MAGIC ARITHMETIC

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22004, 30 January 1937, Page 6 (Supplement)

MAGIC ARITHMETIC

The person performing this trick has paper and pencil In hand. Without letting anyone see what the

number is, he writes on his paper and folds it. (The number he writes is 1089.) He then tells the person to choose ANY number he wishes of three different figures (for example take 265). Reverse the number (562). Subtract the smaller number from the larger 562 265 and the answer remains 297. Reverse this answer, and it will be 792. Add this number to the number as it was before it was reversed, and you.have 792

1089. The magic person opens his paper, and 1089 is the number written on the

paper. The catch in this trick is, that the answer will always be the same, 1030. if any number given is three different figures.

HAS IT MOVED?

This is an original joke . for which a small prize is awarded Nellie McDonnell, Ashburton. Can you send a funny story or saying of a small sister or brotherP It must not be copied from any newspaper or maga -

Small boy, after reading paper; Mother, where has the bank of New Zealand been? Mother: But why ask such a question? Small boy: Well! it has in the paper the bank of New Zealand returns. —NELLIE MCDONNELL, • Ashburton.