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11 23. Why are fixed stars like pen, ink, and paper?

24. Why does a miller wear a white bat?

25. Why is a tailor like a monarch?

QUIBBLES.

The following are the best we have met with in this department of fireside amusement-

1. Draw a circle round a person standing in the centre of a room, so that he cannot come out of it.

2. Take a coin in each hand, and, stretching the arms apart, put both coins in one hand without bringing the hands together.

3. Place a candle so that every person in the room shall see it except one, although he shall not be blindfolded, nor prevented from examining every part of the room.

4. Put something into your right hand, which it is impossible for you to put into your left.

5. Kiss a lady's bag inside and outside without opening it.

6. Bite an inch off the poker.

7. Put yourself through the keyhole.

8. Take a shilling from under the candlestick, without touching the candlestick.

CHARADES.

A charade is a compound enigma, having a riddle connected with each syllable of the word in question, and sometimes with the whole word. The following is a selection of the best Charades we have seen or heard-

1. My first is a preposition, my second a composition, and my whole an acquisition.

2. My first is a prop, my second is a prop, and my whole is a prop