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tuclo In tho Pacific where the change occurs, your problem 
i will admit of a more exact solution.” Several others 
I have written upon the subject, some of them quite unclcr- 
! standingly, especially one who signs himself “ Rustiens 
j his views are substantially tho same as those given above. 
A largo number laughed (on paper) at tho problem, and 
I answered ” why at New York of course” 1 If that wore 
j true, then it would bo Tuesday noon at New York, and 
I Monday noon at Boston, and all places cast of this city. 
3icw I^iizzlcs to be Aiisweretl, 
^ (Bums' (DDi'irmrjs 
with v.arlouii <•. ds, jionring them in caR'fully through tho 
r.tr-e.holr, and buried it In hi^. r^arden, with the top out of 
ground, ttnc morning hi ^ father discovered the buried 
shell. '• Why, (leorge, what’s thi.-? Are you crtpecting 
a crop of bomb-iihclls by and by ?” he a-sknd. “ Oh, no, 
father; its full of ceds. I thought they would do well 
In such a nice, warm place ; but they don’t start yet.” 
•' Nor will they, my boy, if you live to be a hundred years 
old. The setrdi need to be dropped in the ground, Gcorgle, 
where they can have rotim and nourishment, and a chance 
to put out n)ots below and sprout.s above.” George took 
lip tho shell and “ unloatled ” It. That evening Mr. Bar¬ 
nard told his older children of George's operations. “ It 
makes me think," said he, “ of a learned man who can’t 
use his learning for himself, nor give any body else the 
benefit of It,—one whoso head is stuffed as fiill of book- 
knowledge, or idea.s, as that shell w-vi of seeds—good 
enough in themselves, but not one of which can get fairly 
out. Now, I want you all to be intelligent boys and girls ; 
but I want you, when you learn a good thing, to think 
Aoip to MM it. to as to make it of service to yourselves 
and others. You have, perhaps, learned some things to¬ 
day, which may be made valuable If you try to think how 
they may be made so. I have heard wise men say that 
they had known persons, with comparatively little know l¬ 
edge, to make themselves of far more value to the com¬ 
munity, from understanding how to use what they had 
learned, than others whose heads were full. The knowl¬ 
edge of these last was like gold in a mountain—precious 
if it could bo got out, but useless while it lay buried.” 
Uncle Paul. 
No. 253. Illustrated Bebus.—A beautiful song. 
No. 254. Illustrated Bebm.—'For the young to remember 
No. 255. Word /Syttarc.—The proper definitions of the 
following words, viz.: ApcHogy. Jump, Best, Motikeys, 
written one under the other will form a laord square—\\\sx 
is the words will be the same whether read across or 
downward. Find these definitions and form the square. 
CttrloiiM CiJ«*«srrapliioal a*rol>l«“m. 
In the December AgricullurUt (page 411), the following 
problem appeared: “ Suppose a person to start from 
New York on Monday noon, and travel westward at the 
same rate the earth revolves eastward, thus passing 
around the globe in 21 hours. It would, of course, be 
noon the whole length of his journey. At what point in 
his Journey wonld he find the inhabitants calling it Tues- 
the whole of his route to be inhab- 
intendud for 
day noon, supposinj 
Ited ?” A discussion of this problem was 
the Feb. number, but was crowded out by other matter. 
The following communication from Mr. ,1. D. Pulsifer, 
Auburn. Me., treats the matter so clearly that it is pre¬ 
sented. instead of the comments of the editor; 
“ Your problem (No. 212i is a very interesting one, bul 
does not admit of a certain solution. The traveler will 
pass over two Continents and two oceans. On tho Westen 
Continent it will l>e .Monday noon ; on the Bistem Con 
tinciB it will be Tuesday noon ; ou the Atlantic Ocean 
it will bo Tuesday noon. 
On the I'aciflc Ocean, at ,, 
a point somewhere, tho .. f, 
change l.s InsUntancous J j'‘ 
from Monday to Tucs- | jU: 
day. Where tiiat point Is, : ^ .^4lj 
has not. to my knowl- ■ 1 
edge, ever been settled. _ ^ ' j. / 
The reason why tho . 
change docs not occur on ® j ‘i Y 
the Atlantic Ocean is ow- IS , ; A 
Ing to the fact that Am- j] 
discovered by - Y-'J 
No. 250. Mustrated Bebus.—K true proposition. 
No. 257. Anagrams.— Ftak-o single words from each of 
the following: 1, Fat reward ; 2, One drum; 3, Red pa¬ 
per ; 4, Sophy, I cry ; 5, Set on a dish. 
Answers to I»rol»lems aii«l Piazzles. 
The following are answers to the puzzles, etc., in the 
February number, page 67; No. 251. lUustrated Bebus.— 
A little darkey (d«r/^ c) in 
bed, with nothing over it 
\ .No. 252. lUmtroied 
Bebus.—B straight fur- 
row, and a well made 
fence are sure (ir's etver) 
signs of an excellent far- 
mer. The following havo 
sent in correct answers 
puzzles, etc., in pre- 
few vioiis numbers, up to 
® which timo 
j W ' finished: L. W. Gates, 
III Stanton, Mary A. 
^ )//I Rhodes, Alfred Hawks- 
/M/MJ'A worth, Mary and Lizzie 
Brumbaugh, Thos. B. 
Gurnee, Jos. Ball, W. S. 
Flinn, Isaac A. Chap- 
man, Sarah B. Veatch, 
Ikon't l>c a Coward. 
This picture history of Timid Timothy, is for the 
amusement of those boys and girls who are afraid “some¬ 
thing will catch them ” in the dark, or when left alone. 
You'ean sec how he was frightened at a mouse, his shad¬ 
ow etc The story says he grew more and more like a 
hare, a most timid creature, until, finally, no one could 
see any difference between him and that animal, and 
erica was 
cro8»lng that ocean. If 
the discovery had been 
made by sailing from 
Asia eastward to Califor- 
'ould havo 
nia, custom w i \ » 
thrown the change of day . 
on to the Atlantic Ocean. 
In making a completo 
circle tho day must bo 
changed. B ticre it is 
changed is Immaterial 
and conventional. Wo 
may, if wc please, fix up- 
on tho central line of tho 
Miesisslppl River; all 
cast of that lino In tho 
problem supposed, shall 
be Monday, all west 
Tiies<lav : but that Is not _ 
!he line fi^cd upon. The Pacific Occan-a very ^de 
Se onefixorupon. This i». 
definition of a lino, length without breadth. M her 
elent authority shall have flxod ttpon smne Uno 
W. B. Drew, 
man, J. B. Daniels, C. 
D. Bishop, F. Schnebley, 
T. S. Cadwalladcr, E. G. 
S., John Wertz, Frank 
Fainter, Theodore W. 
Beliis, Leonora Barron, 
Reuben Pickett, Mrs. II. 
A.Rhodehamel, Sylvania 
Sherman, Isaac T. Mc- 
Lain,Mrs. Ruth A. Clute, 
Greiner, B. F. Albaugh, 
William Foulk, Charles 
Jonathan Smith, Wilson 
D. Watson, F. Brush. 
John B. Demster, Abraham J. t 
Hannah Fawcett, Annie McGrew, 
W. Stewart, Ella C. McWilliams, 
Everly, Thomas Bellsmith, George 
ran into the woods. Wo don’t say tho story R 
t if you will carefully observe men, yo« will he 
d to see how much they grow to look like the 
which they roseniblo in habits and charac or. 
