The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-02-08
KNOTTY PROBLEMS.


A cliff o'erhung with nerbage soft:
And seemed, with calm uniinching eye,
Tocontemplate the e4rth and sky.
Straight did the flyiI falcon dart
And strike the gaZer TO the heart,
Who shook, his noble bosom bled
And DER the cliff he tumbled-dead.
Down fell the murderous hawk also,
Its name and nature do you know?
A slim, Wasp-wsisted, cruel thing,
And most unerring on the wing.
J. 4.
No. 225O,-A Oharade.
never knew
A one that two,
Nor yet that stood or sat. did you?
And still know
That ne can 90
Through water in way not slow.
II you should be
From banks of Dee
My meaning you will straightWay see
When tell you
MY one, two. two,
Just as a little horse" can do, FRANZA.
No. 325I-A Doctors Enigma.
my J. TO- 9, Ii, &c, 80, SO, 81, 20, &c, p deadens
Ny Is. Is, 1911 IS, 70, 81 D. %, 1892 promotes
discharges from the lungs.
My 5, II, IL, so, 81 increases strength and gives
yigOr OF action 20 the system.
My s, IL, 43, 9, Z. 20, "A. is purgative.
My IS, AZ, 2, l. 19, so, 40, 81 assuages pain.
NY o. TO- g. 49, 81 %, 80 sllays pain.
produces sleep,
My /, 81, s. 50. 49, 6. s. % counteracts the effects
Ny So, 81, %, IS, Il, 80. 9, 10, produces tran
sient increase of vital energy.
My45, 9. 81, So q, l, II, 10 produces ptyalism.
Ny 10 2, 49, q. p. 10, 10, SO. 40, 81 is an anti
dote previously taken.
My whole OF So letters expresses what usual
ly proves true.
No. 2252-A Transportation,
Entire, as / staud
Great power ] command
Transpose, and my power is less.
Though slow, IN way
We try to obey
The voice OF the Master we bless
Transpose me once more,
You will find that in numbers we're two;
Yet, an article good,
Daily eaten as food
By transposiDg again comes to view
Again, you will see
persuader III me,
For the widest Of natures I've bent.
Though OF letters I've i've,
Five faces also to present. URlAH.
mo 2224-A TabIeau.
SCENE I.
Here is a rig for transportation
1t will carry us over the Nation.
Back and forth, from station to station.
scENE2.
domestic brute, you plainly see
Sands between both me and thee;
"1it, tai toe three in row. one, two, three!
SCENE 3.
This is a color you all can see;
One OF the colOrs of the three
On the banner of the free
SCENE 4.
Now we come to the consummatiOn:
See the pictures of men OF our Nation,
Comicslized through imagination,
ARTIBUs I.AURENTINs.
No. 2254-Authors in a Story.
NAME THEM.
Little Jimmie Willis often went to play on the
green bank OF his mothers cottage but she had
often told him to keep off the street, and never
try to get through the hedge which formed a
fence between her home and the miller's.
One day Dick Ensley and Dan Penant came
across the common in great glee. Seeing Jim
ME sitting there alone. watching the young
| lambs frisk around, they stopped to tell him
| funny story about ola Whitehead, as they
| called the miller. One said he had screamed
| like a wild eagle, while the other howled like
| wolf ever so many times, until they made the
think there was game in the wood
| miller coming out with dog and gun to
catch them as they lodged in and out of the
| woods on the banKs OF the creek. but said moth.
| ing of the fright they got when bullet whizzed
| through the bushes Just above their heads.
| Dan and Dick wanted TO make themselves, as
well as Jimmie. think they had been having
| miller and MS dog had kept out of sight, but
when Jimmie saw how the boys took to the
street he knew they were not very happy after
/ all. b. b.
His tongue is Quick to talsify,
| Unlike George Washington's in youth;
| But II he says he alvey lies.
He lies, for then he speaks the truth,
| To put him on a witness stand
| Were wrong, he can not stand upright;
| He gives no color 10 his thoughts
His words are either black or white.
| Prizes for February.
| The sender of the best lot OF answers to the
| "KnOtty Problems published during February
| will receive "a Hundred Wonders OF the World, '
! fine volume containing beautiful illust ations
/ OF the marvellous things described. suitable
| prize will also be awarded for the second list
| in size. Solutions must be forwarded weekly,
| and should be entered in the competition, even
| if very few. Let this contest be even more Wig
orous and lively than the last.
| Answers
2234-Tbe old year and the new.
| 22S5-Terrible railIO DAD acct dent.
22S6-
"The softly wsrbled song comes from the pleas
| ant woods
And coiored wings glance quick in the bright
SUM-" lLoNGFELLow.
| 2237- ROseate.
223S-StedmsD, Thaxter, LOngfelCDlow, Whit
| tier, LaBier. Larcom. Stoddard, Goodale
Holmes, Hunt, SAKE, Lowell, Carrie, Poe, Hart
22s9N1. handbook. 3 Locker 8. Errant
4. Ranted. s. Edda. G. Dado. Z. Dolor.
22f0-A-cOrn.