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Show v" ODD THIMGLB3. 1 i 1 H Word definitions, unless othorwlsu i L! (a ntnted, arc according to "Webster's Inter- I , m naUonal Dictionary Llpplncott's Gazet- n tCCr r """P CJCt'onal'J" of Biography 2213.-AN INIUSTRIAL PACT. ,! I IB ROBERT. Reference. Original contributions will bu welcomed. Communications ror this department de-partment to be addressed E. R. Chad-bourn, Chad-bourn, Melroso, Mass. I 2'Zi .I N IT T A L CHANGE. I a niGir school idyl. At school, oiio morning, whon tho roll was called, 1 looked across and noted with a start Her vacant neat, and then I was appalled, Tor It v.'aa not so empty as my heart. Upon me then a thousand horrors rushed I feared tho measles llRST have laid her low-Perhaps low-Perhaps a truck, her' fragllo limbs have crushed And so I bowed my head and filched with woo. But LAST an I had heaved my deepest sigh, And all tho world had grown o davk and drear. She ontercd hastily and passed mo by "Without a glance, although 1 was ao near. I wonder If .she knew tho Joy I felt When sho appeared that day all safe and well? I wonder If sho knew tho blow she dealt "When sho scorned mo and smiled on Johnny Hell? HYPERION. 215. FLOWEltS. 1. "With such n ONE TWO patients Would recover, but wend her this bouquet of "WHOLE. 2. Tennvson wrote of tho TWO In tho ONE, but ho did not say whether It was a 'WHOLE. 3. By tho cannon's Iron ONE was growing a wild pink TWO and a statelv whlto "WHOLE. I. Ho went to thu T"WO with hl ONE and gun, and found tho WHOLE In bloom. G. Ho succeeded In shooting a ONE, and made a pair of TWO from Its skin, which with a bouquet of WHOLE ho presented to his lady love. C. In order that she ONE-TWO THREE FOUR, I send her this nosegay of WHOLE. DOROTHEA. 2216. TRANSPOSITIONS. I.y i ONE Is a flower wo all admire; But nono a painful TWO dfslro. II. p. i A atoro of knowledge fine In ONE: An actor's TWO should bo well done. I I I Tho man who ONE tho pond to view I AVhen ho got thero bohold a TWO. IV. Evory ONE that's seon at TWO Presents a dim and shady hue. NELSONIAN. 2217. SQUARE. i. A concealod manner of acting. 2. Inflammable, 3. Written or printed on tho faco of. -I. In scientific apparatus, anything that serves to lit or connect ono part or mombor to another. 0. A couch or litter. C. A paradoxure. 7. A compound com-pound formed by union of tho molecules of water with other molecules or atoms. R- O. CHESTER. 221S DELETION. ( Example. Bread, Bread.) WHOLE may not bo a vice at all. It may bo great, It may bo small, It may bo seen In careless acta, In thoughlloasnesti, In habits lax. E'en In our diet It may lead To suffering that Is groat Indeed, To folly It Is near allied. And may be callod Misfortune's bride. Some who suffer from It claim They've had bad luck without their blame. But LAST Is something without uso, A thing for which there's no excuse. It Is oftonslvo In bad taste. And to bad breeding may bo traced, The ono who has It In excess Gota In hot water and distress; He's In bad odour when among Tho victims of hln odious tongue. Somo duols, cro their day was fpast. Wero caused by Insulin born or LAST. NELSONIAN. 2219.-CHARADE. TOTAL doc3 not llvo in a ONE; Is not a TWO THREE, and docs not sell TWO by tho FOUR or In any olhor way. Ho lives in a house, is n young writer of. novels, whoso homo 13 in tho Mlddlu "Wrtat, and who has already published sovoral boolw which havo attained a largo solo and which aro Htlll In great demand. Popular Popu-lar as ho Is as a writer, his great ambition ambi-tion Is to shlno as a statesman, and ho is, apparontly, more proud of his Httlo ex- fterlenco In tho sclcnco of legislation than 10 is of his famu as a popular author. T. IL 2220. TERMINAL ELISION. Tho .frost-elves, who had closely bound Tho blossom fairies underground, Came running In dlsmny; "Tho Dutchman must havo ONE, 'they tell; "Wo barred him iaBt In darkest cell, But ho has slipped awuyl" Thoy search and cry; "Ho has bewn hero!" And ocan FOUR nodding TWO that near Meols tholr indignant oye; No elgn is thoro of THREE or shoe, But falrv breeches, wet with dow. Aro hanging up to dry. Tho Dutchman's breeches wavo j1"11.2" Mid dainty, bluo-green leavos that cling In shndo of .stump and treu; But vain is still tho frost-elves nuoat. And vain our query as the rest "Tho Dulchman, whoro is 110 c g |