CORNER FOR THE INGENIOUS.
36. Name a tree which invites, to range, and also one which forbids death. — (Cicero.) 37. Two words we are, but what we name Now closely are united, . But only lately is it we To each oar. troth have plighted. Our first from north is far away, j Our second is a region ; Our third an interjection ia, ' Or sixth-part of a legion ; Our fourth* 8 a part of speech inversed ; . Our fifth is locomotion ; Oar whole, except one fourth, is bound By the Pacific Ocean. (Gk 0. B.) 38. Suppose a ball discharged from a musket to move at the rate of 400 feet the first second, 860 the next second, 324 the third second in the ratio of. nine-tenths, ad inftnitum. What distance would it go,? ■ 39. The bill of a company at a tavern amounted to £4 165, two of the company were not allowed to pay, and the rest found that each of their share» of the bill was four shillings more than if all the company had paid. What was the number of the company ? , : (0.) 40. An equilateral triangle contains 20 acres, what jus i£s •ide— the length of a line, parallel to one of its side*, which shall bisect it. The jdiameter of the incerfted, and that of the circamßcrjhed circle, (C.)
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Southland Times, Issue 1348, 16 December 1870, Page 2
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223CORNER FOR THE INGENIOUS. Southland Times, Issue 1348, 16 December 1870, Page 2
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