New Riddles.

Otago Witness, Issue 1900, 3 July 1890, Page 31

New Riddles.

5501. Gentbal Acrostic —Seleoted by Thersifces, Oamaru :— The two central letters of words having the following meanings:—A worker; acknowledgments; to arrange; a vegetable; one who is negligent of dress; to revile; a digger; treated Iwith disregard; and to suffocate. When plaoed in order, and read downwards, will form two other words meaning a support and persons unknown. 5502. ANAGRAMS OH LoNOFBtLOW'S WOBKS.—By M. B. M'lntyre t— 1. Leaf-lips foam. 2. Engine vale. 3. Five inches get hot. 4. Thus she teuds paint. 5503.—Oonundbums.—Selected by Horaany Eye, Musselburgh :— What was the greatest bet ever made ? What is full of boles and yet holds water ? 5504. Hourglass.—By Wilfred 0. Cole :— Line down the oentre, that which we are hunting for. 1, A home forthe destitute j 2, abrave woman; 3, a thicket; 4, crude metal; 5, a consonant; 6, everyone; 7, an irrational animal; 8, one who follows ; 9, a summer beverage. 5505. A Lesson ik Geography.—S elected by Colonslle, Wakari :— 1. What is the most aggravating town in the United Kingdom ? 2. Where ii the best place to get married ? 3. What place suggests the most buoyant of Irishmen? 4. What Indian city is like a damp squib ? 5. Which ought to be the merriest village in England t 6. Where can you fly a kite any day in the year? 7 Of what rivers should Australian lovers be fondest ? 8. Where would an unfortunate speculator like best to be ? 9. Which is the foremost town in England ? 10. Where should travellers go for cleanliness? 11. Why does one British health-station in India resemble another ? 12. When you have given your mald-of-all-work a holiday, of which Scotch district will her absence remind you? 13. Which is ,the angriest portion of the United Kingdom ? 5506. Transposition.—By Myrtle, Wattahuna: - He aoed ton ovel am rof ym rowth, Ron rof my siand os roadb dan raif, Eh voles em rof ym now ruet rowth— And that si Hew, dais Lyal Areol.