Show FEW QUEER LES archimedes famous mathematician spent leisure in production and solving of puzzles ago ajo samson proposed a riddle the th earliest of which history treat sto the philistines allowing them hem a week in which to answer it a length of time that would have been insufficient but for or the assistance of ammons damsons dam am sons wife i 4 hiram king of tye tre h had ad a asila boanta for constructing riddles as also had bad solomon and the wager of an tm IM bense sum of money between be tween the two is ie to which could construct the most perplexing one was won by the tha latter archimedes the famous mathematic tian lan of syracuse passed most moat of his bla leisure to the surprise 0 ot many of me friends in tho the production or solving of puzzles and his disco discovery very ot of how nuch alloy its maker had bad mixed with ho cho gold of king citero a crown was nothing but the solution of a puzzi the greeks had a curious puzzle if achilles racing with a a turtle gives the reptile ya yards start at and runs ten yards yarda while the reptile runs one 0 no when will he be overtake it ic theoretically never as a matter ot of fact be must in the course of time lime A perplexing question on one well calculated to catch the wise as aa well wa as the unwary was that proposed to the roman itoman senate why does a pall of water with 91 fish swimming in it weigh no more than the same pall of water without uie the it called forth much discussion from the members of that august body who explained the singular circumstance in different ways to their entile satisfaction but found by experiment that the pall pali of water did moro more when there was a blvd allta floh bishin tn it an excellent it an old puzzle Is how can a window having a height t ligual to its width be roade twice as an large arge without increasing itt height or width 0 no in the first instance it Is shaped like a diamond then it Is ia changed to a square |