The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1888-07-19
BRAIN-RACKERS.


No. 1.-THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE in which the puzzle
IL found. Answers OF guessers may be forwarded
within week after receiving tins TRIBUNE. DO not
MAKE numerical enigmas of your own names:
Answers must accompany all puzzles forwarded.l
ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN TRIBUNE JUNE %
Tangle-
The boy who does stroke and stops
VIII nee IA great man be;
'Tis the aggregate of single drops
That makes the sea the sea.
Double Acrostic-Byron, poets bumps, Yeddo,
roe, out. nuts.
Cryptogram-
We only know that thou hast gone,
And that the same returnless tide
Which bore thee from still glides on,
And we who mourn thee with 1t glide.
Numerical Enigma-Angel food.
Verbal Charade-MatiIda.
A G. G. Enigma-Edouard Frere.
Neurological Enigma-Some born great.
Scraps oceanus. Medusa Euterpe. Astarte, Rhe-
sus, Elpenor BriZo Odiu, Robigor, Nais Gradivas,
Robigus, Eros, Agiare, Thispis.
Answer to John James, June 2l-Mississippi and
Missouri
CoEUNDRUMs.
/ Why Is a boy detected in mischief like labor
ers's strike? 2 What is the difference between a
person sitting on an English vehicle and tabled
monster ?-Anne Walter, Greenup, KY.
| 3. What insect says yes to all questions asked?-
Annie L. Marsh.
BEHEADINes.
! /. Behead kind Of wooden structure and leave
a kind of fish. q BeheRd q small stream and leave
! kind OF bird. 3. Behead kind Of animal and
/ art, Cal.
CHANGE FINALS.
| mean to take away the hide;
| Change tails Pm level, you'll decide;
| Change tails again, and I'm beak
Again, and motion ike wings / make;
| Once more, I'm colors or ensign
| And last pretense or design.
-Eaie A. Smith
A RHoMBoID.
Across-I A title Of honor in Turkey. q A
/ small stream 3. To sprinkle 4. Breathed quickly
I s. That by which a thing is suspended. 6. TO joke
/ Down.. A letter 2. An exclamation 8. A
| leaf Of gold OF silver. 4. To grasp. S. An order
| g. Calamitous. Z. To make change in. 8. A
/ vehicle. 8. In composition signifies Army" 10
! Latin proposition sgnifying :" to-" IL A letter
| u. L. Curry, Bellevyria, Oak.
CHARADE.
ITO Ralph RslOood)
My first is the young of animal,
Either black, or spotted, or whitei
But when II grows older and larger,
I Its name IL IS different quite.
My second you will find snare,
| To trap unwary feet;
/ Or. taken in another way,
II means q liquor sweet.
Ny whole lie a dipper
| of peculiar kind;
Now pat your heads together, pray,
And my riddle you viii hud.
-Cena Q. Poe.
EARTHQUAKE.
In Inscription.
Thet waintha Tintwiuing,
Beforin Tibet Wine
Aslwin Swerein Twisted,
Hen Owdot Huntwine;
Twix Fthetw misunderstanding,
At Winemo Rebetween
! Hetwir Linghi Stwister,
/ Makesat Westoft Hetwine.
la the debris Of the ruins Of Charleston wert
found three pieces of stone with inscription 10
which the above is II true copy upon each piece
Alter joining them various ways they were st last
placed IN their original position, which fully estab
lished that they attempt at doggere
poetry and false rhymes than anything eleYating
john james.
A CAVALRY LEADER.
am composed of Is letters:
| My IS, IA i u small horse;
Z, 6, 3, 9 is part OF IA whip;
!, B. IL, 3, 10 is to sharpen;
9, 10 4, IL is prophet.
/ BY whole was "a noted cavalry leader.
IS. T. Erwin, Holland, Pa,
LETTER ENIGMA.
In state, not In town;
| In Snowman, not in clown;
| in Sea, not IN bay;
| III grass, not ia hay
| Ia man, not in boy;
/ IN happy, not ia JOY;
In nice, not in good.
Whole is q General who whipped the rebel Hood
Reuben Fuller. Pittsiield, Mich.
A DIAMOND.
/. A letter.
2. Rested upon the buttocks.
, 3. horse that PAGES.
/ 4. Pertaining to rock stone,
8. The state Of being filled.
6. Bound by oath.
z. See-sawing.
8. Falling in drops from the clouds
8. A sign of negation (three letters) and an al
breyiation of New Granada two leLtersJ.
10 A small horse.
ii. Il letter.-Kobert Allen.