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return to that portion of the face of the earth—what a 
wrinkled face I Mother Earth must be very old—where 
most of our young readers live, we come across another 
range of mountains, and find our No. 7. There are a num¬ 
ber of neighboring chains which run in much the same 
direction which we will not consider. A large river of 
the same name runs among theBe mountains, and after¬ 
wards flows into the longest river in the world.—No. 8. 
If we return to somewhere near where we started—at 
least the nearest to No. 1 since we left it to take a moun 
tain tour of the world—we shall find a long and very dif¬ 
DOUBLE ACROSTIC. 
The initials name a well-known bird, and the finals, an 
animal 
1. An oriental tree. 4. One of the tortures of the 
2, A man’s name. Inquisition. 
3 An ingredient of plum 5. A fruit 
cake. 6. A country in Europe. 
Effie. 
CHANGED HEADS. 
(Change the first letter each time.) 
1. First take a certain arrangement of rope; then change 
its head and make 
2. Something very useful in carrying Saratoga trunks 
to the fourth story, 
3. Again change the head and make something with 
■out which 
4. Would be of no use. 8. Compact. 
5. A person. 9. A number. 
6. A bad thing to get into. 10. “ Good night.” 
7. What every freeman has. 
CROSS-WORD. 
My first is in rampart but not in defence. 
My next is in.income but not in expense, 
My third is in ocean but not in the sea. 
My fourth is in coffee but not in our tea. 
My fifth is in pitcher but not in the jug, 
My sixth is in tumbler but not in the mug, 
My seventh is in fragment but not in a rag. 
My eighth is in satchel but not in a bag, 
My ninth is in cricket but not. in grasshopper: 
My whole is a mixture of zinc and of copper. 
pi. 
Heret saw cone a codort, how, nhew saked thaw saw 
dogo rof qnotessimo, tower cakb : “Who od ouy pnpesso 
I nac letl sunsel I wonk thaw sail het quismoot? ” 
NUMERICAL ENIGMAS. 
1. I am composed of 28 letters : 
My 15, 20, 2, 3, 12, are certain birds. 
My 3, S, 7, is a kind of sauce. 
My 16, 9, 2, is clamor. 
My 18, 25. 8, 4, 3, 27, 21, 28, is a number. 
My 11, 14, 15, is to dress. 
My 17, 19, 23, 21, 22, is a leather strap. 
My 13, 12, 1, 10,-17, 6, is abatement. 
My 5, 24, 11, 26, is scattered. 
My whole is very excellent advice. Mart A. E. 
2. 1 am composed of 18 letters: 
My 13. 14, 9. 15, 5, 16, is a body of troops. 
My 17. 1, 8, 16, 4, 18, is a number. 
My 5. 6. 15. 3, 2, is an animal. 
My 12, 10. 7, 11, is to mend. 
My whole may be found on the map of Pennsylvania. 
John M. M. 
TRANSPOSED PROVERB. 
(Readjust the letters to form the proverb.) 
lie is bent to copy his style. 
METAGRAM. 
In a word of five letters you may find three verbs, four 
nouns, two pronouns, a preposition, an adjective, an 
article, and an exclamation ; among the nouns are a fish 
and a tree. What is the original word, and what are the 
different words formed from the five letters. 
ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN THE MAT NUMBER. 
Charades. —1. Dilemma. 2. Menhaden. 3. Driftwood. 
Numerical Enigmas. —1. Honesty is the best policy. 2. 
The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall no't want. 
Alphabetical Arithmetic.—1703jD5482610(56067. (Key- 
Large Knobs.) 
Double Acrostic. 
Sing-Song. 
I Anagrams.—1. Contumaci¬ 
ous. 2. Asseverations. 3. 
Potentates. 4. Superscribed, 
la. Validity, a. Predetermined. 
7. Archbishopric. 8. Fore- 
shadowing, it. Metropolitan. 
10. Greensward. 
S—paciou—S 
I—ntagli —O 
N— atio -N 
G— an —G 
Decapitation.— Wheat, beat, eat. ' 
C ross- wo rd.— Misfortune. 
Pi.—A remark of Patience Reville is at once luminous, 
monitory and timely: “Respect the embarrassment of any 
honest conscience which doubts, whicli seeks, which likes 
better to rest in what is vague, and even to contradict itself, 
than to disfigure the unknown truth by giving it features 
fixed and perhaps unfaithful.” 
Mrtamorems— 1. Yawn. 2. Beryl. 3. Long. 4. Forty. 
5. Home. 6. Villain. 7. Convex. 8. Alcohol. 9. Bread. 10. Clay. 
Illustrated Rebus, 476.—Accumulate information and 
increase wisdom, but above all acquire integrity and honor. 
2.DMK" a 
No. 478. Illustrated Hteims.— Wholesome advice to 
■^vcyy one and worthy of study here, and much practice every day. 
A Trip Over tlie Mountains. 
The River Hunt, judging by the many letters from our 
readers, old as well as young, was a pleasant and perhaps 
an easy journey. With the warm weather upon us, it 
will be just the thing to change the direction of our re¬ 
bus wanderings, and “ take to the mountains,” in the 
hope that a trip over some of them will refresh us in 
more ways than one. There has been quite an excite¬ 
ment over No. 1 of late years, especially among those 
men who are anxious to go into new mining regions 
where it is hoped 
that a vast amount 
of gold and other 
precious metals can 
be found. Among 
these mountains 
(which, by the way, 
are not called 
mountains), the In¬ 
dians have fre¬ 
quently made much 
trouble, so that at 
times the minors’ 
lives were in dan¬ 
ger. There are very 
few boys and girls 
in these mountains, 
and perhaps we had 
better hurry away 
before we meet 
with any mishaps. 
—Let us now take 
an imaginary flight, 
—suppose ourselves 
carried across the 
seas—to a foreign 
land, a peninsula, 
and a peculiarly- 
shaped one at that. 
These mountains 
(No. 2) are not of 
great bight.; the 
iiighest points be¬ 
ing about 10,006 
feet, or nearly two 
miles. None of the 
peaks of the range 
are covered with 
snow and ice the 
year round ; there 
is here no point of 
perpetual snow, 
such as we may find 
before we reach 
home. Where these 
mountains come near the coast of the great sea, their 
sides are remarkably nigh and steep. Two famous vol¬ 
canoes belong to this range, about which volumes of in¬ 
teresting things have been written.—Leaving these 
mountains, and journeying by foot, or perhaps better, by 
rail, for a number of hundred miles, we will come to No. 
3—a range which encloses a country like a great hoop, or 
semicircle rather, on its north and eastern boundary. 
One of the peaks is so high, and the region of these 
mountains so cold that there is a glacier or river of ice 
which runs—of course slowly—down the mountain side 
and melts in the warm valley below. These mountains 
are mostly clothed with woods for half the way up, after 
which are mostly rocks and snow and ice.—No. 4, from 
the name, ought to be 240 thousand miles away from the 
earth, but they are only a small part of that distance 
from us. It is a considerable of a tramp to go to 
them, though, and they are in a land that is not 
U very well known. It may be because they have 
been so little explored that they are named as 
they are. We can not be expected to be very 
familiar with mountains that no one else knows 
very much about.—No. 5 is a range that separates 
two great countries, which have been quite close¬ 
ly associated at certain times in the history of the 
two nations. The mountains consist of two dis¬ 
tinct chains or ridges. The slope on the northern 
side is gradual, and covered with fine pastures, 
but on the south it is frequently very steep. Many 
parts of the mountains are of sufficient hight to 
have their heads covered night and day and all the 
year round with white caps of ice and snow. 
There are as many as a hundred passes or places 
through which persons can go from one side of 
the mountains to the other—from the country on 
the north to the more sunny land on the south.— 
No. 6 runs almost parallel with a great river, and 
is situated in the central portion of a great coun¬ 
try, the name of which is perhaps most familiar to 
young people—and old folks too—about Thanks¬ 
giving time. In going from the capitals of two 
large countries, a traveller would go through one 
of the few passes in this mountain range.—As we 
Something About Glass. 
Some boy writes to “The Doctor,” asking how window 
glass is made so flat and smooth “ especially those in 
the large windows of store fronts.” There are two 
kinds of window glass, one called “cylinder” and the 
other “ plate”-glass. All the large panes are plate-glass, 
as the size of cylinder glass cannot be increased beyond 
a certain point. In this kind of glass a cylinder is 
blown ; those who have been in a glass house—and I 
advise all of you, whenever you have an opportunity to 
visit one and see how this wonderful material is worked 
—know that to make a cylinder, a globe is first blown. 
This is then worked into a cylinder, by rolling it upon 
an iron table; after the cylinder is made its ends are cut 
off, and it is divided lengthwise and flattened out to form 
a flat, smooth sheet. All plate glass is cast; a polished 
iron table has ledges at the sides, as high as the thick¬ 
ness of the plate of glass. The melted glass is poured 
upon this and spread and flattened by a copper roller. 
The plate is then annealed ; that is, put into, a very hot 
furnace, which is so arranged that the glass will cool very 
slowly, in order that it shall be tough when at the end 
of a week or so it is cool. But the glass is now dull and 
rough, like that which you see in roofs and sky-lights. 
To become the beautiful plate-glass it must be ground 
and polished. The plates arc so arranged that they may 
be rubbed together, one upon the other, by machinery. 
First sand and water are placed between them, then 
emery of different sizes, and after being ground with 
the finest emery, they are polished by rubbing them 
for some time with some kind of polishing powder. 
SOME MOUNTAIN SCENERY NOT OFTEN SEEN ON THE MAPS. 
ficult range to climb, but one which would bring us far 
into the upper air, because it contains some of the high¬ 
est peaks in the world. But we can not stop to go the 
whole length of this chain, for we have one more, and 
that the most important in size that we have found. It 
is not far from where we started, and its name can be 
easily made out from the map which illustrates the sub¬ 
ject. We hope that the hasty journey—flying trip we 
might call it—has not made you so tired on these warm 
July days, that you may not wish to go with us again. 
