| 1 | × | 9 | + | 2 | = | 11 |
| 12 | × | 9 | + | 3 | = | 111 |
| 123 | × | 9 | + | 4 | = | 1111 |
| 1234 | × | 9 | + | 5 | = | 11111 |
| 12345 | × | 9 | + | 6 | = | 111111 |
| 123456 | × | 9 | + | 7 | = | 1111111 |
| 1234567 | × | 9 | + | 8 | = | 11111111 |
| 12345678 | × | 9 | + | 9 | = | 111111111 |
No. XXXVIII.—CHESS CAMEO
By Frank Healey
A Masterpiece
BLACK
WHITE
White to play, and mate in three moves.
DIVINATION BY FIGURES
There is a pleasant touch of mystery in the following method of discovering a person’s age:—Ask any such subjects of your curiosity to write down the tens digit of the year of their birth, to multiply this by 5, to add 2 to the product, to multiply this result by 2, and finally to add the units digit of their birth year. Then, taking the paper from them, subtract the sum from 100. This will give you their age in 1896, from which their present age is easily determined.