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  2. ORIGINAL VERSE.

    ROADSIDE is where in mantle grey they grow The timbers that we hew and send abroad, ...

    Article : 123 words
  3. BRAIN BRIGHTENERS THE WINNING ENTRY. ANNO DOMINI.

    Once upon a time the calendar bore a certain year with the following peculiarities:— (a) Two of the digits formed a number ...

    Article : 83 words
  4. Just ROAMIN AROUND (Conducted by "Non-Com.")

    It came about this way: Mr. Fulton had been to Vienna to do a year's study in architecture at the University of Vienna. He was homeward ...

    Article : 1,571 words
  5. HOW MANY BOYS

    A schoolmaster divided £10 among the boys in his school. Ten were away ill, and he kept their share back. Had he not done so the others would each have ...

    Article : 49 words
  6. AN ODD SUM.

    Add together these clues:— (a) Henry the Eighth. (b) What he wore. (c) A boy's name. ...

    Article : 37 words
  7. DRAUGHTING.

    This is one solution to the old problem of putting eight pieces on the draughts board without having two pieces in line horizontally, vertically or diagonally. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 83 words
  8. Australia a Nation.

    GREATER public interest in matters of economic import is stimulating Australian writers to prepare volumes reviewing Australian problems. One such ...

    Article : 298 words
  9. ACTING THE MONKEY.

    On one end of a rope, hanging over a pulley, hangs a weight, exactly balancing the weight of a monkey clinging to the other end of the rope. If the monkey ...

    Article : 50 words
  10. ANSWERS TO LAST WEEK'S PUZZLES.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 86 words
  11. ONE AT A TIME.

    A man had a basket containing [?]50 potatoes. He told his son to place these potatoes on the ground in a straight line. The distance between the first and second ...

    Article : 224 words
  12. Advertising

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    Advertising : 137 words
  13. A WORD TO THE WISE —and Otherwise.

    The following letter from "M.C.M.," Perth, although a similar puzzle has appeared before, should meet with an answer or two from readers:— ...

    Article : 221 words
  14. OUT OF POCKET.

    "That bull," said the cockey farmer, "cost me £26, and, after keeping him for some time, I sold it in the auction sale for £60, but have I made a profit? No. ...

    Article : 65 words
  15. RIDDLE OF THE SPHINX.

    Your name, and the fact that some of your puzzles indicate that they were devised in the age of the really wise men of history, prompts me to submit the ...

    Article : 122 words
  16. MORUNDAH MYSTERY.

    SYDNEY, May 17.—Examination of the skulls of Mrs. Jane Maria Gash and her infant son whose charred bodies were found in the debris after their home had ...

    Article : 101 words
  17. MT. BARKER SMASH.

    A second fatality occurred at the weekend as a result of the road smash at Mt. Barker on April 15. Eric Trainor, of Bulwer-street, Perth, was killed when ...

    Article : 100 words
  18. GETTING THE EGG.

    There are 12 boys, and on the table is a basin with 12 eggs in it. Each boy took one egg and there remained one egg in the basin. ...

    Article : 39 words
  19. LIVESTOCK.

    "I once sold nine good horses and seven cows for £300," said Farmer Giles. "I suppose you got more for each horse than you did for each cow," asked his ...

    Article : 51 words
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