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Show A Wonderf yV Leek. Mr. Noumnn Tobias,' o Kingston, Jamaica, has Invented a most romark-ftblo romark-ftblo lock. Tho .combination -consists of four sots of 21 letters of. tho alphabet, alpha-bet, which enn bo set to n, s?ntonco In most modern languages. When one letter is used In ono nlphnbct nnd nn-othor nn-othor In tho second set, nnd so on, II becomes a very .complicated mattot Indeed. Then theyo. Is the inltlnl problem of what lnngungo It hns boon koyed in, to bo solved by tho man who attempts to open the safe. Furthermore, Further-more, snya tho Scientific Amorlcan, Instead In-stead of lottors, Mr. Tobias has employed em-ployed Tour sots of, numerals. Assuming Assum-ing that tho lock Is set to a figure In tho number of 3,030,303,030,030,303;030, it would tnko anyono who undertook tho Job of unlocking tluysafe 90,090,. 278 years,' 2C9 days, SOjlfilnutes, nnd 30 seconds working Tit tho rato of 60 numbers a- mlnuto'to arrive at the proper "combination." During thU tlmo ho would bnvo no tlmo for oat-Ing, oat-Ing, drinking or sleeping. |