Part 27

PROF. GOLDBURGMANN--“Herr Kannstnicht, you will the declensions give in the sentence, “I have a gold mine.”

HERR KANNSTNICHT--“I have a gold mine; thou hast a gold thine; he has a gold his; we, you, they have a gold ours, yours, or theirs, as the case may be.”

PROF. GOLDBURGMANN--“You right are; up head proceed. Should I what a time pleasant have if all Herr Kannstnicht like were!”

SPENDING THEIR “ALL.”

150. Three men going “on the spree” decide to spend all their money. The first, A, “shouts” for the company and then gives his balance to B, who also in turn pays for 3 drinks and gives his balance to C, who can then just manage to pay for drinks once more at 6d. each. How much money had each?

151. There is a regiment of 7300 soldiers, which is to be divided into 4 companies--half of the first company, two-thirds of the second, three-quarters of the third, and four-fifths of the fourth--to be composed of the same number of men. How many soldiers are there in each company?

A GRAVE MISTAKE.

A Scotch tradesman, who had amassed, as he believed, £4000, was surprised at his old clerk’s showing by a balance-sheet his fortune to be £6000. “It canna be--count again,” said the old man. The clerk did count again, and again declared the balance to be £6000. Time after time he cast up the columns--it was still a 6, and not a 4, that rewarded his labours. So the old merchant, on the strength of his good fortune, modernised his house, and put money in the purse of the carpenter, the painter, and the upholsterer. Still, however, he had a lurking doubt of the existence of the extra £2000; so one winter’s night he sat down to give the columns “one count more.” At the close of his task he jumped up as though he had been galvanised, and rushed out in a shower of rain to the house of the clerk, who, capped and drowsy, put out his head from an attic window at the sound of the knocker, mumbling, “Who’s there, and what d’ye want?” “It’s me, ye scoundrel!” exclaimed his employer. “Ye’ve added up the year of our Lord amang the poons!”

PROBLEM FOR PRINTERS.

152. A book is printed in such a manner that each page contains a certain number of lines, and each line a certain number of letters. If each page contains 3 lines more, and each line 4 letters more, the number of letters in each page will be 224 more than before; but if each page contains 2 lines less, and each line 3 letters less, the number of letters in each page would be 145 less than before. Find the number of lines in each page, and the number of letters in each line.

THE INCOME TAX.

153. The charge on a major income is the same in amount as that on a minor one, which is 2½ per cent. of their mutual difference, but the rate imposed on the overplus of a major income is 4 per cent., so that on a composite income of the major and minor the charge would be £3 8s. Required the major and minor incomes.

“Your Money or Your Life!”

154. Two gentlemen, A and B, with £100 and £48 respectively, having to perform a long journey through a lonely part of the country, agree to travel together for purposes of safety; they are, however, taken unawares by a gang of bushrangers who, calling upon them to “bail up,” ease them of some of their cash. The leader of the gang was satisfied with taking twice as much from A as from B, and left to A three times as much as to B. How much was taken from each?

GEOMETRICAL MUSIC.

· A point, my boys, is that which has no length, breadth, or dimension. -- A line has length, and yet is but a point drawn in extension. All lines have names expressing some distinguishing particular. As: horizontal, parallel, oblique, and perpendicular. Chorus of Pupils. Oh! dear! oh! A pretty science mathematics is to know.

The lines called parallel are those which, drawn in one direction, Continued to infinity, will never make bisection. The thing perhaps sounds odd, but if you entertain a doubt, boys, I’ll draw the lines, ====== now take your slates, and work the problem out, boys.

Chorus of Pupils. Oh! dear! no! We readily believe it, Sir! since you say so!

155. In this figure rub out eight lines, and leave two squares. No side nor angle of any square must be left, otherwise that will be counted as a square.

156. A and B travelled by the same road, and at the same rate from Tamworth to Sydney. A overtook a flock of sheep, which travelled at the rate of three miles in two hours, and two hours after he met a mail coach, which travelled at the rate of nine miles in four hours. B overtook the flock 45 miles from Sydney, and met the coach 40 minutes before he came to the 31-mile post from the Metropolis. Where was B when A reached Sydney?

ENGLISH HISTORY.

A school examination paper contained the question:--“Write down all you know about Henry VIII,” and one of the small boys answered as follows:--

“King Henry 8 was the greatest widower that ever lived. He was born at Anne Domini in the year 1066. He had 510 wives besides children. The first was beheaded and afterwards executed, and the second was revoked. She never smiled again. But she said the word ‘Calais’ would be found on her heart after death. The greatest man in this reign was Lord Sir Garret Wolsey--named the Boy Bachelor. He was born at the age of fifteen unmarried. Henry 8 was succeeded on the throne by his great-grandmother, the beautiful Mary, Queen of Scots, sometimes called Lady of the Lake or the Lay of the Last Minstrel.”

157. Two boys, A and B, run round a ring in opposite directions till they meet at the starting point, their last meeting place before this having been 990 yards from it. If A’s rate to B’s be as 5 to 3, find the distance they have travelled.

THE VALUE OF HOME LESSONS.

Two teachers of languages were discussing matters and things relative to their profession.

“Do your pupils pay up regularly on the first of each month?” asked one of them.

“No, they do not,” was the reply; “I often have to wait weeks and weeks before I get my pay, and sometimes I don’t get it at all. You can’t well dun the parents for the money.”