26 
[January, 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
CARD BOARD TOYS 
is the room the patterns take up, and space is so scarce 
with us that we like to use it to the best advantage. 
However. I will give you one example now, which will 
show the general plan on which such patterns are made, 
and if in other months I can find room, I may give others. 
Tlie pattern, figure 2, is that of a little card-board sleigh. 
BY CARD-BOARD, 
we mean any stiff paper, or thin paste-board, such as 
cards are printed on. You may often find boxes in which 
handkerchiefs, gloves, and other small wares are packed, 
and which are of no use to the shopkeepers when empty, 
that will furnish good material, and may be had for little 
or nothing. For nice work, sheets may be bought at the 
stationers. Th _ first step is to 
TRANSFER THE PATTERN TO THE CARD-BOARD, 
and it may be useful to know how to do this for other 
things. You will observe that the pattern has entire 
lines, and dotted lines ; wherever the lines are unbroken, 
the card-board is to be cut; where the dotted lines occur 
the card-board is only to be bent, and the directions 
“up”and “down” show which way. Now to transfer 
this pattern to the card-board. If you have some very 
thin note, or other paper, through which, when it is laid 
upon the pattern, you can see the lines with sufficient 
distinctness to follow them with a pencil, that will an¬ 
swer. If your paper is too thick, tracing paper would be 
useful, but as you do not wish to go to any needless ex¬ 
pense, you can convert common paper into 
A TRACING PAPER 
that will answer the purpose. Take the thinnest 
paper you have, lay it on a clean piece of brown paper— 
if you use newspaper the ink will come off—and with a 
clean cloth apply kerosene until it is well oiled. Then 
with another clean cloth, remove all the kerosene that 
will come off by wiping. The paper should not have so 
much kerosene on it as to soil the hands or the page 
upon which it is laid. Place this paper over the pattern, 
and the lines will show distinctly. Keeping it in place 
carefully, or holding it by pins if you can not keep it 
steady without, take a soft lead pencil and copy the lines 
—whole lines when whole in the pattern, and dotted if 
those in the pattern are dotted. Having made this trac¬ 
ing, you wish to transfer it to the card-board. In this 
case, as the pattern is symmetrical, i. e., both halves 
alike, all you have to do is to turn over your tracing, 
placing it marked side doion, upon your card-board, and 
then with a lead pencil, or any smooth point, go over the 
lines upon the wrong side. This pressure on the lines 
will cause the pencil-mark—or a part of it, to adhere to 
the card-board, and make a faint outline, but one that 
may be easily followed, and when you have done this, 
you can go over the lines on the card-board and make 
them stronger by the use of the pencil, and thus got. an 
exact copy of the pattern as it appears on the page. 
This pattern is a regular one. with both halves alike, but 
if it were one in which the sides were unlike, this would 
reverse matters and make what should be on the right 
side, appear on the left and vice versa. So to 
TRANSFER AN IRREGULAR PATTERN, 
and have it exactly like the original, you must work a 
little differently. Take the Wood Frog here shown. If 
you were to follow the directions already given, the frog, 
which now looks towards the right, would look towards 
the left. To avoid this, you make your tracing as before. 
Then turn the paper over, and go over the lines on the 
opposite side witli a soft pencil. Then place thison your 
card-hoard, or whatever the pattern is to be transferred 
to, with the right side, or that on which the tracing was 
first made, uppermost. Then go over the lines with a hard 
pencil or smooth point once more, and you will transfer 
the lines which were put upon the other side of the tracing, 
to your card-board or paper, and this figure will be an 
exact representation of the one copied—as to right and 
left. Transferring a tracing may be done still more 
easily and satisfactorily by the use of what is called 
TRANSFER OR CARBON PAPER, 
such as is used in the manifold letter-writers. This is 
easily made, though it is smutty work. All that is re¬ 
quired is a soft, thin paper, some lamp-black, lard, or 
castor oil, a plenty of soft rags, and some old news¬ 
papers. Mix the lamp-black with castor oil or lard, (in 
cold weather softened by placing in a warm room for a 
while), to a thick paste. Lay a sheet of paper upon some 
old newspapers, and by means of a roll of rag, smear it 
evenly with the lamp-black paste, rubbing It in well. 
Then with other soft rags, wipe off all that will come off, 
and then serve the other side of the paper in the same 
manner. When properly done, this will not soil the 
hands, or white paper upon which it is laid, but if you 
draw a line, or write upon it with a pencil or other hard 
point, the lamp-black will be transferred at those places 
to the paper below. This paper is much used for copy¬ 
ing letters, and for transferring embroidery and other 
patterns. But in describing the methods of transferring 
tracing, we have got far away from our 
LITTLE SLEIGH. 
The rest is plain enough ; the outside lines may be cut 
with scissors, but the inside lines are cut much more 
neatly with a pen-knife, the card resting on a flat smooth 
board. It will be seen that the back of the sleigh and the 
front or dasher, arc intended to lap upon the side pieces ; 
they may be fastened there by a little gum, or by a stitch 
put through the parts. 
SEEING THROUGH A BRICK. 
“ H. T. W.,” Bergen Co., N. J. This is one of the 
oldest optical tricks, and is quite a thing of the past. 
The last we heard of it, the deception was put to a good 
use. At the great Sanitary Fair, held in New York in 
1832, to raise funds to supply comforts to wounded 
soldiers, a lady had found one of these “Penetrating 
Telescopes,” as they were called, and large numbers were 
willing to pay a dollar into the funds of the Commission, 
for the chance to see “ through a brick.” The trick de¬ 
pends upon the well-known laws of the reflection of 
light, and can be explained by the diagram, fig. 3, which 
shows one form of the “ telescope.” One looking in at 
B sees whatever may be beyond the opposite opening, E, 
notwithstanding that the brick, A, may apparently be 
in the way. The trick is performed by 
CONCEALED MIRRORS, 
or bits of looking-glass, placed at the proper angle. 
Thus, E being turned toward an object, its image will 
be reflected from that mirror down to another mirror, F; 
from F across to 77, and thence up to <7, where it is seen 
by the eye placed at B. The instrument is made in other 
forms that are better calculated to deceive than this, but 
this shows the principle upon which all are made. 
. . -* —- 
Aunt Sac’s I*nzzle-IBox. 
pi. 
Hot sulo hatt fresfus si grestnor hant eth losu atth 
icesjore. 
ADDITION OF FRACTION. 
1. Take two letters from a word signifying array; 
2. Take two from another signifying a fruit; 
3. Take two from a word, meaning—to disclose; 
4. Take two from another, meaning—forfeiture ; 
5. Two from another, meaning—probably ; 
6. Two from a word, meaning—to make plain ; 
Add the letters together and you will see what. I am 
trying to do. Trtt Again. 
NUMERICAL ENIGMA. 
1. I am composed of eighty letters: 
My 12, 23, 49,-77, 44, 01,-18, 3, 23, 34, 38,-48, 02, 76,- 
6, 26, 32, 33—5, 64, — 29, 70, 46, is a Proverb of truth. 
My 67, 2, 20, 27, 37,-40, 63, 14—43, 19, 49,11, 16, 32, 1,- 
78, 1,-65, S, 71,66, 17, 22, 70, 4, is a Proverb of caution. 
My 28.—1, 45, 33, 42, 13,-24, 73, 32, 20, 21, 69, 75,-10, 
54,-45, 50, 2, 9, 25, 29, 48, 14, 39, 8, 40,-15,63,-18, 35, 36, 
—33, 66, 56, 7, is a Proverb of honesty. 
My 80, 60, 28, 55, 21,-23, 72,-31,-69, 19, 79, 32, 30,-5, 
62,-15, 35, 51,-4, 59, 49,-38, 53,-6, 44, 78, 23, 33, 52,— 
41, 2, is a Proverb of education. 
My 59,-41, 8, 63, 58,-21, 73, 47, 57,-10, 27,-74, 20, 34. 
19, 68, 22,-37, 70,-12, 13,-69, 35, 78, 42, 16, 29,-43, 38. 
28, 40,-41, 3, 26, 31, 46,-17, 25, 69, 44, 36, 54, is a Proverb 
of reputation. 
My whole is a Proverb of Solomon. 
2. I am composed of 47 letters : 
My 38, 30, 22, 23, 22, is the name of a goddess. 
My 20, 8, 44, 34, is a river in Africa. 
My 3,14, 37, is a kind of fish. 
My 32, 11, 2, 18, 7, we have in spring. 
My 40, 33, 36, 47, is an article of apparel. 
My 4, 22, 1, is a vehicle. 
My 5, 28, 10, is a kind of dwelling. 
My 45, 9, 18, 12, 34, 42, is a city in New York. 
My 13, 19, 23, is what some people drink. 
My 39,46, 26, is a woman’s name. 
My 24, 30, 41, 5, 21, 31, may generally be seen on the 
dinner-table. 
My 43, 44, 16, 6, 27, 3, 21, may often be seen on a 
dress. 
My 15, 2, 25, 8, 29, is a strait. 
My 17, 2, 20, is much used in summer. 
My whole embodies the names of a god and god¬ 
dess, with some information about them. 
Ida S. Terry. 
3. I am composed of 10 letters : 
My 1, 8, is to move forward. 
My 10, 5, is a boy’s nickname. 
My 6, 3,4, is to do evil. 
My 3, 2, 8,9, is very strong. 
My 5, 8, 7, is something very small. 
My whole is a very useful implement on a farm. 
E. S. D. 
4 I am composed of 12 letters: 
My 3, 8, 10, is an animal. 
My 11, 2, 3,11, 1,12, is a kind of corn. 
My 5, 4, 9, 1, 2, is a musical instrument. 
My 7, 1, 4, 1, 7, 7, 1, 6, is a city in South America. 
My whole is a river in North America. 
J. II. Noble. 
ALPHABETICAL ARITHMETIC. 
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Aggie Sanxat. 
CONUNDRUM. 
Why did the Colussus of Rhodes became quite small in 
a thunder-storm ? 
. CROSS-WORD. 
My first is in shadow but not in gloom, 
My next is in grave but not in tomb, 
My third is in sink but not in fall, 
My fourth is in high but not in tall, 
My fifth is in mind but not in heed. 
My sixth is in plant but not in reed, 
My seventh is in game but not in play. 
My eighth is in tell but not in say, 
My ninth is in look but not in see, 
My tenth is in drink but not in tea, 
My whole is the name of a principal city 
You will find it with ease if sufficiently witty. 
Mamb. 
TRANSPOSITIONS. 
(Fill the blanks with one word transposed four times.) 
That horse with the queer ——— has as-a-as 
I ever saw. The driver exclaimed, “-! ” 
S. F. T. 
HIDDEN RIVERS. 
1. There was a hippopotamus at the show. 
2. I like a fat ham, especially if is large. 
3. Be obedient to your parents and teachers. 
4. Ten hundred men were slain. 
5. Oh I I only sent you there to stay awhile. 
6. One has a lop-ear like a rabbit. 
John W. Wheatley. 
SQUARE PUZZLE. 
Take seven Christian names of seven letters each, and 
place them one below the other, so that another name of 
seven letters shall he revealed in the diagonal letters, be¬ 
ginning at the upper left-hand corner and finishing at 
the right lower. 
