THE No, 18, Numerical Enigma, An ancient philosopher famed for his ehoerful disposition 8, 9 10, 2, a trick, a stratagem 2, too often wasted and misused. 8, a bard outer covering varth an offense ng vmous city of HET inst law f font timos. al ane Wpproach! n, & manner Picture Puzzle. Central Acrostic. Double Acrosti Hidden Capes, Aunt Cl "Twas on bleak bx 1 12! 1t Irn 3 . her party dress Which river would you rather travel on, the Don or the Thames? When Ryan comes, tell him other flowers near a cedar tree. All was t, when, lo! Penelope en tered the , with a merry laugh, her arms full of fragrant flowers Shall I take Ruth or Nellie to the mati- nee? to plant the quie lo room An Ingenious Arrangement, Open a book at random and select a word within the first ten lines and within the tenth word from the end of the line. Now double the number of the page and multiply the sum by 5; then add 20; then add the number of the line you have se- lected; then add 5; multiply the sum by 10. Add the number of the word in the ! line. From this subtract 250, mainder will indicate in the unit column the number of the word, in the ten eol- umn the number of the line and the re- maini g figures the number of the page How He Got Along. “How do you get along with your biey ‘Well, replied the truthful young man, ‘sometimes one way and sometimes another bieycle rides me and once the bicycle Sometimes the in awhile I ride Key to the Puzzler, No. 7.~letter En “o'' on''d’’) No. 8. Shakespearean Enigma: wax, thy leave. Blest be you thake these locks of counsel !"’ No. 9.—Easy Diamonds: Pp D igma: Iee-pond (1 see “Good Imogen. Pp P X No. 10,~Synnopatiops: 8 o-O-urt, min-D-lng-—~HOOD. Vo. 11.=-Plotured Diamond: bag. ark, v. 12.~Charade: Child-like No. 15.~A Pentagon: py 181 A G Hore, o-0O-at, B, tea, R A I B N d Suffixes: K- t-8, spores, t- ates, swings. 14, = Prefixes Ly, pars, #1 * yet y, w ' with a gallant air and the re- | | his best | trial with me,” | found the bx bees, that | | Her temper’s NTRE DEMOCRA FOR LITTLE FOLKS. THE BIRDS’ OIL CANS, How the Feathered Tribe Protect Them- selves In Rainy Weather, Ted's eyes opened wide with svrprise. “Ohi Two birds were sitting on the hedge in the yard, enjoying the rain hugely-— if one could judge from their merry “Che-e! che-che!” **They don't mind the rain, grandpa, “for their little oil en done them a good service “Whoever heard of oil che-o! a bird Jirds don't have they?’ And Ted window with an air of j ir can? moved away from the y unbelief They don't have any ' use their " BOIS into their tiny ¢ 1d the The Contented Fisherman and the fish. ~=8t. Nicholas The Secret of His Success, A lady on little boy was ing. Bhe noticed with which he did his work and smiled as she said to him, "Yours is the clean est crossing I pass.”' He lifted his cap kly said, ‘I with pleasure and quic am doing my best.’ All day the words rang in her ears, and for many days afterward, and when a friend, a rich, influential man, inquired for a boy to do errands and general work for him, she told him of the little fellow at the crossing. ‘A boy who would do street crossing is worth a gaid the man, and he v, engaged him for a month, and at the end of that time was pleased with him that he sent him to at a KO | school and fitted him for a high position, | which he filled with honor. ‘Doing my best at the street crossing made a sue cessful man of me,’ he was wont to say in after years. Home A Model Child, always sunny ; her hair is ever neat; Bho doesn't care woot! Bho loves to study ways right And she gladly goes to bed at eight every sin gle night! for ecandy—she says it is too lessons—her sums are Her apron's nover tumbled [her hands are al WAYS clean ; With buttons missing from her shoe sho never has hoon soon. Bhe remembers to say, "Thank you,’ “Yes, ma'am, if you please,’ And she never cries, nor frets, nor whines; she's ne'er been known to toose Each night vy her toy Bho never slams the parlor door, the dlightest noise, But she loves to ron on errands and to play with little brother, And she's never in her life been known to dis obey ber mother, and n the closet shelf eho puts away nor makes “Who ia this charming Hittle maid? I long to graep her hand!" Bha's the daughter of Mr. Nobody, And she lives in Nowhereland! ~Helen Hopking in 8t, Nicholas | next generation. Cultivator Pad TT FAFARMESS FIELD GARDEN PL ik Via ECONO? Statements of an Eminent Avthority Ouestion of Widespread Interest, § [ (1 per acre 18 nex ded luding a lied by the cus stable manure r Maercker says, y keer of a sand plied, the yiel ver, the sap] tion of Profess: in rder t } : ¥ 1 factors in ag ved that by larges fect It was gingle pe Skeleton Lands, el BRO New The term in northern ton lands’’ is applied Hampshire to desig ate forest where most of the saw gs have been cut and hanled off, the remaining growth being small and either fit for low grade pulp wood or more val still for future growth and subse cuttings of timber during the According to American gkeleton lands vary in value according to the character and extent of the forest cuttings. area unable quent Hop Picking Machines. The hop picking machine is surely coming, although its progress is neces sarily slow. C, O. Green, the New York stato inventor who has spent much time on the picking machine, is still at work and continues to see succons in the noar future, He has good reason for sanguine expectations, for he has already a ma. chino which will pick hops rapidly and | well, but his ideal is high, and he is | not yot satisfied, seys The New England | Farmer, FEBRUARY 27, 1896. HAD WALES AS HER GUEST. he Dinner an Amerioan Widow Gave the Prince at Homburg, It i8 not necessarily expensive to give The widow ittention from and in England telling of a ummar to a dinner to tho Prince of Wales, friends of a who has received much tho prin Homburg in the last two linner which the young A A merican YOUrs aro sho pay ner, and \ ; 111 New Polar Origin of Linmanity. conforming tl this earth w and that the hu n of the gl admit of their tion most like ly and the evi Istence as 8O0O as | led sufi living upon it. The to cool first was the poles, deduced from ulation is on which is founded the ide ys of f the hum had x dence this J that uj the polar origin « On the above theory mysterions finding of remains of tropical birds, beasts and pl far up in the polar regions. If it is really true that the poles were the first habitable spots on the earth's and that they were rendered so by the globe first cooling at the spots least affected by sunshine, it mast be also true that the polar regions are gradually encroaching upon the temperate and torrid zones Who knows but the centuries yet to come will fill the Indian ocean and guil of Mexico with icebergs and keep the Nile and the Amazon frozen solidly throughout the year?-8t. 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