Archive for: August 2008

Some years ago a man told me he had spent one hundred English silver coins in Christmas-boxes, giving every person the same amount, and it cost him exactly £1, 10s. 1d.

Can …

A man went recently into a dairyman’s shop to buy eggs.

He wanted them of various qualities.

The salesman had new-laid eggs at the high price …

I paid a man a shilling for some apples, but they were so small that I made him throw in two extra apples.

I find that made them cost just a penny …

“A neighbour of mine,” said Aunt Jane, “bought a certain quantity of beef at two shillings a pound, and the same quantity of sausages at eighteenpence a pound.

I pointed out to …

The proprietor of a small London café has given me some interesting figures.

He says that the ladies who come alone to his place for refreshment spend each on an …

A number of market women sold their various products at a certain price per pound (different in every case), and each received the same amount—2s. 2½d.

What is the greatest number of …

On the question of notebook work, there will always be a considerable difference of opinion. It is much easier to state what notebook work should not be than to outline precisely how it should be conducted. Certainly it should not …

It is not likely that the teacher will find it advisable to require reports at every recitation nor that the reports and their discussion will consume, at the most, longer than ten or fifteen minutes of any class period. There …

Four brothers—named John, William, Charles, and Thomas—had each a money-box.

The boxes were all given to them on the same day, and they at once put what money they had into them; …

Mr. Morgan G. Bloomgarten, the millionaire, known in the States as the Clam King, had, for his sins, more money than he knew what to do with. It bored him.

So he …