When Tommy was offered all the money by his uncle if he could place 15 half-crowns and 15 pennies in such order in a circle that, counting always by nines, and starting at a fixed point, he came always upon a penny, and removed it from the circle, he found the key to success in this Latin line, given to him by a school friend, who shared the spoil—“Populeam virgam mater regina ferebat.” The vowels, from a to u, are numbered from 1 to 5, and when they are thus marked in the sentence—
| “ | P | o | p | u | l | e | a | m | v | i | r | g | a | m | m | a | t | e | r | r | e | g | i | n | a | f | e | r | e | b | a | t | , | ” | ||||
| 4 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
they show the necessary sequence of half-crowns and pennies.
Start counting with the half-crown marked a, and remove each penny as you come to it on counting up to nine, and the conditions are fulfilled.
No. XCV.—A BUSINESS ANAGRAM
This smart advertisement of a polish known as “Old Dutch Cleanser” appeared in an American paper:—
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Cleanser