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THE RIDDLE-BOX.

DOUBLE ACROSTIC.

The initials name a noted philosopher, and the finals an eminent
astronomer.

1. A narrow arm of the sea. 2. A beautiful flower. 3. A tree, usually
growing in moist land. 4. A small marine animal. 5. A river in the
United States. 6. A cone-bearing tree. 7. A tract of land, surrounded
by water. 8. A metal.

ISOLA.

BROKEN WORDS.

Find a word to fill the single blank, and divide it into smaller words
(without transposing any letters) to fill the other blanks. Thus: Such
_forages_ have gone on in that forest _for ages_.

1. You must not think the whole were ---- because he ---- ----.
2. One of this boy's minor ---- is his constant climbing ---- ----.
3. When I gave him a pledge, the toper said with a ---- look, "You
---- ---- ---- ----." 6. The alder was pictured against the ----,
every branch, leaf, and ---- ---- standing out clearly.

B.

PICTORIAL NUMERICAL, REBUS.

Find the sum expressed in each horizontal row, and add together the
four numbers thus found, to form the complete sum expressed by the
rebus.

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HOUR-GLASS PUZZLE.

1. Unceasing. 2. Of little worth. 3. Habitation. 4. Ancient. 5. A
vowel. 6. Devoured. 7. To muse. 8. A maker of arms. 9. Small flat
fish. The centrals read downward name the act of unfolding.

GEORGE CHINN.

BEHEADINGS AND CURTAILINGS.

1. Curtail a disgrace, and leave an imposture. Behead, and leave one
of Noah's sons. Curtail, and leave an exclamation denoting surprise,
joy, or grief. Behead again, and leave a vowel.

2. Curtail a color, and leave a very small part. Behead, and leave
a verb signifying "to strike." Behead again, and leave a pronoun.
Curtail, and leave a simple, personal pronoun.

3. Curtail a beautiful marine production, and leave a girl's name.
Behead, and leave an ancient coin. Curtail, and leave a conjunction.
Behead, and leave a consonant.

4. Behead a part of the body, and leave a kind of tree. Curtail, and
leave an article used in toilets. Behead, and leave a preposition.
Curtail, and leave a pronoun.

5. Curtail a sweet juice collected by bees, and leave a stone for
sharpening razors. Behead, and leave a number. Curtail, and leave a
preposition. Curtail, and leave an invocation.

N.T.M.

NUMERICAL ENIGMA.

After handing a mug of 9, 2, 3 to the man who was at the 7, 4, 5 of
the 1, 6, 8, Frank resumed reading the life of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,