The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-09-08
THE NEWER ARITHMETIC.

IHE MN XIX AhlIh MEIlG.
Jones sells his farm for s, 600 and invests
the money in mining stock payinga dividend
of sixteen per cent How long will it take
the company to absorb his capital and leave
him as fiat as a pancake
A young man wayers fifty cents that be-
can put a billiard ball into his mouth and he
wins the bet. A surgeon charges him q for
four hours work in removing it. What WAS
the exact gain in being smart?
The average fisherman gets four nibbles 70
one bite, and three bites to a fish, and half
his fish are not worth carrying home. At
this rate how long will it take fisherman to
exhaust the supply Of sheep-heacs and dog
fish.
A man pays fifty cents extra to take laugh
ing-gas while having a tooth pulled The
dentist could have pulled six as well as one.
and without any further cost. How much
did the patient lose by being so stingy Of his
mOlars ?
A member of the Common Council prem
ises the appointment of public weigher 70
seven men; that Of City Hall janitor to eight
others that Of wood inspector to six more.
How many promises did he make in all, and
4 tramp hires out TO farmer for fourteen
dollars per month. he gets a boss dimes.
works an hour and skips. Counting the din
ner worth thirty cents how how much did he
make Counting the three bites he got
from the farmers dog at twenty five cents
each how much did he lose ?
A druggist mixes two ounces Of water and
three cents worth Of powder together and
charges ffty-six cents for the prescription.
Estimating the water at eighty cents and his
time at twenty, how much does he lose2 It's
curious but druggists lose money Just that
way.
A servant girl works in a certain family
for three weeks at 8 per week. She breaks
four goblets at twenty-eight cents each, three
tea cups valued at twenty cents apiece,
throws S1.2O worth Of bread and biscuit into
the alley, and gets away with half a set OF
knives and forks costing 50. How much is
the family out of pocket
q boy buys a harvest apple for a cent he
gives a boy a taste for a kite worth four
cents another boy a small bite for marble
worth penny a third boy big bite for a
jacknife worth six cents, and then has
enough left to get up case Of collie worth
s.. How much does he make by the specu-
lation2
The friends Of a certain man chip IN four
cents apiece and purchase a sponge to pre-
sent him on his birthday as emblematical Of
his daily life. The certain man lets himself
loose on the donors and damages each ones
head to the amount Of s3.47 How much Is
each donor out Of pocket2
A Wisconsin school teacher had nineteen
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three months that she bad bestowed 12s lick
ings on the school Allowing that one boy
received seventeen OF them, and that three
of the girls escaped entirely, how many lick
ings did each OF the others receiver
Two men who regard their sacred honor as
at stake go out to fight duel. One shoots
a calf in a field and the other pops farmer
sitting on q fence, and they shake hands and
/ declare their sacred honors freed from ali
stains. How much sacred honor does it take
TO fill fOur-sack, and how long would il
take one grasshOpper to eat the whole busi-
ness up?
A citizen who thinks it would be nice to
have fresh eggs every day buys thirteen
fowls at sixty cents each; lumber to the
amount Of S12 hires a man for g 10 build
park and in three months pays out s. 20 for
feed. In the twelve weeks he gets four doz-
en- eggs and loses five hens by death and
mysterious disappearance. How much have
his eggs cost him per dOzen2
The candy eaten by a school girl costs Just
as much as her school-books the peanuts
she deyours cost more than her singing les
sons her ice cream costs more than lrer
French, and the gas and fuel she consumes
while sparkling foot up twice the cost OF
/ learning heT to paint landscapes on old jugs
and pitchers. Therefore, how many daugh-
/ ters must a man have to be rich? -?
I An alderman pays a reporter S to write
/ him q speech favOring the erection Of a new
school house, but after delivering eleven
/ cents worth Of the Grafton he is informed
I that there is no question before the meeting,
and he falls back and breaks pair Of sus-
pendeTs worth thirty-fve cents. How much
is the gr at man out of pocket?
A father pays $500 10 educate his daughter
in music; $50 to enable her to say good
day " IN French 500 to give her lessons in
painting; SIS to learn her 10 dance. She
then mRrries man who is working on a SAL
airy Of S14 per week. How much will she
save BY doing her own kitchen work for FIVE
years estimating girls salary at s.. 90 per
week ?-DetTojt Free Press.