The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-06-19
EBENsBURG. Pa, FRIDAY. JUNE 10. 1891

ON the fourth day he only owes one
quarter of n cent. IL he should he
endued with the gift II Immortality,
and he should continue to pay the debt
ut the same ratio, he could never pay
all of it. There would always remain
that half of the forIncr days payment.
providing he had a9Hnters small enough
To make the payments
Here il a puzzle in geometry. II does
not require skilled mathematician,
however, to solve IL.
Ii il required to demonstrate tgeo-
metrically) that larger crop of corn
can he grown on an acre of level
ground than on acre of slanting
ground. The stalks of corn are sup
posed to grow Berpendicularly in both
cases, and all other particulars, such n
fertility of the soil and the like, TO be
the same.
The ingenious reader will probably
have no trouble in solving the problem
without assistance.
Philosophers, according to the latest
devices, have not been able to decide
what would be the fate of donkey
placed exactly midway between two
hayriclIs. AS there Is clearly no rea-
son why he should choose one rick
rather than the other, it is presumed
that, logically, he would starve to
death.
The cynic's reply Ia this proposition
may. perhaps be a. good any that
could be found: that is that the philos-
opher who wastes tine over such
question ought to solve il by actual sX-
perience.
Probably every reader has quoted the
:
every rule" several hundred Thousand
times during his or her life and never
thought that the proverb contradicted
itself. For, clearly, if there is an ex-
ception Ia every rule, there Is an ex-
ception tn this proverb; therefore,
there is rule without an exception
The familiar query: If Dicks father
is Toms son, what relation is Dick to
Tom is easier eff solution than the
other one closely allied ts it, which
runs a. follows: \ man standing be-
fore portrait says of it:
Sisters and brothers have / none
Yet that mans father is my fathers son"
What relation i the speaker to the
person depicted ia the portrait? The
answer il oftcR given that the portrait
represents the speaker himself, when,
a. a matter of fact, it represents the
speakers son.
1t is seldom, indeed. that the follow
ing question is answered correctly of
hand:
\ train starts daily from San Fran
cisco 10 New York and one daily from
New York ts San Francisco, the jour
ncy lasting five days How many trains
will atraveler meet in journeying from
New York to SaH Francisco?
About ninety mine persons ont of one
hundred would say rive trains, as a matter
of course. The fact iS overlooked that
every day during the journey fresh
train il starting from the other end.
while there are five trains on the way
TO begin with Consequently the trav-
elcr will meet not five trains, but ten
The following proposition is left for
the reader to think about
II there are more people in the world
than any oae person has hairs upon his
head. then there must exist at least
two persons who possess identically the
same number of hairs, To hair.
This same proposition may be applied
To the faces of human beings in the
world II the number of perceptible
differences between two faces be
not greater than the total number of
the human race. then there must exist
at least two persons who are to all ap-
pearances exactly alike. When it is
considered that there are about I.500,-
600. 600 persons in the world and that the
human countenance does not vary. eN-
cept within comparatively narrow linn
its. the truth of the proposition he
comes obvious, without applying tn,
logical reasoning of it--N. Y Tribune.