Find the sum expressed in each horizontal row, and add together the four numbers thus found, to form the complete sum expressed by the rebus.

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HOUR-GLASS PUZZLE.

1.  Unceasing. 2.  Of little worth. 3.  Habitation. 4.  Ancient. 5.  A vowel. 6.  Devoured. 7.  To muse. 8.  A maker of arms. 9.  Small flat fish.  The centrals read downward name the act of unfolding.

GEORGE CHINN.

BEHEADINGS AND CURTAILINGS.

1.  Curtail a disgrace, and leave an imposture.  Behead, and leave one of Noah’s sons.  Curtail, and leave an exclamation denoting surprise, joy, or grief.  Behead again, and leave a vowel.

2.  Curtail a color, and leave a very small part.  Behead, and leave a verb signifying “to strike.”  Behead again, and leave a pronoun.  Curtail, and leave a simple, personal pronoun.

3.  Curtail a beautiful marine production, and leave a girl’s name.  Behead, and leave an ancient coin.  Curtail, and leave a conjunction.  Behead, and leave a consonant.

4.  Behead a part of the body, and leave a kind of tree.  Curtail, and leave an article used in toilets.  Behead, and leave a preposition.  Curtail, and leave a pronoun.

5.  Curtail a sweet juice collected by bees, and leave a stone for sharpening razors.  Behead, and leave a number.  Curtail, and leave a preposition.  Curtail, and leave an invocation.

N.T.M.

NUMERICAL ENIGMA.

After handing a mug of 9, 2, 3 to the man who was at the 7, 4, 5 of the 1, 6, 8, Frank resumed reading the life of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.

ISOLA.

EASY DIAMOND PUZZLE.

1.  In dwelling but not in house. 2.  A Spanish poem. 3.  A girl’s name. 4.  A precious stone. 5.  A term in English law. 6.  An insect. 7.  In bird but not in beast.

O’B.

CHARADE.

  I.

  Out on the hill-side, bleak and bare,
  In winter’s chill and summer’s glare,
  Down by the ocean’s rugged shore,
  Where the restless billows toss and roar,
  Deep in gloomy caves and mines,
  Where mists are foul and the sun ne’er shines,
  Man studies my first and second well,
  To learn what story they have to tell.

  II.

  Go to the depths of the fathomless sea,
  Go where the dew-drop shines on the lea,
  Go where are gathered in lands afar,
  The treasures of earth for the rich bazaar,
  Go to the crowded ball-room, where
  All that is lovely, and young, and fair,
  Charms the soul with beauty and grace,
  And my third shall meet you face to face.

  III.