The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-11-18
MATHEMATISsF FOR THE MILLION.
What Can be Done with Figures provo 1t
by COuating.

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From the Danish.
Card players who are continually
bewailing their ill-luck Of always re-
ceiving the same poor cards will, per-
haps, be assured by knowing that tho
tisty-two cards, with thirteen to each
Of The four players, can be distributed
in 53. 644 737, 755, Ass, 792, S3o. 2237 ,4i0 00o
different ways, so that there would
still be good stock OF combinations
to draw from, even if sian from
Adams time had devoted himself to
no other occupation than that of play
ing at cards.
When King Stanislaas of Poland,
then a young man, came back from a
journey, the whole Lescinskian House
ga hered together at Lissa to receive
him. The master OF the school, ia
blowsky, prepared school festival in
commemoration of the joyous event,
and had it end with ballet perform
ed by the thirteen students, dressed as
young cavaliers. Each had shield.
upon which one of the letters of the
words "Domus IIescinia" ('.The Les
cinskian House') was written in gold.
After the first dance their shields read
"Domus Lescinia after the second
dance they changed order, making it
read ga des sincolunnus" ("Unharmed
art thou here''Y; after the third: sMane
sidus loci" (''continue to be star for
the country') after the fourth; isis
columna aei' (':Be pillar of God'O;
and finally "I! scande solium!" ("Go
and ascend thy throne"). Indeed,
these two words allow of 1,556, 755, 200
transpositions, yet that four of them
convey Independent meanings is GER
lainly very curious.
Ii | cent was set out at compound
interest in the year l, at 4 per cent,
the 1st of January, 1866, it would
amount TO l quintillien, 20l.45S quad
rilliens, 332 900 trilions of dollars. If
we were 10 take this sum as capital
and would use its ycarly-interest q
per cent? then the income tax we
should have to pay at the rate of per
cent. would be 4SO quadrillions, $685.
32O trillions of dollars. If we paid the
tax collector this sum in silver he
would need 3,O03,545, 900, 900, 1000, ,O00,-
600 wagons for lis transportation.
Provided the whole earth's surface,
both land and water were peopled as
closely as possible, We should have but
l 100000 part of the drivers required,
and the line of wagons would have the
length of trillions, AZ, 900 billions OF
miles. The speed of light, as men
| toned, is l92, 600 miles per second. and
| the collector, beginning at the furthest
wagon, If he, to have better control
over the wagons OH both sides, sta
! toned himself in the center Of the line
Agaiu, robbery could be committed
on the hinder,nost wagon which won Id
! NOT be discovered till the 24,7S0 gener-
alton of tax collectors. If, on the con-
! trary, instead of using the interest OF
! The capitalize bulk OF W hich, blythe
by. in gold, would be equal to A
gicbes-=this capital were distributed
among the people of the earth, each
. one OF it's .O00, 900 900 of inhabitants
would receive about 200 tri!lious OF
| dollars to live on. and could every Sec
ond use 100000 tor 3S,o96,0o0 years
without reaching the bottom OF his
! purse.
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SOMEBODY interviewed George
Francis Train, and the latter said: "Do
| won soc those bandsP See the hIoo1