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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
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it 
is of these forms that the coral reefs and islands 
CROSS WORD. 
in the warmer parts of the world are made up. 
The Precious or Red Coral, 
as that kind used in jewelry is called, is found al¬ 
most solely in the Mediterranean Sea. It is rarely 
over a foot high, of a branching form, as in fig. 5, 
and in its largest part not thicker than the middle 
finger. It grows attached to the rock at the bot¬ 
tom of the sea, and is brought up by means of a 
rough kind of grapple, made of beams and cords 
which is dragged from boats, and sometimes 
pushed by divers along the places where the coral 
will become entangled in the cords. This coral 
is very hard in its central portion, and takes a 
fine polish. Naples is the place where most of the 
coral is worked up. In some places the coral is of 
ayellow color; in others pinkish, and in others dark 
red, and a black coral is found, though quite rare. 
Onr Puzzle Box. 
My first is in liquid but not in the ocean, 
My next is in fervid but not in devotion, 
My third is in fearful but not in atrocious, 
My fourth is in awful but not in ferocious, 
My fifth is in wallet but not in the purse, 
My sixth is in captious but not in perverse, 
My seventh is in farming but not in the field, 
My eighth is in capture but never in yield, 
My ninth is in instep but not in the feet, 
My tenth is in onion but not in the beet, 
My eleventh is in corrosive but never in rusted, 
Beware of my whole, if by any one trusted. 
NUMERICAL ENIGMAS. 
I am composed of 78 letters : 
My 55, 8, 64, 27, is a stone vessel for water. 
My 9, 41, 76, 1, 43, 58, 77, is an ornament of the 
person. 
My 20, 10, 17, 73, 28, 33, 70, 48, 36, is a native of 
one of the United States. 
My 4, 8, 11, 45, 52, 59, 74, is'an Italian citv. 
My 29, 37, 7, 42, 13, 54, 71, 34, 77, 18, was a Gen¬ 
eral of the American Revolutionary War. 
My 3, 50, 45, 57, 17, 26, 24,,78, 69, 47, a daughter 
of Venus. 
ILLUSTRATED TRANSPOSITIONS. 
My 30, 49, 53, 78, 40, 
07, 61, was an ancient 
Kingdom. 
My 15, 32, 72, 62, 39, 
38, 5, is a river of North 
America. 
My 12, 51, 60,16,35, 63, 
46, 22, 68, is an animal. 
My 23, 36, — 56, 44, 25, 
66, 49, is where Abraham 
and Isaac dwelt. 
My 14, 4, 2, 6,31,19, 75, 
21, 65, was the sacrificed 
daughter of a King. 
My whole cannot be 
imagined. 
2. I am composed of 
27 letters : 
My 2, 27, 3, 23, 16, 11, 
8, are common to April. 
My 18, 6, 9, 5, 27, 3,14, 
7, is the name of a tree. 
My 26, 1, 20, 15, 22, is 
a color. 
My 18, 10, 19, 24 17, is 
a part of the body. 
My 26, 25, 13, 12, is a 
word used by sailors. 
My 4, 21, 7, is some¬ 
thing used by both ladies 
and gentlemen. 
My whole is a well 
known proverb. 
Willie and Henry. 
METAGRAM. 
In a word of six letters 
may be found (1; a natu¬ 
ral compound of metal, 
12) wrath, (3, 4) two per¬ 
sonal pronouns, (5, 6) two 
In the above picture there are fourteen nouns illustrated. Seven of them, by gT t'vo' S artic 1 es°of*"'c 1 oth- 
transposing the letters, may be resolved into the other seven. Name them. j n g (9)atool, (10) a How- 
concealed places. 
1. When shall I mail this letter? 
2. I love nice little girls. 
3. The stage took Rebecca; I rode on horseback. 
4. She came from England. 
5. She has six fine ducks and four fat hens. 
6. She had to teach in a log-cabin at first. 
7. What royal looking men those are ! 
8. They are the best soldiers I ever saw. 
cube puzzle. 
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er, (11) an animal, (12) a boundary, (13) a country, 
(14) a relative: What is the word, and what are 
the items ? 
Answers to Puzzles in the June Number. 
Cross-word. —Punctuality. 
Girls’ Names Enigmatically Expressed.—1. 
Beatrice. 2. Abigail. 3. Arabella. 4. Bertha. 5. 
Bridget. 6. Frances. 7. Grace. 8. Mary. 9. 
Winifred. 
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From 1, to 2, Sagacity ; 
from 2, to 4, a General of 
the Revolution ; from 3, 
to 4, a state of happiness; 
from 1, to 3, opulence; 
from 1, to 7, desire; from 
7, to 5, to abase ; from 3, 
to 5, to abhor; from 5, to 
6, to issue ; from 4, to 6, 
not any.n 
P. T. 
Illustrated Logogriph .—Hatred; out of which 
may be made the words tar, herd, rat, ear, dart, 
hart, hat, head, and heart. 
Alphabetical Arithmetic.— 
731)698210457(955144 
(Key: Ruby in gold') 
Numerical Enigma.— 
“ For evil news rides 
post, while good news 
baits.” 
1IIAMOND.- 
CAB 
C A B O B 
BOB 
B 
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6 
TRIPLE HIDDEN ACROSTIC. 
In gather, in scatter, in grain, 
In earth, in air, in water, 
In body, in head, in brain, 
In reason, in breath, in matter, 
In fire, in ice, in rain, 
In wisdom, in grace, in nature: 
In these three columns you may find 
Three languages of different kind. P. T. 
pi. 
Concealed Animals. —1. Seal. 2. Fox. 3. 
Camel. 4. Gnu. 5. Ferret. 6. Hare. 7. Rat. 8. 
Lion. 
Transitions.— 1. Stag—star, sear, bear. 2. Dark— 
hark, hart, halt, hall, hail, hair, fair. 3. Wool— 
pool, poll, pill, sill, silk. 4. Hard—lard, lord, lore, 
lose, lost, loft, soft. 5. Work—cork, cook, book, 
boot, blot, plot, plat, play. 6. Duck—luck, lurk, 
lark, park, part, past, pass, paws, haws, hawk. 
Blank Transpositions. —1 Quires, squire. 2. 
Skate, stake. 3. Snakes, sneaks. 4. Angels, angles. 
5. Debar, bread. '6. Mien, mine. 
Het rams fo tiw tough swavla ot cb therefead 
thiw missle: nhew hyet liaf ni hatt heyt moebee 
mascars dan keil wot-geed drowss. 
Definitions. —1. Adverb. 2. Union. 3. Wim¬ 
ble. 4. Yard. 5. Ullage. 6. Valise. 
Pi.—“In what condition was the patriarch Job 
at the end of his life ?” asked a Brooklyn Sunday- 
school teacher of a quiet-looking boy at the foot of 
the class. “Dead,” calmly replied the quiet-look¬ 
ing boy. ’ 
Square Word.— 
LATIN 
AROSE 
TOOLS 
ISLET 
NESTS 
Transpositions. — 1. 
Anodyne, annoyed. 2. Re¬ 
pined, ripened. 3. Endear, 
earned. 4. Princes, pin¬ 
cers. 5. Declare, cleared. 
6. Desire, reside. 
Anagrams. —1. Chandelier. 2. Disrepute. 3. Re¬ 
proach. 4. Repartee. 5. Patrician. 6. Multiform. 
7. Inimitable. 8. Afterpiece. 9. Empyrean. 10. 
Panegyric. 
Illustrated Rebus No. 486.—“Memory is the 
only friend that grief can call its own.” 
Some Noted Trees. 
On July 3d, 1775, General George Washington 
stood under an elm tree in Cambridge, Mass., and 
drawing his sword took command of the Ameri¬ 
can Army. The celebrated preacher, Whitfield, 
preached under the same tree, which to-day is alive 
and growing as best it can, standing in the middle 
of a much travelled highway, with street cars pass¬ 
ing under its shade, and gas pipes at no great dis¬ 
tance from its far-reaching roots. 
Perhaps as famous as the “Washington Elm,” 
was the one in Philadelphia under which the wise 
and good William Penn held a council with the 
Indians, and made a treaty that was never broken. 
The “Penn Treaty Tree ” was blown down some 
years ago, and the wood has been made into work- 
boxes, and many other ornaments and mementoes. 
The “ Charter Oak,” at Hartford, Connecticut, 
became famous just five years after the Penn Treaty 
with the Indians. King James of England sent Sir 
Edmund Andros to be Governor of Connecticut, 
who, on his arrival in Boston, demanded the Charter 
of Connecticut. He was considered unworthy of 
the trust, and it was refused. Nearly a year later 
he went to Hartford, where the Assembly met, and 
again demanded the Charter. 
The Charter was lying upon a table in the Assem¬ 
bly—it being evening, and Sir Edmund was about 
to seize it, when the lights were quickly extin¬ 
guished, and before the candles could be relit the 
Charter was carried off and put into the hollow 
trunk of a large oak near by. No one told where 
the. Charter was, and the would-be Governor had to 
go away without it. The trunk and main branches 
of this famous tree are shown in the accompanying 
engraving, made from a picture taken of the tree 
shortly before it was blown down in 1856. The 
Vice-President’s chair in the Senate Chamber at 
Washington is made of wood from the “ Charter 
Oak.” A strange feature in the picture of this 
historic tree is found in the outlines of a face which 
many recognize as much resembling that of the 
“ Father of his Country.” There are other outlines 
of faces among the branches of the “ Charter Oak.” 
Do you see them, large and small, old and young? 
