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THE RIDDLE-BOX.

=DOUBLE ACROSTIC.=

The initials read downward and the finals upward will give the names of
two countries in Europe.

1. A beam of light. 2. To join. 3. To pillage. 4. An article of food. 5.
What merchants write. 6. An insect.

A. R.

=HOUR-GLASS PUZZLE.=

ACROSS: 1. Calls. 2. A number. 3. A consonant. 4. A river. 5. Wounds.
DIAGONALS: Sharpens and transmits. CENTRAL: Interior.

CYRIL DEANE.

=DECAPITATIONS.=

1. Behead a kind of nut, and leave a kind of grain. 2. Behead a small
stream, and leave a bird. 3. Behead another bird, and leave a gardener's
implement. 4. Behead a musical instrument, and leave another musical
instrument. 5. Behead a carpenter's tool, and leave a narrow passage. 6.
Behead part of a wagon, and leave a part of the body. 7. Behead another
part of the body, and leave a tree. 8. Behead an edible fish, and leave
the defeat of an army. 9. Behead a dried fruit, and leave an ancient
alphabetic letter.

ISOLA.

=DIAGONAL PUZZLE.=

Diagonals, from left to right, a part of the year. Seven words. Fill the
blanks in the sentence with appropriate words; and written under each
other in the order given, they will give the diagonal.

As ---- is more abundant than ---- in this season when Love ---- her altar
fires anew, may this joy go through the ---- year, bearing you
constant ----; so that, looking back at its close, you can say: "1878 ----
to have been one prolonged ----."

J. P.

=DOUBLE-PUZZLE.=

CENTRAL SYNCOPATIONS.

1. Syncopate mad, and leave what soldiers often make. 2. Syncopate part
of a house, and leave to move. 3. Syncopate speed, and leave anger. 4.
Syncopate to soak, and leave a gait. 5. Syncopate a river, and leave a
rank. 6. Syncopate a particle, and leave a laugh. 7. Syncopate openings,
and leave farming implements. 8. Syncopate baked clay, and leave
fastenings.

The letters that have been syncopated, read downward, will make two
words which you must find in the following

CROSS-WORD ENIGMA.

1. In brook, but not in