
sl, and 8 chickens at 121 cents. All the answers
are correct.
No. 56 — Charade. —Syren (sigh-wren.)
No. 57 — Enigma. — U A rolling stone gathers no
moss.” In printing this enigma the following
words were unfortunately omitted : u My whole is
a true proverb, and one we should give heed to.”
No. 58— Arithmetical Question— He first filled
the three gallon jug, and poured the three gallons
into the five gallon jug; then filled the three gal
lon jug again and from it filled the five gallon jug,
leaving one gallon in the three gallon jug. He
then poured the contents of the five gallon jug in
to the eight gallon cask, and then one gallon gal
lon from the three gallon jug into the five gallon
jug. He then filled the three gallon jug again,
and poured the three gallons into the five gallon
jug, which with the one gallon already in it, made
the four gallons.
No. 59 — Charade. —Nameless.
No. GO — Puzzle. —lt.
No. 61 — Charade. —Conundrum.
No. 62 — Enigma. —Face in a looking glass.
No. 63 — Conundrums. —l. Sealing wax. 2.
Noise. 3. Against his inclination. 4. Because
the cattle (cat ill) eat it. 5. Because there are
more white sheep than black ones.
No. 64 — Riddle. —The letter A.
No. 65— Puzzle. —She had ten geese.
Correct answers have been sent in by Shepherd
Benson, V»m. Bradley, .1. M. W., Jimmy Parks,
C. C. Evans, Mariana Cross, Cotie L. Caruth,
A - s - Elliott, M. K., John P. Huntley, Willie
Weston, George S. Crowell, Belle Evans, Robert
A. Green, Eliza Price, Julia Threadgill, John 11.
C. Tipton, C. M. Wheeler, A. E. Chandler, Jr.
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