Ruffler, in ‘ Vanity Fair,’ says “ Persons with a taste for arithmetic may derive some amusement in solving this problem : If a hen and a-half lay an egg and a-half in a day and a-half, how many eggs will six hens lay in seven days?” The ballot-box in a German village being found to contain a vote for a Socialist, the village crier was sent round with an offer of five shillings reward to anyone who would name the person who had given it, but in vain.
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Evening Star, Issue 7233, 8 June 1887, Page 2
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86Page 2 Advertisements Column 4 Evening Star, Issue 7233, 8 June 1887, Page 2
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