1878.] 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
267 
BOYS & Wm&& VQL'UWNS: 
The Menagerie Prizes. 
I was afraid iliat the boys and girla had all forgotten 
about the menagerie, but now— I write this on the last 
day of May— every mail brings '•Doctor" letters by the 
dozen, so we shall have a merry number of contributors. 
I have told you before that this part of the paper is 
printed about ten days earlier than the outside sheets; 
iu consequence, the announcement of prizes can not be 
given here. You must look over in the front part of the 
paper for them. Aunt Sue irives her report of the puzzle 
prizes this month; this takes up considerable space, but 
will interest so many that they will not miss the usual 
variety in the Boys and Girls' pages. The Doctor. 
More I*rizes Vov Puzzlers! 
BT AUNT SUE. 
The task <riven you for the last prize competition, in 
February (the verse transposition), was simply to exer- 
cise your patience and ingenuity ; now I propose to make 
you better acquainted with geography, so offer six more 
prizes (books) for the greatest number of rivers and 
lakes found in the name of any one^jnountain. For in- 
stance, in Juugfrau (a mountaiu of the Swiss Alps) may 
be found : 
Una and Jauni, rivers of Brazil. 
Gran, a river In Hungary. 
Jura, a river in Russia. 
Gura, a river in Africa. 
Graun, a lake In Austria. 
And doubtless others. 
Yon may Belect your own mountain (bnt it must not 
include the word " mount " or " mountain "). You must 
tell where the lakes and rivers are to he found (as above). 
You must not construct a name which has no geographical 
existence, or the whole list n ill go for nothing. You must 
send your letters on the subject t-> Aunt Sue. Box 111, 
P.O., Brooklyn, N. Y.. and not to The Doctor; and the 
lists must be all in before the 20th of next September. 
I can not now irive yon the modus operandi of deciding 
upon the relative merits of liBts tent, but should there he 
Beveral of equal merit the award of prizes will be decided 
by lot. Now get out your maps, geographies, and 
gazetteers, and go to work. 
The Prize Result or tlie Trans- 
position Trial. 
Well, after sorting and sifting, first discarding the in- 
correct, then the disconnected and senseless, and those 
with merely the words and not the letters transposed — I 
had about forty preity good sentences left. Then I 
■weeded them oat somewhat after this order: First, those 
with names or nicknames evidently made up or spelled 
to suit the occasion. Secondly, the nnsrammatical. 
Thirdly, those with abbreviated words. Fourthly, the 
tautological. Fifthly, the overstrained. Sixthly, those 
written in pencil. And, after using nil possible care and 
impartiality, I have concluded to award the prizes to the 
authors of the first six sentences following : 
1. " Mother-wit, let, me not blunder 
In the ta^k I set me now ; 
Clear it is. I— silly — wonder 
Can each earn his * merit' now? 
H. N. Evaxine." 
(M. E. Lynch, Darlen, Walworth Co., Wiscousiu.) 
2. "With violets strew the mead, 
Winsome May, while here ; 
Linnet to linnet calls, 
The Iris and Cuckoo are near. 
Brent Inn. I. Jf." 
(Miss A. Savinne, Elkdale, Chester Co., Pa.) 
3. 4 "I think the words here written in this sentence 
are all in Noah Webster's common dictionary. 
Willie Lemuel Van Tame." 
(J. E. Chadcayne, Box G3, P. O., Sing Sing, N. Y.) 
4. " The monkey, horse, martin, ermine, swallow, 
nest, thistle, wine, violet, train, witch, bench, dirt, and 
mice are all nouns. E. J. E." 
(■' Kitty Clover.'* West 14th St., New York.) 
6. "A wayside Inn. Welcome retreat in summer. 
Listen in a rich meadow-to the linnet's note vie with the 
robin's call. H. L. Kern.' 1 
(No address.) 
6. "Cheer the miserable; walk in wisdom; then 
claim no merit, however wise. Listen to eternal truth, 
aud sin not. Ninie Clay. 1 ' 
(No address.) 
I know that many of you would like to see some of the 
other transpositions test In, so I append several which 
deserve praise, though they have a weak spot here and 
there: 
1. " There let winter, nice in storm. 
The nice walk and street adorn ; 
While at my sunnier home 
Cannas vie with lilies 1 bloom." 
2. "All hate men who, rich in sin, whose minds in- 
tent on the crime, will strive to lead better men in a way 
to seek clear ruin." L. S. 
3. " In time men seek to win laurels which are worth- 
less; are intent to save coin. Let them try in nobler 
aim and win. Childb." J. W. 
4. "Behold the heaven eternal I 
Worlds i' tltat realm unknown ; 
Each one in its silent circle 
Time its way in its own. 
E. It. Merix." 
5. " Transmit all tho^e wicked Lehi Swauncie letters 
verbatim immediately on the new northern wire. 
Annie Nicholson." 
6. "This cot is nicer, sunnier, lovelier than that. 
Now Ellen, Isabel, and Mertie may make it home this 
cold winter. R. W. Ewenn." 
7. "How music charms the innocent; 
How sweet in every kind ; 
While to an art all eminent 
It soon will rear the mind. 
E. Bealer." W. T. 
8. " On a scant heath in November, 
Where a linn twinkles. I lie ; 
A tinted moor lies seaward ; 
Miini, list to the curlew cry. E. N. N." 
9. "Summer weather, oh I how nice, 
No more bitter sleet nor ice ; 
Little Winnie mends her vail, 
And with Clinty takes a sail. N, N." 
10. "Winter has its charm. I like summer more ; 
then I will attend school and hear the little ones recite, 
'an, boy, inn, new, view."' M. M. V. A. 
11. " Witty William LTenry Smith smashed Catherine 
O'Connell's new Teutonic kite and neat silver thimble. 
Enoua W. Orren." 
12. "Ida S. Blamell, come home with me 1 We have 
snow and ice in winter. Sternly the teacher rules. It is 
not in title nor iu rank." 
13. " Lill and Lilan were twin sisters ; both have one 
kitten ; they are real cute. Their owu mother's name is 
Minnie C McWinod." 
14. " When I am older I mean to travel. Then I will 
see many other countries. I want to be in Shire, Mech- 
lin, Trent, and Sleswlck." (This would be excellent but 
for the indefinite " Shire.") 
15. "In my travels I met a man who asked to escort 
me at the show held iu Cincinnati, where I turn to see 
Ellen. Winnie R. Brill." 
16. " All sensible merchants know that to live within 
one's income leads unto wealth; we admire it in rich 
men. Irene Terry." 
17. "In miniature we see the man 
In every mother's child ; 
One can not tell, I think, nor scan 
What will be tame or wild. 
T. Sneers." 
That is all I have room for, but we have more very good 
ones from Addie B., W. Turner, W. B., M. Blakelee, 
L. T., Alice T.. L. S. F., Minnie A., W. J. B., Charlie T., 
S. S. D., C. Turner, Mary A. E., Katie T., L. C. A., and 
others. Those who tried, aud got everything all wrong, 
have my love and sympathy. Aunt Sue. 
Aunt Sue** E»nzzJe-IIoi, 
BLANKS. 
(Fill the following blinks with words pronounced 
alike but spelled differently.) 
1. He that the was in the — enclosure. 
2. We up the — — to the shore to sec a man 
by some fishermen. 
3. While there, we could the . 
4. He gave the boy a , and him to get 
some . 
5. The was so severe that it might almost be 
called a of terror; we let the horse go whore he 
would, the - — was useless. 
E. M. Welles and V. S. Peet. 
POSITIVES AND COMPARATIVES. 
1. An article of food ; a tool. 
2. A brook ; an ensign. 
3. An animal ; what vinegar is supposed t» be. 
4. A dance; a wooden trough. 
5. A school exercise ; a season. 
6. A color; a sprint cushion. 
(Examples.— Cant; canter. PaBt; pastor.) 
Na shirmain, tingeme at In-one, adesk Imh thaw adh 
cobeem fo a lutnulti finder. "Almir, own, ym read 
onehy " sawredne ch, " Dapdy paw dendmecon ot eb 
audheg, tub devas Bill file yb gindy ni spinor." 
CROSS-WOItD. 
My first is in balsam but not in myrrh. 
My next is in lambs-wool but not in fur. 
My third is in snow but not in water. 
My fourth is in father but not in daughter. 
My fifth is in roan but not in white. 
My sixth is in day but not in night. 
My seventh is in gnat but not iu flea. 
My eighth is in branch bnt not in tree. 
My ninth is in martin but not in teal. 
My tenth is in salmon but not in eel. 
My eleventh is in chart but not in map. 
My twelfth is in blow but not iu slap. 
My whole is a city far in the West. 
Now you cau easily makG out the rest. 
Willie Masters, 
puzzle. 
(From a word of five letters get the smaller words 
wlUch are to fill the following blanks.) 
An who had been stealing some and was 
sleeping on the ground when be was siung on the 
by an which he had happened to ■ with his foot. 
NUMERICAL ENIGMA. 
I nm composed of 9 let ers. 
My 7, 5, 6, 9 one ought to do every day. 
My 5, 6, 4, though an emblem of poverty, has a com- 
mercial value. 
My 8. 3, 1 is an animal. 
My 8, 2, 5 is a pronoun. 
My whole is much UBed in a school-room. 
Kittie M. 
good advice. 
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TRANSPOSED PROVERB. 
Never rent at thj table. 
answers to puzzles in the may number. 
Cross-Word.— Education. 
Concealed Furniture.— 1. Stove. 2. Cot. 3. Sofa. 
4. Bed. 5. Bench. 6. Stuol. 
Double Acrostic— 
TJ- mcolcu -S 
N-ew Marke-T 
I- ow -A 
T- ren -T 
E- 11) -E 
D-es Moine-S 
Anagrams.— 1. Hospitalities. 2. Geometrical. 3. Con- 
catenation. 4. Parenthesis. 6. Estimable. 6. Imperialist. 
7. Conglomeration. 8. Circumvention. 9. Regenera- 
tion. 10. Magisterial. 
Patches, Cuttings, and Fragments.— 1. Mosquito 
(Moscow). 2. Elephant (Nat). 3. Monkey, donkey. 
4. Centime (dime). 
Elliptical Sentence.— Wright, write, rite, right. 
Numerical Enigmas.— 1. All Is not gold that glitters. 
2. Mocking-bird. 
A Peep at ilie Show. 
About the time the leaves begin to appear the various 
shows start out from their winter quarters, "'take the 
road," as the showmen call it, and ^o about the country 
exhibiting at places fixed upon a long time in advance. 
There are so many of these t-hows, that there is scarcely a 
place of importance, in the older States at least, that 
is not during the season visited by one or more of them. 
Agents of various kinds go a week or more ahead of the 
show, and select a ground for the tent, and engage food 
for the animals and board for the men. Then the bill- 
stickers cover the Vides of barns, sheds, and fences with 
the showy bills, giving in wonderful colors enormous en- 
gravings of the wild hearts and other things to be seen 
in the show. Each one i*. according to the bills, greater 
than any other show in the world. Then, on the day of 
the show, nearly every boy feels that the whole thing la 
