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BRUSH UP

Death Of The Squire

FRIEND told me the follow- ing story:

"The squire," she said, "died suddenly the other day. He and his wife went to church, and the day was very hot. The squire fell asleep. He dreamed he was a French nobleman at the time of the Revolution. He had been condemned to be guillotined, and was waiting on the scaffold for the guillotine to fall.

"Just then his wife, noticing he was asleep, tapped him on the back of his neck with her fan. The shock was so great in con- junction with his dream-that the squire immediately died.”

I said: "That story, on the face of it, is not true.”

Why?

YOUR WITS

An Exercise In

"

Logie

SSUME that the following

statement is true: "John is over 21 if John can vote.”

Which of the following state- ments are then necessarily true also?

(1) If John cannot vote. · John is not over 21.

(2) If John is over 21, he can.

Tote.

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(3) If John is not over 21, he cannot vote.

(4) Either John can vote John is not over 21.

or

(5) Either John. cannot vote or he is over 21.

(6) Either John can vote or he is not over 21.

THE CHINA MAIL FRIDAY SUPPLEMENT, OCTOBER 8, 1987

12-Year-Old Pilot

ODDITIES

One of the youngest pilots ever to fly an aeroplane alone is Edward Somers, aged 12, who has just made his first solo fight in New York He soared 3,000 feet over Floyd Bennett airport, the famous starting place of several Atlantic flights. His father, Mr. Andrew L. Somers, a member of the United States House of Re- presentatives, was an airman in the Great War.

The Elephant Leaned

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Mr. Boyd Southern, a zoo attendant at Seattle, Washing- ton, ventured between Wideawake, the zoo elephant, and a brick wall while going about his duties. Wideawake leaned. The attendant

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Guns Mistaken For Earthquake

"People living over a.

wide area round Lorient, France, were awakened by violent earth tremors lasting, 12 minutes' and thought-

an earthquake had occurred. *

the earthquake" has been plained. The three French battle- ships, Bretagne, Lorraine and Provence, were carrying out night firing practice of Belle Ile with their 340 mm. (13 inch) guns.

Kissed The Judge

Kisses on the hands-for the judge and jury were Mr. Car- men Scarazza's expression of gratitude, when he was acquitted of a charge at Beaver, Pennsyl vania. As soon as the verdict was announced, the delighted man startled the courtroom with his kisses. The jury included two

women.

Police Want 20 M.P.s

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A demand that 20 Members of Parliament in Belgrade be handed over to the law courts was made by the Minister of Justice at a meeting of the Yugoslav Parliament Members of Parlia- ment cannot be arrested unless caught red-handed in the act of committing a serious crime, and cannot be brought before a court of law on any charge without the the previous consent of Parliament. Most of the 20 M.P.'s affected by the Minister's application are wanted for alleged libel, debt or frauds.

Not New-Laid

Chinese în Australia are seek- ing a reduced tariff on a delicacy of which they are extremely fond -eggs 100 years old. They have asked the Federal Government for special duty concessions to enable the eggs to be imported from China. It is desired to im- port £400 worth of eggs annual- ly. The eggs are encased in 2 thick coating of brown mud, which acts as a preservative.

Human Adding Machine

A human adding machine has been discovered at Ford Worth, Texas in 14-year-old William Soulder. In a public test he add- ed up a column of 10 three-digit figures in 13 seconds. In a fur- ther test he added a column of figures correctv two seconds more quickly than they could be com- puted with an- adding machine.

Solution to "Brush Up Your Wits"

1.Death of The

Squire

The story is palpably untrue for this reason that if the squire had died in his sleep he could not have explained what he was dreaming about.

2. An Exercise In

Logic

Only statements (3) and (5) are necessarily true