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136 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. — ___ Correct Answers lla\e been sent in, since our last issue, by B. M. H., Rebecca 8., Ada M. A., J. T. P. C PC N. H. C., Miss E. C. D. SPLENDID FRE XtfXUftZ NAMES OF ARTICLES Books from our Catalogue § 1 001 a § 600 Photograph Album, 24 pictures, 1 50 3 6 00 Books from our Catalogue, 2 50; 5 10 00 Photograph Album, 50 pictures, 4 00 5 10 00 Photograph Album, 50 pictures, 6 00l 8 16 00 Books from our Catalogue,.. .. 600 10 20 00 Photograph Album, 50 pictures, 10 Ofl 10 20 0!) 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