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72 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. -• ♦♦♦ 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. —.— 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. SPLENDID PHEMIUSSS! An Organ for Nothing. HE Mason k Hamlin Cabinet Organs arc justly regarded as the best instruments of their fi class in the world. Fifty-six gold and silver /VjjSY J medals, or other highest premiums, have been ~ awarded them at the principal industrial fairs 'M&ot the country, and two hundred and sixty of ltNo the most eminent musicians in the United States have pronounced them “the best of py 5 their class,” and recommend them as “very o admirable and desirable for both public and private use.” We have sold a number of these organs for use in churches in Georgia and Florida, and they give univer sal satisfaction. Now, in order to give every church and Sabbath school in the country an opportunity of pro curing oneof these useful and desirable instruments, we make the following propositions: Yor fifty subscribers and SIOO, we will allow a credit of S3O in the purchase of any organ that may be selected. For one hundred subscribers and S2OO, we will allow a credit of $75 on any organ that may be selected, For one hundred and fifty subscribers and S3OO, we will allow a credit of slls on any organ selected. For two hundred subscribers and S4OO, we will allow a credit of $175. There are over forty different styles of these organs, ranging in price from S9O to SISOO, according to style and finish. The cut represents style No. 15, the factory price of which is sllO. We supply them as low as they can be purchased from the manufacturers, and will maketbe above deductions on any organ selected from factory prices ! These organs are fully warranted for live years, and will be securely packed, ready for shipment, and de livered at any railroad depot in Macon, free of cost to purchasers, or we can have them shipped direct from New York, if preferred. Price Catalogues sent on application to the publishers of this paper. 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