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THE GREEK CROSS.
Sam Loyd
Tells of Its
Possibilities.
Mysterious
Imminent archaeologists and , nntl
aunrhuiH like ho Plongcoii, Schlle
innnn, Prof. Wilson imd others show
tluit prehistoric man must linvo hit
upon tlio crude sign of two crosBud
tnarkfl to Indicate u human emblem,
jiut as w In many Instances employ
peculiar brands or marks for similar
purposes.
My present object, however, Is to
give iv discourse upon those ancient I
cmblemu "which have evolved the geo
metrical proportions of the Greek or
mundane cross, which for upward of
0,000 yeat-8 bus stood for the symbol
of human Intelligence, anil la now rec
ognized as representing science and 1
mathematical exactitude. The sym
metrica! cross formed from II vo
squares for thousands of years has
boon known as the Hindoo problem.
Uy cutting It in live pieces, upon the
principle of Kuclld's forty-seventh
proposition, it will form u square. Al
most all puzzle books give the scien
tific clipping of the four corners as
shown by Fig. A to form tho
square B.
When a puzzle, however, can bo
dono "a shorter way," "In fewer
pieces," or "In leaa moves," It la said
to bo "cooked," or, In puzzlo lan
guage, "busted." Well, when I told
tho head of Harvard' collego that tho
symbol which was incorporated in the
Harvard seal could bo converted Into
a square by making Tour pieces, in
stead of five, I waa Informed that tho
feat was impossible.
I used It ns nn advertising puzzle,
offering ?100 for tho Bhortest method
of converting the Greek cross Into a
THE IWU YiiLI'initfci
Clever Way In Which Two Dogs Got
Their Breakfast.
Our dally supply of milk waa minus
for two or three mornings nothing
but the bottlo and a grease-spot It ft
on the porch. Wo sought to catch thu
culprit. Did, too! It proved to be a
neighbor's little fox-terrier (terror).
Trlxy. I call him Tricky. Wo caught
him 'with tho goods on his nose,
early ono Sunday morning, writes a
Hattlo Creek (Mich.) woman in De
troit Freo Press.
His scheme to open tho bottlo wan
to paw and roll it over and over, caus-
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I 'THIN u few days our. eur will
oe filled with thu (teafoti
IniJ tuash of people breaking
their New Year's roiiolutloiiH.
Three million sets of Iron-clad
non-combustible American "nev-cr-agalns"
crushed to earth will
remain there until dug up again
he night of December ill. 100!).
What has the New Voar In
store for you, Joy or sorrow?
Few to day realize what or whom
thoy vlll be before the end of
1000, and attempts to prognos
ticate piounob would he valli. As far as destiny
Is concerned the world (liovally liven "from hand
to mouth." We ru'ii only guess at what the next
year will brlng .
For-William .;iehulngHllryi'm 1900 means nioro
locturcH nt so much per night. For William How
ard 'I'aft, 1000 is a year ot", gad rejoicing. Tor on
Match -1 lo naaumuu iho presidential chair vacated
lv Theodore Itoosovolt. Four years ago when au
jlfUimpt was mado to relegato , Air. Tnft to the
bundli 'or tho supremo court or-iho 'Vnlted States
he lU16 BUBOQcted that he was material to 1111 the
chair tit the lieud of tlio nation.
Joy Is mingled with sadness tu Proslduut llooso
volt's oaso and Ids cup In ono. of bitter-sweet, for
while ho lifts-tho caroM" of Iho presidential olllee
from lily head and applies his strenuoslty tosta
upon the habitues of the Kan. African Jungle ho
has 'shot his holt as far as Die V. 3. A. Is con
cerned, there being nothing lort 'to conquer.
Hut fortho coinmouplnco citizen of those United
HtaUuPtOOO (orirrlofli'uuly cptijccturo, as a rule.
IjoIh of men and women start the year planning,
to curry out sotno .cherished Ideas, whether thoy
will succeed holng a matter that only Father
'1'lnie ilusolf cim hoJvo.
Thorn 'nro, approximately 80PO,Opo souls In tills ,
country Of,-Miat munibor statistics say a.OuQ.QdQ
have (ifawn up sots-of resolutions,' which If carried
out would cut a swath in the uutlon'H liquor am!
tobacco tfnfllc,
From, .every tto in tho uulon the cry "nevor
aBnln'Vttrlses. and Just a row. days after tho debut
or th;io,w year tho phrnso gives way to a mur
mur o'f-'"Jiiflt ono Woro" with tho eventual result
that lG(JjiyK or three weeks finds conditions once
more at'a normal stnte. V
y.
Theresa 'ft saving that a man' la never crcnt until
lie dies.-"TiierofWff'is.Kmioraily'nol until thu'do-
mist? o'fiiho right eouujt hat' vo loiinYof tho nmti on-
woman1 who nmdo and lcopt u No-v Yeav's reso- the gaff of total ubstlnonco
luttou. Then the press let. u know about It nnrl
h a rulo tlio alleged Now Year's resolution which
was kept may ho laid at tho door of tho bright
young, reportor who covered tho death nnd who
was anxious to Inoculate a featuro lrto his story.
There are thousands of wnys ot applying tho
"nover again." Hero are a few of tho moro or loss
popular -ways:
1 proiniso novor again, nftcr January 1 to
Drink Intoxicants, , , s. .
Smoke Tobacco, ,"'.''
Swear,
Do Mean to My Wife,
Keep Late Hours,
Waste Money,
Eat Heavy Meals,
Vote the Ticket,
Grow a Mustache.
Spurn tho Alarm Clock's Csll?
Head Novels,
Quit My Job,
Oellove Pish Tales,
Play Cards,
Gamble,
Celebrate July 4, , ' "
Dance Overtime, ' vl'
Ask for More Pay, J r
Tell Lies, -
Wear Loud Socks, . ...v"'.'4
Flirt, -W'-.fJ.
Part My Hair In tho Middle, 'ft fr
Shirk Work, " V i f
Watch Salome Dances",
Marry, . ' - . " , , r
Bo Conceited ',.'.".
Wear Merry Vldow Hats.
Etc.
Other purely local faults aro ttubjocls of New
Year's resolutions and usually tho signed and
sworn documont Is tucked uwoy In n cornor,
. , ngglected nd its .contents forgotten. Then the
PWty tu the ''swoarlng off," who for threo days
lias boon telling, his fi loads or hor frlonds how
Invigorating It fools to ho once moro spiritually
pure, drops down ti stop or two and when resola
Hons are mentioned has u merry laugh uml tolls
about how lusUNow Year's .ho or she had nworn
otT this and that and had had tnoro fun "with iho
fotya over it."
At midnight "each December 31, Father Time
louds up tho water wagon with thousands ot ox-
.linhlbors.whQ now aro Ilrm bollovera In the health-
' .1 . an. nt
.Auoui i.;ui
loss ablu tu stand
slides off to the
Tricky Had an Accomplice.
ing the pasteboard cover to loosen,
and tho milk to flow then drink his
fill. Tricky hnd nn accomplice, a huge
hound who seemingly stood guard
while Tricky opened the bottlo; then,
after Tricky, lapped the leavings. To
gether they skirmished the neighbor
hood for their morning drink. Like
Oliver Twist, Tricky was always want
ing more. Ills stealing propensity
was great. He and his jmrtner in
crime were wont to lunch on tho
neighbor's chickens.
1 enn vouch for tho veracity of this
tale, I being one of tho victims of the
milk-thieves!
WINDOW SHELF FOR PLANTS.
square. Soveral hundred thousand an
swers were received employing live
pieces, but not ono answer that showed
how to do It in four. Fig. C shows how
the four pieces should he made.
I afterward discovered that tliero
was an Infinite number, of answers, us
the parallel cut may be made to an
swer on the lines shown, and the per
pendicular cut at any right-angled
point of Intersection.
Tho four segments will always lit to
form a perfect square, so tho puzzle
mnuerB can exor
cise their Insonu-
Ity by Introducing
conditions or stip
ulations which
will bar out all !
other answers but
the ono Intended. I
In the Illustrations ,
given it is naked to divide a cross In '
four equal parts which will form a
square. In a second puzzlo it was
said "to divide a cross witli two ,
ellns of the scissors. In four nieces.
which will form a square."
There are numeiouu other problems
connected with the symmetrical pro
portions of tho Greek cross which
make a most valuable lesson in the
theory of all cutting puzzles.
A benutlful requirement in to divide
a square in live pieces which will form
May Be Made So as to Be Easily
Changed from Window to Window.
When a few plants aro kept about
the Iioubc during tho winter months It
Is necessary to provldo a stand or
shelf near or in n window in order to
givo them proper light for growing.
Tho accompanying sketch bIiowb hr.w
to make a shelf that may be changed
from one window to another as do-
V i f
Fio.1
Fio.a . ,
Window to
May
Moved from
Window.
' 'inlying 'plopertlea "ot aqua pura
Pr af in., Januury'lf'tho ono who Is J?
Rronnil and proceeds to calcbra't lor fear that
ho may Vio lrcesomo two or throo othors fallow
him and pretty soon most of them aro sliding back
to Mother Earth and alleged happiness. Occa
sionally a man or two Is found who keeps a reso
lution or two and thou there Is a place reserved
for him In tho hall of fame, hut there are lota
of empty nlnhes thore.
New Year's parties, attended by young people
aro tho breeding placoB for resolutions. Invent
ors of guinea who profit thereby, have gono so far
as to concocttresolutlon games for parties of tlutt
sort and In somo ot tho contests tho loser Is com
pelled to keep his promise to "swear off" this or
that, If ho would adhore tp his or her allldavlt.
A story is told of a young lady and a young man,
ongaijod to each other, who attended a New Year's
parly. Tho couple woro extremely fond of each
other and tho brldo-to-ho had only ono objection
to her Intended spouse, viz., that ho drank intoxi
cants. He was not awaro that alio knew It. Con
sequently before tho llttlo soqlnl function sho
"fixed" the resolution (eontost, so ho would lose.
Sho playfully told him that ho must keep his
resolution and ho, rather fearfully promised, llttlo
suspecting the plot,
Well, ho lost and said ho would koofi tlio prom
ise, though ho lied and said ho novor touched a
"drop In his life."
"1 know yon don't drink," sho breathed into
his ear from tho dopths of a cozy corner, "but I
want to bo sure that you never will,"
Thus tho young man's Jiablt met its Waterloo
in tho Now Year's trick ot a "Stacked deck," pro
moted by his fiancee, and now, live years following
their marriage, his tnsto for splrlta was declared
positively extinct by tho wiro In a recent coroner'
Inquest at tho ladles' sowing circle.
That was ono resolution which hold and prob
ably will for tho rost or tho young married man's
lire, providing ho doesn't get Into politics. Hut
that was ono of n few. When a man or woman
makes u resolution with a string attached to It,
such na awarding a watching friend a fow siino
loons In case tho promlso to abstain from somo
habit hi brokon, then the vaccination "takes," but
othurwlso. it seldom holds good for more than a
week. A week Is really a long strotch for the
Hfo of n sot of promlsos, most of them expiring
with duwn of January 1, although hnvlng been
mado only the provlous night. This now year will
seo tho breaking of approximately a.000,000 well
founded resolutions, but who cures? There are
lots moro Now Yeura coming say tho phlloso
pliers.
two crosses, Fig. 1 shows how to pro
duco five pieces which will form two
crosses. The center piece makes a
now cross, and the four outside pieces
will form another. Hut after tho puz
zlo had become famous, 1 found a sec
ond way In one piece less, ns shown In
Fig. 2.
Another way to vary the stipulations
so ns to lonn a beautiful puzzle
calls for the dividing of a squaro In
11 vo pieces which will form two crosses
of dlfferont sizes.
First cut out the llttlo cross, then di
vide the remainder In four parts,
which will form the large cross, us
shown. The fourth figure shows the
puzzle of cutting n cross In live pieces
which will form two crosses of equal
size, and la one of the most beautiful
prohloms of the series.
It Is a most remarkable fact that a
sired. A one-Inch board Is cut as
shown In Fig. 1 with u projection on
each end to fit Into the sash grooves
and a bracket fastoned on tho under
side. If the shelf la to be used on a
two-light window, ono bracket placed
In the center to rest on tho middle
piece of tho sash, as shown in Fig. 2,
13 nil that will bo uocessary. Whon
used on n single-glass sash, ono
bracket at each end of tho shelf will
be needed.
X-RAY INSTRUMENT.
The Handy
Boy Can
Himself.
Moke It for
Two cylinders, AA, nro mounted on
a base, H, and mli;rors, CC, are fitted
D
mysterious nihility or relationship can
be shown to exist between all the an
cient signs and symbols, In that each
UIIU Will! Ill- IIMML-MUII lllllj ItllUUIUI U3 ' ,,. , . ... '
onu. subtle onnngo which constitutes ' ' " CJ"" T tho obw loc.
i clever puzzle. The Swastika can be
Details of X-Ray Machine.
at an anglo or 45 degrees Into there
oyllndors. Corresponding mirrors.
KB, aio put in tho base parallel with
those In the cylinders, n pjx-nlng
oxtwds downward from 1) of aeh
cylinder so that light entering at one
end of the cylinder Is reflected down
at right (ingles by the rtrst minor to
the second, from the second tu the
third, from tho third to tho fourth
which rellects the light to thi- yo
TIlllS lllll Unlit iihimh .1
iiiniun M I L' I
changed Into a square, the square Into
a cross, the cross Into a triangle, an
oblong or several crosses, and from
thOfo we can form a star, a crescent,
ovAl, a monad, and from that a circle,
which looks very much ns If the squar
ing of tlio circle was ono of the mys
teries pertaining to tho mystic signs
aud symbols. Good Literature.
iwv w mi jiiHi!, uui around im 0j,.
Joct lnsortod at X between the Mlu
dors.
Short and Sweet.
Mtumna Come, Violet, you must
say your prnyors.
Violet I've suld 'em, mamma.
Mamma What did yuu say'
.Violet 1 said "Anion.MNcwT-Yotk
Herald.
David Was His Hero.
Four-year-old Joo Is very foi., 0r
Hlblo stories and ovldontly follows m,,.
example of hH best-loved lmm .1
; moditntlon "in the night watche,
io wnuonou nia mother ono iiiirht
after midnight, with tho question
"Mamma, wheie Is David now?"
in nenven, I guess, Joe."
"Will I go to heaven when
i nope ao, joe."
t f . . .
rtuwiiuin, mo little voir,, Tnn
eager now "do you s'pose.uhon 1 get
there David will just let Iniri,n,,
sling-shot a little while?" 8
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