THE RIDDLE-BOX.

NUMERICAL ENIGMA.

I am composed of thirteen letters in two words that form the name of a king lately dead.

My 6 5 8 7 is the capital of his realm. My 4 11 6 2 10 is the city of his birth. My 1 7 10 2 3 12 is a noted port in his kingdom. My 8 2 13 9 10 is a cathedral city in his dominions. l. h., v. h., +

EASY DIAMOND PUZZLE.

1. A consonant. 2. A wager. 3. A city in Italy. 4. A part of the body. 5. A vowel. n. b. s.

WORD SYNCOPATIONS.

Remove one word from another, and leave a complete word.

1. Take a crime from a clergyman’s house, and leave an attendant. 2. Take a summer luxury from worthy of observation, and leave remarkable. 3. Take savage from to puzzle, and leave a drink. 4. Take suffrage from a bigot, and leave a river in Great Britain. 5. Take to lean from a glass vessel, and leave an animal. cyril deane.

ANAGRAMS.

Each anagram is formed from a single word, and a clue to the meaning of that word is given, between brackets, after its anagram.

1. Any one can (trouble). 2. I anoint combs (joinings). 3. Cover no sin (change). 4. A rude song (perilous). 5. I’m no cereal (rite). 6. A mad girl (song). 7. Real blue ant (fixed). 8. An egg dies (liberate). w.

DROP-LETTER PUZZLE.

Every other letter is omitted.

H- d-t- m-c- s-o -o-h -e-l -h-t -e -a-h -o -o. c. d.

EASY RHOMBOID PUZZLE.

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Across: 1. Oversight. 2. Clean. 3. To fall. 4. To jump. Down: 1. One hundred. 2. An article. 3. A color. 4. A title. 5. A part of the body. 6. A pet name for a parent. 7. A vegetable. h. h. d.

PICTORIAL ANAGRAM PUZZLE.

From the letters of the word which describes the central picture, form words describing the remaining ten pictures. h. s. s.

SEXTUPLE WORD-CROSS.

The central letter, o, is given in the diagram, and is used for both the Full Perpendicular and the Full Horizontal; but the central letter forms no part of the words that make the limbs and arms of the cross. Full Perpendicular, eight letters: An American singing-bird. Full Horizontal, seven letters: An instrument of war. Top Limb, three letters: A short, jerking action. Bottom Limb, four letters: Part of a chain. Left Arm, three letters: A small gulf. Right Arm, three letters: An instrument for catching fish. b.

PRESIDENTIAL DISCOVERIES.

In the full names of the nineteen presidents of the United States, find the following hidden words, each of which is selected entire from the name of some single president, although in one or two cases the spelling merely gives the sound of the word that is to be found:

1. An insect. 2. A household task. 3. Two birds. 4. A faithful woman. 5. A forest tree, familiar to school-boys. 6. Two Old Testament men. 7. Four New Testament men. 8. A product of the mine. 9. Two products of the pig. 10. The thousandth part of a dollar. 11. A heavy weight. 12. An inhabitant of the western part of Europe. 13. A famous spy, executed during the Revolutionary war. 14. A line of soldiers. 15. One of the supports of a bridge. 16. Dexterity. 17. A river crossing and river obstructions. 18. Fish eggs. 19. Affirmative votes. 20. A noted Philadelphia philosopher and statesman. 21. An old-time Grecian hero. 22. A useful timber. 23. An English statesman whose head was cut off. 24. A title-deed to lands or estates. 25. Three musical syllables. 26. A title of the Deity, mentioned in the Bible. 27. A delicious sweetmeat. 28. A domestic fowl. 29. A girl’s name. 30. Something added. 31. One of the members of a family. c. marvin.

EASY DOUBLE ACROSTIC.

1. Pleasing. 2. The ocean. 3. “A little house full of meat, with no door to go in and eat.” 4. A bar of wood. 5. A thought. 6. A tribe. 7. Pleased.

The initials and finals, read downward, spell the names of two powerful countries. del.

NUMERICAL PUZZLE.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

My 3 4 5 is to obstruct. My 1 4 7 is to bend under weight. My 2 4 6 is a carriage.

Place the letters in the positions indicated by the figures of the diagram, and read therefrom my whole, which is the name of a large island. h. h. d.

A PROVERB AMONG PROVERBS.

One word taken from each sentence in succession will form the answer.

1. “Likeness begets love, yet proud men hate one another.” 2. “They that hide can find.” 3. “Trade knows neither friends nor kindred.” 4. “It is better to be happy than wise.” 5. “Gold may be bought too dear.” 6. “If you would have a good servant, take neither a kinsman nor a friend.” 7. “A gift long waited for is sold, not given.” 8. “It’s time to sit when the oven comes to dough.” 9. “Only that which is honestly got is gain.” 10. “Prudent people always ask the price ere they purchase.” 11. “Good advice is never out of place.” 12. “Friendship is the perfection of love.” cyril deane.

A MEDLEY.

A word that means to cleanse, behead, And leave of cloth a kind; Behead again, and leave a seed Canaries love to find; Behead again, and it will leave An animal behind.

Transpose my first, and it becomes A set of antics gay; Then curtail twice, and leave what oft Projects into a bay; Curtail again, and leave what boys Will put in mother’s way.

Transpose again, and find a word To horses may apply; Curtail it twice, and leave a step That one can measure by; Behead it, and you have a card That often counts for high.

Transpose again, and bring to light A well-known proper name; And in the very center find A serpent known to fame, That caused the death of one,—a queen,— Who laid to beauty claim. h. h. d.

HALF WORD-SQUARE.

A member of a legislative body; a plant; new; periods of time; to allow, reversed; a preposition; a consonant. a. c. crett.