Explain the difference between the religious belief of the Jews and Samaritans? “The Jews believed in the synagogue, and had their Sunday on a Saturday; but the Samaritans believed in the Church of England and worshipped in groves of oak; therefore the Jews had no dealings with the Samaritans.” Give two instances in the Bible where an animal spoke? “(1) Balaam’s ass. (2) When the whale said unto Jonah, ‘Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.’” MATHEMATICS. A Problem.--“Something you can’t find out.” Hypotenuse.--“A certain thing is given to you, or it means let it be granted that such and such a thing is equal or unequal to something else.” “If there are no units in a number you have to fill it up with all zeros.” “Units of any order are expressed by writing in the place of the order.” “A factor is sometimes a faction.” “If fractions have a common denominator, find the difference in the denominator.” “Interest on interest is confound interest.” GRAMMAR. “Grammar is the way you speak in 9 different parts of speech; it is an art divided in 4 quarters--tortology is one, and sintax one more.” An Abstract Noun.--“Something you can think of, but not touch--a red-hot poker.” An Article.--“That wich begins words and sentences.” A Pronoun “is when you don’t want to say a noun, and so you say a pronoun.” “A Adjective is the colour of a noun, a black dog is a adjective.” “Adjectives of more than one syllable are repaired by adding some more syllables.” “Nouns are the names of everything that is common and has a proper name.” Verb.--“To go for a swim is a verb what you do.” “Adverbs are verbs that end with a lie and distinguish words. It is used to mortify a noun, and is a person, place, or thing, sometimes it is turned into a noun and then becomes a noun or pronoun.” “Preposition means when you say anything of anything.” “Conjunction means what joins things together; ‘--and 2 men shook hands.’” “Nouns denoting male and female and things without sex is neuter. ‘The cow jumped over the fence’ is a transitif nuter verb because fence isen’t the name of anything and has no sex.” Interjection.--“Words which you use when you sing out.” “Gender is how you tell what sex a man is.” Which Hand is It In? [Illustration] A person having in one hand a piece of gold, and in the other a piece of silver, you may tell in which hand he has the gold, and in which the silver, by the following method:-- Some even number (such as 8) must be given to the gold, and an odd number (such as 3) must be given to the silver; after which, tell the person to multiply the number in the right hand by any even number whatever, and that in the left hand by an odd number; then bid him add together the two products, and if the whole sum be odd, the gold will be in the right hand and the silver in the left; if the sum be even, the contrary will be the case.