Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1881 — A Nut for the Sharpwits to Crack. [ARTICLE]

A Nut for the Sharpwits to Crack.

Some of your readers may find some amusement in puzzling out the following riddle, commonly attributed to Lord Chesterfield. It was published in the May number of the Gentleman's Magazine for 1757, and has, I tliink, never been answered: 1. The noblest object in the works of art; 2. The brightest scenes which nature can impart; 3. The well-known signal in the time of peace; 4. The point essential in a tenant’s lease, 5. The farmer’s comfort as he drives the plow ; 6. A soldier’s duty and a lover’s vow; 7. A contract made before the nuptial tie, 8. A blessing riches never can supply; 9. A spot that adds new charms to pretty faces, 10. An engine used >n fundamental cases; 11. A planet seen between the earth and sun, 12. A prize that merit never yet has won ; 13. A loss which prudence seldom can retrieve, 14. The death of Judas and the fall of Eve; 13. A part between the ankle and the knee, 16. A Papist s coast and a physician’s fee; 17. A wife’s ambition and a parson’s dues, 18. A miser’s idol and the badge of Jews. If now your happy genius can divine the correspondent’s words in every line, By the first letter(s) may be found an ancient city that is much renowned. —New York World. A “Young Naturalist” writes us to learn “ How lie can catch a live wasp, for, scientific purposes, without injuring it ? ” Right by the tail, son—right by the tip end of the tail. Squeeze hard—pe wasp don’t mind it a particle—and, if it seems to be injured any that you can see, send us the bill and we’ll pay for a new wasp. — Burdette,