Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-08-17
!. Imuss have got some ohsff in my eyes when

of Il. i must have got some chat in my eyes when
used the iutransive verb sat instead OF tne transi
tive verb seated. Yet humble as your correspondent
may be, he still thinks himself of sufficient i'm
portance to spell his name with big Ii If for no
ton between proper and common nouns. 1 wo lld
say to Brother Innis that Limestones are As plenty
in this part o. the country as leaves .orest
trees and il is just natural that should seat my
obe lient Straw-man upon a large one as 1t would
be for George and sammy, whom done hoeiDs row
whittle stoks while talking over some knotty prob
lem. IL.
swer cross questions. beginning at Firstly he says
he uses the same grammar that teaches Brother IN
mis- TO spell the com noun limestone with big
He says that it does not follow that
peighbor Tubb's wife gives him severe druoolng
clothes in vessel called Tab. Secondly. the verb,
seatet should have been used iuste ad OF sat-
l.. brother lnnis spectacles need wipl1g-eant hnd
the word '.axale" in No. 81 the word axle occurs
but twice in the prob em aud is spelled correctly
each time. Fourthly. the word running is not sim
placed bofore the noun and read-running wheels.
instead of-the wheels of the cars running on the
raisIshowing what the wheels do. not the kind Of Of
limits wheels. the rails, is an adyerbial element
and limits the action of running to the rails of track
Fifth he did not claim by the data of No. ~ that
the outer rail was eevatei but drew the inference
from the fact that that rail is always elevated at
curve. Sxthly, he cannot make it appear from the
data of the problem that the cars must be loaded
while in motion or even standing upon the curve !;
all that is required is to place the load in such
manner that when passing around the curve it bears
equally upon each rail. Think Mr.. Straw-man still
stands acquitted. He says he can defend his pasi,
for that purpose from the enemy. in verbal debate,
where words cost nothing but time, and do not fill
up space in this Interesting column. l will send
Yours, Mathemat'caly.
LIMESTONE. -
BELLE POINT. o.. August IL. 1867.
Mr.. EDIroR-I am much Obliged to you for TAX
ing much pains to send your paper to my address,
but am much engaged at present that have
couple Of hours on each of dozen hard problems.
Yet Hike to read what the rest write, and | can
truly say gain Information every time. think in
Ike my place again. Idon't aspire to the head of
the class b, any means; nor does new hat" make
a%ons AZ % the ladies' with new hat il not, You can
squeeze them enough for both of us Brother Delta,
included between the points where the or i1ate and
the normal cross it, or rather that part of the alb
scissa forms side of the triangle. For instance
draw ellipse, assume the point required in the
curve draw lines fir m this point to the foci, and
Insect the angle included between these lines /;
the same point in the curve and the part of major
axis included will be the sides of the required tri-
angle 1d o,dnstS rSt and No is
it to see how the boys manage Cardan's irrednci-
BILE case' of cubics. have method for finding
the approximate roots of all numerical bic equa-
tions. The method was discovered aud published
by Prof. E. W. Evans, of Marietta College, Ohio.
It is by the use of con- inued fractions and loga-
rithms. il
No. l46 wide ireenleafs atonal Arithmetic. page
43S) does not give the exact contents s. K. has the
rule. Add together the areas of the two bases and
four times the area of parallel section at equal
one sixth of the altitude. wide Davies Leg Trig
under mensuration, page l25)
have not time for No. l57. and if l had. fear
could not master it. BY letting a7xs. elxs. i25xa
represent the numbers, some of the conditions could
be easily filed shall let it pass for the present. but
No. l5sgW hole number of apples 45Os. of which
Guernsey received nearly 25n5, and Delta 2On3. Iii
viding Whist each one paid by his number gives the
proc l may have made some mistake. but my equa-
No. 159 is absurd. since the product Of two num-
number.
ANSWERS. fol
No. 1eo-e4o5
No. l6l-He gained $40.
No.II63-slX and lsX. This is cubic equation
and NAV be solved by rules already r. ferred TO.
soon find the sides by tria but l don't know any
No. i65-The edge is inches.
No 156 -DimeI sions by rods.
No. 167-Dameter7hi y inches nearly: mean thai
tho diameter of the globe shall be reduced to about
tell % how much they should be brought in. SoIvet
BY quadratics-frst find the diagonal through tht
csnier of Globe and s1Stsct dagopal tbrogpb egS
No. l68-Diagonal of Bee Box Ok inches.
COLUMBUS. o.. Aug. IL. 1857.
Mr.. EDITOR: Two business trips prevented m,
from taking my place in the class last week; conss
ouentIy. / Suppose must go fo t | was glad. how
ever, to see fine column you had. Thric,
welcome our new contributors. hope they may, a
believe they can add much interest to the column
cordially extend to them all the right hand of fel
lowship. have been thinking. Mr.. Editor, thst w
place fodder too high for the lambs to reach it
or, in other words. our problems embrace too man,
very hard ones for children or perhaps even ladie
to heS ss fa tbsn
their presence.
wss instructed. Mr.. Editor. by s. KS commu
nicaton last week. Still think SO is the true IN
swer to Problem No. 1l3. Isolved this pro nlem OIL
the same principles S. x. takes. and at first 60
places further approached still nearer and neare
q foot of g. think he cannot take his answer an
reverse the process and get the original number
given in the data. see Bro. s. X. in common
with some other members of our class thinks Bro
Sammy = crusty old bachelor with firery red head
That has been answered emphaticaly ABB by at leas
six young ladies tn whom he lad p pped the cues
ton All this is wrong. Bro Sammy is black hare
young gentleman having not yet reached, the year
of old bacheorhood. and to whom at least one youn
lady would be but too glad to or yes should
conclude to pop the question.
Brother E BPS solution to Problem No 1s9 is
good one. l was handed the tta for this probler
by my friend John Cox. Esq of Madison township
franklin county whom understood to sav tn t tn
problem had been sent to a Teachers Institute /
solve. The teachers there present said it Gould ne
be solved from the data given. solved il by Trig
enometry. in very different way from E. B.. whic
proves there are at least tw) ways this problem ca
he solved. as obtained the same answers as Z
BrSthsT A. X! X M gives q & good solution Of prob
in well doing, But entreat you not to say agai
one cannot farm and study the higher order of nah
s%atiSSs This notion that fsr%srs N are nsoessail
most emphatlcally protest against:
We haze more leisure than the merchant, mt
something requiring thought9 Simply b cause "
become too (mentslly) lazy. Come. bestr yoursel
r. M and sGg 0ts soO s can snd 5aEe y II B
take the trouble to coin them. The beauty of it i
too. you can coin them faster and faster easier an
ct easier the moro you try. What, Mr.. Edito
have become of the young ladi of our clas
Where IS Matte? She sent US very nice proble
of o: aoe bee
dear Robin squeezed" Jennie $50 hard, poor girl
don't be discouraged, so easily. dear Molle, but tt
But must pass on to the solution of some pro-
lens:
No. Lessons 9. daughters 8 a pretty good fami
No. TO-64 years. He ought to have had mo
No III" Dear Robin" bought 10 bushels of p
tatOes.
No I74--This problem is No. ll3 over again, al
solved in similar manner, with the addition
work of finding the of the equilsteral ang
ter finding the sides.
No time for any more solutions this week.
q. 3. INNS
PROBLEM NO. $50.
Two men, A and B. purchase 300 acres of land
$500, each paving $500; but when they came TO
vide the land, AS land was worth Is cents per at
more than BIS. They agreed to divide aocordingl
Required each ones share of the lani.
GEO. S. INNS
PROBLEM NO. ISL.
Delta and Guernsey were picking pears for D,
Robin" Delta guessed there would be bushels
the tree. Guernsey laughed. and said there woI
be Is bushels. How meny bushels Of pears IN,
there be so their guess shall be equally near the
act amount? GEO. S. INNS
PROBLEM NO. 1S2.
Mr.. W. A. Lawrence, of this place. has two lot:
cattle of different qualities in the pens in Baltm
for which he paid $1,000. If he sells the first lot
S2l so per head his clear profit will be what each
the other lot cost him.. And if he sell these for