me.
Address "Recruiting Station for Naval Apprentices, Navy-Yard." The naval
school, known as the Naval Academy, is situated at Annapolis, Md., and
is entirely distinct from the apprentice branch of the service. At the
latter institution young men are prepared to become officers in the line
and in the engineer corps of the navy. During the war of the rebellion
the Naval Academy was temporarily transferred to Newport in Rhode
Island.
Kinks.
No. 102.--RIGHT TRIANGLE.
All words begin and end with same letter.
1. *--A letter.
2. * *--A preposition.
3. * * *--To possess.
4. * * * *--A sign.
5. * * * * *--A vegetable.
6. * * * * * *--To continue in use.
7. * * * * * * *--Notion.
8. * * * * * * * *--Act of blunting.
9. * * * * * * * * *--Adverse reason.
10. * * * * * * * * * *--Business.
11. * * * * * * * * * * *--Display.
12. * * * * * * * * * * * *--Extinction.
ALBERT.
* * * * *
No. 103--ZIGZAG.
If the cross-words--of equal length--are correctly guessed, the zigzag,
beginning at the upper left-hand corner, will spell the name of the
eldest daughter of the Emperor Arcadius (born A.D. 399).
CROSS-WORDS.--1. A fruit. 2. To chew. 3. Burning. 4. To instruct. 5. A
covered entrance. 6. Slumber. 7. To compel. 8. An episcopal crown. 9.
Starwort.
* * * * *
No. 104.--HOUR-GLASS.
1. To equalize. 2. Shy. 3. Fixed. 4. A letter. 5. A metal. 6. A horse.
7. Brought into life.
The centrals give the name of a continent.
SIMON T. STERN.
* * * * *
No. 105.--THE SUPPER TABLE.
1. A convulsion of the lungs, and a reward.
2. A kind of deer, and a grain, served in a flat form.
3. A kind of cutting and girls.
4. Natural jewel-boxes.
5. An unruly member.
6. A portion and a height.
7. Fireworks.
8. A billy-goat.
9. Earth and a useful toilet article.
10. Two-thirds of a small destructive animal, and part of the table
service.
11. A sailor's desire.
12. Counterfeit agony.
13. An island in the Atlantic.
14. Ghosts.
15. A vessel, an article, and part of the foot.
16. A country in Europe.
17. One of Noah's sons.
18. A crowd.
19. Health-drinking.
20. Something occurring in baseball.
21. What every one walks on.
22. A pronoun and an ornament.
23. Something to which many martyrs were fastened.
24. A fl
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