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AMERICAN AG-RICULTU11IST. 
[March, 
SQUARE-WORD. 
1. A city. 2. Apart. 3. Above, 4. Notions. .">. Mean- 
ing. " Sweet P.'* 
NUMERICAL ENIGMA. 
My whole is a word of six letters, and is indispensable 
in the formation of good habits. 
My 2, 6, 1, 3, 4, 6 is an unenviable emotion. 
My 3, 4, G — 2, 5, 1 is worn as an insignia of office. 
My G, 4, 5, 3, 1, 2 is one form of destitution. E. S. B. 
ARITHMOREMS. 
1. 200050500. 6. 400019004UI). 
2. 4005010. 6. 1110016010900. 
3. 5001601016015250. 7. 000110250. 
4. 15080150. 8. 100017250. 
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GEOGRAPHICAL HOUR-GLASS. 
A strait of Asia; 
A city in Massachusetts, 
A city in Scotland. 
A lake in Asia. 
A city in France. 
One-fifth of an ounce. 
A river in Russia. 
A lake in Russia. 
A sea of Asia. 
A town on Long Island. 
A city in New Mexico. 
central letters, read dowmwards, give a lake in 
America. Beau K. 
pi. 
row cone kenpos ton anc cb hugtorb kabc yb a 
dan rofu. A. W. P. 
ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN THE JANUARY NUMBER. 
Anagrams.— 1. Antiqnily. 2. Espousal. 3. Subaltern. 
Pi.— Every one's faults are not written on his forehead. 
Numerical Enigma. — Hippopotamus. 
Concealed Trees and Flowers.— 1. Balsam. 2. Olive. 
3. Peony. 4. Elm. 5. Linden. 6. Ash. 
Double Acrostic— C- ivi -C 
R-ulc-R 
O-utd -O 
S-trc-"W 
&-ire-N 
Jmjv are- Word.— BLIND 
LEVEK 
IVORY 
NEK VF, 
DRYER 
ii; ;-. Smith is the only one who send* a solution 
tu this.) 
Thanks for letters, puzzler, etc., to Mary C. S., 
F. M. Priest, Elkcim, Ira W. B., I.'. S. S.. and others. 
Performing Bears. 
Bears, great clumsy fellows as they are, have no little 
intelligence, and they are capable of being taught vari- 
ous tricks. Among the street shows 
of large cities it is not rare to pee 
bears who have been trained to go 
through various performances. The 
engraving represents a scene which 
one of our artists saw in the street 
some time ago. Among other things 
that the animals had been taught to 
do, one had the accomplishment of 
standing on his head, while the other 
would uncork a demijohn and take 
a drink from it, much to the amuse- 
ment of the bystanders. We never 
see bears thus treated but we wish 
they might get away to the wilds 
where they belong. To be muzzled 
and led about from place to place 
and made to perform what are no 
doubt very unpleasant antics, and 
probably to be beaten, is indeed 
a great change from the free life to which they were 
born. There used to be a bear at one of the public gar- 
dens near New York which was quite a good customer 
to the proprietor's bar. The bear was exceedingly fond 
of soda water, and visitors would buy bottles of it to 
give to the bear for the sake of seeing how handily he 
named a boat which he fitted up with a very rude engine. 
Those who have been to New York city have no doubt 
seen the great stone prison called " The Tombs." Where 
this stands there was in the early days of the city a large 
pond called the Collect, from which a small stream ran 
through what is now Canal street to the Hudson Fiver. 
It was upon the borders of this pond that Fitch fitted out 
his boat, and it was on its surface that moved, so far as is 
known, the first vessel propelled by steam. The boat is 
described as a very rickety affair, which would move off 
for a few minutes and then it would stop until more 
steam could be made. The engraving made from an old 
model shows how the boat looked. It does not seem 
to have attracted a great share of attention, and finally 
the boat went to decay and was carried off in pieces by 
poor people to burn. It is said that Fulton was present 
while Fitch was making his experiments, and if this 
were the case be no doubt profited by bis failures. 
Fulton has the credit of having first propelled a vessel 
by steam, as he was the first who put the idea to practi- 
cal use ; the same as Morse by his inventions made the 
telegraph practical. Telegraphs had been experimented 
with in a small way before Morse made his, bnt they 
were of no real value until Morse took the matter in 
THE FERST STEAMBOAT. 
hand, and to him justly belongs the credit. An im- 
portant invention is rarely the work of one person alone ; 
many fail, but we hear only of the successful one. 
PERFORMING BEARS. 
4. Remedial 
Coherence. 
nestness. 
Cross-Words.— 1. 
Diamond Puzzle 
3. Confiscated, 6. Remembrance. 7. In- 
Colounades. 9. Interpretation. 10. Ear- 
Buffalo. 2. Money. 
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would undo the fastening to the cork and swallow the 
contents of the bottle without spilling a drop. 
The First Steamboat. 
Who built thefirst Bteamboal T All the smart scholars 
will probably answer at once "Robert Fulton.''" And 
the smart scholars would all bo wrong, for the first 
steamboat was built in 1706, while Fulton did nut build 
his until 1807. One John Fitch built in the year first 
Carrying: a ladder.— Did you ever see a person 
carry a ladder r He puts it on his shoulder. 
or it may he puts his head between the rounds 
and has one of the sides resting on each 
shoulder, and having it nicely balanced walks 
along. A man with a ladder is an interesting 
Object in a crowded street. He looks at the 
end before him, but the end behind him he can 
not see. If he moves the front to the right end 
to get out of the way of a person, away goes 
the rear end just as far in the opposite direc- 
tion, and the slightest tnrn of his body, only a 
few inches, will give the ends a sweep of sev- 
eral feet, and those in the way may look out 
for braised hats and bumped heads, while the 
window glass along the street is in constant 
danger from ihe unseen rear end of the ladder. 
When a small boy, I was carrying a not very 
large ladder, wheu there was a crash. An un- 
lucky movement had brought the rear end of 
my ladder against a window. Instead of scold- 
ing me, my father made me stop, and said very 
quietly: M Look here, my son, there is one 
tiling I wish you to always lvmembcr ; that is, 
every ladder has two ends." I never have forgot- 
ten that, though many, many years have gone, 
and I never see a man carrying a ladder or other 
Ion- thin- but « hat I remember the two ends. 
Don't we carry things besides ladders that 
have two ends ? When I sec a young man set- 
ting "fast " habits I think he sees only one end 
Of that ladder, the one pointed towards plea- 
sure, and that he does not know that the other 
end is wounding his parents' hearts. Many a 
young girl carries a ladder in the shape of a 
love for aress and finery: she only Bd'S the 
gratification of a foolish pride at the forward 
end of that ladder, while the end that she dues 
not see is crushing ttue modesty and pure 
friendship as she goes along thoughtlessly among the 
crowd. Ah ! yes, every ladder bus two ends, and it is a 
thing to be remembered in more ways than one. 
Unole Carl. 
It was not a very well-read farmer who told the sewing 
machine agent, who solicited him to purchase, that 
be did not want any of " them air machines," as his 
wheat came up well enough when sowed by hand. 
