Show Odd Cables Word definitions unless otherwise stated aro according to Websters InternatIonal Inter-national Dictionary Llpplncotts Qnrct certand PhllllpsB Dlctlonao of Biograph Ical Reference Original contributions will be welcomed communications for this department de-partment to be addressed to E P Chad bourn Lewlston Me 176 MUNICIPAL EVOLUTION j affl fS ROBERT Tiff PALINDROME Prlscliln Perkins is a Staid Old Maid Though tlH no fault of hers sho vows Sellrn Miles bar oft times said Shes destined to milk the cows Single blcssfdncss is surely her lot Said Sellni at the country store She wants o i a ea 1 o Although her age is pant two score PHIL 3710CHARADE When Woods had doffed their suits of summer green And gav In Autumns livery were seen Her gift to every TWO from royal store A stout wayiarer stopped his team before A ONE TWO gaudier than her mates in hue To mend his WHOLE the bolt was slipping slip-ping through And dazzled by so much splendor won dereyed lie gazed aloft and rapturously cried Long slumbrlng Poetry waked In his breast Proud Maple like come Orient princess dressed And crowned as fits thy state In glistening glisten-ing gold With rubles thickly apt about behold That homage true I render at thy shrine Man ever pays to beauty such as iliac But here his brain with some fond memry fraught He gallantly puts In no after thought Thus Usefulness mere Sentiment disarms dis-arms While Beautys shadowed by more solid charms And Just to think of this you good old TWO What would our buckwheat cakes be without you MABEL P M 1711 HOMONYMNS Find In the following story nineteen parts of an animals body In words of similar sound but different spelling Wo wero out shooting when a hare leaped up from her pallet of dried leave and bled away into a thick fir wood and a hart looking the very soul of far ran swiftly away and did not pause to consider con-sider bin steps The wo of the first clause wont myself and nn Italian gatherer gather-er of shrimps and mussels whom I had In tow a fellow whose costumo was pictur esquo enough for n painter to limn The timid nnlrrnl tried In vain to escape my gun nor did I even call the dogs which mit every one knows arc generally wanting when they could be useful I considered my shot quite n feat for me for though nklllful with HIP bat or scull I nm unused to n pun end Instead of killing the game might have wounded one of us in a way which would not soon heal which would have been a sadder tale to tell aDOROTIIEA a a 1lirENIGMA Im up and down anti round about Vet nil the world cant find mo out Though hundreds have employed their leisure They never yet could Ibid my measure Im found almost in ovory garden Nay In the compass of a farthing Theres neither chariot conch nor mall Can move an Inch except 1 will X Y Z S1 M 1713 ANAGRAM NO SENSE IN ALL THIS SCENE High In tho west the rising sun Proclaims approaching eve The matin bells arc sounding forth Their tolls the toilers leave The dewdrops sparkle on the grasp All parched with noonday heat And oer the busy bustling world The 2llcrcc reigns complete The purple applqs on the vines Are swinging In the breeze And crimson bumpkins cluster thick Urion the leafless trees The skylark Moats with raucous croak Across the moonlit lalce While bullfrogs trill with went accord From moor and bog and brake ARTY ESS S b ITU THE PERPLEXED BOATMAN Carefully making out a list of his passenger pas-senger a boatman had the following Mr Brown Mrs Clark and her daughter Mrs Randall Miss Allen Mr Jordon Mr French with his sister and his niece Mr Jones Mr Gray Mr MartIn He counted twelve In this list yet he hud ta ken but nine fares and he had made sure that no peison came on the boat without paying How could this be7 HUBERT 1713 NLMERICAU That 13G a Northern fish Is not allied to 1 to 9 Is potent but 1 often with Its home too were the sunny Nile Aladdin and his magic lamp 1 conjure up with 2JI l I Aladdin was a precious scamp To S79 without remorse A hypocrIte of deepest dye May smile and weep and thus dissemble The while he slays In logic why Is 1 to U 1 a false dilemma TRANZA 4 ANACROSTIC Out of gross superstitions night Gilm WHOLE sprung up n thing of fright Long It and witchcraft sisters glum Oer all the realm of Christendom Outstretched thin arms like specters dire Malignant miii are Imp of Ire Yet knowledge when it sprung to birth Drove TOTAL and Its twin from earth Expelled disgraced their hateful iclgn No more true knowlodge can restrain NELSONIAN July Results Prize winners 1 Alma Hallcn 7SS W Second South street Salt Ixiko City Utah 2 For 1CGO Mrs Rubenn Moss G Gnbbott nvonuc Salt Lake City Utah Qthcr excellent solutions aro acknowledged acknowl-edged from Mrs F A Cnmcron J D Benrco lono Gllchrlst Harriet M Smith G A Alden Mrs T H Weed Emma J Merry Mrs G Otis Brown W II Parker Park-er C E Jacobs R A Wnlte O S Hack ctt John Purdy F C Durgln Laura K Bell C A Straw Ida K Lowell Mrs A Tomllnson D R Newman J J3 Osgocd Ij M Ames Ida M Bannon 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