Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-03-26
Charades, Enigmas. Riddles, Puzzles, Word
Squares, Answers to and from Cor
respondents, and Solutions.
Answers to March 18th.
Sc Valsntine's PriEe.

January 18th We offered for the best
decapitation puzzle in rhyme and the most
ingenious riddle. prose or poetry, by one
the work entitled :. Album Of the Authors
Carnival" 1t was offered as St. Valen-
tines prize. The winners in the Poe
Prize competition were barred, and this
barred Utah and Augusta Blake. The
entries were less in number than we had
any reason to anticipate, and Utah was
one of the competitors and Rose the other.
This leaves the prize to Rose. She fairly
deserves it on merit, but it would have
been more pleasurable doubtless to her,
as it would have been TO US, had there
been competition. 1t is awarded to Rose
with the Quiet Hours compliments, and
the statement that her contribution was
fully worthy of the handsome prize. Why
Hattie Heath, Trinity, Amethyst, q. C.
D., Ego, +. NJ. S., and other contributors
failed to enter, passes our comprehension.
Surely the task exacted was not beyond
their powers. Rose had worthy COM
petitor in Utah had he not been barred.
UTAH's CONTRIBUTIONS (barredl.
7l9. Riddle:
A noted traveller am
OF every cline and zone
Yet travellers often search in vain
To find me while they roam
daily comfort remain
To those who stay at home.
am source of great delight
To every truant boy,
| bless with health the ladies fair
The ladies fair annoy;
| beautify the blooming fields
The blooming fields destroy.
OF misery cause my share
OF blessings am chief;
The strong man in my pow Tful grasp
Is quickly brought to grief.
To many poor, despairing wretch
am the sole relief.
reach abroad my arms to grasp
The wealth OF every land
power among the powers of earth
Alone | cannot stand
Larger than 'Alps on Alps - child
Can hold me in It's hand.
72O. Decapitation
When whole choose neutral ground,
And never extremes am found
Behead-my meaning is not changed,
And scarcely changed my name;
Behead again no word is left
Yet still mean the same;
Behead once more, and what remains
Might represent poor mans gains.
ROSES CoNTRIBUTIoNs-ttake the prize).
72l. Riddle:
grow beside fair garden walks,
friend to whalers prove
strut with pompous growing cocks,
oft incte to move.
The sailor hears my warning cry
Upon the waving deep;
place my stamps "upon the rye ~
Down in the earth sleep.
Above the plains lift my head;
strengthen what is weak,
And sunken in the Iiver's bed
often cause a leak.
And if in aught you would succeed.
Seek for me in some guise-
The Quiet Hour supplies this need,
BY holding forth prize.
722. Decapitations :
"By Inheritance" mean entire
The source from which we surely find
Are handed down to son from sire
The disposition, features, mind.
Remove my head, and now show
The way in which time hastens by
pace we ofttimes deem too slow
When for some coming good we sigh.
Again, and theologians trace
This word to Whltson's tongues of fire."
Likewise to that first fall from grace,
Which bankrupted our common sire.
Once more, "a tying bow"
Or found some ancient church within,
Where dusty pilgrims, bending low
Do humble penance for their sin.
Oh, what hydra headed word
My patience is quite out of joint.
Cut off two more heads, and the third
And last remain a compass point.