PROVERB REBUS.—­“One swallow does not make a summer.”

CHARADE.—­Pondicherry; pond, I, cherry.

HOUR-GLASS PUZZLE.—­Centrals, Arrow, 1.  CHAnt 2.  ORe. 3.  R. 4.  COg. 5. 
BoWer.

CONTRACTIONS.—­1.  Brown, brow. 2.  Plane, plan. 3.  Lathe, lath. 4.  Heath, heat. 5.  Hazel, haze. 6.  Plume, plum. 7.  Crown, crow. 8.  Lunge, lung. 9.  Forty, fort.

WORD-SYNCOPATIONS.—­1.  Leveret; ever, let. 2.  Slashing; ash, sling. 3.  Slashings; lash, sings. 4.  Carpenter; pea, carter. 5.  Carpets; pet, cars.

ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN THE JULY NUMBER were received, before July 18, from Bessie Hard, C.C.  Bourne; Mamie H.S., and Louise G.H.; Cari Hinkle, O.C.  Turner, “Prebo,” “La Gazza Ladra,” “Cosy Club,” Bertha E. Keferstein, Nellie M. Slade, “Duchess May” R.H.R.; Alice MacNary and Elliot MacNary; “Kelloke and Cary and Rose,” Fred W.M., E. Farnham Todd, “Winnie,” “Stock-Broker and Doctor,” “Dottie and Daisie;” May and Charlie Pray; Laurie T. Sanders, May Chester, “Hyacinth,” H.P.B.; Frances and Margaret Bagley; W.H.  McGee, Charlie Kellogg, Nellie Kellogg, T.W.H., A.G.D., Nessie E. Stevens, “Romeo and Juliet” Bella W. Brown, May Duffan, “St. Nicholas Club,” H.B.  Ayers; “Orada and Ibylsa;” William W. Bellinger, Lillian Willams E.J.F., A.C.S., George D. Mitchell, Arthur Boehm, Bessie Taylor, J.B.H., George C. Wedderburn, William T. Gray, John V.L.  Pierson, Henry Kummel, Virginia Simpson; F.M.J., Jr.; Kitty Curtis, Mildred Meredith, Louisa F. Riedel; “Bessie and Tic;” X.Y.Z., Sarah Duffield, Dycie Warden, Nettie A. Ives, “Violet,” R.T.  French, Josie Hamilton, Alice M. Mason, Ellen Smith, Liffie D. Hacker, Mamie Packer, Jennie A. Carr, Willie Sellie, Arnold Guyot Cameron, Grant Squires, Georgine C. Schnitzspahn, T.H.  Loomis, Rachel Hutchins, Mary G. Arnold, M.W.  Collet, Laura Maude Benton, Willie Robinson, Fanny J. Schonacker; May and Louis Ogdea; Arthur Stowe, Nellie C. Graham, Mattie Olmsted, W.A.  Wheeler, Maggie T. Gemmill, Rufus B. Clark, Lewis G. Davis, Clare G. Hess; Ella and Kittie Blanke; Nellie Quayle, Gertrude Weasondonk, Clara F. Allen, Addie S. Church, “My Maryland,” Nellie L. Ninde, F. Popenhausen, A.B.C., “Hard and Tough,” Nellie Emerson, L.B.  Bancroft, M.P., Wm. C. Ferguson, Alice Lanigan,
Florence Van Rensselaer, Anna E. Mathewson, Josie Morris Brown, Charles N. Cogswell, “Fritters,” “Bertha and Daisy,” “Beech-Nut,” Stephen Waterman, E.M.  Biddle, Jr., “So So and his Cousin,” Georgie B., Chas. Alfred Christian, George J. Fiske, Esther L. Fiske; Frank Allen and May; “Lena Kate,” Milly E. Adams, Eddie Vultee, Willie B. Deas, F.D., “Fannie,” Grace E. Fuller, C. Speiden, M. Speiden, Austen M. Poole, Ada L. Goodwin, Fred Huckel, Estelle Jennings; William Guillet, of Canada; “Brutus and Cassius,” Kate Sampson, Edwin C. Garngues, “Bessie and her Cousin,” “A.B. and C.D.,” Bessie Barnes, and Charles H. Stout.

“Fanny Pop” and Ernest B. Cooper answered correctly all the puzzles in the July number.