Show OUR RIDDLE biddle BOX this department will contain onci onee a week original puzzles for the coulig young folks the answers will be given the following week our juvenile friends are invited to send the solutions lut ions all who forward correct answers will receive due credit and their names will be printed in the ther NEWS no CHARADE MY MT FIRST I 1 merrily ring forth today to day A joyous sound bound tomorrow to morrow the tery very words word perhaps say bay in pain dismay or sorrow 1 I doubtless burst from rosy lips when high the proud wates waves curled that bore aloft a lover brave the bravest ot of the world I 1 MY MT SECOND will become he come como never more fahe as aska asna rna nna the sea and with its sullen suilen roar the sobbing sea replies all ail ali ah to thy th longing lo 10 nging aging eyes ae rae cometh never morel 11 will be come never more sh she e asks the earth and from the shado way shore and every distant hill echoes the answer chill he cometa never more I 1 will he come never more 8 she he asks her heart and from the utmost care with pulses wildly thrilling all other voices stilli stilling Dg even the sound of the maln main m a I 1 n answered her hei heart ho he combs comes agai agal nl lir tir he comeal comes t through 11 waves by the wild winds hurl huri hurled ed ah iha tha bra bravest ieter lever of all ali the work I 1 ur itt WHOLE flowers flowers flow ers erb tell me truly trula were ivere you yon named for his this brave loter foter I 1 does boes his spirit in the spring time oer your opening petals hover I 1 you xou are white with une pure whiteness of 01 her arms that clasped him clode cloce you yuu are pink with be the flue pinkness of her brieck that mucked the rose fragrant Frag nuit her breath as her soft sighs ff fresn frenn eitl as if born in paradise flowers you yon could coula not be so perfect held heid you yon not nut a lying axing soul boul does poes hier her spirit dwelt dwell within Y you ou making you this matchless whole I 1 rink pink and walta the blossoms glisten like gay banners all unfurled led while la in low retrain refrain floate floats faintly bravest lover of the world I 1 E P F M no ISO PROBLEM american troops planted a battery near the bank of a river to shell a fort upon the opposite side to ascertain the dis dia tance ol of the fort the engineer noted the direction of the toru foru from ine the mortar thea then placing himself at a point eight rods higher up tho the river he be caused a line to be drawn from a point alz six feet distant from himself in range with the mortar to ba extended tended parallel with the nue hue dirt firt noted until it ranged between himself and the fort tort this line he found to be feet what was the distance of the fort from the mortar no ibi ISI REBUS to quarter of a year not more add ada ad d just jast two quarter quarters of an hour and it if my ciphering be true the product is exactly you amox amos no ORTHOGRAPHICAL PUZZLES 1 what word of two syllables ha has s lour four different vowels and but one consonant I 1 2 in what word may the th e sik bik vowels ae a e 1 0 u and y be ba found occurring in their regular order UNCLE cul Cui inDiE j no 0 PHONETIC WORDS example how may anything not hard be expressed la in two letterst answer E Z easy 1 1 how may a penniless loafer be d do by two letters 2 what three letters will hold fast 3 what four letters lettera describe deschi h a a seif self ev I 1 deny dent dent attribute attribute of a fat man 4 spell a pungent powder much used upon our oar tables with two letters 7 6 5 make a declaration in regard to the tho party you address with two letters UNCLE claude ANSWERS following are the answers to C 6 riddle eiddie box of october 1 1 merrimac 2 constitution a speedwell na venus venna V enus A cant hus bus L echo E cho 1 N arcie arcle sus bus T Itt ionus lonus 4 i 1 0 ff N lobe JS erydice ury nry dlce dice 8 vanus Tanus the sea t tf i i s W wili wilf 1 1 to t o otho othe 1 ahe wip wisp 27 |