The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1886-12-30
BRAIN-RACKERS.

RIO Contributors: In sending answers name
No. OF THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE in which the puzzle
II found. Answers Of guessers may be forwarded
within a week after receiving this TRIBUNE DO not
make numerical enigmRs OF your names.
Answers must accompany all puzzles forwarded.
ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN TRIBUNE DEC. 9.
Conundrums-I. No; they do write 2. When II
passes from mouth TO mouth 8. You can't make
cake without IT, 4. A little before Eve. s. A cab
bage.
Two Practical Problems-7O 5-l6 acres plus %: Is
feet.
Drop Letter Puzzle-we have met the enemy
and they ours.
Hour Glass WAGON
ORE
ASR
ASTER
Diamond HER
HOUSE
REUNION
CLIMB
Doc
Square Word OATS
ACRE
TREE
SEES
Rhyming Euigma-Spark.
A Poctical Tangle-
And 80 the snowfialles grew 10 drifts,
The grains Of sand 10 mountains;
The leaves became a pleasant shade,
And dewdrops fed the fountains.
The pennies grew TO silver dimes;
The dimes to dollars, brother.
And tenderly bring this Christmas gin
by helping one another.
Authors Bnigma-Oiver Twist.
FavOrite Enigma-THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
CoSUNDRUMs-NEw AND OLD.
i. Why young ladies going TO party like
arrowsY 2 lfthe devil should lose his tail, where
would lac go 10 have 1t put Ola sgain?-George V.
Gilbert, Archibald. o.
DROP LETTER PUZZLE.
Insert a consonant in each blank.
-ca-c O. ca, 90 - o e.
The whole is Christmas greeting.
-Hoosier School Girl.
BEHEADIEGs.
]. Behead favor and get ancestry again, and get
a trifie.
2. A grain-to excite-to rust.
3. A side-share-cunning.
4. A lance-a fruit-a part Of the head.
Eddie COngdon, Waterman, III.
COMPLICATED SIMPLICITY.
A gentleman on leaving his house met some beg
gHrs and gave each Of them cents and had q cents
have had TO borrow ~ cents. How many beggars
were there?-C o. NJ. 3, New York.
WISH IN SEASON.
am composed of "a letters:
My "a, !, 4. 70 is "A musical instrument;
g. 20. 3. l6. IL, IL kind Of riddle;
%. 81, - "a, 20, IL a supplicatiOn;
-, "a, :, 20, u Is "A vessel for pleasure;
g, 10. ., II IL story;
-, DO, ~, % il an excavation;
q. 10. l5, % il an insect
-, 3 ~ b. something for catching fish;
] z, 10, u, ~ D. something very small:
The entire is my wish for the readers Of THE TRIB-
UhE-Minnie kenple, Clarington, ..
RIDDLE
| First, III tell YOU 81 what I'm made
Wood, brass iron, tin and lead
Aud many other things we'll
That We have not the space TO tell.
When day gives place TO the shades Of night
] help 10 Hood the town with light;
lie delight Of many who view me with pride
/ While others abhor, scot and dcrde.
/ j am "A hard drinker, full night and day
Aud LAID ln the gutter 10 rot and decay
! 10 music, loo. my Ue,st y6J'ii hear;
4 Win sweet, pure tones charm the ear
] Strange 10 cay, but you'll believe,
! I'm part Of everything that breathes
/ I've told enough 30 give clew:
The solving, friends, leave TO you
M. H. North New Castle Me-
AMPUTATIONs.
BeheAd and cuaail the following words Of three
letters each, and iben add the remaining letters 10
form the natnc Of noted statesman who MAS born
/ Jan. il. 1882:
]. To sum up. . An animal. 3. An insect. L.
Large. B. Particular. q. Aged z. Isevereniial fear
b. A wager. " To decay. TO- To invite. IL. Con-
sumed. H. A fowl. 10 Cunning.
Hattie A. Eyerts.
HISTORICAL ENIGMA.
My IL la hat. hut not Ia can:
= N IN mouse, but not Ia rat.
3 ~ Ia ruler, but not in king;
4 4 ~ IN song, hut not la sing;
3 IL in end, but not ia fms;
II odd Bui al IA, mil.