The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1892-08-10
ONE THING AND ANOTHER.

-OLD-TIME NEwsPAPERs.-It is
the general impression that yester-
days newspaper is not quite so in
teresting as to- days, but this is not
altogether true. There is an old
newspaper in the British Museum
called the English Mercurje, pub
lished centuries ago, which is far
more interesting and valuable than
to-days London Times, even though
there are persons who believe that
the Museum Mercurie is but a forge
ry.
The oldest regular newspaper
published in England was estab-
lished in 1862, by Thomas Butler
In France, the first paper to b.
started was in the reign of Louis
XIII.
The first Dutch newspaper, which
is still continued under the name
of The HaarIem Courant, is dated
January s, 1856. 1t contained two
folio pages of news. The first Rus
sian newspaper was published in
1903. Peter the Great not only took
part personally in its editorial COM
position, but in correcting proofs,
as appears from sheets still in ex-
istence, in which are marks and
alterations in his own hand. The
first newspaper in North America
was the Boston ewS-Letter, COM
menced April "a, 1904. 1t was half
a sheet of paper, twelve inches by
eight, and having two columns on
page. 1t survived for seventy-two
years, and advocated the policy of
the British government at the out
break of the Revolution.
None of these newspapers ever
said anything about baseball, but
a single copy of any one of them is
worth quite a hundred times the
price of copy of to-day's Herald,
Times, or Tribune-or to-morrow's
either, for that -Harper's
Young People.
"A WONDER IN FIGUREs.-Some
person of a mathematical turn of
mind has discovered that the null
duplication of 987654321 (which you
will observe are simply the figures
= to 9, inclusive, reversed) by 45
gives 49,, 444 AS. Reversing the
order of the digits and multiplying
123456789 by 40 we get a result
equally curious, viz, 5.555,555, 5O5.
If we take 1234567S9 as the multi
plicand and interchanging the fig
ures in As so as to make them read
81, use the last mum Der as a multi
plier, the result will be 6,666,6 $685.
3O6.
Returning to the multiplicand
987654321 and taking 81 as the null
tlplier again, the result will be So.
333, 1888, 334-all 3s except the first
and last figures, which together
read 54-the multiplier. Taking
the same multiplcand and 81, the
half of "a, as the multiplier, the
product is 1856, 666,667, all 6s ex-
cept the first and last figures, which
together read 27-the multiplier.
Now interchanging the order of the
figures p and using 70 instead as a
multiplier and 987654321 as the
multiplicand we get as a product
71,111,111,112, all is except the
first and last figures, which together
read 70, the multiplier.-PhiIadel-
phia Press.
Miss Nina Cromwell, Of De-
troit, who claims to be lineal de-
scendent of the great Oliver Crom-
we'll, owns a venerable Bible which
is thought to be the identical VOL
ume which the Protector used. 1t
was printed in 1861 by John Wolfe
for the assigns of Richard Day, and
was brought to this country in 1850
by Benjamin Cromwell, the great
uncle of the present owner, who has
refused $500 for it.
One of the bishops who attend
ed the Vatican Council, Bishop Pie
of Poitiers, concluded his speech by
two arguments in favor of the pro-
posed infallibility dogma Paul was
beheaded, Peter was not; which
proves that Peter and his success
ors are to be the head of the Church
throughout all ages. Again, Peter
was cruci6ed with his head down
wards which proves that the head
of the Church is the foundation of
the Church and bears the whole
weight of it, by his inhexible neck
raising all the members of Christ's
body to heaven.
There are many people now liv-
ing who will have only one birth
day to celebrate for nearly twelve
years to come. This strange cir