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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
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l®M.zzles for Eyes. 
Men think they can trust their eyes to tell them the 
truth, and they are generally right, but an educated eye 
will discover many things whicli an unskilled one would 
not see ; so tliat the eye needs much training to make it 
teil “the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.” A 
sailor accustomed to watcli from the mast head for ob¬ 
jects at a distance, will readily see things not visible to a 
landsman. An artist, who has long made a study of 
pictures, will detect faults or beauties in a painting or en¬ 
graving, which most people would not notice. So a Nat¬ 
uralist will perceiv'e. curious things in flowers, leaves, 
insects, stones, etc. One needs to look at many things 
from different positions, before all whicli they contain 
can be perceived.—Two pictures, fig. 1, the “ Singular 
Sign,” and fig. 2, “An Enemy in Camp,” very well illus¬ 
trate this fact. The first one looks like only a mixture of 
lines and blots; yet it contains information which has 
Fig. 1.— THE SINOULAB SIGN. 
probably proved beneficial to many of our readers, being 
(he sign of a well known firm in this city. Fig. 2 plainly 
shows that the poultry are alarmed, and careful eyes 
will find what frightens them. Next month we will 
make the matter plainer for those who fail to see it. 
4nOOcl Mottoes.—A youth of our acquaint¬ 
ance has the following, written in large, plain letters, and 
pasted up in his sleeping room where it can be plainly 
seen while dressing, and an earnest prayer is always 
offered at the bedside, for help to keep the resolutions: 
“(1.) I will endeavor this day to do nothing which I be¬ 
lieve 1 ought not to do. -(2.) I toil I omit nothing which 
I ought to do. -(3.) / will not parley with temptation, 
and thus allow it to get the better of me, but will be careful 
to be on the right side, followmg the first intimations of 
conscience, and avoiding what may PEnnAPS be wrong.” 
Another motto which is pasted up by an older friend, 
in like manner, reads: “WATCH and PRAY—which 
implies that I am first to Watch myself, to do all I 
can to act right, and to avoid wrong doing : and then God, 
if I seek His help, wilt supply what strength I have not: 
He will not carry me, but He will always aid me.” 
Mow SBiot are Made. 
This morning, for the twentieth time perhaps, w-e went 
out to gratify a country friend, who had a great curiosity 
to see one of the “Sliot 
Towers ” of New-York, and 
it occurred to us that many 
of the boys of tlie great 
riculturist Family, and per¬ 
haps some of the girls, as 
w-ell as men and women, 
would like to know a little 
more about how shot are 
in-ade.—First, then, there is 
a high brick tower, like a 
great tube set on end, with 
circular stairs running 
around the inside, all the 
way to the top, leaving an 
open space down tire center 
four or five feet across. 
There is a hoisting arrange¬ 
ment on one side of this for 
carrying lead and coal up to 
the top. At the bottom of 
this opening is a large ves¬ 
sel of water ; and at the top 
a place for melting lead. 
The lead is melted and pour¬ 
ed into a pan with holes in 
the bottom, like a tin colan¬ 
der or sieve. The melted 
lead runs through and drops 
in little round globules which 
fall down into the water. Small shot require to fall 60 
to 70 feet; the largest size, 150 to 175 feet. When they 
reach the water they are so cold and hard as not to flat¬ 
ten. Some drops are long, and very often two or three 
run together, and some hit the sides of the tower and 
are flattened, so that the mass in the water is a mixture 
of round shot of various sizes, and irregular pieces of 
lead. These are dipped out and dried, and then poured 
upon the upper end of a long table made of several 
boards set inclined or “slanting,” each board a little 
lower than the one next above it, and with a small space 
between the ends of the boards. The round shot roll 
rapidly down, leaping across the open spaces, and fall 
off tile low-er end into a box. The Irregular pieces of 
lead, and the shot not quite round, go slower and fall into 
the openings, or lodge on the table and are swept off. 
Tile round shot are put into the upper drawer of a swing¬ 
ing box or cabinet, with sieve-bottom drawers, one above 
the other. The top box, No. 1, catches all the shot of 
one size ; tlie next catches those one size smaller, and so 
on down to the bottom, where are found the finest shot, 
no larger than mustard seed, indeed some of them look 
like fine sand. The different sizes of shot are then put 
into cylinders with some black lead, and the cylinder 
revolved for 15 or 20 minutes, which polishes the surface 
and gives the shining black coat we see on them. They 
are next put in strong bags and are ready for market. 
It is a curious fact, that while pure lead will not run in 
drops, but in streams, tlie addition of only one pound of 
metalic arsenic to about 600 pounds of melted lead, 
makes it flow readily and fall in beautiful drops. 
Mow to find am Eralcmown Nnni1l>er. 
The following tables will enable a person to discover 
any unknown number not larger than 63, in the following 
manner: Let some one think of a number and inform 
you in which of the columns of tlie table it is contained. 
Then by adding tlie figures at the top of those columns 
you will have the desired number. Thus, suppose you 
ask a young hady of 35, to show you in which columns 
1 
2 
4 
8 
16 
32 
3 
3 
5 
9 
17 
33 
5 
6 
6 
10 
IS 
34 
7 
7 
7 
n 
19 
35 
9 
10 
12 
12 
20 
36 
11 
11 
13 
13 
21 
37 
13 
14 
14 
14 
22 
38 
15 
15 
15 
15 
23 
39 
17 
IS 
‘-'0 
24 
24 
40 
19 
19 
21 
25 
25 
41 
21 
22 
22 
26 
26 
42 
23 
23 
23 
27 
27 
43 
25 
26 
2S 
28 
2S 
44 
27 
27 
29 
29 
• 29 
45 
29 
30 
30 
30 
30 
46 
31 
31 
31 
31 
31 
47 
33 
34 
36 
40 
48 
48 
35 
S5 
37 
41 
49 
49 
37 
38 
38 
42 
50 
50 
39 
39 
39 
43 
51 
51 
41 
42 
44 
44 
52 
52 
43 
43 
45 
45 
53 
53 
45 
46 
46 
46 
54 
54 
47 
47 
47 
47 
55 
55 
49 
50 
52 
56 
56 
56 
51 
51 
51 
57 
57 
57 
53 
54 
54 
58 
58 
58 
55 
55 
55 
59 
59 
59 
57 
58 
60 
60 
60 
60 
59 
59 
61 
61 
61 
61 
61 
62 
62 
62 
02 
62 
63 
63 
63 
63 
63 
63 
her age is found. Slie answers, in the 1st, 2nd, and 6lh. 
The numbers at tlie top, 1, 2, and S2 added, make 35. 
Alplia,l>et isi oiae Veiv^c. —The follow-ing 
contains all the letters of the alphabet, and may be used 
as an exercise for children in tracing tlieir letters: 
“ God gives tlie grazing ox his meat. 
And quickly hears the slieep’s low cry ; 
But man, who tastes liis finest wheat. 
Should joy to lift his praises high.” 
No. 202. The Silver Pnzzfe.—Thougli not new, this 
will afford much amusement to those who have never 
seen it. Lay a ten-cent piece upon the table-cloth be¬ 
tween two half dollars, and place a tumbler upon tlie 
larger coins, so as to cover the smaller one. The puzzle 
is to remove tlie ten-cent piece w'ilhout displacing either 
of tlie half-dollars, or the glass. You are not allowed 
to touch the coin with the liands or anytliing else, nor 
must you blow it away.—How is it done? 
No. 203. Bible Questiotis .— 1. How long was the ark 
on Mt. Ararat? 2. Joab was the son of Zeruiah, what 
relation was Zeruiah to Joab. 
No. 204. Mathematical Problem, contributed to the 
American Agriculturist by James Dickson. Olmstead 
Co., Minn.—Give the rule for the following; Any div¬ 
idend being given, to find a divisor, which added to its 
quotient shall equal the dividend. 
Answers to iProl»leius anti Psczzles;,, 
Tlie following arc answers to the puzzles, etc., in tlio 
March number, p. 107. No. 190. Charades. — 1st. " Our 
Mutual Friend.”— 2tl. “ The Round Table.”—3<i. “St. 
V'alentine’s Day”-No. 197. Word Puzzle. —Wheat_ 
No. 198. Illustrated Rebus. —Cincinnati.... No. 199. Pic¬ 
ture Puzzle.—Boih are pictures of the “grub” which 
makes the butterfly_No. 200. Illustrated Rebus. — Be 
not weary in well doing_No. 201. Conundrum.—Tbe 
page is dun (done). ..No. 188. Arithmetical Problem .— 
(Feb. No., page 67.)—A’s share, 2863 , B’s, 6335 ; C’s, 
2438 ; D's, 10294 ; E’s, 4950. 
The following have sent in correct answers up to (he 
date of March 8th. To save space, tlie numbers of the 
problems answered, arc omitted: C. J. Lorah, J. S. 
Dobbins. James D. AIcGiffert, F. M. Whitney, Cross Cut, 
Pa., H. H. L., John K. ILillock, Henry J. Blodgett, .Mor¬ 
ris P. Wright, M. M. C., Edwin C. Woodruff, Henri W. 
Young, John N. Chadsey, D. Herbert Jeffery, Samuel J. 
Bassford, John F. Holmes, 
L. V. N. P., L. M. Marslon, 
G. Clarence Cooper, Mary 
E. Storm, Georgia A. Smilli, 
Etta Smith, Aniiis A, Sag- 
gendorph, (a class in school, 
from II to 12 years old, an¬ 
swered the “Scramble” 
problem,) Wm,F, Sherman, 
D. Paul, G, T, Reeves, Mrs. 
Emma J. Huntliiig, Peter 
W. Teghtmyer, Edward R. 
Browne, Win. C. Johnson, 
T. G. Lawrence, George H. 
Gilbert, E. A. Williams, J. 
S. Stiles, Fidelia E. Quin, 
John Slater, Kiah, Chester 
H. Dakin, John F. Holmes, 
Jas, P. McCurdy, Anthony 
B. Strother, C. C, Hyndman, 
Luman F. Parmenter, Hat¬ 
tie R. Quinn, John Dobell, 
S. P. Stewart, J. M, Jordan, 
Mary Agney, Zenas Condit, 
Joseph Taylor, James E. 
Eshleman, W, E, Alexan¬ 
der, C. Van Warner, Nelson 
G. Hull, D, W. Williamson, 
John A, Driggs, Aaron Os¬ 
car Ream, A. G. Tillinghast. 
