CONUNDRUMS.
[1]. When is a merchant like Ireland?
[2]. What kind of likeness can you spell with three letters?
[3]. Why is intemperance like a worn-out coat?
[4]. How can you prove that seven is half of twelve?
[5]. Why should a market-gardener always be punctual?
[6]. If you throw a chip into the water, what does it become?
[7]. How does a locomotive at full speed resemble idleness?
[8]. Where was Washington when his companions put all the lights out?
[9]. Why is a translated fable like hatred?
[10]. What is that which is broken by merely naming it?
[11]. What pies are you not likely to find at the baker’s?
[12]. Why is the heir-apparent of England like a cloudy day?
[13]. What foreign letter expresses a title?
[14]. What two letters express what you ought to do all things?
[15]. What two letters express an impoverished purse?
[16]. What four letters express a good drink for a cold?
[17]. What two letters name a river in America?
[18]. What two letters name a county in England?
[19]. Why is it easy to break into an old man’s house?
[20]. What is the quickest way to make a thin man fat?
[21]. How much land is like a decayed tooth?
[22]. When do your teeth act like your tongue?
[23]. What foreign letter names the territory of a duke?
[24]. What tree pinches an Israelite?
[25]. What is that which pierces and leaves no hole?
[26]. When is a boat like a lady in love with an artist?
[27]. Do you know of any word entirely composed of vowels?
[28]. When does a bonnet resemble a useless search?
[29]. When are bad dispositions and flour alike?
[30]. What cordial is Dally’s Pain Extractor like?
[31]. What nations do poor people like best?
[32]. Why is a church spire like Antrim county, Ireland?
[33]. When we ask the cities of Europe what novelists are called, which one replies?
[34]. What bad effect does the letter B have upon sunshine?
[35]. Who is always ready to reply to any question?
[36]. What young lady is the most pugnaciously disposed?
[37]. What young lady most interferes with the serenity of our sanctum?
[38]. Why can you never believe a man who always fulfills his promises?
[39]. When may a man be said to be thinner than a shingle?
[40]. What is more desirable for man than good quarters?
[41]. What is that which always crosses a river with its head downward?
[42]. Why is an old woman who can not work, like a young woman who can work, and does work?
[43]. Where did Kossuth stand when he first landed in America?