When Edwin and Angelina received these mutual Marconigrams—

“No fickle girl is bonnie to my mind.”

“In love inconstant I no pleasure find,”

he was at Lisbon and she was at Constantinople, as is indicated by the fact that the names of these places are “buried” in the messages.

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The Mental Arithmetic—

Set down three figures in a line,
Then multiply by four;
This, if you use the proper sign,
Makes five, and nothing more.

is solved by 1.25. In 114 the figures are not in a line.

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