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MULTUM IN PARVO LIBRARY.

Entered at the Boston Post office as second class matter.

Vol. 2. AUG., 1895. Published Monthly. No. 20.

NUTS TO CRACK

A Galaxy of Puzzles, Riddles, Conundrums, Etc.

Smallest Magazine in the world. Subscription price 50 cts. per year. Single Copies 5 cts. each.

PUBLISHED BY A. B. COURTNEY, Room 74, 45 Milk Street, BOSTON, MASS.

Two Puzzling Queries.

Read the following surprising sentence.

Grammatical Puzzle.

Let the rich, great and noble, banquet in the festal halls, And pass the hours away, as the most thoughtless revel; Then seek the poor man's dreary home, whose very dingy walls Proclaim full well to all how low his rank and level.

Take away one letter from a word in the above stanza and substitute another, leaving the word so metamorphosed still a word of the English language; and, by that change, totally alter the syntactical construction of the whole sentence, changing the moods and tenses of verbs, turning verbs into nouns, nouns into adjectives, and adjectives into adverbs, etc., and so make the entire stanza bear quite a different meaning from that which it has as it stands above.

Answer to Grammatical Puzzle.

Take away L in the subjunctive "Let" at the beginning of the first line, and substitute S, and so turn it into the imperative "Set," when the changes which necessarily follow will be immediately apparent.

Conundrums.

A Batch of Puzzles.

P R S V R Y P R F C T M N! V R K P T H S P R C P T S T N.

When first the marriage knot was tied between my wife and me, Her age did mine as far exceed, as three times three does three; But when seven years, and half seven years, we man and wife had been, My age came then as near to her's as eight is to sixteen. What was each of our ages when married?

My age, if multiplied by three, Two-sevenths of that product tripled be, The square root of two-ninths of that is four-- Now tell my age, or never see me more.

Answers to Batch of Puzzles.

"Persevere, ye perfect men! Ever keep these precepts ten."

Arithmetical Puzzle.

The sum of four figures, in value will be Above seven thousand, nine hundred and three; But when they are halved, you'll find very fair The sum will be nothing, in truth I declare.

Answer to Arithmetical Puzzle.

The four figures are 8888, which, being divided by a line drawn through the middle, becomes

the sum of which is eight 0s, or nothing.

Send 12 cents to the firm from whom you received this book, and get the Marvelous Package of Games, including checkers, dominoes, authors, etc. Biggest bargain lot of Games ever offered.

Magic Age Table.

KEY TO TABLE.--Add together the figures at the top of each column in which the age is found and the sum will be the age sought. Example: Hand the table to a lady and request her to tell you in which column or columns her age is found; if she says the first, second and fifth, you can say it is 19 by mentally adding together the first figures of those three columns, and so on for any age up to 63.

Cracked Nuts.

"Parlor Matches"--Courting in the front room.

All men are not homeless, but some are home less than others.

A young Oil City gent calls his girl revenge, because she is sweet.

When is a small baby like a big banker? When he is a wroth-child.

Before slates were used people multiplied on the face of the earth.

The economical baby puts its toes in its mouth to make both ends meet.

There's nothing boisterous about the love for whiskey--it's a still affection.

Why is a situation of great trust like a back tooth? Because it is hard to fill.

In art matters the education of the eye, of course, includes the proper treatment of the pupils.

Why are balloons in the air like vagabonds? Because they have no visible means of support.

Jones calls his dog Hickory, because he has a rough bark.

The only perpetual thing about perpetual motion is its failure.

Some shoemakers are notoriously long-lived--the lasters, for instance.

Billiards must be an easy game, for it's mostly done on cushions.

Domestic "sauce" is kept in family jars.

Bronze is a very fashionable hue nowadays, but brass has not entirely gone out.

A man with a noisy dog calls him "Tree," because all the bark is on the outside.

Society is a fraction whose numerator is clothes and whose denominator is cash.

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