1877.] 
AMERICAN AaRTCULTURIST. 
4.75 
CONCEALED EIIIDS. 
1. Joe Clark went to school with me. 
2. He lived in Wrentliam, Mass. 
3. I was toid he came from Tonqua, Illinois, bnt I 
could find no such place. 
4. Tlu'ow some sand over the floor. 
5. Conic Meg, rouse up f^irl ! 
6. When are you going home? 
7. Do look at those pigs wallowing in the mud. 
8. I had quite an argument wilh her on the matter. 
9. He ate all the bread that was left. 
10. When does a cow look like an orange? When she 
looks round. 
ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN TUE OCTOUER NUMBER. 
Solution 10 U. T. M.'s " old puzzle." Solution to the more 
Squake Woi:d. 
JANE 
ADAM 
N A U JI 
EMMA 
Tltzzle. 
O! why use It? (Out of 
which you can eet " I, 
thou, he, she, it, we, ye, 
you, they."j 
AxAGKAMMATiCAL BLANKS.— 1. Adlicreuts. 2. Obstrepcr- 
ous. 3. Afoi'csaid. i. Uurghiriea. 5. rroboscis. 
Transposed Cities.— 1. Piuis (pahs). 2. Naples (panels). 
S. Dongola (gondola). 4. Lodi (idol). 5. iJorue (more). 
G. Caen. (cane). 7. Gera (rage). * 
Metagram.— Doge :— in which may be found (1) go, (2) 
do, (3, 4) dog, doe, and (5) god. 
ANAGRAiis.— 1. Observances. 2. Connivance. 3. Verna- 
cular. 4. Mo:iicntaiily. 5. Ambuscades. C. Onslaught. 
7. Treacherous. 8. Ecclesiasticisn. 
Send communications intended for Aunt Sue, to Box 111, 
/'. 0.^ JJrooUi/n^ -Y. Y., and ?wt to 245 Broadway. 
indulge this once ; beginning by relating an incident 
which may "point a moral." Some time ago we spent 
the summer at the Berkshire Hotel, in Great Barrington, 
Mass. A lady friend happened to arrive at the same 
time with us. We were shown to the rooms that had 
been assigned to us, and after we were well settled in 
ours, I went to my friend's to see how she liked her 
quarters, "Oh! very much, indeed!''' she said, "look 
wliat a pretty peep I have of the river." — " The river? " 
I exclaimed, ** wliere ? " — "There," said she, pointing 
in a certain direction. I looked, and remarked, "Isn't 
that nice ! " — And what do you think that " river" was? 
The roof of the bowling-alley ! My friend was very near- 
sighted; — the old shingle-roof was sliiny and bleached 
by lime ; trees grew behind it, and I could easily im- 
agine how their tops might look like bushes on a 
river's bank. 1 thought that if her mis- 
fortune (near-sightedness) conduced to her 
pleasure by allowing a range to her imagina- 
tion, I would not detract from sneh pleasure 
by any statement of facts, so I never men- 
tioned bowling-alley to her. I believe that one 
can get a great deal of comfort and happiness 
by trying to promote the pleasure of others. 
M. FiNDLAY wants to know if I can tell her 
how to make a "han:;ing-basket" of cotton- 
flannel or old rags I would rather you 
should make it than I, May ! You will need 
(iver twenty yards of rag, about an inch and a 
half wide, and you will Imve to fringe it about 
— " half an inch or more on each side of the strip. 
difficult one. -'^^^^^^^ ^ small hoop of wire, cane, or whale- 
bone, (eicht or ten inches in diameter), .and 
cover it with the same material as you are using for the 
strips. Sew one end of your strip to the ring. Drop it 
to form a loop about half a yard long, from the ring 
downwards ; make another loop of the same size above 
the ring (as in fig. 2), fasten it at the ring where it comes 
in contact with the strip, and make these loops all the 
way round the ring, letting the edges of the strips touch 
each other, or even lap a little. Now tie a ribbon around 
the loops below the ring, so that you will leave a tassel 
Aunt Sue's Chats. 
AxTTUMK Basket.— Addie very kindly sends instruc- 
tions for making an "autumn basket." She says, ''they 
are very pretty and cost very little. Tou can buy a sheet 
of card-buard [white, I supi>ose— A. S.] fur about ten 
cents, which you cut in four parts. Take one part for 
your work. Buy a very suniU oval basket (such as are 
used for hair-pin baskets) ; cut it exactly in half, length- 
wise ; then sew one uf the halves upon your caid a little 
below the center. Sew or slick mosa around tlie edges 
[of the basket, I presume, to hide the stitches or fasten- 
ings— A. S.] ; then fill the basket with ferns, mosses, 
leaves, grasses, and berries, arranging them tastefully 
(see fig. 1). If you can afl;ord to frame it, it will look 
very pretty set back in a box [why wouldn't one of our 
lamp-lighter frames do?— those described on page 267 of 
the July number o{ American. Agdculiurist, 1877--A. S.] ; 
if not, you can finish it off 
with little bows of some 
elly color, and pin on 
I he wall. You can make 
wall-pockets the same 
way. by cutting out a 
i)cket from cardboard 
ud covering tlic face of 
I with moss and jiieces 
f cones, then fill with 
'>nr lerns aud grasses, 
luive made a great 
many for fairs."— Tt would 
be scarcely worth while, 
Addic, to answer your question about leaves, as ii will 
be December before you sec this. I do not know how to 
crystalize grasses; but I suppose they are dipped in a 
strong solution of alnm-wntcr. [In \\\^ American Agri- 
culturist for Dec, 1874, page 400. will be ft)Und a full and 
practical account of the method. — Ed.] To tell the truth 
about it, I never liked crystalized grasses; thci)rocess 
nrways seemed to uic like " painting the lily and scenting 
the rose," but if other ])Cople like it. I know of no good 
reason why they shouldn't have il. There is ritom here 
for a little sermon on letting other people enji)y thom- 
Bclvea (harmlessly), and as I do not often preach, I will 
Fig. 1.— BASKET. 
y h 
Fig. 3. 
BASKET OF HAGS. 
Fis:. 3. 
of the fringed strips (as in fig. 3). Tie another piece of 
ribbon around the upper loops, so that the remainder, 
forming a tassel, shall drop down inside, nearly to the 
loop. Now festoon a strip of fringed rag around the 
hoop outside the strips, and your basket is complete. 
Dried ferns and autumn leaves stuck everywhere about 
such a basket, look exceedingly graceful and pretty, but, 
of course, it is all very frail and needs dainty fingers to 
take care of it. Ymi can sew the Iooi)s on to the ring in 
groups of three stniuds, if you choose, instead of sewing 
them all round close together. New, white linen makes 
the prettiest basket, bnt it soon gets dusty and soiled. 
nn<l ^Vci;;-hts. 
Last month 1 told you that the system of measures aud 
weights was called the Metric System, because the metre 
was the starting jioiut, and slated how this starling 
point, or standard, was fixed upon. It was also siiid that 
one great advantage of this system is. that all parts of it 
—whether measur> s of any kind, or weights— liave a di- 
rect relation tu the uicl re, aud that muusures of capacity 
and even weight^', are easily found from the measure of 
length. Suppose you were whore you wished to measure 
gallons, (or bushels), and had no vessel or measure known, 
to be at all accurate, tliough you had a foot rnle. How 
many persons, I wonder, could, from a foot rule, make a 
gallon measure, even if they should, by chance, recollect 
that a gallon was 277.274 cubic inches. With the Metric 
System it is quite easy to get one kiud of measure from 
anotlier; if one has a metre measure, whicli. y(ui know 
(see table last month), is not divided into inches, but into 
tenths and hundredths and thousandths of a metre. I 
do not mean easy to get a gallon from the metre, but ta 
get the liquid uiear^ure of this system. As the metre ia 
the unit in measures of length, so is the Litre the unit in 
measures of capacitj'-, and to get this measure, you have 
only to make a square box that measures a. decimetre (a, 
tenth of a metre) each way— a cubic decimetre— and you 
have a litre, from which you can get all the other meas- 
ures. In the table given last month, for all the divisions 
of the metre Latin numerals were used, but for measnres 
longer than a metre, Greek immerals are prefixed. It 
may be well to state these again, as they aie employed iu 
all the measures and weights of the system. 
■c ^- ■ I Afu^ 1 nnnlFormnlti- TDeca = 10 
For d.vi- j Mille = 1,000 ideation Hecaton= 100 
siou LalnW Centum = 1?0 ' Greek ' KiUos =1,000 
prefixes. (Decern := 10| prefixes. [Myrias =10,000 
The litre being the starting point for measures of this 
kind, we have then : 
Millilitre Viooo of a Litre. 
Cenliliire Vioo " 
Decilitre Vio " 
Litre 1 Cubic Decimetre, 
Decalitre 10 Litres. 
Hectolitre 100 " 
Kilolitre 1,000 " 
As many boys and girls will find this too much like 
school lessons to be veiy lively reading, I only give one 
kind of measure at a lime, and hope that by taking it in 
small portions you will care enough about it to remem- 
ber it. I last month told j'on that the metre was equal 
to a little over 30 inches in length, and you will no doubt 
wish to know the relation of these measnres to those in 
common use wilh us. A litre is a little over our wine 
quart, or 1.0565 quart. We have three kinds of liquid 
measure, and a dry measure besides, while the decimal 
system has but one measure for wetor dryarticles. which 
is much simpler. A hectolitre is almost three bushels, 
or 2.837 busli'l?. By making use of the Metrical System, 
we should get rid of Wine, Imperial, (used in England), 
aud Beermeasure, for liquids, aud Dry measure for solids, 
and have only one kiud of measure for everything and 
everybody, and grocers could not buy (heir milk by beer 
quarts and retail it by wine pints, as they now do in cities, 
aud make considerable by the difference. Tub Doctor. 
A jVIcclisiuical Pig'. 
Mr. Macarty was a mechanic, such a remarkably iu- 
gcni<ins man, that his neighbors said that he could do 
anything from repairing a watch to making a steam- 
engine. They felt very sure that if Macarty would make 
a clock, it would beat the old town clock on the church- 
steej)le several hours iu the day. Mr. Slacarty had a son, 
ami he had great hopes that he would grow up to be a 
mechiinic, aud be even a better workman than his father, 
lie called his son Archimedes— but the boy's playmates 
(■;illed him Arky Macarty. Arky was a very ingenious 
boy. and he was also full of fun. Once, when his father 
was absent from home for a few days, having been 
called to do a job in the next town, there appe;ircdon 
the fence, where the people of the village passed by, a 
board on which was printed: 
"Mekaniki.e riG— a Guate kurIossity— this Ear 
pig has joints like enuY pig, it moVes as uaTTeral 
as EnuY piG— & kan EveX ote & SKwEal— Ad mishin 
3 pins. Arky Makarty." 
Some good-natured people, who knew that Arky would 
have something funny to show, stopped to see tlie wonder- 
ful pig. Arky was careful to get the proper number of 
pins for the admission fee, and then opened the pen aud 
let out the " mechanical pig." The young scamp had got 
hold of some black paint, and having caught one of his 
father's little white pi;:s. had painted lines around the 
parts, so that at u little distjiuce the hind-legs, and ham, 
the shoulders, and even the head looked as if they had 
been made iu separate pieces, and were fastened on. 
This deceit was helped by the painted pivots at the 
proper places, so that the pig bad really a very 
" !nekanikle " appearance, as may be seen in the picture 
of it on the next page. Those who first saw the ani- 
mal, greatly enjoyed the joke, and told others, so that 
Arky was verj* busy for a d:ty or two in taking iu pins 
aud showing his wonderful \n<j. But at last his father 
came home, and the sign came down. We do not 
know what arguments were used, but one Ihing is cer- 
tain. Arky never liked to hear the boys at school eay 
anylhing about pig, and he always acted as if the bench 
Ujion which he sat had suddenly become very warm. 
