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Read the following surprising sentence. All 0. Ans. Nothing after all. Make one word of the letters of words new door . Ans. One word....

Take away one letter from a word in the above stanza and substitute another, leaving the word so metamorphosed still a word of the English language; and, by that change, totally alter the syntactical construction of the whole sentence, changing the moods and tenses of verbs, turning verbs into nouns, nouns into adjectives, and adjectives into adverbs, etc., and so make the entire stanza bear quite a different meaning from that which it has as it stands above....

Take away L in the subjunctive “Let” at the beginning of the first line, and substitute S, and so turn it into the imperative “Set,” when the changes which necessarily follow will be immediately apparent....

1. Why is ambition like a weathercock? Because it is a vain and glittering thing to aspire ( a-spire ). 2. What preserve would an egg name if it could speak? Ma-me-laid ( Marmelade ). 3. What is the difference between a schoolmaster and an engine driver? One trains the mind, the other minds the train. 4. Why are railways like laundresses? Because they have “ironed” the world, and occasionally done a little mangling. 5. Which is the most difficult train to catch? The 12:50, because it is ten to o

See Answers Following. 1. The following letters are inscribed on a stone tablet placed immediately above the Ten Commandments in a country church in the northwest of England, and are deciphered with only one letter: 2. If the B m t put some: but if the B . 3. What difference is there between twice eight and fifty, and twice fifty-eight—and what is their product? 4. In an army consisting of 187 squadrons of horse, each 157 men, and 207 battalions, each 560 men—how many effective soldiers, supposi

1. The letter E. 2. If the grate be empty, put some coal on; but if the grate be full, stop. 3. Difference 50, product 7656. 4. 144808. 5. 448 lbs. 6. 40. 7. 32. 8. 72. 9. 10. 10. H 30, K 50 and L 80. 11. 20 and 50. 12. 36. 13. 62. 14. 114. 15. 73 1 / 2 years. 16. 107 . 17. 96. 18. 216 miles. 19. 10 1 / 2 years the man, 31 1 / 2 years the woman. 20. 30. 21. 28 years....

The four figures are 8888, which, being divided by a line drawn through the middle, becomes 0000 0000 the sum of which is eight 0s, or nothing. Send 12 cents to the firm from whom you received this book, and get the Marvelous Package of Games, including checkers, dominoes, authors, etc. Biggest bargain lot of Games ever offered....

Key To Table. —Add together the figures at the top of each column in which the age is found and the sum will be the age sought. Example: Hand the table to a lady and request her to tell you in which column or columns her age is found; if she says the first, second and fifth, you can say it is 19 by mentally adding together the first figures of those three columns, and so on for any age up to 63....

“Parlor Matches”—Courting in the front room. All men are not homeless, but some are home less than others. A young Oil City gent calls his girl revenge, because she is sweet. When is a small baby like a big banker? When he is a wroth-child. Before slates were used people multiplied on the face of the earth. How may a man always become four-handed? By doubling his fists. The economical baby puts its toes in its mouth to make both ends meet. There’s nothing boisterous about the love for whiskey—it