Category: Humour
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2. Part 212. In a cricket match, a side of 11 men made a certain number of runs. One obtained one-eighth of the number, each of two others one-tenth, and each of three others one-twentie...
3. Part 3XV. In case you wish to inspect our premises, kindly do so during wet weather, and carry your umbrella with you. We admire the effect on the floor; it gives an air of comfort to...
4. Part 4A man walks round a pole on the top of which is a monkey. As the man moves, the monkey turns on the top of the pole, so as still to keep face to face with the man. Now, when the...
5. Part 585. If 100 stones are placed on the ground, in a straight line, at the distance of 1 yard from each other, how far will a person travel who will bring them all, one by one, to a...
6. Part 6124. I met three Dutchmen--Hendrick, Claas, and Cornelius--with their wives--Gertruig, Catrün, and Anna; in answer to a question they told me they had been to market to buy pigs...
7. Part 7162. Six masons, four bricklayers and five labourers were working together at a building, but being obliged to leave off one day by the rain, they went to a public-house and dra...
8. Part 8The multiplication in the above is in appearance only, for all we get in the Rule of Three is the ratio between the sums of money and this ratio is an abstract number, and not c...
9. Part 9247. An Arab Sheik, when departing this life, left the whole of his property to his three sons. The property consisted of 17 camels, and in dividing it the following proportions...
10. Part 10(93) The difficulty is to determine what would have been the will of the testator had he foreseen that his wife would be delivered of twins. As he desired that in case his wife...