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♦ KNOAVLEDGE • 



[Nov. 28, 1884, 



(Pur ClKsis Columiu 



By Mephisto. 



PROBLEM No. 137. 



Bt J. B. (of Bridport). 



(Selected.) 



Black. 



Whitk. 

 White to play and mate in three moyea. 



SOLUTION. 



Problem No. 135, bt H. F. L. Meyee, p. 414. 



1. E to KKt sq. K to Q6 



2. R to R sq. K to K5 or 7, B5 or 7 



3. Q to QKt sq., Q sq., or KB sq. mate. 



1. (a) K to B4 



2. Kt to B2 P X Kt 



3. P to Kt4 mate. 



1. (b) P X 11 



2. Kt to B2 (ch) Any 



3. Q to E7 mate. 



In reference to this beaatifnl Problem and the remarks of 

 "Clarence," a correspondent informs ns that "Clarence" is not 

 quite correct in stating that the above Problem is after Healey, 

 though it is trne that Meyer improved npon Healey's idea by snb- 

 stitnting a move of the 13 for the R. The idea of No. 135 was 

 worked out both by Lloyd and Thinkman in two separate problems, 

 both of which, however, were incorrect. The following is the 

 Problem : — 



PROBLEM No. 138. 

 By H. F. L. Meyeb. 



White. 

 White to play and mate in three moves. 



One of thirty simnltaneons games played by Mr. Znkertort, at 

 Bradford, on the 20th inst. : — 



NOTES. 



(a) Black had up to now the better game, but here he ought t 

 have continued with 12. Kt to Kt5, and, after White's forced 

 answer, P to Q4, 13. P to B3, &c. 



(!/) A blunder, which loses the game. White takes immediate 

 advantage in very good style. 



ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



,*» Please address Chess Editor. 

 Littlehampton. — See solution above. 



S. B. C, J. J. Credlon, M. 

 Fumival. — Solutions correct. 



T. Hooton, B. Champ, and W. 



Wk hear that " John Bull's Neighbour in her True Light," which 

 we reviewed on p. 75, is being translated into Russian, and will be 

 issued in St. Petersburg at the beginning of the new year. 



The Queen has forwarded, through General the Right Hon. 

 Sir Henry F. Ponsonby, K.C.B., a present of books to the 

 Bethnal Green Free Library. The books contain an inscription 

 with her Majesty's signature. 



ExPEBiME.NTS have for some time been made in Belgium for pre- 

 serving wood by exhausting the air from the pores and filling them 

 with liquid gutta-percha. The gutta-percha is liquefied by mijdng 

 it with paraffin and subjecting it to heat. After it is introduced 

 into the pores it hardens as it becomes cold. 



Mr. Lowthian Bell has given figures showing that in the aggre- 

 gate 156,499,000 tons of coal were brought to the snrface in the 

 United Kingdom in 1882, and that of this vast quantity 99,189,100 

 tons were applied to mechanical uses, while 57,309,800 were em- 

 ployed for heating only. The following table shows approximately 

 the destination of the year's produce : — 



Ont of Total estimate 

 Use. every of appliance 



1,000 tons. —tons. 



Paper-making and tanning 6 939,000 



Copper, lead, tin, and zinc smelting ... 8 1,252,000 



Waterworks 14 2,191,000 



Breweries and distilleries 18 2,817,000 



Chemical manufactories 19 2,973,000 



Railways 20 3,130,000 



Steam navigation 30 4,695,000 



Clay, glass, and Ume kilns 31 4,851,500 



Textiles 42 6,573,000 



Gasworks 60 9,390,000 



Mining operations 67 10,485,500 



Coal exported 92 14,398,000 



Steam-engines 121 18,936,000 



Iron and steel works 300 46,950,000 



Domestic use 172 26,918,000 



1,000 156,499,000 



OONTKNTS OP No. 160. 



PAOB 



Statistics of Barataria. II. Bv 

 Grant Allen 415 



Chats about Geometrical Measure- 

 ment. (Ilhis ) Bt E. a. Proctor 416 



The Chemistry of Co'okery. XL VII. 

 Bt W. Mattieu Williams 41" 



The Eiplosirencssof Coal Dost 419 



The Earth's Shape and Motion. By 

 Richard A. Proctor 420 



The Entomolopy of a Fond. (lUut.) 

 By E. A. Butler 421 



Automatic Ventilation, So-called. 

 (niu,.) 422 



First Star Lessons. ( TTiM JSapt.) 



Bt Eichard A. Proctor 424 



Chapters on Modem Domestic 



Economv. III. (lUui.) 426 



EeTiewB : The Antiquity of Man — 



Some Books on onr Table 427 



MisceUanea 429 



Correspondence : Some of Your 

 Corresprndents — Foreelow — The 

 Weather of 1865 and of 1884, &c. 430 



The TnTentor's Colnnm 432 



Our Whist Column 433 



Onr Chaee Colnmn 434 



