Mathematrick a PUZZLING PLANE THAT FOLDS up the Gorgon's Head Mystery CRYPTOGRAM
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THE SANFORD HERALD, SANFORD, FLORIDA WEDNESDAY, JULY Iff, 1917 A PUZZLING PLANE THAT FOLDS UP Mathematrick STAMP TAX MARBLE MYSTERY LJERK ii a stamp poser to tax * * your wits: J their marbles to arrange Mr. Phil A. Tellst hat three some trades. They found that rare stamps in his collection. together they had a total of 174 One Is red, one 4s brown, one Is marbles. For the trading, Juan blue. The denominations are 26 arranged all hla marbles into ; u 1 dilars, 10 dilars and 2 dilars, piles of seven each, while Jote hot necessarily |n that order. divided his Into piles of nine Arrange the numbers | Can you determine the color each. Between them they had one to fourteen. of each denomination from the 22 piles. How many marbles had elusive, In the fourteen following statements, only one each boy? surrounding white boxes of which Is nirreet? so that the numbers In 1. Jhe 26 dilar stamp Is red. 2. The 10 dilar stamp la not the three boxes on each EGGZACTLY RY this catch question on 3. Tlie 2 dilar stamp Is not nineteen In every case. friends -m m - One .hundred hens laid 100 •■n' J*u* si m w *! s i esHs in one hour and forty mtu »i • i«si pu*r*e se-sw *■" ' ." V / 1 \ "•.) »s»j s w minutes. At the same rate of ,*«JV £ , 7 / > 7 / speed how long will It take seven The Gorgon's Head Mystery THE JEALOUS HUSBANDS RS. Appleby, Mrs. Bcednne and Mrs. Ceeme M were good friends and so it came about that the three women and their husbands went off on a hiking trip together. It turned nut that their hus bands all were jealous men, and this presented a problem when the six hikers reached a wide river. For there was only one boat at hand In which they There's no doubt about If, could get across, only two persona could jret In the Sutan Hayward it Hit personi ________ . ‘ \ pUZZLIKO Is only a hobby to C. B. Colby. Avia- boat at a time, and no woman could be with a man • tlon la his profession, so the silhouette of the unless her husband was present. fication of IT, according to the Hollywood idea of it. But eht'd plane that Is the solution of hie latest‘‘ Foldie" In what manner, then, did they cross the river, in the boat and avoid trouble among the men? hardly bring to mind tomt of puttie Is technically correct In detail thi other ."its" for which tht To solry a “ Foldie.” which Is a new version of If you’ve never tackled a poser like this before, we suggest that you use three pennies to represent Greeks anif others, hart words. _____ • - an old pufile that was ones, very popular, you the .husbands and three nickels or dimes for the You hart to think up them, in • ^ a i^ r N 'c iO I I R I K jr i cut out Urn entire boxed area above. Then, hy wives, in working it out this Whit Quit. Girt your mem ULJLJ -1 U — folding snd refolding It, you cause the splotches ory a tossing around, and tost 1. One thousand, two hundred, 0f black within It to meld Into one design—the nothing’and one Is hound to silhouette of the plane at left. ----------- a country, T was ons of Inspector Ferret’s oddest rases. Thera Cornell's and Vlyt was no apparent reason why any one /xcepl set" home, DoctorI K should have killed Mrs. K. • i s Famous plar\ist. leave contempt. CRYPTOGRAM But before drawing conclusions, let us have the doctor’s story: 4n irritation. WISE observation of Joseph Conrad may be “ My wife couldn't sleep and as the night was warm read by deciphering this substitution crypto Biblical land of five hundred showing a result A she seated herself by the screened window In. our gram. You can do it by discovering what system bedroom. The lflgbt was offend I dosed off, then sud that Is dear. lucid snd glowing. of alphabetical arrangement was substituted In denly awoke with the startling feeling that something Kind of printing 4. One thousand, fifty and spelling nut the seven words awful had happened. 1 railed out to her to find If she was all right. She replied reassuringly. 1 guessed I 7. JT Separate article, L’MI.fiSZ 0 JM7.R IWOCT .SQOAIR.JGS> had had a nightman and. decided I needed a cigarette. f»WQ KBK.NQZ. Wandering. •"i„ rw-i • <«n * - . i , lemw** jumped up, and turned \o. IT- to her snd taw she was badly hurt. As I tried to stop the bleeding and felt her puli*. she died. Terrified. I itieeiulppi River. rushed to the dining-room and called the police. Then IT: Automotivt centtr. I locked myself In the dining-room and barricaded the IT: Drinkers' talult. door, for I feared an aaadaain would lire another shot.” CHARADES DIAMOND It was In the dining-room that the police found the IT: Skillful bodily or doctor. They also found that tha screen in ths bed mentally, Th* Encyclopedia of Putties Substitute tht letters of words for which room *oe intart—it had no bullet holes. The woman rIT: Rend asunder. and Pastimes axya that after definitions are given b*low tor the x'e in this bad been killed by a bullet from the,gun that lay be ■IT: Grain mart. th* invention of movable types diagram, so that ths words read the asms ver side her. Ths nature of tha wound indicated tha bullet and printing presses Introduced tically and horixontally: had been flrtd from short-range. Tha doctor aaid he •IT: Draw together. literature to the European had not seen or heard an Intruder. IT: Courage. masses, but before censorships To the police, it appeared the doctor had killed his IT: What fortune-tell of the dictators of that time wife. The belief was atraqgthened when they asked • were torn down, the charade him to look around and sr^tf anything had been was a common form of political stolen. Thers hid been no burglary, for a pearl neck propaganda. It was difficult for lace and several diamond necklaret lay upon the dead woman's drasssr, and ths doctor said tha only thing es um si -»iio it -iisg it ws«no censora to cope with it; for them mining was an Iron ornament, shaped Ilka a gorgin'! htl***J j m *U-»KIt II’IIHJ •*II "'*•v»»«vv|W «• V| *1W'M1 to place the worst construction UMMER'S juft around the to each following word of the •»••>! II "II SI jvtwvni k •corner, so we all halt some- quotation In order, you must bead, which bo claimed had been taken from the wall. S •—■*! I »ll»l| V -t*w*4i| -VI| f upon a charade was to admit S And so matters stood when Inspector Ferret arrived. | *>vi|i| *f (|H| i i w m ( the validity of the gossip or ely thing to look forward to. Right • papa between two circles only "I can’t understand why anyone would want that allegations that It concealed. now, we can dnd a familiar say- every time. However, the di- gorgon's head,” tha doctor rspeatad. "It wai just a Ing about Summer, written by rectlone of the moves vary. ENIGMA The acted charade wai popu 1. P. t. To tread. S. Tines. 4. Long drawn out trinket I picked up In Europe.” Mark Twain, by going around In arriving at the solution. lar In older times, with guests speechta of vttuperitivs language. 6. Pyramidl- “On the contrary," remarked the Inspector, **lt Is in this word max*. each word will be used once and worth a man'* Ufa. Youra.” dividing themselves Into teams cal. 6. Interoceanlc waterway In the Americas. 7. Inscribed. I. Calmer. 0. Healthier. 10. Boy. Quotation marks give you a once only. You will note that What did Inspector Ferret mean by tbla remark? to endeavor to .’’stump” each Study the diagram and-plctur# carefully and sea If 11. L. —Nottut Holderread. clue to the drat and last words some words are repeated In the other with words dramatized. can tall how Dr. K'a Innocence was shown. of the quotation. When you have diagram. 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