TOO LATE

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 1, 2 January 1937, Page 4

TOO LATE

The story of a homeless derelict who died at Mountvernon, a small town near New York, and was buried in a pauper's grave two months before his brother in Cornwall died leaving him a small fortune, is told in a message from the New York correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph."

The man was an Englishman, Edward Honeycombe, aged 69. His brother William, a retired farmer of Addington, near Liscard, Cornwall, died last July, unaware that Edward was dead, and leaving him £500 and a third share in his estate, which was reported to be worth between £8000 and £9000. Edward was doing odd.jobs at a cafe wherf-Jie -died,

. Roaders with a little Ingenuity will find In " this column an abundant store of ontertaini ment and amusement, and the solving ot -l the problems should provide excellent mental :- exhilaration. While some of the "nuts" i, may appear harder than others, it will be found that none will require a sledgehammer to crack them. Addrefs correspondence to P.O. Box 1177. Wellington. 1 A NEW YEAR PROBLEM. s "You know old Adam, don't you? He . is a very enthusiastic gardener, but '- he has some mathematical ideas in his "_ brain also. He told me last Thursday ■y that he had pegged out a new flovver- \ bed, which is a perfect right-angled j triangle, having each side a whole - number of feet without additional ' inches, and the length of one side is . sxactly one chain. Now, can you ) guess ■ the dimensions of that * flower-bed?" I replied that I thought ; I could. One chain is exactly 66 feet, • so it seemed only necessary to think j of the 3, 4, 5 ratio, and to make the i sTdes 66, 88, and 110 feet. To this my j helpful friend replied that, if the prob- > lem had been as simple as that, she . would not have taken up my valuable time with it. I fetched pencil and , paper, and made another triangle, in which the sides are 66, 112, and 130 . feet, and my friend had to admit that > she had overlooked this solution. "But 'r old Adam's idea is much more amj bitious, and his flowed-bed is very much bigger," she added. "The fact 1 that he made it on December 31 ought ,tobe an easy clue for you. Now, i once more, what are the dimensions of ] the triangle?" AN EVENING AT THE PICTURES. John intended to take Janet to the . pictures, but they found the house , full. Fortunately he met a friend who had reserved two seats in the front ; row upstairs, and did not want them. These were more expensive than the seats John had wanted, but the friend sold them to him at the price charged for the cheaper seats downstairs. When they came out of the theatre during the interval, »iey met another friend, who had been unable to gain admission, and they sold the butts of their tickets to him for just half of what they had paid, considering this a faildeal, as only half of the programme remained. Now if the prices of the seats in pence, the half-price paid, the number of seats occupied, and the numbers printed on those seats were all inserted in their proper places in the story above, all the numerals from 1 to 9 would be used once and no more. It must be stated that their seats were not next to one another, because one seat between them had been bought by another person. What were the numbers of these seats and the prices paid? I DID BUT SEE HER PASSING BY. I was talking to a friend only a few days ago, when a car passed us, ornamented in a not unusual way with white ribbons. When I made a brief remark on the subject my friend stated that she knew the very young bride quite well, but she seemed unwilling to tell me anything more. All she said was: "The numerals which make the year in which she'" was born when added together make my own age. I wish I could say they make her age, because that would be a better problem, but perhaps you can solve this one." Perhaps my informant was not aware that I know her age to be seventeen. What is the age of the i lady in the car? A LUNCHEON PARTY. "Here is another neat little problem I for you. Mr. W., a man, who had a large garden with some very rare plants, was prevailed upon to admit a party of his wife's friends, who were members of a women's club. He arranged with a firm of caterers to serve lunch, and it cost him a sum of money in which the number of shillings was three times the number of pounds, and there were no pence. Now, in spite of the fact that this was a multiple of shillings, the price per head charged for the lunch was not a matter of silver only. You will be surprised to hear that it exceeded a number of shillings by one penny." I objected to this, and pointed out that ( the price charged for each person •, must be one penny less than a whole ] number of shillings, but this seems to ( have been just what my friend was t waiting for me to say. "I meant what \ I said," she replied, "so many shillings and one penny for each lunch. Now j how many persons were there, and t what price did the contractor charge?" j

TWO ARMCHAIR PROBLEMS. Mr. Jones had. to stop his car for a few minutes to attend to a small defect, and as this happened at a short distance from a crossroads, where he could see a signpost, he sent his son ahead to read the directions. The boy did not return, and when Mr. J. overtook him, his explanation, or rather his excuse, was that he had become interested in the four distances shown on the board. The number of miles to Ashley, the place they had passed, was three times the distance to Clearwater, the place ahead of them. The road to the left led to Blackrock, and the other to the right was the road they must follow to Dust Hill. The four numbers added together made 33. The father interrupted to say' that the distance to Dust Hill was the only one that he wanted. The fccy replied that it was one-tenth of the sum of all the other distances. If no fractions of miles are used, how far away is Dust Hill?

Some roses of a particular colour were required for a decoration, and a ■ florist was able to supply only a limited number that were suitable, for which he charged 7d each. A second man supplied a larger number than the first, but his price was Bd. The purchaser had to pay exactly nine shillings for what he obtained from both shops. How many did he buy. SOLUTIONS. Anagram.—lngress, Resigns, Singers. „„■ Railway Fares.—There were 47 persons, each of whom paid 41 pence. The alternative is ruled out by the details about the odd sixpence. Mental Arithmetic—They made their brain-work very easy. Each time they had a settlement, each of the men present paid 7s. Dwelling Houses.—Numbers 14 and 22 in Upper Terrace, and number 2 in lower terrace. The last figure becomes negative in the calculation, because the numbers here increase in the direction contrary to that of the other numbers. Stamp Collectors.—A, B, and C have 94, 114, and 165 stamps respectively. It is clear that the celculations can not be performed without fractions of stamps, but these are only imaginary, and the totals, which are whole numbers, are not rendered inadmissible. Wool Presser.—The conditions stated are ambiguous, so that there must be two solutions. As fractions cf pounds are not taken into account in weighing bales, we may accept the other result which gives whole numbers, that r i*-^396 t _sC£Uh.