The National tribune., 1885-05-28
BRAIN-RACkERS
From Our Young Contributors.

ITO CONTRIBUTORS: In sending answers name
No of TRIBUNE in which the puzzle is found. An
swers of guessers may be forwarded within a week
after receiving this TRIBUNE Do not make numer-
ical enigmas of your own names. Answers must
accompany all puzzles forwarded
ANSWERS TO PUZZLEs-No. 1875.
A Pointed Puzzle: Some careless boys made a
sudden dash upon q small cotopy of bees. but were
not equal to the occasion and were glad to stop and
retreat with ordinations of disgust and resoiu-
tons that put a stop to such enterprises.
Anagrams: l. stitch in time saves nine. 2.
Beware of little expenses; a small lake will sink a
great ship.
Forty hidden birds: Loom lumber, swallow,
paradise, swan bittern, wren, egret, knot, Tyre,
harpy, merlin linnet, famingo, butcher (blrd)
silt, hawk ibis. stone-chat. ruff swift kite, rock
noddy, roller, thrush, tern. adjutant. heron lory
red start, secretary, sh0veler nutcracker, blue,
teal, jackdaw, hen. plover. poe. sand-piper, owl,
new wheatear, weaver, warbler, raven, dove
dunlin, and crow.
PUZZLES SoLVED-NO. 195.
Lotto B. Maxfield, Cambridge VT, z; James L.
Cole, Rochester, Pa; Loe Au, Ontario. o., 4; An
ME Alchorn, Fall River, Mass, 4; George Gilbert
Archibald, o. Walter Gayhart. Sylvania, o., 8;
Cowley, Kan, 1: Sarah Mcmahon, Spring Bluff
Wis, 5; f. Paul Jones. Brooklyn, Iowa; Edith
Carmen, Lyons, o. Pearl Robinson, Ligonier, Ind
Adele nj. Olmstead, Pavilion Centre, n. ", 4; Cora
Weittenhiler, Pattesviile. Wis; Freddie ID. Vore.
What Cheer. Iowa. 4; Jessie Reynolds: Chase
Mich, 4; Glenne Murphy. Stoekwel Ind, Z; Sn-
sic Hill, Schuylkill Haven, Pa, g. Delayed answers
Miss Edna Baldwin, Endicott, Wash. Ter, 2; Car
RE Stillwell, Middleton, n. j., 3.
Poets ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Presidents Enigma-MilIard Fillmore.
An Old Proverb-When the cats away the mice
will play.
Little Girls Enigma-Louisa NJ. Alcott.
WAR ENIGMA.
My Is in battle but not in peace;
2 is in cannon, but not in rife;
3 and is in Captain but not i'll General;
s is in Lieutenant, but not in Sergeant;
6 is in private, but not in Major;
z and IL is in corps, but not in army;
8 is in forward, but not in halt;
is in saddle. but not in bride;
10 is in shield, but not in sword
IL is in skirmish, but not in retreat;
Il is in line, but not in rank.
My whole is something connected with the late
war.-Wm. f. H., Crockstown Mimi.
EDITORS RIDDLE.
Within palace white as milk,
Behind a curtain soft as silk,
Surrounded by sea of glass,
golden bail you'll find. Alas!
Should you but knock then swiftly, 10,
The palace will dissolve like snow,
The curtains fall into the sea,
The golden ball forever flee.
The golden ball you may not miss.
But tell me what the riddle is?
MATHEMATICAL PUZZLERs.
Lydia E. Day If the sum of hypothenuse and
perpendicular is $50 and the base 80 the hypothe-
muse will be 9213. Now, a ladder standing verti-
cally against perpendicular wall just reaches the
top of the WALL but dropping the top OF the lad
der away from the wall until the top of the ladder
is % feet in level line from the wall said line will
strike the wall 8 feet below the top. How long is
the ladder Hobart G. Scott, Watertown, Conn.