THE YOUTH’S CABINET.

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Dear Mr. Tarnxer,—A little while
ago a question was asked by one of the
readers of the Casinert, where the divi-
ding line is between the Atlantic and
Pacific oceans. I am not sure where it
is; but I think I will venture to guess,
for the benefit of the one who inquired,
that it is the line which runs straight
from one pole to the other.

KNOXVILLE, ILL. 8s. G. DUNCAN.

 

ANSWER TO ARITHMETICAL QUESTIONS
no, Iii.

1. The boy must have had 15 apples.
Then, according to the statement, at the
first gate he left 8; at the second 4; at
the third 2; and so had one left.

2. The first package of ten yards was
sold for 45 cents per yard, amounting to
$4 50. The second package of 30
yards, was sold for 15 cents per yard,
amounting to $4 50. The third pack-
age of 50 yards, was sold for 9 cents per
yard, amounting to $4 50.

8. The stock-buyer must have bought
5 head of cattle, at $10 per head,
amounting to $50; 1 hog, at $3; 94
sheep, at 50 cents per head, amounting
to $47; in all 100 head, at $100.

The three questions were answered by
S. L. N. of Durham, N. Y. The first
and third were answered by J. D. C. of
Mud Creek, N. Y. ‘The first only, by
C. B. 8. of Orange, N. H.

 

ANSWER TO CHARADE NO, VI.

Children delight in something new,
Scarce caring if soon flown ;

In less degree, the same is true
Of men and women grown.

Tell me, oh dark-eyed Indian maid,
Is ’t so among your race ¢

Or is this weakness but displayed
With us of paler face ?

If rightly used, a noble thing
Is found your second,—zeal :

Making the user richly bring
Himself and others, weal.

If worse employed, ’twere better far
That it had never been;

So does the fearful agent mar,
Swelling the scroll of sin.

You rightly name the last and third,
The copulative and,

In size and note, “a little word,”
If singly it doth stand.

Yet placed between some two, you say,
Joining each separate whole,

Oft find we, that its influence may
Vast interests control.

And now connecting all the three,
Uniting them in one,

They form an island in the sea,
Where fiercely shines the sun.

New Zealand is this island’s name,
With men of stature great,

Where Cook, of such illustrious fame,
Untimely met his fate. LOUIS.

 

ANSWER TO CHARADE NO, VII,

1. POND
2, 1

PONDICHERRY.
3. CHERRY

 

ANSWER TO BIBLICAL QUESTIONS NO. I.

1. The book of Esther contains not
one of the names usually applied to God.

2. The word eternity is mentioned in
the Bible but once, and that is in
Isaiah, lvii. 15.

8. The whole alphabet, with the ex-
ception of the letter J, is found in Ezra
vii, 21.

Answers were sent by E. P. Weyer,
of Madison, Ind. and also by a Miss

whose name we either did not get, or
| else have mislaid, and who writes us a
| letter in this style: “ My much esteemed

_fr iend, if you will attend to what I now
write, it will be my delight to scribble
"away as long as you say.’