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Ifoafag for % ffomtg. 
this little example B’sgame was Irretrievably lost 
alter bis second move. 
GAME II. 
this would be, indeed; all Intellect, but teaching 
with the tongue ol silence!— Bivalve. 
THE “COMING MAN.” 
A. pair of very chubby lege, 
Encased In scarlet blue; 
A pair ol little stubby boots, 
With rather doubtful toes; 
A little kilt, a Uttle coat, 
Cut as a mother can— 
And lo 1 before u* strides, in state. 
The future “ coming man." 
His eyes perchance will read the stars, 
And search their unknown ways: 
Perchance the human heart and soul 
Will open to tbclr gaze; 
Perchance their keen and flashing glance 
Will be a nation's light— 
Those eyes, that uow are wistful beat 
On some “bigfellow’s" kite. 
That brow, where mighty thoughts will dwell 
In solemn, secret state. 
Where lierco Ambition’s restless strength 
Shall war with future /ate: 
Where Science front now hidden caves 
New treasure* shall outpour— 
•Pis knit uow, with a troubled doubt. 
Are two, or three, cents more ? 
Those lips that, ill coming yearn. 
Will plead, or pray, or teach ; 
Whose whispered words, on lightning flash, 
Prom world to world may roach; 
That sternly grave, may speak command 
Or, nniillug, win control— 
Are coaxing now for ginger-broad 
With all a baby's soul ? 
Those hands—tlioHr little busy bands— 
So sticky, email and brown; 
Those hands, whose only mission Beems 
To tear all order down— 
Who known what hidden st ngth may lie 
Within their chubby grasp. 
Though now 'tis but a taffy-stick 
In Bturdy hold they clasp ? 
Ah, blessings on those little hands. 
Whoso work is not- undone 1 
And blessings on those little feet. 
Whose race is yst unruu ! 
And blessings on the little brain 
That has not learned to plan ! 
Whate'er the Future holds in store, 
God bless the *' coming man !" 
Weekly Ohio State Journal. 
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THE GAME OF QUATERNIONS. 
BY AN OLD CHESS-PLAYER. 
Even those of my readers who are good chess- 
. layers need not disdain to unbend sometimes 
„ver a scientific game of au easier character—one 
~o simple, that a hoy may learn It, In one minute, 
nd teach It to his sister In another; so rapid, I hat 
dozen or a score of games may be played In half 
n hour, yet so full ol traps for the unwary that 
novice is surprised to U nd that at wo easy a game 
he cannot win a single game from an adept. 
The game Is not one of rny own invention; it is 
possible, therefore, that It tu<iy be already known 
to some of my young readers. I rather think, 
however, that It will be new to the majority of 
them. It was so to myself when I was taught It, 
about a year ago; nor have I happened to show 
It to any oue since who had been previously ac¬ 
quainted with it. i write this article believing 
that It deserves to be more generally known. 
The game is played on a common chess-board; 
but, as In draughts, only the squares of ono color 
are made use of. Each player puts down a man 
on the board alternately, and the object Is to get 
four men In a row, whether along or across the 
board, or diagonally. I Imagine that two players 
who thoroughly understood the game would each 
be able to baffle the other la tills attempt, and 
therefore that every game ought legitimately to 
be drawn; but as It will take some time to bring 
the game to this unpleasant degree of perfection, 
my readers may calculate on getting a good deal 
of amusement, out of it in the meantime. The best 
way of teaching It Is to give a few specimens ol 
games actually played. In order to understand 
the notation used, place the board as at chess, 
with a white square at, the right-hand corner, and 
let the bL'ick squares be numbered regularly from 
the top—the top row being 1, 2.3, 4, and so on; 
the bottom row being 29, 30,31, 32. The two play¬ 
ers, A and B, are supposed to take, oue the white 
men, the other the black, and each to put down 
a man alternately, as roilows: 
GAME I. 
A B 
18.15 
10.16 
H.T 
23 
A wins now, because next move he will put 
down a man either at 9 or 27, thus getting four In 
a row, and B caunot stop him from occupying one 
square or the other. The principle here exempli¬ 
fied is a fundamental one lu this game—namely, 
that the game Is won by a player It be can get 
three men In a diagonal row, with room to add 
another on either hand, since ills antagonist then 
cannot block both sides. Further It will be ob¬ 
served that A had the game won when he was 
permitted without obstruction to form such a 
little triangle as 18 ,10,14. If B had for his third 
move put down his men at 23, so as to prevent a 
from getting the three on a line 14,18.23, A would 
for his fourth move have put down his man at 7, 
so as to get the three In a line 14,10, 7. Thus In 
A 
18 
B 
15 
26 
• • • 
. 
10 
19 
# 
• • • 
. 
23 
17 
. 
• • • 
• 
20 
22 
wins 
It will be observed here that B’s second move, 
threatening to get three In a row, forced A to take 
measures to prevent It. But after B’s third move 
the game was lost; because he was forced at ills 
former move to prevent A from occupying the 
row 17,18,19, 20. 
GAME m. 
A B 
18 23 
10.15 
26.2 
17 . 
Here A threatens to get three In a row, by put¬ 
ting a man either at 14 or 22. 
. • • • • • 7 
31.22 
24.14 
20 . 
A must now win, because he will next turn put 
down his man either at 19, completing the row 
17, 18, 19, 20; or else at 27, completing the row 
31,27,24, 20. The principle here exemplified Is 
that by the help of which most games are won— 
namely, that If a player has two men on one 
empty row, and also two on another, then, by 
putting a man on Ibe square common to the two 
rows, he gets In two different ways three men on 
a row, and his antagonist cannot prevent him 
from completing one or other next turn. It fol¬ 
lows, then, that If a player has got two men on 
each of two empty lines, his antagonist must at 
once take possession of the square In which the 
two 1 ties Intersect; and It his vigilance slum¬ 
bers, and be neglects to do this, bis game Is lost. 
GAME xv. 
A B 
18 ..... 10 
19 17 
Here B threatens to occupy 14 next time and so 
win. 
14.23 
B moves thus In order to prevent A from getting 
the line 14,18, 23. 
15 
. . . 22 
13 
16 
27 
. . . 26 
31 
• • • 
A must, now win. He will either next turn to go 
11, and so complete one 
or other of the rovrs 18 , 
15,11, or 27, 19, ll; or If B takes possession of 11, 
A will go to 24, a nd thus complete one of the rows 
SI, 27, 24, or 15, 19, 24. 
CAME V. 
A 
18 
* 
B 
10 
19 
17 
14 
23 
15 
22 
13 
16 
27 
11 
7 
9 
12 
, , 
24 
A New Cousin. 
Dear Cousins.— Allow me to call you that, as 
this Is the first piece I have ever written for the 
Rural. 1 iiope the Cousins will wake up as 
Christmas and New Year’s will soon be at hand, 
and slip by without any of them describing how 
the fatted turkey lost its head, or where the ele¬ 
gant gifts that once stuffed the stocking, or bent 
the boughs of the beautiful evergreens came from. 
I want to tell the boys how to const ruct a tele¬ 
phone, and the Inventors of that great Instru¬ 
ment, Professors Bell and Gray, cannot harm 
them for the act. 
Take twooystercans from which the round por¬ 
tion of the soldered ends only nave been removed, 
and making similar openings In the opposite ends 
drive a nail through the central portion of the 
wide side. Pass a string through one of the open¬ 
ings to tho Inside- of the can, and tie to the cen¬ 
ter of the nail, then run your string lo 8 straight 
line to any leDgnt, tiny or one hundred feet, and 
attaching your other can to the opposite end as 
the one Just dlscrtbed, you are ready for busi¬ 
ness. 
Let some friend take one of the cans, and you 
take an opposite end, tightly draw up your line, 
taking care that. It touches no obstructions, and 
by one listening while the other Is talking at the 
mouth of the can, you will find conversation can 
easily be carried on and In a clear, quiet day even 
whispering can be distinctly beard. C-aton. 
Ittgfor. 
ILLUSTRATED REBUS. 
REST. 
rest— where is rest! Not In the angry ocean. 
Whose fury frights the pilot from the helm; 
Nor in the heart whose Uncontrolled emotion. 
Threatens its guiding voice to overwhelm. 
Rest—where is rest ? Not in the fatal calm 
That holds the crew imprisoned on the deep; 
Nor in the heart where with malignant charm 
Despair holds passion in a seeming sleep. 
Rest is not found upon the sea-btrd’6 wing. 
Watching It* prey beneath the glassy wave; 
Nor in the heart whose constant coveting 
Cries, ’’ Give, give, give," insatiate as the grave. 
Rest is not in tho ever-changing sky, 
Whose clouds ascend to fall and rise again; 
Nor in the earth, whose creatures live and die. 
And live another nature to sustain. 
Nor is it In the heart that loves to range 
Amid the scones delusive fancy paints, 
Bounds with delight at every promised change. 
But under every present conflict faints. 
ReBt is in none of these—the passing year 
Says there’s no rest in time. 
We wait the glorious rest that shall appear 
For God’s own people in eternity. 
And must we then In time remain nnblest 
Forbid it, Love Divine! In Christ—e'en here. 
Believers qan have entered into rest ;— 
The rest, of perfect love, that casts out fear. 
Sunday at Home, 
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CHRIST’S KINGDOM. 
“ God’s kingdom,” says a Christian writer, ‘‘dif¬ 
fers wonderfully from all wordly kingdoms In one 
of the great elements that compose It—peace. 
How much has human blood to do with establish¬ 
ing the government of this world l Which one of 
all the great empires has not, at some period, 
waded through rivers of blood? Even our own, 
country has not escaped this terrible baptism. 
But this kingdom Is a peaceful kingdom. It Is 
true It may be necessary sometimes for the sub¬ 
jects of It to engage in dreadful war; but, if so 
ills not this kingdom that has produced it. There 
Is wickedness somewhere always when there Is 
conflict. Somebody is guilty of murder for every 
man that falls in battle. The kingdom of Jesus 
Christ does not produce It. Wars come not of the 
peaceable fruits of righteousness at all, but of 
the opposite altogether—the wordly, sensual, and 
devllsh lusts of mankind. 
“ There Is no peace In tho wicked heart. An In¬ 
spired prophet has told us this. ‘ There Is uo 
peace,’ says he to, * to the wicked.’ Many people 
have mistaken this, and because they arc entirely 
Indifferent, because they don’t care anything 
about the future of their salvation they think 
they have peace. That Is not peace, (fit is, then 
a horse has more peace than a man, and a rock 
than a horse. Stupidity Is oue thing, and • the 
peace of God, which passeth all understanding,’ 
Is a very different affair. When tho heart is con¬ 
formed to the Imago of the heavenly, when the 
soul has become the subject of regenerating 
graoe, this enmity Is subdued, and there Hows 
from the heart to God a peaceful, happy, blessed 
recognition, the spirit crying out, * Abba Father!’ 
and there flows from God to that heart a blcssed | 
pleasing testimony, the witness of the Spirit, with 
our spirits that we are the children of God, and, 
along with that, the lnfiuonco of the Comforter ( 
the Holy Ghost, who Is called the Comforter for 
the reason that lie undertakes when this great 
change is wrought to administer strong consola¬ 
tion to His children."— Hew Handbook oj illustra¬ 
tion. 
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GOLDEN MAXIMS. 
Nov. 25. Live every day as If It were the last 
you had to livelay hold of every season to pre¬ 
pare for heaven.— Ambrose. 
Nov. 26. Tho spring of peace and contenment Is 
within, and therefore we had need look that It be 
clear and uudcOled.— Up. Patrick. 
Nov. 27. We are never beneath hope while we 
are above hell; and never above hope while we 
are beneath heaven.—Dr. Conner. 
Nov. 28. Let not that spiritual husbandman 
complain that he gathers little fruit, who neg¬ 
lects to shelter and protect the buds and the blos¬ 
soms.— J. A. James. 
Nov. 29. Watohfullness over our spirits every 
day, will tend to elevate our affections on the 
first day ol the week, and prevent us from carry¬ 
ing into spiritual exercise a carnal temper.— 
Small. 
Nov. 30. It is better to pretermit a hundred 
things worthy to be heard, than to say one that 
should not have been spoken.— Cardan. 
December l. When you read your prayers, be 
sure to direct them to tbe care of the Redeemer, 
and then they will never miscarry.—i/. Henry. 
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Begin tbe education of the heart not with the 
cultivation of noble propensities, but with the 
cutting away of those that are evil. When once 
the noxious herbs are withered and rooted out, 
then the more noble plants, strong in themselves, 
will shoot upward. The virtues, like the body, 
become strong and healthy more by labor than 
nourishment.— Richter. 
-- 
There are words which are worth as much as 
the best actions, for they contain the germ of 
them all.— Mine. Swetchine. 
21.29 
20 . 
This careless move loses A the game. 
.31 
26.32 
and next move B wins either at 30 or at 8. 
It would be easy to multiply examples, but 
what has been given is enough to Illustrate the 
character of the game. It may be added that, as 
there Is some advantage la the first move, the 
players take It alternately. 
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LETTERS FROM BOYS AND GIRLS. 
For Prize No. 4. 
Mr. Editor :—As a “ topic of Interest," I select 
the literary subject of “ Books.” 
Of all prints that Issue from the press, books 
vary most In kind. We have mathematical and 
scientific works, books teaching tbe languages, 
story-books, as well as volumes devoted exclusive¬ 
ly to travel, humor and song. There are books of 
fiction and books of fact; works of truth and 
strings ot falsehood- As we look upon a picture 
and trace the flue and delicate lines, as well as 
those rough and uneven, so in reading & book we 
detect exemplary characters which win our es¬ 
teem, and laulty ones which Insure our dislike. 
Books are the substantial leaves and pillars, 
and periodicals the decoration and covering of our 
mental edifices. But In reading both, we should 
be Uke the Black Hill miners ;who, though they 
must delve In dirt and rubbish, cast aside all that 
Is worthless and preserve only tho pure gold. As 
to those much-abused books of fiction, known as 
“dime novels,” it. Is useless to spend many words 
upon them. They are like tho antediluvians, 
“ Their wickedness is great on the earth, and 
every imagination of the thoughts of their heart 
is evil continually.” 
Suppose all the books in the world were collect¬ 
ed In one place for a certalu leDgth of time for In¬ 
spection—what a huge mass would be presented 
to tbe eye! There the piles of that divine work 
—the guiding star of millions in the past and pres¬ 
ent—and me tons o( fiction on which some minds 
subsist eutlrely, together with the works of poets, 
aucleut and modern, of heroes and of scholars, 
would confront one only to bewilder. A library 
What popular song is here portrayed ? 
ear Answer In two weeks. Geo. K. 
DECAPITATIONS. 
1. Decapitate similar, and leave a boy’s nick¬ 
name. 
2. A transparent substance, and leave a girl. 
8. Scattered, and leave to possess. 
4. Fetch, and leave an article of Jewelry. 
6. One of the seasons, and leave the whole. 
6. A piece of cloth woven narrow, and leave an 
animal. 
7. A talo, and leave a party of Revolutionary 
times. 
8. That place, and leave this place. 
9. Backbone, and leave a kind of tree. 
10 . A nail, and leave a fish. 
11. A tract of land, and leave part of the body. 
12. Parts of the body, and leave yea. 
13. A portion, and leave artifice. 
14. A kind of stene, and leave tardy. 
15. Heed, and leave an Insect, 
ear Answer In two weeks. s. c. 
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PYRAMID PUZZLE. 
1. One-fourth of five. 2. The Christian name 
of a lady. 3. What we all ought to have. 4. What 
we all ought to be In order to gain affection. 5. A 
county In Massachusetts. The centrals read down¬ 
wards and across will perhaps give what Is neces¬ 
sary to solve this. 
tar Answer In two weeks. Md. 
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WORD-SQUARE ENIGMA. 
1. A girl’s name. 2. A precious stone. 3. A 
useful article of food. 4. A part of singing. 
ear Answer In two weeks. d. b. 
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PUZZLER ANSWERS,—Nov. 17. 
Hidden Vessels.— 1, Brig; 2. Barque; 3, Yacht, 
i, Yawl: 5, Ship: 6, Cutter; 7, Stoop; 8, Tug; 9, Skiff; 
l(). Shallop; 11. Frigate. 
Double Acrostic.—I nitials, Canada; finals, Ot¬ 
tawa. 
Numbered Charade.—G ladstone. 
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