STRANGE BUT TRUE.
[76.] Two persons were born at the same place at the same moment of time; after an age of 50 years they both died also at the same place and at the same instant, yet one had lived 100 days more than the other. How was this remarkable event achieved?
ASTRONOMICAL.
[77.] The planet Jupiter is five times further from the sun than our earth, and 1331 times larger. Assuming that the diameter of the earth is 7912 miles, find Jupiter’s diameter, circumference and area.
AN UNSOLVED PROBLEM.
One of the commercial questions of the day which remains to this time unsettled, is whether the fact of a gentleman having NO TIN may not have something to do with the answer he invariably sends of NOT IN when anyone calls on him with a bill.
[78.] Find nine numbers in arithmetical progression—common difference 3—whose sum is equal to 5670, and arrange in a square, each side containing three different numbers, so that, when added vertically, horizontally or diagonally, the sum of each three numbers will amount to 1890.