Show THEY ARE ALL MYSTERIES They Arc Very Innocent and You Can Try Them Yourself Take a long narrow strip of paper and draw a line with a pen or pencil I along the whole length of its center I Turn one of the ends round so as to give it a twist and then gum the ends together Now take a pair of scissors and cut the circle of paper right round along the line and you will have two circles did you say T ynd see I This is a puzzle withip a puzzle and has never been satisfactorily explained by either scientist or mathematician I Fill a glass with sawdust dont press it down measure a pint of water and slowly pour about half into the center of the sawdust Let that soak for a few seconds then pour in half remainder remain-der allowing the same amout of time for that to soak and so on pressing the sawdust down occasionally with something flat When It is finished after standing for some minutes you will find you still have room for moro water Tell a lady friend that If she will oblige you with a hair of her head ycu will tell her which is the root end although al-though she has cut off a bit at each end unseen by you When this has been done place the hair between your forefinger and thumb which you rub against each other as if you were sizing the hair glance at the hair and you will see it working its way out always in the direction di-rection of the root end A few days ago writes a correspondent correspond-ent of London Answers I saw two young men trying and practicing the following exercise One was sitting bolt upright In i chair The other then told him to getup get-up without bringing the upper portion of his body forward Of course the sitting one was sanguine san-guine that it could be accomplished He tried and consequently according to natural law he almost performed a beautiful somersault To be done the line of direction must fall within the base of the feet Take a bicycle balance it with on hand having one pedal at its highest point the other at its lowest To th lower one tie a string and pull it towards to-wards the rear of the machine Which way will the bicycle go It will go backwards Most people think it will go forward because the string tends to move the pedals in the direction they move when the machine Is going forward But anyone who understands mathematics mathe-matics will easily see the reason Take an ordinary half pint glass r water and ask a friend to eat a penny sponge cake while you are sipping the half pint of water with o teaspoon You can drink the water spoonful by spoonful quicker than he can eat thc sponge cake If a large sized lucifer match fa placed on the back of the second finger so that each end rests upon the front of the first and third fingers closed down to the palm of the hands although al-though such a weak piece of wood it will defy you though you may be the strongest man on earth to break it Try it and judge for yourself Place an empty and perfectly dry bottle on the edge of the table an empty soda water bottle will do Now place a small piece of cork about th size of a pea just Inside the mouth o the bottle Stand with your mouth level with the mouth of the bottle Now blow Oh yes you may blow hard or blow gently but blowed if you will get that piece of cork inside the bottle with all your blowing Philadelphia Record |