Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1853-05-19
CurIosIIies on ArIIhmeIIr.


CariOsities OF ATiIhmetlc.
An Eastern prince was so much delighted
with the game ofehess, which bad been devised
for his amusement that he desired The invent
or to name his own reward. The philosopher,
however was too modest to seize the opportuni-
ty Of enriching himself; he merely begged Of
bis royal master grain ofeOrn for each square
on the chess table, doubling the number in pro-
ecedirg from the first to the sixty fourth square
The king honoring his moderation, made no
seruple Of consenting TO the demand but on
his treasurer making the necessary calculations
he was somewhat surprised TO find that he en-
gagged to give away the impossible quantity Of
8IO75, 425, 546 629. Csc, grains Of corn equal
to The whole contained in l6, 384 towns, each
having 1924 granaries of l74,76 measures,
each consisting Of 80. 768 grains.
The story OF the horseshoe is Of the same
kind and like the above is usually met with in
books of scientific recreation. A man selling
fine horse is to receive for il nothing more than
the value Of the cath nail Of the animals shoes
supposng that the first nail is worth . farthing
the second two and so on, doubling each time
The bargain is tolerably good one since the
cath nail at this rate proves to be worth S85-
600.
Suppose that of all the prodigious number of
eggs in female herring, only 1000 come to
maturity, and each OF them in its turn gives
birth to the same number half males and half
females. In the second year we shall have a
family Of 10000, 900; in the eighth the num-
Der would be express ID by the figure follow
ed by 25 cyphers. This number of herring
would not find room even if the earth were
turned into a globe Of water as its whole vol
ume would furnish only but square inch for
each f,h.
We find the following item in a Western Ger
man paper The Hermann (Mo) Woehe'Jla:
"In the neighboring town Of Union acase
has Just been tried Of which the material facts
are these: A man who had hired female slave
lost a $40 bill and could only account for the
loss on the supposition that the woman had sto-
len it. lie complained to her owner who charg
ed her with the theft, and she most explicitly
denied il and continued TO protest her entire in
nocence The barbarian of an owner then bent
her hands backward, tied them to her feet and
dashed cold water down upon her, She how
ever persevercd in asserting her innocece
and was finally released without having made {
confession She was finally sent back TO him
who had hired her who fiogged her with greer
hickory stick until the stick was split TO pieces
still no confession. After the fogging she
seized the first opportunity to escape, and crawl
ed on her hands and feet into the bushes where
she was soon after found dead. Her entire back
was one single wound and an examination show
ed that both lungs and liver were fatally njurcc
by the blows she had received. Her murder
er was arrested, tried by a jury of free and en-
lighted citizens, and-acquiItcd. II was only
a "niggel" case"
THE NoRwALK MASSACRE, The jury of in
quest over the victims of the late railroad acci
I. dent on the New Haven railroad, having com
pleted therinyestigatio have returned yer
dict in which they declare the immediate caus
of the disaster was the negligence and reckless
ness Of the engineer-Edward Tucker" A
the same time they do not think the entire re
sponsbility Of the disaster rests upon him.
; The conductor is regarded as censurabe in no
regulating the speed of the train when he kneV
f il was approaching dangerous point, and tn
e' Company is declared in fault in not providing
/ more unmistakable signal and in adoptn
, such other fixed rules as would have rendere
the occurrence of the accident impossible. TIL
: verdict will be transmitted to the Suprem
c Court in compliance with the laws Of the Stat
, of Connecticut.
The Board of Directors of the Pacific Raj
road held meeting yesterday afternoon whic
was of more than ordinary interest. larg
amount Of business was done. The remainin
:, contracts on the road from the end of the Fir:
!. Division TO Jefferson City, were awarded
a Contractors who are understood to be respor
. sible and competent, The prices do not var
!. very materially from the estimates Of the Eng
;. neer aud are of course satisfactory to the d
rectory. We may now pronounce the Pacit
!, Railroad from st. Louis to Jefferson City, Is
i miles, 30 be in the way Of immediate consru,
y tou-a part being already finished and oper'
J. ting
= II was determined by the Board to open th
2 road to Kirkwood, IA miles from the city, @
. Monday next.-St Louis NcuS, 6M.
New Method Of Making Mirrors.
# The editor of the Prattsville Advocate hi
J. been shown by Rev. L. L. Hill, the inventor
j. "Hiliotyping method Of silvcring glas
e which he considers of great practical value
the manufacture of mirrors
Mr. Hill took small piece Of glass; such {
e Daguerreans use for covering their pictures an
IS in forty seconds it was transformed into pc
e feet mirror perfectin every respect. We kel
d an eye upon it the whole time the process w'
; fully explained and the result cannot be exec
led. Out Of some three hundred experiment
J. which Mr. Hill has made he has never failed
. r,ot;rc. - ,oo,coct vo;rror Tn his unoda of sci