in the lower
left-hand corner of the envelope. Answers, with prize awards, will be
announced as early as possible, and the prizes forwarded at once.

The prizes are: To the best, $10 in money, and $15, also in money,
divided among a few other best solvers. Excellence consists in correct
answers and correct spelling, but does not refer to penmanship.

Lost Diamond Prize Awards.

The "Lost Diamond" puzzle proved an ideal contest. It was a trifle
difficult, to be sure, but it had so much information in it that nobody
who failed of a prize had his or her labor for naught. One solver, who
lives in Pennsylvania, found all the answers save one, and got the first
prize of $10 as his reward. His name is James L. Pequignot. A Minnesota
solver secured the second prize, which in this case is made $3. His name
is Eugene T. Hawkins. The balance of the prize money is divided among
the following eight contestants, $1.50 to each: Saida N. and Frank T.
Hallett, of Rhode Island; John Morton Espey and Elizabeth R. McIlvaine,
of Pennsylvania; Helen E. Allis, Junius Browne, and Russell M. King, of
New York, and J. Lawrence Hyde, of the District of Columbia.

A wide range was allowed in the answers. Indeed, any answer was accepted
that could be found in the story, and for which authority was furnished
or could be found. All were treated alike in this, and the contest
rendered slightly easier for all. Here are answers by numbers:

1. Grammar, logic, rhetoric, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music.
2. Charles Farrar Browne (Artemus Ward). 3. School; academy. 4. Edmund
March Blunt. 5. Robert Burns. 6. "Do Nothing;" Louis Fifth. 7. Eliza
Cook. 8. On the Threshold. 9. George Gale. 10. Peter Bang. 11. Andrew
Bell. 12. Red tape. 13. Alice French (Octave Thanet). 14. Adolphus
Washington Green. 15. Frank Beard. 16. Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 17.
Skin and bone; William Mahone. 18. Cat; _Macbeth_, act i., scene 7. 19.
Allan Woodcourt; _Bleak House_. 20. Elias Howe. 21. Balls; from the coat
of arms of the Medici family, the money loaners of Florence; origin of
the three gilt balls over a pawnbroker's shop. 22. John Knox. 23. The
Hermit of Niagara Falls; drowned while bathing, June, 1831. 24. Private
theatricals. 25. Harriet Beecher Stowe. 20. Josiah Gilbert Holland. 27.
Helen Hunt Jackson; vicinity of Manitou, Col. 28. Basket; _Merry Wives
of Windsor_, act iii., scene 3; Sir John Falstaff. 20. Elizabeth. 30.
Steppes. 31. Thomas Hood. 32