Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-03-14


their work in such u slaky manner tina
our confidence in their yer;lcty is greatly
shaken.
A good multipIicatiOn-table wrestler vii
pile up column after column of figures tc
prove that the defeat of his political candi
date dis year by 5000 majority agains
$500 last year is gain for his side of ,OO(
votes.
If such curious ciphering doesn't create
strong suspicion that figures lie like the
annual statement of a New York life ins,lr-
ance company. it at least leaves an impress
sion that they are weak In the limbs-and
often cut pretty figure, tiguratively speak
ing.
The man who has the multiplication Ia
Bile at his fingers ends. and can foot up
column Of figures six inches high and two
broad, as quick as you could pronounce
halt of the name ola Russian General, is a
serpent in the social circle-a sort of boa.
or bore, Orwell, he's an adder anyhow.
He is as great nuisance'as the inllefatiga-
Die bore who prOpOunds such queries as
tKfs: suppose your mothers daughter
your uncle's side, what relation would their
children be to your aunt's step-mother?'
or somehow that way. You probably
have met such bores.
We never have.
The multiplication table man, ut the risk
Of his life, will tell you THAT multiplied
3s7. 42O. 4s9 times by itself, would require
a., - /
ing 10 hours daily, would take IL years and
go days. And then you heavc sigh
mile long and wish that he would go off
somewhere by himself and work out the
problem. LIT perform this arithmetical
task required only five years and no days,
We don't suppose one Of the adder's hear
ers would go to work ut the job.
Scientists tell lis that there are inflsoria
SO small that $4,000. 100000 Of such are
found in one cubic inch of water.
I And we believe it.
Indeed, we think that WAS the exact
number We tished out Of a cubic inch of
water the other day-th0tsgh we are not
positive that two or three didn't crawl
away before we got chance to count 'em.
And it wasn't very propitious weather I
for catching infilsoria, either.
We are further told that ball the size
of the globe would contain 2.429, O93, OOO,-
co. OOO, 900 600, 600 GOO, 900 600, OOOOl3 infl-
soria. Il
No doubt oft. il
And it would be easier to catch the infu- il
sOria than to make the ball. g
The inventor of the game of chess was b
babe by the King of India to name his own Ii
reward, upon which he asked to receive the h
number of grains of wheat that would be II
produced if one grain were paid him for q
the first square of the chess. two for the n
second, four for the third, eight for the Il
fourth, and SO on doubled ug, for every t.
square OF the sixty-four. When these "
amounts were added. the sum was found "
to be IS,44G,744, O73, 100, 55l .6l5 of grains, D
''enOugh to cover all the continents Of tile "
earth with layer one-thlrd of an inch in fl
thickness a,
The name of the party who counted the
grains is not given. but it is highly proba-
bic that he stopped counting at the end of
the 9th year, and YEARLY exclaiming,
Ills wheat to be remembered" guessed W
at the number remaining. History doesn't NJ
say so. but it must have gone against the fl
grain OF the King to fulfill his promise. d.
The whole story. however. sounds like tt
lie, invented by the enemy for W
some sinister purpose. NJ
Light. according to Professor Somebody. IN
travels 1872 900 miles a second. This Is III
much faster than the defaulting president tn
Of savings bank travels. He prefers dark m
ness when he goes and travels at the rate tn
Of about thirty miles an hour, but he re- Sc
grets that he can't make as good time as ar
light. m
Another figure twister says if one cent 81
were set out at compound interest in the tn
year !. at four per cent, the LIST of January, eli
1865, it would amount to l quintillion, nc
sOl ,45S quadrillions, 332 trillions of mil lie!
ions. all
A cent is n very small sum, and we all gr
night set out that amount at compound w
interest for the benefit OF our pOsterity tr,
Eighteen hundred and sixty years hence. su
But some persons persistently refuse TO tic
10 anything tor pOsterty, simply because tic
has never done anything for III
hem. of
The same authority further declares that ed
we paid the tax collector the amount
bove mentioned In silver. he would need
.OO3, Al. OOO, OOO, 600, 0OO, 600 wagons for its
When you owe that much taxes. there sh
ore, you had better pay the collector in no
reenbacks or checks, for-to quote the ar
Professor aforesaid-"a robbery could be SCI
Ommitted on the hindmost wagon, which be
you'd not he discovered till the "a, 7SOth his
eneration Of collectors" an
Hence the tax CLEANER, to save his repu- B..
stion and money, and prevent being re- ira
lOved to make room for a man belonging an
, the opposite political party, would be ac'
ompelled to employ force larger than asl
ne United States army before It was cut me
own to 10000 men. to travel along with te,
,e wagon train to protect it from tie dep an
citations of road agents-cspecially ifhe to
as going in the direction of the Black ty.
ILLS. re:
This sum Of money, we are also inform los
!, distributed among the people OF the in
nth. would give each Of Its Loco, COX, 600 lit
{ inhabitants about twelve hundred tril- car
ons of dollars, and he or she could every me
cond use S2.OOO,O00 for 3S.00G.OO0 years the
ithout reaching the bottom OF his or her on
lrse. LII
But who wants to spend that much SIN
oney in that many years! Better give col
me oft to the poor-thongb. by the pm
Nv, come to think Of it, there wODid be hsl
, poor to receive it. Such . distributes, D.,
oreover, would not make things as pleas COS
1 for us ~ at first sight appears. - hvi