Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1875 — A Collection of Puzzling Questions. [ARTICLE]

A Collection of Puzzling Questions.

An ingenious correspondent of the Herald of Health gives the following fifty questions, each to be answered by the name of a well-known author. The guessing of these questions will form a pleasant evening entertainment: 1. What a rough man said to his son when he wished him to eat properly. 2. Is a lion’s house dug in the side of a hill where there is no water. 3. Pilgrims and flatterers have kneft low to kiss him. 4. Makes and mends for first-class customers. 5. Represents the dwelling of civilized men. 6. Is a kind of linen. 7. Is worn on the head. 8. A name that means such fiery things I can’t describe their pains and stings. 9. Belongs to a monastery. 10. Not one of the four points of the compass, but inclining toward one of them. 11. Is what an oyster heap is like to be. 12. Is a chain of hills containing a dark treasure. 13. Always youthful as you see; but, between you and me, he never was much of a chicken. 14. An American manufacturing town. 15. Humpbacked but not deformed. 16. An internal pain. 17. Value of a word. 18. A ten-footer whose name begins with fifty. 19. A brighter and smarter than the other one. 20. A worker m precious metals. 21. A vital part of the body. 22. A lady’s garment. 28. A small talk and heavy weight. 24. A prefix and a disease. 25. Comes from a pig. 26. A disagreeable fellow to have on one’s foot. 27. A sick place of worship. 28. A mean dog ’tis. ', / * 29. An official dreaded by the students of English universities. SO. His middle name is suggestive of an Indian or a Hottentot. 31. A manufactured metal. 32. A game and a male of the human species. 33. An answer to which is the greater poet, William Shakespeare or Martin F. Tupper?” 34. Meat! What are you doing? 35. Is very fast indeed. ; 86. A barrier built by an edible. 87. To agitate a weapon. 88. Red as an apple, black as night, a heavenly sign or a perfect fright. 39. A domestic worker. - 40. A slang exclamation. 41. Pack away closely, never scatter, and in doing so you’ll soon get ather. 42. A young domestic animal. 43. One that is more than a sandy shore. " ' 44. A fraction in currency and the prevailing fashion.

45. Mamina is in perfect health, my child; and thus he named a poet mild. 46. A girl’s name and a male relation. 47. Take a heavy field piece, nothing 'Mb.'''"' 48. Put an edible grain ’twlxt an ant and * bee, and a much-loved poet you’ll see- . . 49. Common domestic animal, and what it can never do. ' 50. Each Hrihg head In time, ’tis said, will turn to him though he be dead. ANSWERS. 1. Chaucer. 2. Dryden. 8. Pope. 4. Taylor. 5 Holmes. 6. Holland. 7. Hood. 8. Burns. 9. Abbott. 10. Southey. 11. Shelley, 12. Coleridge. 1& Yonng. 14. Lowell. 15. Campbell. 16. Akenside. 17. Wordsworth. 18. Longfellow. 19. Whittier. 20. Goldsmith. 21. Harte. 22. Spencer. 28. Chatterton. 24. De Quincey. 25. Bacon. 26. Bunyan. 27. Churchill. 28. Curtis. 29. Proctor. SO. W. Savage Lander. 81. Steele. 82. Tennyson. 38. Willis. 84. Browning. 85. Swift. 36. Cornwall. 87. Shakespeare. 38. Crabbe. 89. Cooke. 40. Dickens. 41. Stowe. 42. Lamb. 48. Beeehdr. 44. Milton. 45. Motherwell. 46. Addison. 47, Howitzer 48. Bryant 49. Cowper. 50jGray.