If five times four are thirty-three, What will the fourth of twenty be?
[109.] A locomotive with a truck is travelling over a straight level line at the rate of 60 miles an hour. A man standing at the extreme rear of the truck casts a small stone into the air in a perpendicular direction. The stone travels upward at an average rate of 30 feet per second for 3 seconds; the height of the man’s hand from ground when the stone leaves is 15 feet. At what distance behind the train will the stone strike the ground in its descent?
A Tombstone in an English Cemetery.
Many quaint and puzzling epitaphs are often to be seen engraved on several of the tombstones in some of the old cemeteries at Home. The adjoining illustration represents a tombstone in the old burial-ground of London—Kensal Green. It might “liven” up the reader to discover the scheme of kindred as given in the inscription.
SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF
TWO GRANDMOTHERS WITH THEIR TWO GRANDDAUGHTERS;
TWO HUSBANDS WITH THEIR TWO WIVES;
TWO FATHERS WITH THEIR TWO DAUGHTERS;
TWO MOTHERS WITH THEIR TWO SONS;
TWO MAIDENS WITH THEIR TWO MOTHERS;
TWO SISTERS WITH THEIR TWO BROTHERS
YET, BUT SIX CORPSES IN ALL LIE BURIED HERE—
ALL BORN LEGITIMATE FROM ERROR CLEAR.