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Magic Squares.

Magic squares have been so called on account of the wonderful powers which the ancients thought they possessed. According to this idea, a square containing one cell represented the Deity, the product of unity by itself always being unity. The square of the root two represented imperfection, while a square of nine cells was consecrated to Saturn, of sixteen to Jupiter, of twenty-five to Mars, of thirty-six to the Sun, of forty-nine to Venus, of sixty-four to Mercury, and of eighty-one to the Moon. There are even and odd magic squares. Added vertically, horizontally, or diagonally the result will be the same. A still more ingenious square is so arranged that when it is lessened by one, two, or three bands on each side it will still remain "magic." Still another square is divided into four compartments, each compartment being magic.

Odd Square.

Even Square.

Bordered Square.

Compartment Square.

Vincent V. M. Beede, R.T.F.

An Unreliable Florida Lake.

There is a lake quite near to our house which is covered with weeds and tall grass. From a distance it presents the appearance of a large swamp. In this lake there are a number of clear places, which are said to have no bottom, and are called "sinks." It is said that twice this lake has run dry, the water escaping through one of these sinks. Millions of fishes were left on the sand, and wagons came and carried them off to be sold. I have also been told that one of the farmers planted a field of rice in one of the fertile places that the lake had uncovered. The rice grew and nourished in the rich ground, when one morning, looking out to see how it was growing, he found that the lake had come back in the night and had buried his rice-field.

Have you ever tasted fresh figs? When at a friend's house the other day some were brought in, and I tasted one. I found it to be very sweet and sticky inside, and was what is called "sickish." I would like to correspond with any member of the Round Table who is interested in finding out the strange things in other countries.

Marion M. Clute, R.T.L. Lake City, Fla.

Kinks.

No. 14.—Hidden Name.

Prose by Optic, Poe, and Emerson offers no greater variety than would poetry by Goldsmith, Ruskin, Edgeworth, Greene, Otway, Reade, Young, Irving, and Xerxes, had all written poetry. Find the name of the man who sent usurers to England to loan money to poor people unable to pay tithes, which usurers, having offices on a certain London street, give it a name to this day.

No. 15.—Beheading.

Behead the foot of a horse, and leave a fruit; behead again, and leave part of the horse; behead again, and leave before.

Simon T. Stern.

No. 16.—Three Kitchen Receipts.

First have your stove intensely warm If this dish you'd properly make: Then into it put two less than a dozen Of tiny creatures to bake. By following directions you find it will give A well-known people who in Africa live.

Make your first layer of a very small article, Your last of an equally small measure. Between them place the beginning of speech. A transposition you have at your pleasure.

Take a dish for an invalid, Neither liquid nor solid. Mix it well with a space That's broad and not squalid. 'Twill make you a dish That epicures covet, And all who partake Will vow that they love it.

No. 17.—A Menu.

Soup—lake in Minnesota. Fish—cape in Massachusetts, river in Connecticut. Roast—river in Tennessee, lake in California. Vegetables—river in Vermont, river in Alabama. Entrées—town in Arizona, river in Montana. Dessert—city in New Jersey, island off Connecticut coast, river in Arkansas, river in Montana, river in Mississippi.

No. 18.—A Dinner Party.

Some time ago, no matter when, a grand dinner party was given, at which were guests who assumed the following names, in order to make the feast a celebration, by famous Americans, of a great American event. The assumed names were:

1, Common, a county, a human being.

2, Government appropriation.

3, Good advice, to cease from.

4, Casual, worn out, a slip.

5, A fish, a city in Oregon, to pursue.

6, A vegetable, a drink, a hinderance, torpid.

7, An Irish nickname, a stack, a fowl, grain.

8, An animal's cry, meat, a torch, to peruse.

9, To agree, cleansing, a weight.

10, Two Bible characters, a meadow.

11, A patriarch, a beverage.

12, To satisfy, a wine, a cave.

13, A small truck, a cry, a film, a heavenly body.

14, A past participle, a sweetmeat, a tavern, hirsute, a relation.

15, A fowl, to recompense, the strand, to wander.

16, A plant, a verb, two letters, residences.

17, A nickname, an animal, a whirlpool, a luminary.

18, A bird, a Russian, a small room, to sink, to flow.

19, An outfit, a chariot, a relation.

20, Headgear, a weight, an animal.

Answers to Kinks.

No. 9.

Central letters.—Meleager. Cross-words.—1, Plummet. 2, Bisects. 3, Mallard. 4, Foreman. 5, Durance. 6, Leggins. 7, Creeper. 8, Starred.

No. 10.

1, 1808. 2, 375 a.d. 3, A. 4, 6. 5, Nein (9). 6, Cat. 7, 85. 8, 60 tons. 9. 1880 carats.

Solution.—1808-375=1433+1=1434÷6=239x9=2151÷3=717-85=632+60=692+1880=2571. √25=5x2=10, number of letters in Euphrosyne.

No. 11.—A dream.

No. 12.—Caprice—a price, price, rice, ice, ream, cream, ice-cream.

No. 13.

Donkey, keynote, notelet, letter, terror, roral, allot, lotto, tower, ergot, gotten, tender, derma, marine, renal, alarm, armor, mortal, tallow, Lowell, well done.

Much In a Right Beginning.

Governor William E. Russell, of Massachusetts, who died recently at the age of thirty-nine, but had in that short life been Mayor of his city and Governor of his State, and had gained national fame, early began to think and act right. As a school-boy, when boating with five companions, his craft was overturned, and he swam a mile to shore. Asked by his mother about his struggle to reach land, he said, "I thought of you, prayed to God, and kept my arms and legs in stroke."