The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1906-10-09
SOME FAMOUS RIDDLES
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competition for prize puzzles, and
represent survival of the fittest:
Enigma.
Twas whispered in heaven, twas
muttered i'm hell.
And echo caught family the sound as
it fell.
On the confines OF earth twas per-
mitted to rest
And the depths of the ocean it's pres
ence confessed.
Twill be found in the sphere when
It's riven asunder,
BE seen in the lightning and heard
in the thunder;
Twas allotted to man with his ear
lest breath.
Attends at his birth and awaits him
in death
Presides DER his happiness, honor
and health,
Is the prop of his house and the end
of his wealth
In the heaps Of the miser tbs hoard
ed with care.
But IS sure to be lost on his prodigal
heir
1t begins with hope, every wish it
must bound,
with the husbandman tolls, with the
monarch is crowned
Without it the soldier and seaman
may roam,
But woe TO the wretch who expels il
from home!
I'm the whispers of conscience it's voice
Will be found,
Nor cen in the whirlpool OF passion
be drowned.
Twill not soften the heart, but
though deaf be the ear,
Twill make it acutely and instantly
hear
Yet in shade let it rest like delicate
flower;
All. breathe on it softly, it dies in an
hour.
Catherine Fanshawe.
Answer: The letter III"
(Cften ascribed to Byron, and in
cludcd i'm carly editions of his poems.
Described by BRYANT, in his Library
OF Poetry and Song, as the finest rid
do in cXistence)
Enigma.
THE FIRST.
Immutablc forever, I; the earth
Was still in swaddling clothes when
had BIRTH
Ny sisters both took precedence of
me,
Yet am surely Oldest of the three.
THE SECOND.
Before my dark-veiled sister was,
was /.
But still YOU see me in my infancy;
Men blame. neglect and desecrate and
hoUt ne,
And yet the wisest could not live
without me.
THE THIRD.
Youngest and fairest of our sister
hood,
Now in dim dread and now in hope
full mood,
Man waits my coming here, but sees
me never
Alas, come not till I'm gone for
ever!
Answer: Yesterday; to-day; to-
morrow.
Universally admired throughout
puzzledom)
Enigma.
Cut off my head, and singular am;
Cut off my tail and plural I appear;
Cut off my head and tail, and, won
drous feat!
Although my middles left there's
nothing there
What is my head cut on? A sound
ing sea.
What is my tail cut of? A rushing
river.
And in their mighty depth I fearless
play.
Parent of mutest sounds, yet mute
forever
Thomas Darlington Macauley.
Answer. COD.
C'The well-known iogogriph bv
Lord Iacauley is one of the best
enigmas that the Brtons can boast
Of for it contains the requisite
points Rob Roy)
Riddle.
Formed long ago yet made to-day.
I'm most employed while others
sleep
~ ''''' AN'' "VNAA WloA W give away
And none would ever wish to keen.
Charles James Fox.
Answer: Bed
C'Thc Bed 1 have long regarded
as the ideal riddle M c. So
Anagram.
Quid est veritas? WHATS truth?)
Answer. Est Vir qui adest. or Is
lie that is presently
cone of the finest anagrams ever
made is one ON Pilates despairing
words when our Lord was before him.
'Quid es. veritas2 What is trutbq'
The true answer rises with absolute
accuracy iu the transportation. EST
NlR QUl ADEsT, 10 is He that Is
prcscnti')
AnnRram.
THEY SEE -Anonyme. Answer.
The eyes
AuonFme IS anagram is the most
perfect specimen we have ever seen
Dorothy DoouiUcJ
palindromc
The oldest of these riddles (which
read the same backward ass forward)
IS Madam I'm Adam" which is
addres led Go our first mother. The
best is California palindrome n