The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-09-01
PUZZLES.

SEA NfSfs)TICAL COMPANY.
Nodistes with real pride in their wos
Have little liking for Miss ONE
And Miss TWO. though once soou NV
kind.
Is looked with favor on BY none.
Day after day travels Miss THREE.
Bearing the news from door TO door.
Greeted with welcoming smiles. unless
Coming TO tell US OF Miss -FOUR.
Mss FIVE hates all men, while MISS Si@N
Dislikes women especially.
Miss SEVEN keep a clearinghouse
And rules her servants tacfully'
Although above kissing Miss EIGHT
Sanctions IL sometimes, II Is said.
Miss NINE. ill-mannered gossips tell.
Was once Thrown at a ricl mans
head"
Miss TEN. though rather passee now.
Al musicals some charm may Tend.
While Mss ELEVEN is OF ne cause
or quarrelllng 'twiNt friend and friend,
Although the spirit OF Miss TWELVE
Is at fault too. you may depend.
oo.-PROGRESsIVE NUMERICAL.
Amt Dorothy was In trouble But shs
vass TOO energetic an old soul % give way
To despondency. and she simply sat dosn
to l-2-3 the situation and ponder % means
OF tightening her load The 4-o6 ya~n'i
on the hearth rug. but no other movement
disturbed or good Aunts fcNery, ana
she sat perfectly quit- until me CLOCK
had struck 6-7-S Then she aroused ncr-
SELF with an air that showed she was tul.y
decided II the S-9-l0-li-i2-l3 had been de-
uending on the result OF her action. we
would have felt secure. and Vs. rntrrl pm
full confidence that the strange l---o-i-'-
6-7-S-q-iO-lf-l2-l3 OF rcyefs"s tAat mo
ulaced Aunt Dor0thy's entire worldly o.
fects i'm Jeopardy would be overcome.
The belief has since been iustlhd. Is. "
.-CHARADE.
o, crimson amaranth, o, loVe-lies bieei-
ing.
Sweet Floramour. II thou could'st only
sec
How thou with hope my loye-tossed heaFt
art feeding.
low TO me-
II sign Of silent love thou'rt meant 70
be.
canst not thou tell. in more than silent
The secret OF a sweethearts ONE ne'er
O. speak. nor let my TOTAL e'er be
broken.
sweet noramour.
As some bright, favored child OF silded
pleasure.
who TWO his honeyed words with
greatest ease.
| cannot be. out pure love without meas
ure
IN POUR on thee. and ever strive to
please,
And thou shalt. be the happies. tween
TIE seas.
Sweet Flora Moore.
NovUs HOMO.
4o2- sUBsTITUTONs
In the following quotation from Locke.
one letter iao been taken from each
word. and another substituted tn US
place.
These WOO leat CT eversthng arm
thrught so understand everything ron,
bun II II rot allays TO. Leading Furnishes
thy wind oily patcrials or knowledge,
I'm il thanking than maker that lead ours.
BE art on thy urnnating mind. ant II
in hot CROUCH so tram ourselves wish !
great lead on collestious-u nloss he shew
they oven end ever agrin then TIL hot
live up strength any nourishment
). y. II.
48.-TRANSPOSIrION.
IN awful ONE was Tam that Nl-"ii
Burns tells 10 rarely-how the ~lgn-
Just "skelplt on thro' dub ami miro.
Despising wind and rain and Cree,
But peerng round with prudent fear
Lest "ghaists and houlets come 100
nea-.
"Ae mon maun TWO his weird they say
But 10 Tam's conduct We should lay
The blame. had q more THREE disaster
Bofallen Maggie and her master
As things turned ont. tho poor Old gray
For Tam's misdongs had 10 pay
Thus flourish sinners. Ike the baW
For though Tam may have lost his h'fi,
When nearer still the foul witch sped,
With horfid shrlcks and curses dread.
He'd find IL soon. with small cndoaror.
But poor Mays tail was gone forever.
MABEL. y
tt ODD GEOGRAPHY.
CThe answer required 20 each sentence
is the name of n county OF ohio3
1. Tho color OF Aunt Carries hair
Too often a fav0r.te beverage. 3. Ats