The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-10-04

those who fare acquainted by experience
with the fact, have found themselves able
to explai0. didn't care to have the mat
ter settled simply wished to make con-
versetion general"
when they were at the point Of coming
to blows concerning this matter ] pro-
propounded the following, which gave
another turn to he conversation:
ANOTHER PUZZLER.
"sA train starts daily from San Fran
cisco to New York and one daily from New
York TO San Francisco, the journey last
ing seven days. How many trains will a
traveller meet in iourneying from San
Francisco to New York?
1t appears obvious at the first glance that
the traveller must meet seven trains, and
this Is the answer that will be given by
nine people out of every ten to whom the
question is new. The fact is overlooked
mat every day during the journey fresh
train is started from the other end, while
there are seven on the way TO begin with.
The traveller will not therefore meet seven
trains, but fourteen"
Here is auother-A man walks round
pole on which is a monkey. AS the man
moves the monkey moves round on the top
of the pole so as still to keep face to face
with the man. Query-When the man has
gone round the pole has he or has he not
gone round the monkey!
1.-THE answer that will occur at first sight
10 most persons is that the man has not
gene round the monkey, since he has never
been behind it. The correct answer, how
ever, as decided by knowledge in the pages
of which this momentous question has been
argued, is that the man has gone round the
monkey in going round the pole.
Here is an old geometrlcal problem
which NAV puzzle some:
"a msn having window one yard wide
and one yard high, and requiring more
light, enlarged. the window to twice its for
uer siza, yet the window was still only one
ward high and one yard wide. How was
! this done!
eThe window was diamond shaped in the
! first place and afterward made spare.
The grape trick is a good one TO make
conversation. Put three grapes upon each
one of two plates, and give item and fork
to two people sitting on opposite sides OF
the table; they are to look into each others
ewes without moving, and see which one
will be able TO eat the grapes first.
MANY one may puzzle his brain over
this query:
"If goose weighs ten pounds and hall
its own weight, what is the weight OF the
goosep
The majority will undoubtedly answer
Ten pounds at once but after giving the
problem "a little thought they will discover
that twenty pounds is the correct answer
1.-THE following simple question will Otter
catch the unwary; How many day
would it take to cut up piece Of cloth fit!
yards long, one yard being cut every day
Forty-nine days, instead Of fifty is correct
IAN impromptu toast in rhyme or jingle
hitting off some well known characteristic
of host or guest will create great deal o
merrimsnt. There must. of course, be n
malice in this nor touching of tende
! places.
| "Ornnges offer much material for amuse
t ment ct the dinner table. A queer, gro
, tesque face may be made by taking a
, orange firmly between the thumbs an
t foreigners and gently pinchiug up bit G
the skin for the nose; above this thrus
( two wax matches, the sulphur end out fc
eyes. You cut q mouth and teeth withou
any trouble. IN. Y. Herald.