Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-11-08

600 wagons for its transportation. Pro-
vided the whole earth's 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 Il
length of 8 trillions 442, 900 billions
of miles. The speed of light,
as mentioned, is $4,000 miles
per second, and it would take
743, 600 years to reach the Collector,
beginning at the furthest wagon, if he,
to have better control of the wagons on
both sides, stationed himself in the
centre of the line. Again, a robbery
could be committed on the hindmost
wagon, which would not be discovered
till the "a, $50 generation of Tax Col
lectors. If, on the contrary, in
stead of using the interest of the capi-
tal-the 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 its
!, ZOO, 100000 of inhabitants would re-
ceive about 200 trillions of dollars to
live on, and could every second use
1000, 900 for 38,O96,O0O years without
reaching the bottom of his purse.
Again, In another place, In an article
on anagrams or transpositions of let
| tiers, similar examples are given as to
the rapidity with which numbers will
increase. We find, then, that two let
tiers can be changed 1x2 times; letters
1x2x3 or times; letters 1x2x3x4x5,
or 12O times; which is enough to illus
trate the point. The transpositions
grow in number so quickly that while,
! for instance, the word Dame can be
subjected to the following Dame, daem,
dmae, dmea, DEAN. dema, adme, adem,
amde, amde, aedm, aemd, mdae,
mdea, made, maed, mead, me-
da, edam, edna, eadm, eamd.
emda, emad; the word periodical"
that contains ten letters, can be trans
posed 8, 628,800 times, and twenty-four
letters can be changed $40, AS, 401, 1885,
239, 439, 800, 900 of times, all of which
changes, according to Euler, could not
be written by the population of the
whole world in 1000 years if each one
were to write forty pages with forty
trAnspositions on each.
When King Stanislaus, of Poland,
then a young man, came back from
Journey the whole Lescinskian House
gathered together st LISA to receive
him. The master of the school, Jab-
Iowsky, prepared a school festival in
commemoration of the joyous event, and
had it end with ballet performed by
thirteen students, dressed as young cav
alters. Each had q shield, upon which
one of the letters of the words "Domus
Lescinia" ("The Lescinskian House,
was written in gold. After the first
dance they stood in such manner that
their shields read "Domus Lescinia;'
after the second dance they: changed
order, making it read: AIDES medium
| nus" ("Unharmed art thou here!");
after the third: Name sidus loci")
try"); after the fourth: ISIS columna
dei") C'Be pillar of God"); and final
ly: Il! scande solium!" eco, and as
cend thy throne!") Indeed, these two
words allow of 1855, 755, 200 transposi-
tions, yet that four of them convey in
dependent meanings is certainly very
/ curious.
If we pass from the sphere of letters
! to other objects we are struck by the
strange discovery that twelve persons
can interchange their respective posi-
tons 479, 001, 600 times, which number
of changes it would take them not less
than l, S48 years to accomplish if they
moved once every minute for twelve
| consecutive hours daily.
Card-playels who are continually be-
wailing their i'll luck of always receiv-
ing the same poor cards, will perhaps
be assured by knowing that the fifty
two cards, with thirteen to each of the
four players, can be distributed in 3d.
GA, 737, 756, 4SS, 792, S39, 237, 40, 900 diff
| ferent ways, so that there would still
be good stock of combinations to draw
from even if man from Adams time
had devoted himself to no other occu-
patton than that of playing at cards.
Unbelievers, who, if not able to mas
ter the foregoing assertions, canuot,
even in the face of of mathematics, re-
frain from shaking their heads with
doubt as to their correctness, we shall.
in conclusion, soothe with an expert
ment, of whose correctness they can
convince themselves with a small
amount of patience. In the following
figure the sentence, prove it by count
ing" is read from the middle "P" to-
ward the four "g's" in the corners, in
SERIAL different ways-45, go, if mathe-
mates are to be trusted.
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