The Portland daily press., 1877-01-18
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Sam" Barger got word one evening while
at dinner thatCoumodoreV Vanderbilt would like
to see him. Hastily partaking of little food,
he repaired to the old gentleman's residence,
forgetting in his hurry to put a cigar in his
pocket. After the business was finished Sam
said: commodore, you brought me away from
my dinner in such a hurry that didn't get my
smoke! believe would like to try cigar"
trhe Commodore was smoking a delightfully."-
fragrant Havana.) "All right Sam, he re-
piled, you will find match on the MANTLE
piece" Sam smoked when he got home.
AS contribution to the statistics of literary
remuneration in this country, the following
facts will be of interest: "Mr. Bayard TAYLOR
not only received no fee for the National Ode,
delivered at Philadelphia on the Fourth of Ju.
ly, from the centennial commission las a few
journals carpingly asserted) but he secured no
copyright for the work. 1t has since been re-
Published in various forms. Messrs James r.
Osgood & Co., withoat any legal obligation,
paid the author copyright for their fac-simile
edition in heliotype. Mr. VIM. f. Gill pub.
fishes an expensive illustrated edition, and
does not even send the author a specimen
copy; and Mr.. e. B. Treat, including the Ode
in his work, ''The National Jubilee" kindly
invites the author to subscribe for a opy,
at the rate of $3.50, bound in elegant CLOTH
Here is an incident illustrative of one of
Nye's well known defects. Just before Secre-
tary Chase resigned the Treasury in the sum-
mer OF 1864, Horace Greeley, being in WASH
lngton, was asked who be thought would be a
good successor to the important office. .'The
best man can think Of" replied Greeley, lis
Jim Nye." slim Nye? You cannot mean it.
What in the world is there to recommend
him.? Just this" answered the journalist
"pve known Nye for good many years. He's
always borrowing money, and I've never
known him to pay a dollar back Now, if he
could be in the Treasury, he'd keep borrowing
in his old way, while nobody could ever get
anything out of him, and the result would be
that the Treasury would be full all the time
and the treasurer wonld be full, too-and
things would go on swimmingy''
The multiplication of 9S7654321 by As gives
4444444445. Reversing the order of the digits
and multiplying 1234567S9 by As we get a re-
suit equally curious, 1855, 555, 500. If we take
1234567S9 as the muitplIcand, and Interchange
ing the figures of IS, take 81 as the mutiplier,
we obtain another remarkable product $685.
666,606. Returning to the multplicand first
used, 9S7654321, and taking "a as the multiplier
again, we get SO, 1893 1893 3334-all threes except
the first and last figures, which read together
%, the multiplier. Taking the same multipl-
cand and using n, the half of "a as the multi
plier, we get product Of 26,666, 666 667-all
SKIES except the first and last figures which
read tOgetl er give o. the mnltInlar Naxt
interchanging the figures in the number 27,
and using u as the multiple r, with 9S7654321
as the multipcand, we obtain a product of
ILL, III, 112-all ones except the first aud last
figures, which read together give u, the multi
pller