| Show £ X 1 I MARCH TIIE 'SALT LAKE TRIBUNE JUNIOR SUNDAY MORNING Iase Eijrht- - LETTER DIVISION 16 1930 I AN OILY PROBLEM By SAM LOYD BTj RIM£A(MDM ' RBD “MN MEM " RDA RBD U1 - i I - - I The above rather intriguing problem i the work of Ingvar word numbered in order Stoep The letter are those of a from 1 to 0 For the number of a properly worked-ou- t turn in long division the corresponding letter have been substituted From the clues given by the relationship of one letter to another the number of each one may be determined and the word spelled out The word by the way i hyphenated 'f ten-lett- er i “Here’s a little puzzle for you” said the itinerant oil merchant: “In emptying that barrel of 31 gallons of oil 1 drew five times as much oil with the measure as 1 did with the The only other measure 1 used was the and since I drew only full measures who can tell me just how much oil 1 drew with each of the measures?” ' 2 three-qua- rt two-qua- five-qua- rt rt t a TWO PULLEY SYSTEMS A Here is another fine little parlor trick from the bag of Black tone It is done with three pencils of magician identical size and shape but having leads of three different colors The magician turn his back and holds his hands behind him to receive a pencil while the other pencils are concealed Holding the pencil behind him he suddenly points one hand at the spectators at the same time announcing— correctly of course—the color of tha pencil behind his back To do this the magician turns around and faces the audience after receiving the pencil Meanwhile he marks the thumbnail of one hand with the pencil He uses the hand which has been marked to point at his audience and as he does so glances at the telltale mark on his thumbnail T world-fsuno- 1 PALINDROMES Mr Nathan D Rappaport sends along these really excellent palindromes both of which make good sense reading backward or forward: DRAW PUPIL’S LIP UPWARD NO IT IS OPPOSED ART SEES TRADE’S OPPOSITION And this which actually appeared on a store window in Yreka California: YREKA BAKERY Out of Headers Tells Slorv of Si I 111 rick rant Su‘nj be in) umiht (tint tie w v a great organizer and poxsesstd of a s' tong will and much fivulnr nhiluv and Ins enihusiiisin and fj'th In his wuik In plied linn to tipit ill'll kings and princes ux though they h id bn n put there for lus purpute of the 'goad tCVnMintPd From Of tt'p Chrhtmn failti luu of Unless ui 10:1 He was a We aie told he founded 3o0 churches baptized with tits own hands 12 000 people and ordained a great many priests He dea’t a death blow to the reHe banished ligion of the Druids toads and snakes from Ireland and he performed many astounding miracles In his eontests with Ilruidical prints confounded his enemies by brim-mdown riarlness Uxn them nnd many dually wonderful things truhtim rnVt's him with doing 'I’he rine of Ids death Is probably 4i!3 at a place tailed Saul At this death so great was the glory that was no night for 12 days it is there claimed Ihs writings consist of The existence of two oth- ns ' - 'ss Inspired by our recent puzzle about the mysterious breaking of a ledge Mr James McAndrew sends along a similar problem for d consideration the one shown in Diagram 1 A weight is suspended from a pulley which in turn is hung from a spring baU ance The fall rope is tied to the floor What should the scale read? The second one is somewhat more difficult The same weight is hung from two pulleys arranged as shown in Diagram No 2 This pulley system is known as the “Spanish burton" Now what is the downward pull which must be exerted on rope D in order to raise that weight? five-poun- five-poun- (Cop rh lit Tress Publishtnic Company er Patricks about the same time caused much confusion in the history of the earlv Irish chinch KNJHT MARSHAL HOPE NEL- SON Age 12 Salt Lake Uurtied Tttast and IHanutndf Culled Same The poor young bride who always binned the toast can no longT be ridiculed bv her hungry hu band If he does trv fo sav anything sh- - rtn simply tell him that she is uiakng New York WorM d ISIS diamonds Tor Popular Science Magazine for March camos the bit of news that a famous physicist ipf India has discovered that burnt toast and diamonds are one and the same tiling In fact the carbon of burnt toaxt is made up of diamonds tyo tiny to be seen but diamonds nevertheless The only tiling that stands In the way of utilizing burnt toast for en-- gr : ment rings Is t tie fact that folks and no one mght not understand— to has yet discovered how put these nunuie diamonds together Into ft perfect gem ye |
