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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
273 
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Mr. Watchman : (Enviously, or at least a little pained 
at the mosquito’s success). In at last! How smart he 
feels!! He evidently works for a purpose. 
Second Mosquito “ And so do his sisters and his 
cousins and his aunts.” 
Our PiitizIe.Kox, 
abbreviations. 
1. Behead ar.d curtail (remove the first and last letter 
of) a precious stone and leave a domestic animal. 
2. Behead and curtail a coniferous tree and leave part 
of a circle. 
3. Behead and curtail a Turkish officer, and leave a 
forest tree. 
4. Behead and curtail a game bird, and leave a pinch 
or blast. 
5. Behead and curtail a motive power, and leave a 
beverage. Isola. 
SQUARE WORDS. 
1. 1. A girl’s munc. 2. To attract. 
3. A fastening. 4. Tools. Nip. 
2 . 
1. A shell-fish. 
3. A lady’s name. 
2. An avenue. 
4. Ground grain. 
Little One. 
alphabetical arithmetic. 
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A Y N 
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CONCEALED FLOWERS. 
1. The account is now in good shape on your ledger. 
2. Seth, arc belladonna pellets what I need? 
3. 5fr. Speaker, 1 rise to enquire-. 
4. What is the matter, O Senator? 
5. Ada, is your watch enameled ? 
GEOGRAPHICAL BLANKS. 
(5Iake sense of the following sentences by filling the 
blanks with names of Capes.) 
1. Do not-for-lest you should meet with-. 
2. The-was sounded for -. Some one would 
not keep-of the——which was full of-. Aredax. 
REVERSED WORDS. 
(Fill the blanks with words that read backwards and 
forwards the same.) 
1. I am going,-,with my cousins-,-and,-, 
and with little-Smith to see the——. 
2. This apple is-than that. 
3. 5fy brother-asked me to keep-about the 
wicked-. 
4. Toads and lizards arc-by some idolators. 
5. The country was-as far as the-could reach. 
drop-letter puzzle. 
(Every other letter is dropped, commencing with the first.) 
—g — i—u—t—r—i—t—e—o—t—e—1—h—n—t—e—o—t 
—s—f—1—n—m—s—n—b—e—m—1—y—e—t—f—a—. 
John W. Wheatley, 
numerical enigmas. 
1. I am composed of 27 letters : 
51y 7, 1, 25, 22, 10. 2, is an article of food. 
51 y 3, 13. 17, 15, 5. is an article of table furniture. 
5Iv 21, 12, 23, 18, is an article of clothing. 
5Iy 11, 10. 6, 11, 22, is a fish. 
5Iy 7. 8, 20, 26, 19, is an unpleasant sensation. 
51y 7, 4, 9, 24, is what a certain famous bird did. 
My whole is a sensible proverb. 
2. I am composed of 12 letters : 
My 8, 9, 3, 4, 5, is to reprove. 
5Iy 2, 6,1, 5, is used every week by the laundress. 
My 7,10, 11, is a propeller. 
5Iy 1,12. 4. is a cushion. 
My whole is a flower. 5 Iollie. 
CROSS-WORD. 
My first is in carrot but not in beet, 
My next is in humbug but not in cheat, 
My third is in merry but not in gay, 
51y fourth is in April but not in May, 
5Iy fifth is in ocean but not in sea, 
My sixth is in sugar but not in tea, 
5fy seventh is in apple but not in pear, 
5Iy eighth is in rabbit but not in hare, 
5Iy ninth is in stupid but not in slow, 
5Iy tenth is in arrow but not in bow, 
5Iy eleventh is in wicked but not in bad, 
My twelfth is in cushion but not in pad, 
51y thirteenth is in partridge but not in game, 
My whole is before you, pray tell the name. 
ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN THE MAY NUMBER. 
Charades.— 1. Aspire. 2. Ionian. 3. Hattie. 
Metagram.— Princess: in which may he found the words 
press, rip. pin. rinse, (in the puzzle, the 4th item should have 
been printed “ to wash,” instead ol “ to walk and sip. 
Cross-Wop.i>.— Wintergreen. 
Transposition— Pots, tops, spot, stop, post. 
IIiddle.—P air, pear, pare. 
Biblical Enigma— Worship the Lord in the heauty of 
holiness. 
Pr. — Those who can not 
keep their own secrets, omrht 
not to he entrusted witli the 
secrets of others. 
Anagrams. —1. Afathemat- 
ics. 2. Onslaught. 3. Accoutrements, 4. Triumphantly. 5. 
Floundering. 6. Confidentially. 7. Energetically. 8. Pro¬ 
miscuous. 9. Gooseberries. 10. Disconsolate. 
Enigmatical Story.—T he star spangled banner. 
Puzzle.— (Acrostic.) Plenty. 
Concealed Square Word. 
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Hour-Glass Puzzle. 
PICTURK 
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FRIENDS 
Torture. 
Alphabetical Arithme¬ 
tic.— 1473)2438903(1651. (Key, 
Democritus.) 
Biblical Double Acros¬ 
tic.—Sarah, Lydia.— 1. Saul. 
2. Allegorv. 3. Reed. 4. 
Abishai. 5. Hosea. 
Charade.— Independent. 
Puzzles, answers, and such matters as were formerly 
directed to “Aunt Sue.” may hereafter lie sent to “The 
Doctor,’’ No. 245 Broadway, New York. 
Mctagram Puzzle—An Omission. — Last 
month we told what a Metagram Puzzle was, and gave 
the picture for the puzzle, but some how the descriptive 
matter was left out, and the affair was rather more of a 
puzzle than we intended it to be. Let us try again. You 
will find, on page 232, last month, a central picture which 
stands for a word, from which word can be made the 
other words represented by the objects around the pic¬ 
ture. You are to fix upon the word for the picture, and 
then try to make the others from the letters in that. 
How Eussiaii Farmers lave. 
It seems a long time since we have had a talk about 
the ways of people in other countries than ours—and for 
a variety we will take a peep at the way in which the 
Russian farmers live—and this of course will include 
the Russian farmers’ boys and girls. We hear much 
more now about Russia than we formerly did, and we can 
hardly take-up a paper without fiuding something about 
Russia. To be sure, it is not all pleasant; we read of 
the great war with Turkey, of the plague, that dreadful 
disease, being in Russia, of political troubles in St. 
Petersburgh, Moscow, and other large cities, of the kill¬ 
ing of officers, of the sending of people to Siberia to get 
the troublesome ones out of the way, and besides many 
other matters, we hear of the peculiar people called 
Alennonites, coming to this country. This is perhaps 
the best thing that we read now-a-days of Russia, for 
these Mennonites are peace-loving, industrious people, 
who come here in large colonies of families, settle in 
some part of the far-West, and form villages and towns 
of their own, where they lead quiet and useful lives. 
Their grand children will be as good Americans as the- 
best. But we were to say something of how the Russian 
farmer lives at home. The engraving, fig. 1, (see next 
page) of a farm village in the great wheat region of 
Central Russia, the ne.ghborhood of the river Volga, 
where the country is generally level. The Russians have 
one custom which is common in the farming districts of 
Europe generally. Instead of having each house near 
the center of ttie farm, and the houses a long distances 
apart, as with us, the farmer does not generally live on 
his farm. The houses are built in a village, with may he 
the barns and granaries, near the house, or on the home 
lot, but the land that is cultivated may be two or three 
or more miles away. The people have to travel far and 
Fig. 2.—RUSSIAN MUD COTTAGE. 
spend much time in going to and coming from work, but 
it makes farm-life more sociable, as the people can see 
one another and enjoy many things that are not possible 
■where all are scattered far and wide. It might be well 
if we adopted something of this plan in this country; 
botli methods have their advantages, and people are slow 
to give up their old ways. One writer says that he 
travelled in that part of Russia for miles and miles, and 
saw nothing but wheat field after wheat field, varied 
with wide tracts where horses and cattle pastured, but 
no fences anywhere. At last he saw some curious green 
objects in the distance shaped like enormous pears; at 
length he mndeout that these were cupolasof the church, 
and before he was aware of it, he was upon the village, 
with no other warning than the barking of dogs. Russian 
farmers, like poor people everywhere, keep an abund¬ 
ance of worthless curs. This writer gives (fig. 1) a pic¬ 
ture of the first of these villages he saw. The small log- 
houses are all alike, and arranged in several rows, with 
wide streets between them half a mile or more long. At 
one end of the village is the church, with its odd cupolas, 
at the other the larger house of the land-owner (not 
shown) who rents the farms to the tenants. Small gran¬ 
aries—the square huts without windows—stand in the 
middle of the street, and long rows of tall poles, show 
that water is raised here by the old fashioned well sweep. 
In some places, where logs can only he had by hauling 
for great distances, the villages are of mud houses, built 
of bricks merely dried in the sun ; one of these houses is 
shown in fig. 2, and these, while they can not be called 
handsome, are said to be very comfortable in the long 
cold winters. Pigs, poultry, and curs, run at large in 
the streets, and when a stranger enters these make a 
great fuss. Not a very attractive picture of farm-life you 
will think, yet many thousands of people live in just 
this way, and it is well to know it. Compare such a 
farm-house as one of these with one of ours—yonr own, 
it may be, with all its pleasant surroundings without, 
