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OUR CHIMNEY CORNER.
Composition of Light.
beam of light passing through, the
prism is decomposed, and the spaces
occupied by the colors are in the follow
fing proportions r red, 7 ; orange, 4 ; yel
low, 7; green, 8 ; blue, 8 ; indigo, 6 ;
violet, 11. Now, paste a sheet of white
paper on a circular 1 I
piece of board about /\ \Ve> r £ thj / /VX
six inches in diame- /x\V\\\\j \l//////\
ter; then divide it
with a pencil into fifty
parts and paint colors
in them in the proper
tion given above, paint- /// M fvw\\xv
ing them dark in the \VW /1 |\'\\/
centre of each part, \A>N^
and gradually fainter at the edges, until they blend
with the one adjoining. If the board be then fix
ed to an axle, and made to revolve quickly, the
colors will no longer appear separate and dis
tinct, but becoming gradually less visible, they
will ultimately appear white, giving this appear
ance to the entire surface of the paper.
NO. 158. —GEOGRAPHICAL PUZZLE.
I was aroused from my slumbers one morning
by a county of Tennessee , and on going to my
window to inquire the cause, was told by two riv
ers of South America that it was in honor of the
arrival in the city, of fourteen distinguished visi
tors, consisting of thirteen counties and a town of
the Southern States. The party was composed as
follows : Five Presidents of the United States ;
one celebrated foreigner, who took an active part
in behalf of the American colonies during the
revolutionary war ; three noted American officers
of the revolutionary war; one philosopher , be
loved and revered for the wisdom of his practical
maxims, and who, during the revolutionary war,
was a minister from the United States to England;
three very distinguished Senators, who, for some
years previous to the late war, took an active part
in the political debates of Congress ; and one sub
officer of the revolutionary war, famous for the
performance of a daring and patriotic act.
They were each dressed in suits of a division of
Europe, except their vests, which were a town in
France. Their hats were a town in Italy. Their
gaiters were a division of Africa, and they had
used as a perfume in making their toilets a town
of Prussia.
They were waited on at table by three foreign
towns, in the form of beauteous maidens, whose
native countries respectively were France, Italy
and Turkey.
Their breakfast consisted of a county in Ala
bama, obtained from a county in Georgia by a
fort of North Carolina ; steaks prepared from a
lake of British America ; a favorite vegetable
production from a spring in Texas ; dishes of a
bay in Long Island Sound ; omelets made from
harbors on the coast of New Jersey, and seasoned
with islands of Oceanica ; and a tureen of soup
from a river in Canada. The fruit for their de
sert was a lake of Florida, and as beverages they
partook of a county in Georgia and a river in Mis
sissippi.
On the table, as an ornament, was a vase con
taining a river in Mississippi, sprigs of an inlet
of Forth Carolina, and flowers of a town in
Florida.
BUEKE’S WEEKLY-
On leaving the hotel, their attention was arrest
ed by a coffin containing a bay of Florida, whose
death had been caused by the bite ot a river in
North Carolina , while a little island on the coast
of Florida stood wagging its tail and looking wist
fully on. b. k-
NO. 159. — CHARADE.
My ivhole is under my second , and surrounds
my first.
NO. 160.—ENIGMA.
Five letters do compose my name,
Backwards and forwards 1 m the same,
Read me and you will quickly see
What death will make both you and me.
NO. 161. — LOGOGRIPH.
Taken as whole, I am a verb, signifying to get
out of danger ; behead me, and I am unchanged ;
behead me again, and I become a headland ; cut
off my tail and I become a covering for the head ;
restore my tail and cut off my head and I become
an animal. B. M. H.
NO. 162. — CONUNDRUMS.
1. What is that which no one likes to have, and
yet if they had it they would not take the world
for it ?
2. What word is that of one syllable which
adding another syllabic to it makes it shorter ?
no. 163. —RIDDLE.
What animal walks on four legs in the morning,
on two at noon, and on three in the evening?
no. 164. — ENIGMA.
I am composed of ten letters —
My 10, 6,9, 7is an article of traffic.
My 7,9, sis a domestic animal.
My 10, 4, 7 is what most young ladies like to do.
My 8,6, 10 is an adverb.
My 1, 9 is an interjection.
My 1,9, 3,4 is a delightful emotion.
My whole is what every one can and ought to
do.
NO. 165. — CHARADE.
My first, if you do, you won’t hit it; my next,
if you do, you won’t leave it; my whole, if you
do, you won’t guess it.
NO. 166.— GEOGRAPHICAL PUZZLE.
We assembled at the church for Sabbath School
one morning, and found a city of Ireland moved
over into the church steeple. F. B. C.
NO. 167. — LOGOGRIPH.
Entire, I’m what some folks like to do ; behead
me and I become one of the properties of the sun ;
behead me again, I am what you did yesterday ;
behead me again, I become a preposition ; behead
me once more, I become a common drink.
C. T. L.
NO. 168.— ENIGMA.
I am composed of twelve letters—
My 12, 5, 7 is a kind of tree.
My 1,2, 6, 12 is not to be idle.
My 6,8, 7is what a tailor does.
My 3,2, 6, 4 is a kind of bread.
My 10, 9,5, 11 belongs to a ship.
My whole is the children’s delight.
I. M. N.
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