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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[June, 
Aunt Sue's Puzzle-ISox. 
HIDDEN NAMES OP ANCIENT GEECIAN DEITIES. 
1. How diligent the ant is. 
2. I have only been once to New York. 
3. This, Pir, is one of your manufacture. 
4. Was Oliver there when you left? 
5. Before you go I should like you to take a nap, Anna 
6. I wish you would go to the shop, Sam, and bring 
me some wire. Bessie Bennett. 
puzzle. 
To make a man's name, take one-third of the sun, one- 
quarter of a hand, one half of a 
male, one-fifth of the earth, and 
one-quarter of a colt. 
F. SCHWANMAN. 
NTMEr.ICAL ENIGM.S. 
1. I am composed of twenty - 
eix letters. 
My 4, S4, 17, 13 is a coin. 
My 10. 11, 20 is a stamp. 
My 6, 18, SI, 14. S, is a marsh. 
My 1(1, 22, 21, 20 is to repair. 
My 12, 25, 1 is a quadrnped. 
My 2, 15, 7, S, 21, 20 is to damag-e. 
My 10, 5, 23, 13 is to carry. 
My whole is a motto of one of 
the United States. Elkcim. 
2. I am composed of twenty- 
six letters. 
My 9, 1, 4, 16 is a mineral. 
My 19, 22, 24, 26, 10 is to perch. 
My 2, 6, 12, 14 is endless. 
My 5, 15, 20, 25 is a young lady. 
My 17, 13, 2, 19, 6, 7, 8 is a fish. 
My 26, 10, 11, 3, 5, is an article 
of furniture. . 
My 24, 23, 18, 21 often causes 
terror to the superstitious. 
My whole is a well-known 
proverb. Kate McCdne. 
SQUARE "WORDS. 
1. Square the word " CORD." 
a. Square the word " DISH." 
Willie H. E. 
pi. 
Tantsonc progdpiu liwl rewa 
yaaw totsen. 
Charley Smith, 
concealed square-word. 
This is such a sharp knife, it 
cut me as I ate my breakfast. Is 
it safe, do you think, to have 
such a sharp thing about ? 
transpositions. 
Fill the blanks with the same 
words transposed, (e.g. — The 
■was very . The peaeli was 
very cheap.) 
1. The has just crossed 
the . 
2. "Hurry and get up ," 
said one of the . 
3. I shall the proposition 
to take a . 
4. The ran off with her 
box of . 
5. Some people who have plenty of are very — . 
6. He the food at periods. 
7. The Mormon entertain different of 
polygamy. 
ALPHABETICAL ARITHMETIC. 
PEEISH)TOPERSEYES(YHYIO 
I E P O S Y 
My seventh is in thick but not in thin. 
My eighth is in needle but not in pin. 
My whole a lovely place I ween, 
In Italy it may be seen. J. M. Irvtn. 
ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN THE APRIL NUMBER. 
Numerical Enigma.— Robin redbreast. 
Hidden Counties.— 1. Ford. 2. Scott. 3. Pope. 4. 
Saline. 5. Stark. 0. Hardin. 7. Gallatin. 
Pi.— If you wish to be happy yourself try to make 
others happy. 
C S C C T E 
PERISH 
HSTTTTT 
ISPOS i' 
i HCOTSE 
Y I I R E S I 
HI I E S Y S 
nCTETSO 
II 32 Y Y II R 
CROSS-WORD. 
My first is in false but not in true. 
My next is in boil but not in stew. 
My third is in you but not in me. 
My fonrth is in river but not in pen. 
My fifth is in water but not in air. 
My sixth is in lion but uot in bear. 
M. L. A. 
Blanks.— 1. Write, rite. 2. Cypress, Cyprus. 3. Pare, 
pair. 4. Principal, principle. 5. Air, heir. G. Bawl, ball. 
Diamond Puzzle.— M 
CAT 
RACES 
MACBETH 
DREGS 
ATE 
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Ckoss-Woiid.— Constantinople. 
Alphabetical Arithmetic— 
723)4861059(6733 {Key: Black Horse. j 
T.i:mk?, for letters, puzzler, etc., to E. J. K., Oiu.'e C, 
CInrkson P.. Perry A. M., J. Plumcr, Fumne r . r.ud 
Gnssle D. L. V. 
All communications for the Puzzle-Box should be scut 
to Aunt Sue, P. O. Box 111, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
East produces a sticky substance upon its Btcm and 
leaves which, iC swallowed or smoked, prodnces a re- 
markable kind of intoxication. A person under its in- 
fluence sees wonderfuKvisions and is .'or awhile in a 
most happy state. One of the names for this drug is 
hashish or hasheesh. About 800 years ago there was in 
Persia, Syria, and Arabia a remarkable secret society or 
order, happily long ago broken up, as it was kept np for 
the most wicked purposes. Every member of it bad to 
swear perfect obedience to his superiors, and if told to 
kill another, or to kill himself, he was obliged to do it. 
A great many secret murders, even of sultans and other 
officers, were committed by the 
members of this wicked crew. 
In order to get those who joined 
this society to take the. horrid 
oaths that bound them, they were 
made drunk with hashish; tiny 
were given to "hashishin," as 
the using of hashish was called, 
and as the hashishins oft' n killed 
people, the name was also need 
for murderers. It is by this round- 
about way we get our English 
word assassin. The Doctor. 
Goats. — An Ohio boy, 
ten years old, having seen our 
account of goats, has written to 
know if we can get him a pair. 
We are sorry to tell Master Ira 
that we can not do this, for two 
reasons. In the first place, we 
do not make purchases of ting 
kind for any one. We have not 
the time. If we wished a pair of 
goats ourselves ive should pay a 
person to go and hunt them up 
for us. In the second place, we 
do not think that youngsters of 
ten are the best judges of what 
they ought to have, and if we 
knew where to get goats we 
should not help our young friend 
to introduce the troublesome 
things upon his father's farm 
We have no doubt that a pair of 
goats would in one season do 
damage to the amount of the value 
of a good horse. Master Ira sayn 
he has already a colt and a yoke 
of steers, which we think otiglil 
to satisfy him for awhile. 
An Apology is needed 
to those boys and girls who last 
month looked for the apple that 
the boy, in the picture called 
"{Making an Acquaintance,' 1 '' hud 
brought to the calf. We looked 
at the drawing hurriedly before 
writing about it, and were quite 
sure there was an apple in the 
boy's hand. Perhaps the artist 
altered his mind after we saw 
the picture, perhaps it was a 
mistake of ours — but, at any 
rate, that boy might, could, or 
should have had an apple iu his 
hand with which to make friends with the little calf. 
A Curious 
Origin of 
Word. 
au EzislisSa 
Wlu-n answering the question about currants last 
month, I happened to think of a word that has a curious 
< rigin. In order to tell you about this I must state Hint 
the hemp which grows iu India and other parts of the 
SuairisOo 
Here is a picture for little girls— and by the way we do 
not know of any reason why little boys, and big ones, too, 
may not like it. The artist had seen the sun rise bright 
and clear, driving away the darkness and making all thu 
world look pleasant, and naturally enough when he saw 
thie little girl rise up from her sleep he thought of the sun, 
and he called his picture " Sunrise," for she in the little 
world of the family brought brightness, and seemed, as 
many little girls arc, the light of the house. We, unless 
id, all of us rise every morning as regularly as the sue. Tho 
2\m is always bright and shining somewhere, thongh 
clouds may prevent us from enjoying bis warm rays : yci 
when there are the thickest clouds he gives some light 
through them. But do our little girls always rise wlih 
brightness ? They arc sometimes dim ; the clouds do not 
hide (heir light, the darkness is in themselves. No 
doubt this little girl in the picture, who begins the day 
aright, will keep pleasant and sunshiny all the day long. 
It is a good thing for all of us to start right in the morn- 
ing, and let our presence be to our friends as welcome as 
the sunshine. This picture is from a beautiful bas-relief, 
but we shall have to tell what that is another time. 
