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Prizes were won as follows. Best lis;: Or stai. 
Second best list: 'Voire/ 1’. Johnson. No. »<>• Luiu 
Butler. 
Our Cozy Corner. 
So many seemed to be entitled to the Oc‘ober 
prizes the only just way we could thin . 1' was to 
put the names of those entitled to them in a box, 
shuffle them well and award the pr.zes to uie first 
three names drawn forth. 
B. M. H .’’s puzzles are excellent and one would 
ha ve appeared in this number had not the puzzle 
portion of the “Garnerings” been made up before 
their reception,— Lamp's contributions are very 
bright and one will shine in our January issue.— 
Lead Pencil: The article is good; but we don't 
want to grind the axe too fine. Please to send some¬ 
thing with a different subject anci answer.— Crystal: 
The answer to your puzzle is the greatest puzzle of 
•all, and it seems to need an explanation. Will you 
please to explain it?— C. A. W.: Quite a novel pro¬ 
duction. You will see it in type soon.— M. T.: If an 
answer fills the conditions of the puzzle, although 
it may not be the author's word, we deem it correct. 
Cives and cress filled conditions.— I. E. F.: Glad the 
cards proved satisfactory.— Jeane: Did not the book 
please you or did you show a generous spirit in not 
wishing to bear away t o many prizes? We deem 
that to be a most excellent trait in your character.— 
E. Sager: If only one answer had been received to 
No. 18, the prize would have been sene to that solver: 
but, as there were so many solutions sent, the book 
iib id to be awarded by lot. Aith ugh we knew whose 
.answer reached us first we could not tell who was 
the first solver; for the magazine cannot reach every 
subscriber the same day, nor are mail facilities 
-■equal all over the country. We award prizes in the 
fairest way we can think of. 
To the 50.00b and more readers of Seed-Time and 
iMui vest we wish a “Merry Christmas,” with all the 
joys and nlessiugs accompanying that holy season. 
A New York Street Scene. 
A swarthy faced Italian was grinding 
from a wheezy hand-organ “The Watch on 
the Rhine.” A crowd of children had col¬ 
lected about the corner of East Broadway 
-and Market street, wheie the hand-organist 
stood, for, attached to a chain, was a little 
•monkey which was climbing to the second 
story of a house where a penny awaited him. 
With much difficulty did the little animal 
mount the shutter and scramble to t lie 
window, but he was still beyond the reach 
-of the money. The Italian glared savagely 
at the chattering monkey as he looked with 
,an expression almost human at his rough 
master. It was no use; he could not reach 
&he penny, and with evident fear the little 
j fellow, dres ed in a red cap, clung to tha 
blind. The savage pauper cursed his faith¬ 
ful companion, who in turn shook his little 
head as if to say, “Master, I can’t reach 
the penny.” 
With a vicious pull on the chain 
the monkey was torn from his place of 
safety, and falling struck the pavement 
heavily. 
The little fellow’s upturned eyes saw no 
one but the cruel man who was bending 
over him. With a slight tremble the poor 
thing’s limbs became rigid, a faint gasp 
and the monkey was dead. 
He had failed to get one penny and the 
avaricious master had killed him. As the 
children drew back from the scene 
the Italian tore two pennies from the 
fixed grasp of his dead slave, then mutter¬ 
ing “Deda monka no good,” dropped the 
little body in the gutter and turned down 
the side street. — N. Y. World. 
Sense aiul Nonsense. 
MOSTLY NONSENSE. 
“A penny for your thoughts, madam,” 
said a gentleman to a pretty girl. “They 
are not worth a farthing, sir. 1 was think¬ 
ing of you.” 
“Boots blacked inside,” sai 1 Snodgrass, 
reading a Brattle-street sign the other day. 
“Goodness gracious! Do they want to 
spoil a fellow’s stocking?” 
There is an inscription on a tombstone at 
LaPoint, Lake Superior, which reads as 
follows: “John Smith, accidently shot as 
a mark of affection by his only brother.” 
The taxes are so high in Pittsburg that 
a man gives up all his real estate to satisfy 
two-thirds of the amount, and the city 
gives him six month’s extension on the 
balance. 
“John, how does the thermometer stand?” 
“Against the wall, dad.” “I mean how is 
the mercury?” “(mess it's pretty well; it 
hasn’t complained, lately.” “You little 
rascal, is it colder than yesterday ?” “I 
really don’t know, dad; but I’ll go out and 
feel.” 
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