Litchfield enquirer., 1880-03-11
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By adding a sixteenth block the game of thirty-four or the game ofsixteen is produced
 The object of the player is 1to.so arrapgejthe blocks that the sum of their numbers will be thirty-four when added horizontally, perpena dicularly, or diagonally. TsEITY ..x' # s,.
 The puzzhhg problem of the new game of "Fifteen," when the, last twoiblocks are trans posed, so as to stand "l3 3-15-14,' is pro- nounced insoluble by Dr. Wander Weyde, of New York, the scientist of the Practical American ;" and somebody in Worcester, it is said, has offered $100 to anybody who will
 solve it. It was quickly solved, and the feat repeatedly performed in the Times office, on Friday, February 27, by Mir. Dewitt C., Pond,
 of the book firm of Pond & Chllds; and the New York Herald says one of it's reporters has solved it. The Herald says:-A % gEg
 He we'll nigh ruined valuable brain bat he found the solution. After exhausting himself in vain to reach the final solution, after re- versing the order of the IA and 15, with the board in the original position, he made an en- tirely new arrangement. e9 Changing the4posi- tion of the boardesitselfSso that the left hand side (along which in the diagram are arranged the numbersI 5ss9,s s13Jcame into the positioh of the top, he found the puzzle an easy one.
 So will any one else who tries It. ,Investigat- ing little further he found that he could do it by putting the right hand side of the board at the top. So can any one else who will try it. All that is necessary to do the fifteen pug gle is to work 1t dowris to stiie first or second position named. If the first position is reach ed the puzzle is solved. If thesecond position is reached, turn the board one-quarter way round, so that one of the sides becomes the
 top and the bottom become the two sides, and the arrangement is easy.-H0rttord 1tnaes.
 MAKING DIAMoNDs.-Mr Alfred H. Alien
 prominent English chemist, discussed the question of preparing the diamond artificially, prior to the late announcement of the success of the problem, before a Sheffield Society
 Very many attempts had been made, he said, to prepare the diamond artifcially. Great ou- stacles stood in the way of success, the chief being the complet instability of carbon in all known. liquids, its volatility, ignorance of the conditions under winch the diamond was produced in nature, it's great rarity, and hence its probable very slow for nation. The artificial production of the dia- mond, although presenting inherent difficult ties of the highest order, was not mere phi losopher's day dream, like the discovery ot perpetual motion, transmution of metals, or the squaring. of sthe cirele.s The production of adamantine scarbon-the same thing as dia- mond-Wass so farwithin lie reasonable bounds of possibility that the wonder was 1t had not already been definitely effected, and no chen ist would be greatly surprised to hear that the problem had been fully solved. Quite recent- ly several new claimants had arisen for the honor of having solved the problem of obtain ing artificial diamond. --@ H-r. -i' 'r
 In Mir Aliens opinion by far the most hope full directiog in which to look for the artificial production of diamond was based on the curi- ous fact recently discovered that gases under high pressure had very marked power of dissolving solids. This extraordinary discoy- cry had a bearing on the recently reported spontaneous rupture of a diamond. It was as- sumed, with great probability that the explo- sion was due to the pressure of cavity con talnlng highly compressed gas, which was supposed to have been carbonic acid If this supposition. were proved to be true it would throw enormous light on the natural mode of forming diamond; and might prove the kev to it's artificial production The economical pro- duction of artificial diamonds, even of minute size, would be of immense importance in the arts, and diamond wheels would soon replace emery wheels. The production of diamonds of sufficient siBe for ornamenta useswonld probably soon follow the other discovery, and for time at least such stoneswould command very high price: The economical produc- ton of diamonds of fair size would lead to their extensive and habitual employment for rock-boring. stope- -cuttings and all similar pur. poses ,i'I, -.--
 Come, boys, lay aside your play things. will tell you a story. It is about the di riso boys. One family of these boys called the Few-shun-sts had set their traps ev cry night for weeks; but they caught no foxes. The Day-phiz family had bully luck. Their traps were all full This made the Few-s -shun. ist boys jolly mad. They stole the foxes out of they Das-phiz traps. They put them into their own. Wnen they went. to get fheir bounty for these foxes, they found man whose name was Josh-u-a. He saw the marks of two sets'of trap teeth. on the. foxes. He began to smell wool-lep. He said, "You stole these foxes out of the Day-phizs traps. shell give the bounty to them" Dld the Few-shun-ists deny their theft !? Oh, no: they said they had right to steal from the Day-phlz boys because an old aunt of the ay-phiz-es had cheated some fellows out. apt woodchuck: This old la-dy's name was Louise Anna. She lived in another vii. lage. None of the Few-shun-ests knew her. None of them knew the fellows whoslost the wood-chuck. The wood chuck was not good for anything. Was it not funny the Few. shun-ists should have said any thing about it
 Wong Au Sing was buried in San Francis. co with elaborate Chinese rites, because he had been wealthy and influential. At his resi-
 dence joss was put up at the head of the cof. in, many candles were lighted, and peacocks feathers were placed on the coffin. priest rang bell and struck g pair of cymbals while reciting the good qualities and deeds of the