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©ut (Uiinincij Corner.
NO. 313,— CONUNDRUMS.
1. How can a room full of married people
be proved to be empty ?
2. Which is the better traveller, heat or
cold ?
3. Why is the figure 9 like a peacock l
4. Why is echo like a visiting acquaint
ance ?
5. When does the rain become familiar to
a lady?
6. Why is wit like a Chinese lady’s foot ?
7. What class of ladies are apt to give tone
to society ?
8. What is the key-note to good breeding?
9. Why are sheep the most dissipated ani
mals in creation ?
NO. 314. —ENIGMA.
I am composed of 7 letters :
My G, 4, 5 is a number-
My 3,7, Gis to decay.
My 1, 2 is an adverb.
My whole is a seaport.
NO. 315. —CHARADES.
1. My first is a metal; ray second contains
my whole; my whole is a tree.
2. First, a confederate; second, joined;
third, a preposition ; whole, a tree.
3. First, a tumor; second, a city; whole, a
castle.
4. First, an animal; second, an animal;
whole, a poet.
NO. 31G. —GEOGRAPHICAL PUZZLE.
Journeying through the west, I walked
through a fruitful grove in Ohio ; refreshed
myself by drinking a town in Michigan;
caught another town in the same State, and
putting it in a basket on my arm, carried it
home to my little girl, who made a pretty
pet of it.
NO. 317. —ENIGMA.
I am composed of 12 letters:
My 3,1,12, 2, 5 is a bad person.
My 10, 4,1, 7is bad in writing.
My 6,11, 9, 8 is a weed.
My whole is found in the “ Weekly.”
Answers to Puzzles, etc,, in No. 39.
• March 26, 1870.
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260 — 1. Laud-an(n)um ; 2. An-to-in-net-te;
3. A-rag-on; 4. Trans-action; 5. E-ry-sip-el
as; G. The-o-do-si-a.
2Gl—Big-Foot Wallace.
262 — 1. Nose, os, so, son.no ; 2, Sharp, harp,
arp ; 3. Divan, ivan, van, an.
263 — Cruse, ruse, use, se, e.
261 — Washington.
265 The box being Y of an inch thick, wo
first deduct Yz inch from 1Y inches, which
leaves 1 inch for the diameter inside the box.
Then as spheres are to each other as the
cubes of their diameters, we have the pro
portion. YXYXY : 1X1X1: 312-Ans.
266 Sub, übi, bis.
267 lie will weigh more at the foot, be
cause nearer the centre of gravity.
268 Mary Ilerty.
Owing to the absence of the Editor, we are
obliged to have a smaller number of puzzles
this week than was desired.
The names of those who sent answers to
No. 39 will bo given next week, when the
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