Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-03-05
MATHEMATICAL QUESTION.
Two Hundred and Twenty lone Years
the Cycle-.-HistOrical Vi-itatiOns Of
LNcuSiS.

If the thirteen and seventeen year locusts
both visit the earth this year, when will
they meet here again? We answer that
they will return here together again A, D.
2l02; and again A. d. 1928 and every 22l
years thereafter forever.
We arrive at the above conclusion from
the following facts: The numbers IS and
II, which designate the times of their vista
tons, being prime numbers, give for their
least common multiple 221, which is the
measure of the cycle of their mutual vista
ton. And although their visits often come
very close together, as in the years 2050 and
POSI-, when they miss each other only one
year, yet they cannot meet till 2l02 and
must meet then if they are true to these
numbers
C@wecting our chronology so as to make
his the year A. d. 1880 as it should be, in
stead of 1881 as we count it, and going back
over these cycles of time to its beginning,
profitable lesson in history to trace the coin
cdent visits of these two species Of locusts
through the long sweep Of ages past.
AS they were created before man was, and
we know not precisely how long, and on the
superstition that they took an even start on
their rounds, the one to return in thirteen
years and the other in seventeen, and count
ing the cycles back from this year, we find
that their meeting next preceding Adams
creation to be 81 years before his ad-
vent on earth. Their next meeting would
find him young man of 1877 years of age !;
and their next would find him 1858 years Of
age, just verging into manhood. They visit
him again at the age of 579, when his locks
are perhaps a little tnged with gray, and he
probably widower. At their next visit he
is exactly 800 years old and at their next
he has passed away and they find man by
the name of Enoch walking with his God
B. C. 3l9S, and on their return in the year
b. C. 1917 they failed to find Enoch for the
simple reason he had been removed from
the regions infested by locusts.
At their next appointment B. c. 2756,
they find and old man named Lamech, who
had a son that turned out to be a preacher
of righteousness and who rode the circuit
of the Euphrates 100 years, which is a little
over the time now allowed circuit riders.
At their next visit, B, 9. 1885, they became
acquainted with this young preacher, whose
name was Noah. 1877 years before he became
a sailor; and at their next, B. c. 23l4, they
found the old sailor and his sons rescued
from the wreck, safe and trying to recuper'
ate their fortunes.
When they returned B. c. 209S they found
NimrOd, the sportsman, holding forth in
Babylon, which he founded years before
At their next visit B. c. 1872 they saw Abra
ham offering isaac; and at their next re
turn they found Joseph ruler of all Egypt
l65l. These are not the locusts, however
that annoyed Pharoah, for they did not re
turn till &. c. 1880, which was after the Is
raelites had left Egypt and while Joshu'
was settling them in the land Of Canaan.
They now for time seem TO make cho;c,
Of visiting great men and heroes, for thei
next return was to see Hercules die, b. c
1909, next to see Solomon's splendid reigI
B. c. 9Ss next to see Corebus, the wres.
Ter, victor at the Olympic Games, Be. 767
next to see Daniel, NebuchadnezEar, Conf
gius, Darius and Cyrus play their parts, B