THE LETTER-BOX. CONTRIBUTORS are respectfully informed that, between the 1st of June and the 15th of September, manuscripts can not conveniently be examined at the office of ST. NICHOLAS. Consequently, those who desire to favor the magazine with contributions will please postpone sending their MSS. until after the last-named date. VIRGINIA. - Address Children's Aid Society, New York; New York Foundling Asylum, 68th Street; or New York Orphan Asylum, West 73d Street. STONY FORD, March, 1884. DEAR ST. NICHOLAS: In the February number you spoke about Jack Frost being such a beautiful decorator. I saw the piece in the magazine, but did not feel so much interested at the time; but one cold morning last week Jack Frost visited our dining-room windows, and painted lovely fern and oak leaves and a great many other funny but very pretty designs, but the funniest of them all was a little girl standing on what seemed to be a very high mountain, holding out her hands to an imaginary stove. I am not a very big girl, only just eleven years old, and I don't know very much about Jack Frost, still I think I can tell what makes frost on the windowpanes. It is the moisture of the room within and the extreme cold outside. The cold draws the moisture on the window-panes and the cold air freezes it. I asked my grandma if she thought I could tell how Jack painted them any better, and she told me to get the encyclopedia; well, I did, and an awfully heavy book it is, too. I looked for frost, but the words were so big and long that I did not very well understand them, and I will have to ask some other little girl to explain it better. Your earnest little reader, MABEL G. A. GROVETON, TEXAS, Feb. 5th, 1884. DEAR ST. NICHOLAS: I am much interested in the astronomical part of the "ST. NICHOLAS Almanac.' All through January we have been able to see the four planets, viz., Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, and Mars, as well as Sirius, and through the latter part of the month the comet and the new moon also. The stars shine very brightly here, much brighter than in old my Iowa home, and lately the heavens have been very beautiful. Your constant reader, ALICE M. S. BROOKLYN, N. Y. DEAR ST. NICHOLAS: Although I have taken your valuable book six years, I have never thanked you for the pleasant hours you have afforded me, but I sincerely do now. My favorite author is Miss Alcott. I am greatly interested in the "Spinning-wheel Stories," and also in "Winter Fun." E. S. P. thinks he is too old to read ST. NICHOLAS. It's so natural for me to read it every month, I never thought to consider my are (I was seventeen last December). My mother reads it every month, and enjoys it very much. I am studying stenography, and also taking piano lessons. Prance would spring upon her shoulder, and jump down on the desk and sit on her paper; and when she was sewing, kittie would strike at her thread, and then lie down on her work. My cousin has a cat thirteen years old. He can open doors, and is very fond of sliding down hill. He slides alone, and when the sled is drawn up, he stands ready to get on for another slide, and is never tired of the sport. JESSIE C. DREW, eight years old. 203 Bristol Rd., BIRMINGHAM, England. DEAR ST. NICHOLAS: We have taken ST. NICHOLAS for some time, and we all like it very much. I think the Spinning-wheel Stories by Miss Alcott are beautiful. Could you tell me how to make jumb'es? I have read about them in "What Katy did at Home and at School" and other American books, and the children in them always seem so fond of them. I was thirteen last August. I have a brother of fifteen, and two sisters aged eight and ten. I am yours truly, ALICE IRELAND. summer. FORT WARREN, MASS. DEAR ST. NICHOLAS: I want to tell you how I am spending the I have a little garden with four-o'clocks, lady-slippers, oxalises, geraniums, poppies, morning-glorys, gladioluses, petunias, and I have planted some mignonette, pansy, and some Joseph's coat that came from General Garfield's garden, and mamma says that when her fuchsia stops blooming she will give me a slip of it. I have no pets except my little brother; he is four years old. I had two canaries; but my aunt spent the spring with us, and when she went away I gave them to her. From one of your readers, HATTIE I. W. YONKERS, April 10, 1884. DEAR ST. NICHOLAS: I am eleven years old and am one of your readers. I like especially the serial stories of Tierra del Fuego, or "Land of Fire," and "Winter Fun. Have any of your readers ever seen an open bee's-nest? I found one one day built of hay and sticks on a wood-pile; the bees were very busy at a lump of honey in the center. JOSIE S. I thought bees nested in the ground. Your faithful friend, ARTHUR HYDE. Arthur and other boys who are interested in bee's-nests will welcome the paper entitled " Queer Game," in this number. WEST NEWTON, MASS. DEAR ST. NICHOLAS: This is the first letter I have ever written to you, though I have been intending to for a long time. My father, who when he was a little boy used to live on a farm, often tells us stories, one of which I think will interest the readers of this magazine. They had an old cat with her kittens up in the loft, and one day a tom-cat came in and killed all but one of them. This one the old cat took out to the farm, where she hid it under the hay and fed it every day. None of the family knew where it was until one day, several months afterward, my grandfather, when he took off the hay to feed the cows, found it there. It was as large as a full-grown cat, but its eyes were not open and it could not walk. After a few days it opened its eyes and learned to walk, and became afterward a respectable old cat. Your constant reader, ELSIE P. NEWTOWN, 1884. I DEAR ST. NICHOLAS: I will tell you about my kittens. I had three. I named them Prance, Fanny, and Blacky. One day a little girl came to see me, and we were sitting at the dinner-table, when we heard some one playing on the piano in another room. went to the door and found Fanny sitting on the piano-stool, and putting her paw first on one key and then on another, and looking surprised at the sounds. Whenever my Mamma sat down to write, THE following letter from Dakota Territory will interest all our readers, we are sure. BLUNT, DAKOTA, 1883. DEAR ST. NICHOLAS: I thought you would like to hear from a little girl out in Dakota, many miles from New York. My mamma is a widow, and has come out here and taken up two claims: one is a tree claim and the other is a homestead. They join each other. We intend to farm this summer, and have chickens, and set out apple-trees, peach-trees (which we are not sure will grow), plumtrees, cherry-trees, and all the different kinds of trees that will make an orchard. And we intend to raise small fruits, such as currants, raspberries, strawberries, gooseberries, and, too, we intend to raise grapes, and to have a small vegetable garden. Mamma says she is not going to sow wheat and oats and plant corn, but rent 200 acres to a man and let him raise it on shares. I said above in this letter that mamma had taken up two claims; perhaps some of the readers of the ST. NICHOLAS do not know what "taking up claims" means, so "I will rise to explain," as they say in town-meeting. Well, in the first place, Dakota is a large Territory, and nearly all prairie land, and only a few years ago nobody lived here but wild, wild Indians, who made no use of the land, but lived by hunting. Uncle Sam saw what splendid land it was. "Too good to be wasted," he thought, and so he bought it of the Indians, and now we can buy it of him. Well, we buy of Uncle Sam a quarter of a section, or 160 acres of land, for 9 cents an acre. But we must make a promise to Uncle Sam that we will live on the land five years, and cultivate it. Then at the end of that time we get a deed from him and the land is ours. This is a homestead. Now a tree claim is this: DEAR ST. NICHOLAS: I read in a newspaper the other day this little story about a painter who died in London last year, and I think other boys might like to read it, too. The painter was named Cecil Lawson, and the paper said that at the age of four he copied in oil a picture by Clarkson Stanfield; at six he began to paint the portrait of a lady who lived next door; at ten he was in a dame school, when. being one day reprimanded by the mistress, he left the school and returned with a canvas bigger than himself, and asked whether a boy who could paint like that did not deserve to be more respectfully treated. Yours truly, L. W. G. ENGLEWOOD, N. J., January 28, 1884. MY DEAR ST. NICHOLAS: I read in the "Letter-box this morning about one of your readers having seen "A Ship in the Sun," so I thought I would write and tell you how I saw a pilot-boat in a rainbow. We were off the banks of Newfoundland in a dense fog, and no pilot. About four o'clock we heard a noise that sounded like distant thunder. It went on so the captain had the ship directed toward the place where it seemed to come from. The sun had come up a few minutes before and formed a beautiful little rainbow on one side of the ship. Through this beautiful arch there sailed suddenly a trim little pilot-boat with all sails set. From it was sent a little row-boat with the pilot. After having taken him on board and after the row-boat had returned, the pilot-boat disappeared as magically as it had come. I have been taking you for about four years, and think you are the nicest magazine published. I am twelve years old, and at boarding-school. I am your true friend and constant reader, R. BOLLES. OUR thanks are due to the following young friends, all of whose letters we would be glad to print if there were room: Maud E, Nellie Little, Josie Buchanan, Edward S. Oliver, Bessie Legg, Hattie C. F., C. R. Brink, Lena W., G. B. Rives, Gracie Whitney, Claire D., M. E., Mamie J. P., Clarice C., Evert F., A. Andrews, B. A. and B., E. S. D., L. H. Moses, Mary Bines, Walter M. Buckingham, E. C. Byam, John Foote, Mary Chamberlain, Daisie Vickers, Ruth W. Hall, E. S. B., G. E. D., Maidee L. Roberts, Sarah H., Florence M. L., H. L. Smith, Margaret W. Leighton, M. N., Mary Dogan, Nellie McCune, E. Carman, Hester M. F. Powell, E. M. Jr., Georgene Faulkner, F. C., Jessie Heely, May L. Goulding, Estelle Macpherson, Adelaide L. Gardiner, and Richard Wilson. AGASSIZ ASSOCIATION-THIRTY-EIGHTH REPORT. THE following Chapters have been admitted since our latest report: No. of Members. (A).... 16. . R. S. Cross. No. Name. 601 West Point, Miss. 602 Guelph, Ont. (A). 603 Chicago, Ill. (U). 604 Fredonia, N. Y. (A). 605 E. Orange, N. J. (B) 606 Evansville, Md. (A). 607 San Francisco (H).... 608 Los Gatos, Cal. (A). 609 Brooklyn, N. Y. (H). 610 Racine, Wis. (B). 611 London, England (D).. 612 Urbana, Ohio (C). 613 Winooski, Vt. (A).. 614 Baltimore, Md. (H) 615 Newport, R. I. (C). 616 Norwich, Conn. (A). Address. .22.. Miss Daisy M. Dill, Box 213. 6. Mrs. Jennie N. Curtis. 5. .C. D. Gilchrist, 421 Chandler 6.. R. Dutton, Cal. & Devisadero St. 4..E. L. Menefee. 6. Philip Van Ingen, 122 Remsen St. 5. Chas. S. Lewis, Racine, Coll. 13 Edwin M. S. Houston. 7.. R. S. Hart, 211 Presstman St. 617 So. W'mstown, Mass. (A).27.. R. C. Campbell. 618 Central Village, Ct. (A) .. 619 Phila., Pa. (T).. 620 Manlius, N. Y. (A).. 621 Garden Grove, Cal. (A).. 622 Utica, N. Y. (B)............. 5. James McMichael, 520 N. Twenty-first St. 4..G. C. Beebe. 4. Horace C. Head. 5.. William White (care On. Co. Bank), EXCHANGES. Peacock iron, and coal, Michigan coral and fossils.-E. D. Lowell, 722 West Main St., Jackson, Mich. Correspondence with other Chapters.-F. L. Armstrong, Meadville, Pa. Silver, copper, lead, mica, and sea-urchins.-W. G. Curtis, Abington, Mass. General exchanges.- Willie Clute, Sec. 514, Iowa City, Iowa. Eggs and skins of Colorado birds. (Eggs blown through small hole in side, and same sort wished.)-W. F. Strong, 804 Cal. St., Denver, Colorado. Labeled Hemiptera and Coleoptera. (Write first.)-E. L. Stephan, Pine City, Minn. Eggs.- Frank Burrill, Lisbon, Me. Bird's-eggs, and skins, and fossils.-F. H. Wentworth, 123 Twenty-fifth St., Chicago, Ill. Fine specimens of Manganese.-Caroline S. Roberts, Sec. 522, Sharon, Conn. Labeled fossils, shells, and minerals; and correspondence in South and West.-E. P. Boynton, 3d Ave. and 5th St., Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Mounted Canadian insects (labeled), for rare minerals.- Sharlie Hague, 172 E. 87th St., New-York, N. Y. Correspondence with any one that has a botanical garden. - Miss Jessie E. Jenks, Oneonta, N. Y. Berries of Abies precatorius (the standard weight of Hindoo goldsmiths), for cocoons or butterflies.- Miss Isabelle McFarland, Sec. 448, 1727 F St., Washington, D. C. 17-year locusts of 1870, for large Trilobites, Devonian fossils.C. R. Eastman, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Pressed plants for a hang-bird's nest and eggs.-- Stella B. Hills, Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin. Correspondence.-T. F. McNair, Hazelton, Pa. QUESTIONS. 1. What is the food of a prairie-dog? 2. What woods are least liable to rot? 3. What is a cidaris? 4. Is a knowledge of the classics necessary to a scientific education? [Not "necessary,' but highly helpful and desirable.] 5. Why is mold on the same substance of various colors? 6. Can you give the address of a specialist on fish? [We can not, but should be very grateful if such a person would volunteer his assistance in answering our young friends.] ANSWERS. I will gladly answer any member of the A. A. who may wish to know the publisher, price, etc., of any book or pamphlet, if he will enclose a stamp.-T. Mills Clark, 117 E. 17th St., New York, N. Y. In answer to the question, "Do ants live all winter?"-Yes. Last Friday, while skating, I found a sheep's skull. I brought it home and put a glass tube near it. About 27 ants crawled into the tube.-L. G. Westgate. [Sir John Lubbock kept two ant queens alive for more than 7 years.] Pebbles are formed by the violent washing of small fragments of rock, broken and carried along the bed of a stream.-J. K. Graybill. In answer to A. S. G.: The name sea-bean is incorrect, but was given to the large brown beans that are often polished and sold as ornaments, because they are often found on the sea-shore. The real name of this plant is the Scimitar pod, or "Entada scandens." It is a member of the Leguminosa, or bean family, and grows in India and South America. It is a strong climber. Its large flat pods are hard and woody in structure, and are from four to six, or even eight feet, in length. These are often curved so as to resemble a scimitar. The beans sometimes fall into the sea, and have been carried by the Gulf Stream as far as the coast of Scotland, where they have been known to germinate.- Hiram H. Bice. Many sea-beans come ashore at Galveston. The tide before full moon brings them in greatest abundance. I have gathered as many as 300 good ones in a walk of 5 miles. I think there are 6 or 8 kinds. Two kinds, I know, grow on vines. The largest are four inches in diameter, half an inch thick, and very dark brown. I planted 6 of them at high-tide mark. All grew, and in less than 4 weeks had run 30 feet, all the vines running toward the west. The leaves were from 2 to 4 inches long, and half an inch wide, and more than an eighth of an inch thick. They were very dark green on the upper side and light on the under side. Edges of leaves smooth. I have planted other kinds, but they do not grow so well. None of them grow in the sea. Possibly, however, the little black-eyed scarlet peas do.-J. G. S., care Box 121, Tyler, Texas. NOTES. 89. Coal. I have had an opportunity of going into the largest coal mine in Des Moines. Above the vein of coal is a black, soft, crumbling shale, of a very thin laminate structure. Fossils are sometimes found in this. The coal is traversed by thin veins of a grayish rock, dense and heavy; between the veins of coal are layers of fire-clay, gray in color, and greasy. In this clay is found a fossil plant, called Lepidodendron. This was a reed, with a soft pith and a hard and much-scarred bark. It was one of the coal-forming plants, and is often found near coal. Iron pyrites of beautiful golden color, and small globules of sulphur, occur in veins. But the most beautiful thing found in the mine is the saltpetre. This is found in needle-like crystals, transparent, of a lightgreen color, and decidedly resembling moss. The logs used as props are covered with two sorts of fungi. One is that beautiful little fungus with slender black stem and white creased head, called Marasmus, the other is like the common fungus that grows on old stumps. Both kinds are pure white when they grow underground. As I was labeling my fossils, a gentleman who has taught in a college for fifteen years told me I was all wrong, and that plants never had anything to do with the formation of coal. What do you think of that? A Friend. [We think he was mistaken.] 90. Spring-beetle.- We put a Spring-beetle, or Elater, into our poison jar, and left it there for three days. After it had been out a week, it began to show signs of life, and finally quite revived. The jar had been freshly made, and everything else that was put into it died instantly. Laurena Streit, Ch. 434. 91. Pyxis. In the 33d report, A. A., Jan., 1284, I find in Prof. Jones's schedule the pyxis classed with indehiscent fruits. Is it not a mistake? Was not the peculiar manner of opening, resembling the lid of a box, the reason for its name?- Anna L. J. Arnold, Prin. High School, Urbana, O. [It was a mistake, as was also the printing of Figure's Insect World, for Figuier's Insect World, in last number.] 92. Wheel-bug.- Alonzo Stewart has been studying the socalled " Nine-pronged wheel-bug." He has found specimens with as many as 12 prongs. This bug is very destructive to other insects, which it kills with its beak, through which is emitted a poisonous fluid. One that he kept from Aug. 11th to 27th ate, among other things, a Telea Polyphemus, a poi sonous spider, and some katydids, and it ate from 5 to 10 caterpillars an hour.-R. P. Bigelow, Sec. 109. [We would like to hear more of this curious bug; what is its Latin name?] 93. Seals.-Seals are able to close their nostrils, and can remain under water 25 minutes. 94. Promethea.- I have found 7 Promethea cocoons on a small wild cherry-tree.-F. P. Poster, Sec. 440. 95. Woods. I should like to mention my way of preparing woods for the cabinet. Cut pieces from a log, so that the bark shall form a back like the back of a book. They should be 5 inches in height, 4 in width, and one and a half in thickness. The wood may then be finished in oil or varnish. On the back, about two inches from the top, cut away the bark between parallel incisions, and glue a piece of paper across on which to write the label. So prepared, they present a very handsome appearance on the shelf. The accompanying sketch may make it clearer.- Myron E. Baker. 96. Parasites. On a liriodendron (tulip) tree, I found about 30 Promethea cocoons, one of which, as it would not rattle, I 535. Chapel Hill, N. C.-I send you the dates at which some of our more common flowers bloom: White violets, Feb. 16; Blue violets, all winter; Hyacinths, Jan. 28; Crocus, Jan. 30; Honeysuckle, Feb. 8; White spirea, Feb. 28; Houstonia, Feb. 3; Daisies, Feb. 29; Butter and eggs, March 1; Cherry-tree, Feb. 20.- Clara J. Martin. 264. Gainesville, Fla.- This Chapter has disbanded, as its secretary is dead. Paul E. Rollins was a private in the Gainesville Guards, and on his death, at a special meeting, a series of resolutions was passed, of which the following is one: "His upright and noble life endeared him to us all, and should be a standard for our emulation." Query. I am a subscriber to ST. NICHOLAS, and notice in the April No. a note, No. 85, that H. A. Cooke, with others, has decided that the rings of a tree do not indicate the years it has lived, "but the number of stoppages in its growth." Having a personal interest in the matter, I would be much indebted to him for the information how many such "stoppages can occur in a year, and the causes of them.- Respectfully yours, Jno. M. Hamilton. 548. Cranford, N. J.-In answer to a March question, the richer the soil is made, the darker the color of flowers will be. Charcoal, indigo and ammonia, put around the roots of plants make the flowers change color, and copperas brightens them.-L. M. 258. Reading, Pa.- We have a man here in town that we are marble-yard all day, and at night studies for many hours. very proud of. His name is Herman Strecker. He works in a He has the largest collection of butterflies in the U. S., and the second largest in the world. I think it numbers 75,000.- Helen Baer. I have decided not only to take notes of what I see, but also to make pencil sketches, for I find that when you try to draw an object, you are forced to observe numerous little points of structure and form that would totally escape your notice otherwise.-W. E McHenry. ute. 187. Mr. Lintner, the State entomologist, has been very kind to us, and has given us a copy of his first annual report. We have a MS. paper, The Naturalist, to which all are supposed to contribOur president and secretary form a "literary committee," and decide upon a programme for each meeting, and edit the paper. Each member keeps a note-book, and the reading of these forms an important part of our meetings. Also, at each meeting, each member brings two questions, written on a slip of paper, and hands them to his right-hand neighbor, whose duty it is to answer them the next week.- John P. Gavit, Albany, N. Y. (A). 381. New Orleans.-Though a small Chapter, we are one of the many whose interest has never flagged. We have built a cabinet, and will have to build another, as this is full.-P. Benedict. 511. Our Chapter now has 12 members, and we have about 200 specimens of insects.- Kitty C. Roberts, Blackwater, Fla. 478. Comstocks, N. Y.-Our Chapter is progressing fairly. Our secretary attempted to stuff a red squirrel the other day, from memory of what he had read on the subject. When it was done, it looked as if it had been struck by lightning, but it was stuffed just the same.-G. C. Baker. But The reports from our Chapters have been continually increasing in interest, and we wish to express our thanks to the faithful secretaries. We must hint to them, however, that they try to condense their monthly letters a little more. Please don't use two words if one will serve the purpose. Take these printed reports as models. once a year we desire a long, and detailed report from each Chapter. This should be written as carefully as possible, and sent on or near the anniversary of the Chapter's organization. Remember to put the number of your Chapter at the head of the first page, and always give address in full. Address all communications, except questions about specimens, to the President. MR. HARLAN H. BALLARD, Principal of Lenox Academy, Lenox, Mass. THE RIDDLE-BOX. 663 central letters, reading downward, will spell the name of a member of parliament, to whom Nicholas Nickleby applies for a situation as private secretary. CROSS-WORDS: 1. The surname of a good-natured blacksmith, who is married to a termagant. 2. The surname of a bright young man who boards with Mr. Pocket. 3. The surname of the proprietor of Dotheboy's Hall. 4. The surname of a retired banker, who prides himself on being a practical man. 5. The surname of a pompous, self-satisfied man, who alludes to his daughter Georgiana as "the young person." 6. The Christian name of a great friend of Philip Pirrip. 7. The surname of a footman in the service of Angelo Cyrus Bantam, Esq. 8. The surname of a member of Mr. Crummles's dramatic company. 9. The surname of a neighbor of Mrs. Copperfield. MYRICK R. CONCEALED HALFSQUARE. IN the following sentences are concealed words which may replace the dots in the above diagram. When rightly selected, the lines will read the same across as up and down. 1. When we reached Aleppo, Tom acquainted me with the real facts of the case. THIS differs from the ordinary numerical enigma in that the words forming it are pictured instead of described. The answer is a quotation from the play of "Coriolanus." The letters of the monogram in the upper right-hand corner spell the name of an actor who is very popular in the character of "Coriolanus." CROSS-WORD ENIGMA. My first is in German, but not in waltz; 2. I hope Rasselas will prove more entertaining than Vathek. I wish you would invite Nettie to spend the day with us. 4. I told Clara to rest while we prepared the luncheon. 5. If ma told you to, do it at once. 6. Laura said she would do it for me. 7. Then let us ALMA. BEHEADINGS. 1. BEHEAD to pull away by force, and leave repose. 2. Behead to hang about, and leave above. 3. Behead fanciful and leave to distribute. 4. Behead to agree, and leave a confederate. 5Behead a fish, and leave to put to flight. 6. Behead angry, and leave to estimate. 7. Behead flushed with success, and leave behind time. 8. Behead a wanderer, and leave above. The beheaded letters will spell the name of a poet. PROVERB PUZZLE. F. M. N. TAKE a certain word from each proverb. When the selections have been rightly made, and the words placed one below another in the order here given, the initial letters will spell the name of a place famous in American history. I. "As busy as a bee." 2. "As ugly as a hedge fence." 3. "As nimble as a cow in a cage." 6. "As virtue is its own reward, so vice is its own punishment." 4. "As knowing as an owl." MAY L. F. 5. "As full as an egg is of meat." 7. "As busy as a hen with one chicken." A DICKENS CENTRAL ACROSTIC. EACH of the names alluded to contains seven letters, and all may be found in the works of Charles Dickens. When these are rightly guessed and placed one below another, in the order here given, the 8. "As brisk as a bee in a tar-pot." 10. "As love thinks no evil, so envy speaks no good." CYRIL DEANE. ANSWERS TO PUZZLES TRANSFORMATION PUZZLE. Primals, Decorations; finals, Memorial Day. Cross-words: 1. pray, DraM. 2. task, Eas E. 3. fall, CalM. 4. slip, OliO. 5. peat, ReaR. 6. Emma, AmmI. 7. dogs, TogA. 8. odor, IdoL. 9. ibex, ObeD. 10. sort, NorÁ. 11. glad, SlaY. FRAMED WORD-SQUARE. From 1 to 2, Logwood; from 3 to 4, Monitor; from 5 to 6, Portion; from 7 to 8, Horizon. Included word-square: 1. Red. 2. Eve. 3. Den. DOUBLE DIAGONALS. From left to right, Jasmine: from right to left, Diamond. Cross-words: 1. Jointe D. 2. pAcif Ic. 3. paSsAge. 4. com Mand. 5. provide. 6. eNsigNs. 7. DisputE. CREMATION-CHARADE. Carbon-dale. BEHEADINGS. Abraham Lincoln. Cross-words: 1. A-jar. 2. B-and. 3. R-end. 4. A-rid. 5. H-our. 6. A-men. 7. M-oat. 8. L-ark. 9. I-bid. 10. N-ail. 11. C-owl. 12. O-men. 13. L-ear. 14. N-eat. NUMERICAL ENIGMA : Among the changing months May stands confessed WORD-SQUARE. 1. Uranus. 2. Recent. 3. Accuse. 4. Neuter. 5. Unseen. 6. Sterne. HOUR-GLASS. CENTRALS, reading downward, spell the name of a restorer. 4. In anemone. 5. The nickname of a President of the United IN THE MAY NUMBER. CHARLOTTE. Cross5. DOUBLE ACROSTIC. Primals, Russia; finals, Odessa. words: 1. RanchO. 2. UniteD. 3. SalutE 4. SerieS. IssueS. 6. Alask A. 7 2. Vat. 3. 4. Calomel. 5. Temen. 6. Ten. 7. L. II.: 1. L. 2. Bet. 3. Braid. 4. Learned. 5. Tinny. 6. Dey. 7. D. III. 1. L. 2. Nit. 3. Naked. 4. Likened. 5. Tense. 6. Dee. D. IV.: 1. L. 2. Sat. 3. Synod. 4. Languid. 5. Touse. 6. V.: Anode. 6. Doe. 7. N. ZIGZAG. Brooklyn Bridge. Cross-words: 1. tuB. 2. ORb. 3. Die. 7. D. 1. D. 2. Éra. 3. Eland. 4. Dragoon. Owl. 4. boy. 5. arK. 6. oLd. 7. Yes. 8. oNe. 9. huB 10. iRe. 11. Ice. 12. aDd. 13. biG. 14. eEl. MAY DIAGONAL. May-day. Cross-words: 1. Months. 2. tAr box. 3. crYing. 4. maiDen. 5. ashm An. 6. Sunday. 5 ANSWERS TO MARCH PUZZLES were received, too late for acknowledgment in the May number, from Bella and Cora Wehl, Frankfort, Germany, 6- Lily and Agnes Harburg, France, 10. ANSWERS TO ALL THE PUZZLES IN THE APRIL NUMBER were received, before April 20, from B. P. B. and Co.-S. R. T."Three Units" - Arthur Gride - H. and Co.- Katie L. Robertson- Madeline Vultee-"Two Stones"-Fannie, Carrie, and Saidie Maggie T. Turrill - Hattie, Clara, and Mamma- Zealous- Hyslop-Charles Haynes Kyte - Wm. H. Clark - Daisy, Pansy, and Sweet William-Shumway Hen and Chickens - Kina - Francis W. Islip- Hugh and Cis-M. W. Hickok-E. Muriel Grundy." ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN THE APRIL NUMBER were received, before April 20, from Frank Hoyt, 1-Harry J. Lynch, 1-L. 0. Gregg, 1- Willie D. Grier, 1- Minnie E. Patterson, 1- - Mary Chamberlin, 1- Cousin Mamie, 2- -Julia Hayden Richardson, 2Walter Lindsay, 1-Laura G. and Lilian, 1- Paul Resse, 11- Viola Percy Conklin, 3-Susan Pottles and Zenobia Higgins, 41 Jessie E. Jenks, 2-F. and H. A. Davis, 11-Chas. Crane, 1-K. L. M., 3-Julian A. Keeler, 2-Eva Halle, 4-"Pepper and Maria," 10-Mabel Vida Budd, 4-Mary Ashbrook, 1- Fred. S. Kersey, 1- Jennie Balch, 4- "Sinbad the Sailor," 6- Gracie Smith, 6- Ettie E. Southwell, 2-R. K. Miller, 2 - Emma M. L. Tillon, 2- F. Sweet, 1- 'Flip," - Mabel Palmer, 1-E. Cora Deemer, 3-E. Gertrude Cosgrave, 11- Leon Robbins, 1- Grace Zublin, 1- Clara Powers, 1- Alfred Mudge, 1- Edith and Lawrence Butler, 1-Natalie Sawyier, 5-Dickie Welles, 1-Cooper, Charley and Laura, 7-James M. Barr, 2-"Fin I. S.," 8-Ruth and Sam Camp, 8- Alfred Hayes, Jr.. - Marian C. Hatch, 3- Alan M. Cohen, 1-Van L. Wills, 1- Jessie and Madge Hope, 1- Effie K. Tallboys, 7"Rex Ford," 6-"Worcester Square," 1- - Mary A. and Helen R. Granger, 1- Helen W. Gardner, 1- Mamie H. Hand, 4 -Hessie D. Boylston, 2- Alice F. Wann, 1-Susie May Lum, 1-Alfred Hayes, Jr., 1 Anna Schwartz, 1- No Name, New York, 11- Bertha Feldwish, 9-Hattie E. Bacon, 1-Arthur Hyde, 3- Albert Lightfoot, 4- - Edith Moss, 1-C. H. Aldrich, 10-Mamie W. Aldrich, 2-Irma and Mamie, 3- Eleanor, Maude, and Louise Peart, 3-Alex. Laidlaw, 7-"The Newsome Family," 5- Angela V., II Unknown, 5-William H. Clark, 11- - Julie and Tessie Gutman, 1-Edward Livingston Hunt, 2-, -Jennie and Birdie, 5- Mary Mayo, 1- George Habenicht, 1-E. D. and S. S., 5- Janet Burns, 6- Fred. E. Stanton, 6- Horace R. Parker, 5-Alice Westwood, 9-Ruth and Nell, 7- Rose W. Greenleaf, I- Fred. J. Wheeler, 1-"An Amateur," 3- Marguerite Kyte, 1-Marie and Florence, 4Appleton H., 7-Bess Burch, 8-Professor and Co., 8- Emily Danzel, 1 — Millie and Mamma, 3- Arthur Barnard, 2- - Maggie, Nellie, and Alice Smith, 2-Lois Hawks, 2-Hattie, Lillie, Ida, and Olive, 5- George Lyman Waterhouse, 10- L. C. B., 7- Ida and Edith Swanwick, 7- Charlotte and Harry Evans, 5-H. I. D., 2- - Mary Stuart, 7- -Crocus, 9-"Captain Nemo," 11- Vessie W. and Millie W., 8-B. S. Latham, 2-Lulu and Mamie, 4-J. A. Platt, 11-C. W. F., 4-W. Sheraton, 1-Jennie M. Jones, 1B. Palmer, 4-J. C. Winne and G. C. Beebe, 5- Buzz Gree and Co., 3. |