HIS HOBBY
William Ewart Gladstone.
A man will go wild at trees.
A SOLDIER’S ANAGRAM
Lord Kitchener of Khartoum.
Oh firm rod! the knack to rule!
No. LV.—A PRETTY TRICK
Ask some one to place five cards (not court cards) in a row, to add up their pips, and to place two cards representing that number below, for subtraction, as is shown in the diagram.
Let him then place cards to represent the result of subtraction, remove which one he pleases of these, and tell you the sum of the remaining pips.
You can at once tell him the value of the card removed by deducting the number of pips in that remainder from the next highest multiple of 9. Thus, in the instance shown above, if one of the sixes is removed, the sum of the remaining pips is 12, and 18 - 12 = 6. A space must be left for any 0.