THE NATURALISTS’ COMPANION. 
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ANSWERS. 
M’lu'. pci'.'ion winiui? the prize lor the best artiele on 
Natural History will oe aiiiioiiiieed in the next issue. 
I uuclerstaiKl you undertake to overthrow my under- 
staridiuit. 
Won by Mattie C. Garrett Steubenville, O., and n..T. 
Walker, Charleston, S. C. Both answers were mailed 
the same day, the collection will therefor be divided 
The largest list of words made from the name of 
this paper is 1016. Charlotte S. Dickinson, Common¬ 
wealth, Wis., winniilg the prize. 
As no correct answers were received to other puz¬ 
zles we do not publish the answers. They can be ob¬ 
tained by sending a 2-cent stamp to pay postage. 
PUZZLES. 
Jl^^Opcii to siibscriliers only. 
Subscriptions may be sent in with 
the answers, lioM'Cver. 
For the first correct answer to the 
following puzzle we will send a line 
hO cent collection of curiosities. 
1. Behead a mineral and leave 
soft scrapings of cloth. Behead a 
mineral and leave ti way of passage. 
Behead a mineral twice and leave 
to cheat. Behead a mineral and 
leave the opposite of young. Be¬ 
head a mineral and leave to corrode. 
Behead a mineral and leave a (piad- 
ruped. Behead a mineral twice, 
then pretix a letter and leave it 
angry. 
We will give a good hook on tax¬ 
idermy for the first complete list of 
correct answers to the following 
<|uestions. 
2. .1 low do Hies walk on a smooth 
surface ? 
What causes wind ? 
How did the sea hecome salt? 
J.)oes a tish receive oxygen from 
the water or from the air in the 
water? 
AViieii a whale 'dilows'' what 
does it eject from its body? 
How much more [lowerful is sun¬ 
light than the most iiowerful electric 
light. 
o. We will give aco[iy of Davie’s 
Egg 6 heck Jjist for the best article 
on Oology. 
4. We will give a dollar collec¬ 
tion of curiosities for the largest list 
of suhscriiitions sent usin Nov. To 
be not less than five. 
5. 0PEN TO ALL, whether suh- 
scrihers or not. Wcl will send 
the Companion one year to the per¬ 
son who will send us the largest list 
of words made from the letters in 
word Oology. 
Ih'ofessiu’ Eritsch has, by his 
studies upon the developement of 
the electric organs of the torpedo, 
proved that they are developed from 
the outer gill-muscles of the fifth 
gill-arch. These, which in rays and 
sharks form the extraordinary pow¬ 
erful muscle of the loAver jaw, are 
absent in the torpedo, while the 
electric organs are developed in 
their place. In the lirst stage of 
its development the structure of the 
electric organ is similar to that of 
embryonic muscle, as distinct longi¬ 
tudinal striie and traces of transverse 
striation are evident. 
Whoo[), Big Injun ! The bloody 
wretches have murdered thousands 
of i)eo] >lein this section of the U. 8- 
The w eapons these savages left be¬ 
hind are for sale by Wigglesworth. 
Woodpeckers have been kimwii 
to lay 71 PggB in .73 days. 
CUTS l)ought, sold or exchanged. 
