often found on lemons and oranges are only
a natural appearance of the skin of certain varieties. Havana oranges
and the best Floridas are more marked in this way than other kinds.

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A. R. A.--Your Wiggles are remarkably pretty, but they came too late to
be engraved.

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A. U. Y.--Japanese wine-flowers can be obtained in New York at nearly
every store where toys, novelties, and apparatus for parlor magic are
sold. They are also called Surprises, or Japanese Curiosos.

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Favors are acknowledged from Carrie E. Lucas, Julia T., Charles and Fred
W., Harry L. Chase, Bertha Frederick, Aggie M. Mason, Leon Munroe,
Edmund I. Sheppard, John J. A. F., Graham Hereford, Emmie L. Brazier, M.
Welchman, J. M. T., John H. Bartlett, W. Lloyd Clark, Rosa Hickman, Hugh
D.

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Correct answers to puzzles are received from Alexander Maxwell, Charles
E. Boehler, Charlie D. Cutter, Roscoe E. Elwell, Altia R. Austin,
J. F. S., William I. Coleman, Maud and Gertie, A. H. Ellard, Maud
Matthewson, "Fatinitza," Perry Von Olker, Cora R. Price, Cora Frost,
Fred Purdy.

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PUZZLES FROM YOUNG CONTRIBUTORS.

No. 1.

WORD SQUARE.

First, a native of a certain country. Second, not under. Third, a
flower. Fourth, the imperfect form of a verb.

EDDIE.

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No. 2.

DIAMOND.

A consonant. A title. A warlike tribe of Indians. An intoxicating
liquor. A consonant.

S. F. W.

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No. 3.

HOUR-GLASS PUZZLE.

To flourish. One universally shunned. A snare. In Daniel. A species of
tree. Actions. Deportment. Centrals read downward spell the name of an
early English poet.

"LONE STAR."

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No. 4.

ENIGMA.

My first is in up, but not in down.
My second is in smile, but not in frown.
My third is in eat, but not in drink.
My fourth is in meditate, not in think.
My fifth is in seed, but not in germ.
My sixth is in snug, but not in firm.
My seventh is in short, but not in long.
My eighth is in multitude, not in throng.
My whole is sought by old and young,
By bards its praises oft are sung;
But while it promises to stay,
It fades and vanishes away.

M. L.

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