The Century Co.

The Century Co. Announces an educational competition. It is on a most interesting and original plan. Thirty-five prizes, amounting $1,000 (first prize 500), will be given for the best answers to 150 questions. ïhe topics selected deal with matters of general information; they are not scholaslic, but are educational. Your training at school was only mental drill; you may have forgotten all yon learned (ï4 fff there but "reading, writing and arithmetic." tpl,vJULF You will never forget the information derived DDr7üc 1om answeri ng these questions, because every IN O rKIZhS one deals with a living and useful" fact. No cube-roots, no parsing, no memorizing of dates; inslead the learning of things that every body ought to know. If you make an honest attempt to win, you will leani to concéntrate your mind, sharpen your wits, mtAA secure most valuable information, and stand a tpOUU good chance of making $500 (perhaps $1,000: see below). If you gain first prize, the know FIRST PRIZE ledge you have acquired will be vvorth more to you than the S500 you receive. To find the answers to these questions you must use the encylopedic material in The Century Dictionary and SMALL MONTHLY Cyclopedia, because these like thousands of others can best be answered by reference to PQrrnDYitc this great work. If you do not already possess JT dj lllUilL'O. a set, you can easily procure one. A limited number of clubs are now being formed for the purchase of sets at the lowest wholesale price. Each person joining ing a club (and those who apply at once can join) secures his set at a reduction of 40 per cent, and has the further privilege of payiñg for it in small mon.tlily payments. A first payment of $5.00 will bring you the work and enable you to try for the first prize of $500, as weil as the supplementary prize of -S50Ö more. The 150 questions are divided into three sets of 50 each. A nionth is allowed to answer each set. Try rny. rrminniT them at home. They will be an intellectual llf eniury recreation for you and your family; also a good DÍCtÍ0n9.1V test of your ability to deal with words and facts. " and Have your children try them; it will be a real (rnlnrkcirl "a education for them. Write to us for sample vy ClOp6Qia, questions, to see hovv instructive and useful they are, or for a description of the work. $8OO MORE. We offer a further prize of $500 to the competitor who, laying aside The Century, answers, and ansioers most successfully, 90 per cent of these questions frorn ten other works of reference, no matter in how many volume s each is published. This offer is made for the purpose of showing that The Century is superior not to any one other work of reference, but to any ten others. (Dep't r. o.) New York.