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THE YOUTH’S CABINET.

 

15, 4, 1, 11, 9, was his daughter-in-law,
My 24, 11, 20, 8, 7, 12, was his grand-
son. My 10,19, 22,19, 20, was a queen
celebrated by my 10, 17,1, 19, 15. My
9, 14, 3, 15, 2, 18, 19, 12, was an an-
cient philosopher. My 4, 18, 10, 19, 20,
12, was his birthplace. My 3, 15, 11,
13, 17, was his intimate friend. My 23,
3, 10, 19, 2, 20, 22,19, 4, 21, 5, 19, was
an ancient republic. My 18, 22, 11, 21,
FO, 13, 14, 18, 1, 23, 15, 16, was an act
im the year 1568, followed by disastrous
wonsequences. My 2, 5, 13, 17, 25, 19,
18, 19, was a sacritice formerly known
in Spain, My 3, 23, 13, 2, 6, 11, 24,
19, and 8, 11, 3, 19, 15, 17, and 8, 19, 9,
47, 15, are three extraordinary charac-
ters, that appeared in Rome about the
game time. ESSIE.

 

CHARADE NO, V.

My first may take three separate forms,
As schvol ma’ams strive to teach,
When once the love of learning warms
The minds they strive to reach.
‘Three letters will that first express,
And one will do the same;
Then put on it a figured dress,
And two will give it name.

My second is a being small—
A pigmy, sure, in size ;

But long ago its fame grew tall,
By Solomon the wise.

‘Leok at the mighty works it rears,
In regions of the sun,

And judge.if not, above all peers,
True glory it hath won.

My whole—one scarce can tell, I wis,
His nature to define;

He holds a thing—yet ’tis not his,
No more than. it-is mine.

Yet let him have the same good traits
Which make my second great,
He'll rarely find that adverse fates

Deprive him .of:his state.
Francace, Micy.

LOUIS.

RIDDLE NO, II

Of egotists I am the chief,
My pride surpasses all belief;
Of science though I form a part,
I’m never found in any art ;
I’m in the balmy breath of spring,
In all the little birds that sing ;
And by my aid, man’s turn’d to main,
And what was only bran is brain.
Without me, there would be no mind,
No life nor wisdom could we find.
M. M. W.

 

ARITHMETICAL QUESTIONS, NO. II.

1. What is the solidity of a segment
of a globe, whose base is 20 feet ; height
9?

2. The four sides of a field, whose
diagonals are equal to each other, are
25, 35, 31, and 19 rods respectively.
What is the area?

3. The area of an equilateral triangle,
whose base falls on the diameter, and the
vertex in the middle of a semicircle,
is equal to 100. What is the diameter
of the semicircle ? N. 0.

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