The Puzzle King / Amusing arithmetic, book-keeping blunders, commercial comicalities, curious "catches", peculiar problems, perplexing paradoxes, quaint questions, queer quibbles, school stories, interesting items, tricks with figures, cards, draughts, dice, dominoes, etc., etc., etc.

by John Scott

If to-day is the to-morrow of yesterday, is to-day the yesterday of to-morrow?

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[67.] Suppose that four poor men build their houses around a pond, and that afterwards four evil-disposed rich men build houses at the back of the poor people—as shown in illustration—and wish to have a monopoly of the water: how can they erect a fence so as to shut the poor people off from the pond?

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SOME TRADE SIGNS AND MOTTOES.

Many curious inscriptions are to be found displayed on shop windows, office doors, etc.

Here are a few:—

A Pawnbroker.—“Mine is a business of the greatest interest.”

A Flourishing Bootmaker.—“Don’t you wish you were in my shoes?”