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  2. PASTIME COLUMN.

    Correspondents answering any of the questions in this column will, in order to facilitate reference, please head their communications with the number of the question or puzzle answered, and the date of the ...

    Article : 126 words
  3. CHAPTER VII.—IN THE PARK.

    Archibald Hope worked late that night in his room. There were letters to answer and plans to consult; the great business on the Glyde followed his steps persistently, and left him little rest. Had he grown ...

    Article : 8,209 words
  4. LADIES' COLUMN.

    A CLEVER writer has observed that poets are the greatest friends, at the same time that they are the greatest enemies, of women. Look into the writings of Pagan antiquity—the works of the Greek and ...

    Article : 469 words
  5. GEOMETRICAL PUZZLE.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 30 words
  6. Arithmetical Questions.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 92 words
  7. CHARADES.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 193 words
  8. Geometrical Problem.

    The side of a pentagon is twenty yards, and the perpendicular from the centre to the middle of one of the sides is 13.76382. Required the area? ...

    Article : 35 words
  9. Enigma.

    I've brothers short, and brothers tall, A hungry lot both great and small; My sisters' smiles lead men to woe, And sorrows from their kisses flow. ...

    Article : 113 words
  10. Facetiæ.

    A PHYSICIAN, with some little disregard for Lindley Murray, says that "patients is a virtue." WHEN are newspapers like turnips? When they are Hoe'd. ...

    Article : 767 words
  11. Why Lace is Costly.

    MANY people wonder why lace for trimmings is so costly. The following paragraph explains:— The manufacture of lace is carried to its highest perfection in Belgium. The finest specimen of ...

    Article : 221 words
  12. Charades.

    One-half is my first, and though strange it appears 'Tis four-ninths of the whole, whioh sounds odd in your ears. A sign is the next, zotliacally reckoned, ...

    Article : 166 words
  13. Household Resipes.

    TO OLEAN LIGHT KID GLOVES.—Put on one glove, and having made a strong lather with common brown soap, apply it with a shaving brush, wiping it off immediately with a clean towel, then blow into the glove, and ...

    Article : 570 words
  14. THE NEW PRUSSIAN THRONE.

    "BY 1 o'clock the White Saloon was full. The throne of gold and crimson stands in its accustomed place. By a side-door suddenly appear a body of mechanics in their working clothes, and advancing to the throne ...

    Article : 363 words
  15. Arithmorem.

    59 and trent (makes good soup) 50 and haden (a musician) 51 and vera (a female's name) 1000 and paress (to pet) ...

    Article : 61 words
  16. Acrostic.

    A fruit we all know A very pretty name An admirable quality A city of great fame, ...

    Article : 51 words
  17. Answers to Arithmetical Questions, &c., in No. 75, June 10, 1871. ARITHMETICAL QUESTIONS.

    Answer.—As 21: 9 or as 7: 3:: area of circle at first: area of circle when second received it. But areas of circles are as squares of diameters, and therefore 27 4954542 inches was the diameter of the stone when ...

    Article : 208 words
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