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those that form the outline that need be looked to. 
Usually the hands should be exactly parallel with 
the wall, but by turning them a little one way or 
Our I'limzIe-IKox. 
DEFINITIONS. 
(The word defined must be spelled with some of 
the letters found in the definition). 
Example: A slender piece of timber by which a 
sail is extended. You cannot make “boom” the 
word defined, because there is only one o in the 
definition ; but you can make “yard.” 
1. An anchor at the bow. 
2. A subordinate church officer. 
3. Pleasing by acquired beauty or grace. 
4. Whirling, rotary. 
5. A grasping. 
6. To present for judicial trial. 
7. A verbal promise. 
8. Familiar knowledge with readiness of per¬ 
formance. 
9. A little table. 
10. A flat stone, an ensign. 
NUMERICAL ENIGMA. 
I am composed of 35 letters : 
My 11, 4, 14, 35, is a boy’s toy. 
My 9, 17, 7, 23, is a suggestion 
My 28, 31, 22, is a snare. 
My 13, 26, 27, 15, is used by every workman. 
My 23,1, 21, 10, is an animal: good to eat. 
My 2,33,24, 8,5,16, is seen on the druggist’s shelf. 
Mv 18, 28, 3, 19, affords much amusement to 
children, though it has been the death of many. 
My 34, 32, 20, 25, is exactly the same. 
My 19, 30, 6, 29, 12, is its color. 
My whole is a facetious paraphrase of the prov¬ 
erb, “A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.” 
DECAPITATIONS. 
1. Behead an article of clothing and leave a tree. 
2. Behead an exclamation and leave something 
good to eat. 
3. Behead to break things and leave a tradesman. 
4. Behead an article of clothing and leave a tool. 
5. Behead earth and leave what sometimes flows 
from it. 
6. Behead what all of us have and leave what 
most of us have. 
7. Behead a stream and leave a bird. 
ANAGRAMS. 
1. Is sad tune. 6. Count at large. 
2. I lit at error. 7. Casts nine. 
3. Ed went in. 8. Star-lit ocean. 
4. Rude crops. 9. Cne forge. 
5. Cord ! Rope’s end. 10. Go clear item. 
CROSS WORD. 
My first is in practice but not in preach. 
My next is in orange but not in peach. 
My third is in scarlet but not in pink. 
Mv fourth is in ponder but not in think. 
My fifth is in powders but not in pill. 
My sixth is in threaten but not in kill. 
My seventh is in robber but not in thief. 
My eighth is in sorrow but not in grief. 
My ninth is in soul but not in mind. 
My whole in the woods you often find. Patty. 
ALPHABETICAL ARITHMETIC. 
UNKO)AMLPINKR(MIKOA 
PUPM 
OOPMI 
ON R I I 
OMANN 
OMMAK 
MNRK 
UN KO 
OALLR 
OPLR A 
ONUM 
pi. 
Ti si a tager tasmike ot tes pu rou now dardants 
fo thirg dan grown dan dejug lopeep grodaclincy. 
Illustrated lSel>ns J\o. 48S.—Some .1 
good advice for both old and young to consider. I 
POSITIVES AND COMPARATIVES. 
{Example: —To increase, a reptile. Answer—Add, 
adder.) 
1. An animal—not sweet. 
2. Gross—a swift horse. 
3. To cite—proportional part. 
4. To permit—a printing type. 
5. Crazy—a plant. 
6. A staff, —to ramble. Bessie. 
Answers to Puzzles in the 
January No. 
Additions and Tp.ansfositons.— 
1. River + A—arrive. 2. Coat,—actor. 
3. Rest,—stare. 4. Stare,—arrest. 5. 
Ream,—amber. 
Numerical Enigmas. — 1. Snow¬ 
flake. 2. Follow up the plow, boys. 
Transposition. —Acres, races, Ce¬ 
sar, scare, cares. 
Concealed Poets. — 1. Hunt. 2. 
Drake. 3. Keats. 4. Gray. 5. Smart. 
6. Spencer. 7. Pope. 
Cross Word. —Ephemeral. 
Reverses. —Before I went to Eton, 
I used to make war on rats. Some¬ 
times I would meet one in the yard, 
and nearly step on him. Sometimes 
I prepared a trap forthem, sometimes 
took one of the guns and laid in wait 
for them: but I had little reward, 
and toon but little glory; I could 
not get rid of them, aud to this day 
they mar my comfort. 
Transposed Proverb. —A new broom sweeps 
clean. 
Double Acrostic. — Sweet Briar: 1. Sob. 2. 
Water. 3. Eli. 4. Extra. 5. Trilier. 
Half Square. —P E R U 
EKE 
R E 
U 
Anagrams. — 1. Backslider. 2. Effluvia. 3. Loath¬ 
some. 4. Swineherd. 5. Cicerones. 6. Unshackled. 
7. Mispronounced. 8. Girlishness. 9. Ventrilo¬ 
quists. 10. Naughtiuess. 
Making tiliadows obi tlie Wall. 
To so place the hands between the lamp or 
candle and the wall that they will cast a shadow of 
some particular shape, is an old and very amusing 
pastime. The four pictures here given are not 
original, but are presented merely to call the atten¬ 
tion of the young readers to an old source of 
fun. Heads of animals are perhaps 
the most common shadow pictures. 
We cannot recollect when the first 
one was made for our youthful amuse¬ 
ment. The picture of the “goat” will 
show how the hands are to be placed 
for making a very easily recognized 
head and face of this animal. “Mrs. 
Grundy ” is not difficult to make, and 
will give a world of fun w r hen followed 
by a explanation and accompanied by 
a peculiar nodding motion of the head 
not uncommon in old ladies. “ Mike ” 
will perhaps be easier and more sa.'cis- 
factory in his make up. Let j* ie boys 
try and bring him out for the sport of 
the household. The “,»tpnrrel ” may 
be the most difficult/'but with a little 
patience he will takefon the right shape, 
and his eye wiLV come to its proper 
place. There aye a great many other 
pictures that naay be done in shadow, 
but these samples will serve to in¬ 
troduce the/oubject. The ingenious boys 
and girls can amuse themselve by finding out how 
many objects they can make on the wall. In mak¬ 
ing shadow pictures, there are some rules to be ob¬ 
served./ There should be but one. lamp in the room, 
and tfi e brighter this is, the better. If the lamp 
has a ; ground glass or any other but a clear-glass 
glob/e or shade, remove it. The farther the hands 
are/ from the wall the larger will be the shadow, 
bidt the larger it is the less distinct it will appear. 
The shadows show best on a white ground ; if the 
wall has colored paper or is otherwise tinted, pin 
up a large sheet of white paper, or a piece of white 
cloth. Observe that it is the outline alone that 
makes the shadow, and it makes no difference how 
the other fingers, etc., may be placed. It is only 
SOME SHADOW PICTURES FOR PRACTICE. 
the other, very curious changes will be made iD 
the shadow. Try and make the four here given. 
S9i-lp in Drawing. 
As we were looking among some holiday toys, we 
came across an old ihing with a new name aud a 
long one—Spectrograph. This learned title is evi¬ 
dently made up from Greek words meaning an im¬ 
age, and to write, or draw, and shows that- the toy is 
concerned with drawing. When you go by the 
plate-glass windows in a town or city street, you 
will notice that the glass reflects very plainly the 
images of people in the street, while you can at the 
same time see the articles in the window ; the glass 
in part reflects, and in part allows the light from 
the things on the other side to pass through it. 
This drawing toy with the big name makes use 
of this property of a plate of glass. It is a small 
drawing board, with a pane of glass set up across 
and in the middle of it, as seen in the figure. An 
engraving is laid on the left-hand side of the board, 
and so placed that the light, either daylight or 
that from a lamp will fall well upon it; on the other 
side of the glass is put a piece of white paper, which 
is held in place by pins or small tacks. If you now 
look at the glass, you will see the picture very 
plainly, appearing as if it were really on the white 
paper. Now take a pencil and follow the lines of 
the picture as they appear to be on the paper. You 
can see the point of your pencil perfectly well, and 
you have only carefully to move it along the image 
of the picture, and you will get an exact drawing 
of the engraving on the other side. To make a neat 
drawing requires a little practice. One must, as 
THE SPECTROGRAPH FOR AIDING IN DRAWING. 
