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Show To Host Corks Vertically. A wash basin or a bath tub and seven corks are all tho apparatus needed need-ed for this experiment, and It will, I hope, be none tlio less intorostliig n account nf Its simplicity. The problem Is, then, how to cause thoso corks to flout vertically. Everybody knows that an ordinary cork, bolng considerably longer than It la broad. Is forced tn float, when put in water, upon Its long sldo. How can we make It float iiin Its head? Place one of tho corks on end on the tnhlo; surround It with the othor six, all upon end; take tlieso seven corks compactly In ono band and plunge them completely. Remove your hand and let them take their own position In tho water. The water that has penotrnted the corks will rausn them to cling to-gethor. to-gethor. bocuuso their unltod width Is grentor than their 1-inglh. This effect of curOary cohesion amusingly domnnstrntes that "in union there In strength." Home Mads Tether Ball. This Is a good time of year to play tether ball, and It Is not hard to make all the things needed to play It with In ense you hnvo not got tbo money to buy them ready mndo. Kvon If yon have, It's a good thing to learn to make things once and a whllo. Just to know how. I Klrnl of all, get a, straight stick or - ' - pole shout seven or olglil feet long, and slick It llruily In the ground. At , tho top end tlu a ntout string nhout the aaino length as tho polo o a little 1 shorter, and to tho other end of the ( t atrlng tie an obi cotton glove. If yoa have ouo; If not. any glove will 1 answer. Inolilo of this put a tennis 1 bail or one of rubber. If you have not got tbo tenuis rackets that are gener- . t ally usod tn this game, make paddles llko ping pong Imls only a llttlo lurger. out of thin, smooth hoard, such aa la to be found In soup boxes. ' ' I A good placo for tho pule Is In the ! back yard, even thourli tho yard be , quite small, for I lie gnino does not I require much spneo. To plu) It two 1 persons Btand on opposlto sides of V the polo, facing each other with a ' bat; the game Is to wind the string around tho polo by hatting the ball. ,y , ouo person sending It In ono dlrectloa .' and tlio othor In tho other. Whoever I succeeds In winding It all tho way ' round In bis own uiructlon wlaa the t game. i i A Counting Puzzle. I Here Is a now kind of puzzle. Cut I out the threo squarus shown at tbo I bottom of tbo above diagram Bad t placo them on tho ulna squares com- j posing tho big annate in such a way that uach row, counting tho square in the largo llgure, mid the one yoa , placo thero, will have Just tout squares. Tho number of square must : : 1 1 j . ! ) i i J ; 99' amount to four, counting In every dw ; ruction, up aud down, crussways Bad diagonally. Riddles. Why ! the loiter K like TarlsT Because Be-cause It In the capital of France. Why should a horse seldom fee! v hungry T llecause It nearly alwar i ban a bit In Ita mouth ' Why is tho letter A like 1! o'clock! Decaus It Is in tho middle of day. i 1 |