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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
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CONCEALED POETS. 
1. I shun the noon-day sun when I can. 
2. I let Leonard rake in the middle of the day. 
3. I prefer to rake at sunset. 
4. I don’t like the dazzling rays of the sun. 
5. How that man does mar their enjoyment. 
6. This pen certainly has been used. 
7. Watch that little door, and see it pop open. 
CROSS WORD. 
My first is in surfeit but not in cloy. 
My next is in rapture but not in joy. 
My third is in honest but not in good. 
My fourth is In timber but not in wood. 
My fifth is in tumbler but not in glass. 
My sixth is in pasture but not in grass. 
My seventh is in barter but not in cell. 
My eighth is in clapper but not in bell. 
My ninth is in clover but not in hay. 
My whole is in something that lasts but a day. 
HALF SQUARE. 
1. Part of South America. 2. To enlarge. 3. A 
note in music. 4. Part of a house. Boby. 
REVERSES. 
(In the following history several of the words 
must be read exactly backwards, to make the sense 
complete. 
Before I went to note I used to make raw no star; 
sometimes I would teem one in the dray, and nearly 
pets no him. Sometimes I prepared a part for 
them ; sometimes took one of the snug and dial in 
wait for them; tub I had little drawer, and now 
tub little glory; I could ton get rid of them, and to 
this day they ram my comfort. 
TRANSPOSED PROVERB. 
(Readjust the following letters to form the 
proverb.) 
One web can please worms. 
DOUBLE ACROSTIC. 
Some babies are called this, 
Perhaps it suits your taste; 
Pray handle me with care, 
Lest you repent your haste. 
1. Hark ! Listen ! What a mournful 60 und, 
2. Refreshing to the thirsty ground, 
3. A name that some one gave his son, 
4. The news-boys shout it as they run, 
5. Content with toys, heedless of sorrow, 
Taking no thought for the “ to-morrow.” 
A. S. 
ANAGRAMS. 
1. Licks bread. 2. Eva, I luff. 3. 0 ! hot meals. 
4. I drew hens. 5. Ice crones. 6. Ah ! send luck. 
7. Do come pin urns. 8. Sir N.’s sleigh. 9. Lost 
tin quivers. 10. She gains nut. 
Tricks witli Strings, 
Figure 1 shows an oval piece of leather in which 
there are two parallel cuts ending a short distance 
from a round hole about the width of the space be¬ 
tween the two cuts. A piece of string is passed 
through the hole and under the slit, as shown in the 
engraving. When the ends of 
the string are fastened to but¬ 
tons that are larger than the 
hole, the puzzle is complete. 
The trick is to remove the 
string from the leather with¬ 
out taking off the buttons. 
To make the puzzle shown in 
figure 2, take an oblong piece 
of wood and bore three holes 
in it. A piece of twine, with 
two beads upon it, is then 
passed through the holes and 
looped and fastened as shown 
in the engraving. The trick is 
to get both beads upon one 
side without untying the end 
knots or removing the string 
from the holes. We do not 
now tell how these puzzles 
are solved, as that would spoil 
the fun you will find in try¬ 
ing. That both these tricks can be done, and 
easily, when you know how, we are quite well aware. 
Answers to Puzzles in the November No. 
Numerical Enigmas.— 1. Birds of a feather flock 
together. 2. Make the best of things. 
Concealed Animals. —1. Frog. 2. Bat. 3. Rat. 
4. Fly. 5. Mare. 6. Bear. 7. Hare. 8. Goat. 9. 
Lion. 10. Stag. 11. Sable. 12. Dog. 
Metagram. — Stage : 
Stag, sage, set, seat, 
tag, tea, age, gas, gate, 
sea, sate, sat, ate, eat, 
get, sag, at, as. 
Anagrams. — 1. Dis¬ 
concerted. 2. Negative. 
3. Wretchedness. 4. 
Postponement. 5. Un¬ 
observed. 6. Youngster. 
7. Coagulates. 8. States- 
manship. 9. Naturalist. 
10. Unventilated. 
Positives and Com¬ 
paratives. — 1. Cork, 
calker. 2. Leave, lever. 
3. Withe, wither. 4. Go, 
t ore. 5. Mange, manger. 
, High, hire. 7. Lack, 
lacquer. 
Scattered Square.— 
CARE 
AFAR 
RATS 
ERST 
Diamond. — 
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SIR 
SUSIE 
HISTORY 
RIOTS 
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Transpositions. — 1. 
Dearth, thread. 2. Bleat, 
table. 3. Lemons, mel¬ 
ons. 4. Auction, cau¬ 
tion. 5. Untie, unite. 
6. Garden, danger, gan¬ 
der. 7. Debar, bread. 
Transposed Flower Garden. —1. Hyacinth. 2. 
Candytuft. 3. Mignonette. 4. Amethyst. 5. Mari¬ 
gold. 6. Columbine 7. Ice-plant. 8. Sweet pea. 
9. Forget-me-not. 10. Cypress vine. 
Decapitations. —1. Chair, hair, air. 2. Grayling, 
ray, ling. 3. Sharp, harp. 4. Plover, lover. 
Cross-word.— Greensward. 
Charade.— Antonomasia. 
Illustrated Rebus, No. 480.—The Prodigal 
Son has returned. 
A Wonderful Clock.— Mr. Felix Meier, of 
Detroit, Mich., after nearly ten years of patient 
labor, has produced a clock which, not excepting 
that of Strasburg, is the most wonderful clock of 
the world. It is 18 feet high, 8 feet wide, 5 feet 
deep, and weighs 4,000 pounds. The framework is 
of black-walnut and elegantly carved. Washinton 
sits beneath the marble dome with a colored 
servant on either side guarding the doors. On the 
four corners of the face of the clock are four 
figures, emblematic of the different stages of hu¬ 
man life: two are females, one holding an infant, 
the other with a child ; the third is a man of middle 
age, while the fourth is a figure of an old gray- 
bearded man. All of these figures have bells, each 
with a tone in keeping with the age represented. 
The infant strikes its sweet-toned bell at the first 
quarter hour ; the larger bell of the youth rings out 
at the end of the half hour, followed by the strong 
resonant tone of the bell of middle age at the third 
quarter, and the hour closing with the mournful 
bell of the aged man. Death, represented by a 
carved skeleton just above the clock face, then 
strikes the hour, at the same time a carved cupid 
pops out on either side, with wings, to indicate 
that time flies. This is followed by sweet music, 
when Washington, rising from his chair, presents 
the Declaration of Independence, and a door on 
the right is opened by the servant, and each of the 
Ex-Presidents, donned in the costume of his time 
(including President Hayes), files before the 
“ Father of his Country,” face him, and raise their 
hands, walk across the platform and pass out of 
sight, at a door which is afterwards closed by the 
second servant. Washington takes his seat, and 
all is quiet again save the heavy tick of the wonder 
ful time-keeper. Though such a clock shows a 
great deal of ingenuity, it is of little practical value. 
Proverb Picture Puzzle.— Write first a- 
description of the picture number 1, beneath this a 
word descriptive of the picture number 2, and so 
on. If the work has been done correctly, the 
initials of the column read downward will spell & 
proverb. This may require some time and study, 
but it will be a pleasant way to spend a half 
hour or so on one of these long winter evenings. 
The Knight Templar Kock. —For some 
time past we have given imaginary combina¬ 
tions of sea and land, etc., in order to bring out 
some animal, or face, or person, and called it a pic¬ 
ture puzzle. The picture here presented is a real 
one, that is, “it is from life.” The Knight Temp¬ 
lar Rock is situated at Lundy Island, at the mouth 
of the Bristol Channel, and is so called because the 
island was granted to the Knights Templar, by King 
John, and perhaps mainly because the rounded 
rock which forms the top of the head, resembles a 
cap which the Knights wore when they took off 
their helmets. There is no mistaking the rock as 
giving quite accurately the profile of the human 
face, as any one can see from the engraving. 
a proverb picture puzzle of eighteen parts. 
