The National tribune., 1886-04-01
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make numerical enigmas of your names
Answers must accompany all puzzles forwarded !
PUZZLE soLvERs AND THEIR NUMBERS
Eddie L. Green. Greenwich, Conn. s; orpha c.
Walton, Beaver City, Neb, l; Mrs. w. H. Sorber,
Dayton. o., /; Grace Harrison, Tuscola. ILL.,, !;
Molle A Carter, LamarLne, o., 5; Edith NJ. Gates
View, Pa, 6; Mary Dawn Petty, II; NJ. Warner
Hargrove, Browns Mills n. j.. 5; Annie L. Marsh
IA; Laura Warde, Decatur, Ill. 2; Nettie E. Spencer
Tunnel, N ", 2; N. Lou Walker, 2; OtisI Frisby
Lena, I'LL, 81 Lollie Au, Z J.: w; Mason, Newark
n. j., /; Charles w Taylor, Washington. d. G., !;
James +. Alger, 6; Ella g. Hanson, Quincy, Mass,
3; u. Z. Curry, Hope ID. T., 81 q Nos); Grace
Washburn Richfeld, Center. o., 4; J. w. Morrison,
Salem, Ind, 4; C. f. Engle, Mifiiin, o., 10; Rangie
Bassett Hutton, Pa, q Contributions have been
received from Edna Strlts LongInont Colo; A. z.
McAfee, Lincoln, Neb.; Emma and Alice, Rose
berry, Island, Kan; MoIlie Carter, Annie l.. Marsh
Saugus, Mass; +. Orally, Leomnster. Mass
ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN TRIBUNE MARCH H.
Company Enigma-Conundrum
Conundrums-I One speaks without rejecting;
the other reflects without speaking. 2. When they
mustered (mustarGl. g. Columbus l. For
diver sreasons. s. The jail bird. 6. Hang omni-
buses. Z. Nothing. g. step fl (r) Their.
Geographical EniSma-Sardinia.
Rhymiug EnigfnaS-I. SNOWFALL. g Coffee
Anagram-I want to be an angel
AND with the angels stand,
A crown upon my forehead,
A harp within my hand.
Old Soldier s Enigma Senator Van Wyck's Pen
Proverb Enigma-speech is silver. but silence is
Old-G.shioued Riddles-l. pair of shoes. Q
Devil. The vowels are A e OU. v represents
five, Roman method, and ID, 500.
TRANSITION.
Half a hundred is number great.
To that You'll all agree;
Annexed to one, as sure as fate,
twill solitary be.
John James Washington, D. @.
EDITH's ENIGMA.
Ny first gives life and joy and makes the feathered
soDgsters vocal;
Without my next we should not have habitation
local:
OF usefulness my whole boast to sailors on q
rockbound coast
Edith ID. Gates. New London, Conn.
CoNUNDRUMs-NEW AND OLD.
/. What is the hardest lock to pick MARY Dawn
Petty.
2. Why is a selfish friend like the letter P?-Ella
3. Why is "A sick jew like a diamond M. War
ner Hargroye, Browns Mills, n. J.
TRANSPORTATION
~ red the statutes to the pin'en Feds"
If TO this transportation
An answer you find,
Don't send him to perdition
Because he isn't your kind.
u. L. Curry, Hope, ID. I.
HIDDEN WORDS AND OBJECTS.
If any tear down the American flag shoot
him on the spot TIC. F. Engle, AIiif1in, o.
ENIGMA
Twice nine of us are eight of us,
And two of us are three,
And three of us are five of us;
What, think you, we be?
But If with this you're not content
And still would seek for more
Why twelve of Us six of US,
And five of us are four
CHARADE.
Two of my seconds eagerly engaged at my
first using my whole.-Lillian A. Johnston, OF
tumwa, Iowa.
ADDITIONS
i. Add the fifth month of the Jewish year to
Turkish chief, and make a religious society.
2. Add smaii-winged animal to shooting of
birds, and make catching birds at night.
3. Add a state TO alter in form, and make place
OF skulls.
L. Add female parent 10 oldness and make injury.