Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-10-19
THE PUZZLEH,S COLUMN.

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By some sort of negligence we ave TINS far ov er
looked very interesting communication frou
Limestone. We can assure him I'VE did 90 for t.
do it apurpose.' but it was an oversight, cause
perhaps. by excitement over the election,
John Soubriquet come to hand too late for our last
Column. but hore he is as good as new.
We don't know what brother Innis is doing. Well
stir him up little if he don't put in an appearance
next week.
DUBLIN. o.. Sept. oath. 1867.
mr; EDITnR:-Unto the brecch once more and
wheel our Franklin County Brigade into line of
battle! have answers to a number of TIE easier
wi not fill up space wi h them now. have been
looking at Problem No. 2O2 little. am quite GER
answer that he returned to it."-that the cam IN
ball would meet the sonorons l2 s47 feet above
the earth : now nov that amount taken FROM the whole
distance l6 020 feet leaves but l73 feet he
lance tr.y,ed by the sound. and since it is DEM
onssrated tdao in Acoustics--that sound travel 5
plain that the time before meeting in mid air as
not even three seconds, and that the cannon ball
it only falls lie LA the first second
10 nnd the distance passed over by a falling body
the distance passed over the first second, find the
me 70 DC aSia seconds which squared. and multi
tance passed over bv bsl, ias eat ins
7si7 seconds.gives S,926.s feet traversed by the
sound and place of meeting in mid air.
Proof. Feet.
The ball descends. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 1888 X
The whole distance. nce.........lsoao ls oao l .
LIMESTONE.
GENOA, ONO. Oct S. 1867
MR. EDIToR:-O what a sorry sight greeted my
with sometimes halt to it, retuced to little bet.
ter thsn quarter column Boys, what does this
mean? Come on. don't let this column fail. I am
mathematician eufn.,. ed wit latfs
the rest 60. send no answers this week as they
JOHN SoUBRIQUET.
CoLLrSsvILLE. BUTLER COUNTY. oHro.l
October Il. 1867. !
Mr. EDITOR Il now have my papers. and will
perhaps. all been answered before this time.
nan s1s m ND weS9ne to Wes and hope he will ex
SCARE root Of will give go. Perhaps don't under
| think E. B. is wrong on No. 227. think he can
plant few more hills. by planting them in the form
rows which must form squares in order to occupy
r, Some one must be wrong on No. aaI; who is it?
No. 2as Ans sos feet. This divided by PAX gives
the number of perches. But in our town the masons
'a,l ICE e. feet perch =,
No. 2ss -I523.
NO. 2J9-is Guernsey says sometimes, I'D facere
No. e4o:-The arc of each cord of the inscribed
iodecagon is 30 degrees. We have twelve isoscelese
these cords. and the perpendicular drawn from the
angle in circumference will be the sine of Is de-
ca of each of these "a right aneled trianeies in
.erms of radius The area of each triangle is l25
Hf NJ and ID Of all the area is three times
pur times the radius 2. Therefore dodecagon is
M 2lI The
iiyide these .ut. we viii then have a qusdratic of
which the 10 Is are a plus or minus OF the SO lare
No. 242.-The numbers are sal6 and X.
:, WASHINGTON. o.. Oct. Il, 1867
must aot TO get Our duty to the good old column"
| did attend @ last week. and so will now begin
NY problems Nos. 243 and 244 were correctly an
wered; 1921 per cent. and sls.a5 feet being tie
Are not Brother Innis' potatoes dug by this time
how would like to see him again in his place.
once heard pretty little lady sing pret.y tse
alling of the year"
Problem No. 245~l456 rails.
No. 246-2s inches.
No. 24-By considering the f28 as capital and
No. assesses plus inches
NO 2o0-lhis one Is addressed to our br lther in
is solution.
No. 252-l6 incnes.
have just received another letter from Broth er
naticsl nuts, before uncracked together with the
'anen'er and the mode of using it.
DELTA.
WASHINGTON, Ohio. Oct. IA. le67.
Silence! silence! oh, what q noise! Who can
york mathematics amid such growing of roosters,
ing,ng OF songs ringing of bells, laughing of men,
silence. ssyI Mr. Editor, make 'em al ali Sa hoId up
T rather hold in, til say .'how dye do" to the
lass. How slai am to get back again amid such
gain. to be away "one aoeek only" ~
he STATESMAN for Oct. .l2:
No. s5O-Cannot make out the exact length of
his N curve gI % Of pursuit"
No. 25i-I think that cylinder will furnish lead
pSSush 1t to go round Aole 16 Z inches long.
20. 254-I think the numbers are. the radical u.
ide first by. minus, ,. Add quotient to
quare root Of X Substitute this in n the aSs osRer
$ above "a foe problem. may no, Be rishtJ
PROBLEM NO. 255.
The period Of Juno's annual revolution around
ne sun Is 1886 days; what is its distance from the
un =! Yours, &c.,
N. B.--I second Delta's motion for a Puzzler's
onvention.
PROBLEM NO. 256.
Having a log at the mill Ia inches in diameter, I
Vlsh to know the Dimensions of a section of the
trongest beam which can be made out of it
DELTA.
PROBLEM NO. 257.
How high must person at Philadelphia be raised
nto the atmosphere aud how far must his sight ex-
end, to London. if the distance was 81 degrees
nd the carth's diameter ,964 miles? DELTA.
PROBLEM NO. 25S
cylinder inches in length and inches in di-
meter. If an Inch suger hole be bored through it
and another at right angles to the first
low many solid inches now in cylinder?
ONE WHO DONT KNOW.
PROBLEM NO. 259.
Two points, NJ and N, in the radius Victor, have
he following cO-ordindes, VIZ:
Abscissas l2 and inches
Ordindes 16 and inches.
Required their distance apart GUERNSEY
PROBLEM NO. 260.
That Protean Garden of Delta has assumed to-
ay quadrangular form. Its Dimensions are these;
ne difference OF the square root of its width and
he square of its length is 79 rods. and the sum Of
he square of its width and the square root of its
ength Is 10. Required the area. GUERNSEY.
TAX LEvIEs.-We present below state
nent of the levies in the several town