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  2. Pastime Page. CHESS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 111 words
  3. A PUZZLE.

    The puzzle, which may not be new to all of our readers, is to fill the blank in the first line of the subjoined verse with a word that after dropping its first letter will also complete the second line, and ...

    Article : 103 words
  4. Facts and Faades. NOTHING THERE.

    "I am the oak: you are the vine," remarked an ardent though silly lover to his Marianne. "Let the vine, therefore, creep around the oak until it reaches the topmost leaves—" "And finds nothing there," ...

    Article : 48 words
  5. SOLUTION OF PROBLEM No. 909.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 68 words
  6. GOOD LAND FOR A CEMETERY.

    "That laud ought to be need for a cemetery," remarked a gentleman as the train glided by a field in which sand and stone were the principal productions. "Excellent idea," returned his friend, ...

    Article : 51 words
  7. A FEW MINUTES' FUN.

    Repeat the following sentence several times in quick succession:—The cat ran over the river with a lump of raw red liver in it's mouth. ...

    Article : 32 words
  8. PROBLEM NO. 910.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 81 words
  9. CUT IT WHERE YOU PLEASE.

    A Yankee boy had a whole Dutch cheese set before him by a waggish friend, who, however, gave him no knife. "This is a funny cheese, Uncle Joe, but where shall I cut it?" "Oh," said the grinning ...

    Article : 70 words
  10. CONUNDRUMS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 168 words
  11. I'LL TAKE 500 SHARES.

    A man in Cleveland, Ohio, fell asleep at church a Sunday or two ago, and woke up just as the minister began to read in a loud voice the lesson of Scripture which begins, "Surely there is a vein for the silver, ...

    Article : 85 words
  12. Puzzles, Enigmas, &c. CHARADES.

    Now, ladies and gents, roll up. And see this wondrous second; He drinks first from a china cup, My whole a cloth is reckoned. ...

    Article : 266 words
  13. VERY SOFT.

    Soft is the freshly-fallen snow, Soft is the cheek of "sweet sixteen," Soft are the lovely buds that blow When summer fills the world with sheen, ...

    Article : 72 words
  14. ANSWERS TO PUZZLES, &c., SEPTEMBER 13

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 163 words
  15. THE BUSY BEE.

    A bee flew out in the sunny air By a boy so blithe and young, Who laughed and screamed without a care, And would not hold his tongue. ...

    Article : 70 words
  16. A BRILLIANT GAME OF MORPHY'S.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 509 words
  17. HE RAISED HIS WAGES.

    An English sportsman engaged a strong, powerful, red-Leaded Highlander to act as gamekeeper on his English estate. The Highlander having been a considerable time at his post before there was any ...

    Article : 639 words
  18. ANSWERS TO CONUNDRUMS, SEPTEMBER 13.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 99 words
  19. ENIGMAS.

    My first read backwards is the same as my second read forwards, and my last transposed means to peruse. And my whole is a town in N.S.W. 692. ...

    Article : 558 words
  20. TO CORRESPONDENTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 595 words
  21. CHESS NOTES.

    The Sydney Chess Club are making preparations for the annual intercolonial match with Victoria. Messrs. Chamier, Crane, Heiman Russell, and Tullidge have already been chosen to represent New South ...

    Article : 654 words
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