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OUR CHIMNEY CORNER.
NO. 464. — ILLUSTRATED REBUS.
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NO. 465. —ENIGMA.
I am composed of eleven letters —
My 1,5, 10 is what children love at Easter.
My 2,3, 4, 10 is worn by females.
My 5, 6 is a verb.
My 7,9, 10 is to put flour in.
My 11, 9 is an interjection.
My 8,9, 4is a verb.
My whole is an Irish motto.
Lenoir , N. C. Mattie L.
NO. 466. — CHARADES.
1. My first all often are ; my second is a vowel;
my third is a relation ; my whole is a town in the
Southern States.
2. My first is a point of the compass ; my second
is a proper name; my third is on every planta
tion ; my whole is a proper name.
Fort Valley, Ga. C. H. E.
NO 467. —LOGOGRIPHS.
1. Behead an assumed proposition and leave a
girl’s name.
2. Behead a part of a house and leave a tree.
3. Behead an abbreviation and leave a vowel.
C. 11. K.
NO. 468. —ENIGMA.
I am composed of eighteen letters —
My 3, 15, 8, 11 is the name of a lady.
My 9, 17, 5 is the name of a boy.
My 12, 15, 16 is an animal.
My 6, 18, 7, 15, 9, 10, 4 is what we do all the
time.
My 17, 12, 9,1, 7,6, 2, 13 is one of the months.
My 14, 15, 1, 16, 10 is one of the planets.
My whole is a beautiful Scriptural command.
Landolph, lenti. Minnie.
NO. 469.— ARITHMETICAL PUZZLE.
1. A farmer being asked how many sheep he
had, answered, that he had them in five fields;
in the first he had one-fourth, in the second one
sixth, in the third one-eighth, in the fourth one
twelfth, and in the fifth four hundred and fifty.
How many had he?
2. I met an old man the other day and asked
him his age. He said : twelve years ago I was
twice as old as you are now ; four times your age
at that time, plus twelve years, will express my
age twelve years hence. What were their ages?
Savannah, Ga. J. A. F.
NO. 470. — ARITHMETICAL QUESTION.
A and B buy 500 acres of land for SIOOO, each
paying SSOO. A, in order to get the best part of
the land, agrees to take his at 25 cents an acre
more than B. How much land will each have,
and what will each pay per acre ? Theo. li.
BURKE’S WEEKLY.
NO. 471.—ENIGMA.
I am composed of twelve letters —
My 1,2, 9, 10 is what we see at the bottom of
branches.
My 3,4, 6, 11 is an animal noted for stubborn
ness.
My 5,6, 10, 11, 12 is a tree.
My 7,8, 4, 12, 2is a girl’s name.
My 3,8, 9, sis a part of a lion.
My 12, 5, 10 is a color.
My whole is the President of one of our South
ern colleges. Mattie L.
Lenoir , N. C.
NO. 472. — CHARADES.
1. My first is a letter of the alphabet; my se
cond is a verb of the past tense ; my third is a
plural pronoun ; my whole is one of the planets.
2. My first is a part of a valley ; my second is
a personal pronoun ; my third is an insect; my
whole is what all good soldiers are.
Savannah , Ga. J. A. F.
no. 473. — ENIGMA.
I am composed of fourteen letters —
My 2,4, 4, 13, sis the name of a girl.
My 3,2, 12, 5,6 is a kind of sickness.
My 8, 9 is a preposition.
My 13, 14 is a neuter verb.
My 7, 11, 9, 10 is a kind of soil.
My 1, 11, 6 is often made of clay.
My whole is a name much loved by the South
ern people. Carrie.
NO. 474. — MATHEMATICAL QUESTION.
A ladder standing perpendicular is of equal
height with the window of a house. If the top of
the ladder is let down ten feet below the window
the foot of it will be thrown out thirty feet. What
is the length of the ladder and height of the win
dow ?
Near Macon , Ga. Mary H. McA.
NO. 475.— VERBAL SQUARES.
1 What we all dislike; part of the Eastern
Continent; part of the human body ; what we all
enjoy when asleep.
2. The author’s name ; oneof the United States;
a female deer; is what the author sometimes does
at church.
3. A sea of Asia; a gulf of Russia ; generations;
a female.
Lenoir , A. C. Mattie L.
Answers to Puzzles, etc., in No. 48.
No. 443—Man wants but little here below, nor
wants that little long. No. 444—Yes. No. 445
Germany.
Correct Answers
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