The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1875-12-08
miscellaneous.
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MATHEMATICS FOR THE
MILLION.
WHAT CAN BE DONE W1TE F1GUREs-PRovE
IT BY COUNTING.

! IL BY CUUNIuNG.
Card players who are continually
bewailing their i'll luck of always
receiving the same poor cards will,
perhaps, be assured by knowing
that the ffty-two cards, with thir-
teen to each of the players, can be
distributed in 53,644,737,756,488,-
7O2,839, ,237,44O,OOO different ways,
so that there would still be a good
stock of combinations to draw from
even if a man from Adams time
had devoted himself to no other
occupation than that of playing at
cards.
When King Stanislaus of Poland,
then a young man, came back from
a journey, the whole Lescinskian
house gather together at Lissa to
receive him. The master of the
school, Jablowsky, prepared a
school festival in commemoration
of the joyful event, and had it end
with a ballet performed by thirteen
students, dressed as young caval-
iers. Each hada shield, upon which
one of the letters of the words
"Domus Lescinia" C'The Lescins-
khan House') was written in gold,
after the first dance they stood
in such a manner that their shields
read ''Domus Lescinia;" after the
second dance they changed Or
der, making it read; "Ades incol-
umus," CFUnharmed art thou here !"
after the third: "Mane sidus loci"
(''Continue to be star for the coun-
try";) after the fourth: ellis colum
ma dei'' CsBe a pillar of God" and
finally: III scande so1ium!'' ("Go,
and ascend thy throne".) Indeed
these two words allow Of 1885,
755,200 transpositions, yet that
four of them convey independent
meaning is certainly very curl
GUS.
If one cent was set out at COM
pound interest in the year l, at 4
per cent, the 1st Of January, 1866,
it would amount to one quintil-
lion 201,458 quadrillions, $4,000
trillions of dollars. If we were
to take this sum as a capital and
would use it's yearly interest a per
cent.) then the income tax we would
have to pay at the rate Of one per
cent. would be480 quadrillions, $685.
320 trillions of dollars. If we
paid the tax collector this sum in
silver he would need 1908, ,645,000,
000,0O0,00O,000 wagons for it's
transportation. Provided the whole
earths surface, both land and water,
were peopled as closely as possible,
we should have but 100000 part
of the drivers required, and the line
of wagons would have the
length Of 8 trillions, 442,000 bill
lions of miles. The speed of light,
as mentioned, is 10000 miles per
years second, and it would take 743,-
900 to reach the collector, beginning
at the furthest wagon, if he, to have
better control over his wagons on
both sides, stationed himself in the
center of the line. Again robbery
could be committed on the hinder
most wagon which would not be
discovered till the 24,780 genera
ton of tax collectors. II, on the
contrary, instead Of using the inter-
est of the capitalize bulk of
which, by the by, in gold, would
be equal to A globes-this capital
were distributed among the people
of the earth, each one of it's 1,OO0,-
100000, of inhabitants would re-
ceive about 1900 trilions Of dollars
to live on, and could every second
use 100000 for S8,O96,000 years
without reaching the bottom of his
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