Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1896-01-02
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4 Few Paragraphs From the Pens Of Nsws-
paper Philosophers on the Flight Of Tine.
In our boybood time walks, In middle
life itamhleu, and in old age 1t pants In
breathless haste to reach the goal and
have done with us. A day is week to
the child, and week is but a day to tho
aged.-New York Herald.
The months may speed as they will.
The days may come and 60 like light
ming flashes Age may creep on apacs
and youth hasten to middle liIe, NO
vember blasts may chill and December
SHOWS cover the sod like a shroud. II
matters little. There will be other years
In other climes, and the work we leave
unfinished WILDE brought to completion
after the grass has grown OH our gravea
Unidentified.
Notime is go short as that Of the man
who has passed the three score mile
stone. The clock no longer ticks the
seconds away, but the days. The very
weeks fash by. Hardly do the flowers
Of April bloom before the frosts Of o..
tober set in, and hardly do the frosts
carve fantastic pictures on the window
pane before the sun Of another spring
makes the meadow green once more. -
Exchange.
Time was when II was considered 4
sure sign Of death before the next New
Year to sec your own shadow In the
moonlight On the lst Of January.
January is still called by the old Gel
tic name-Juis Genver, the cold month
in Cornwall, England. The Saxonl
called 1t Wolf Monat, because the wolvei
were unusually ravenous in January, By
tho Saxon it was termed Aefer- Yule.
Pins were invented In the sixteenth
century at Gloucester, England. They
straightway became popular New
Year'spresent, but later money for theil
purchase, called "pin money" wal
given instead.
| In the days Of our European forbearl
It was believed that unless misfortun,
werecourted no ono should leave TN
house on New Years day till some ont
lhad entered, and tho visitor to bring {
illno brand Of good luck should bea darl
haired man.
Juggling with Figures
Tho popularity OF the date Of 1900 Il
its involved connection with the digit 8
As that number IL regarded by thos'
who hold superstitious belief as u pro
verbally lucky ono, from its association
with certain Biblical events, 1t Is to b.
hoped that the coming annual cycle may
prove this one particular theory to b.
true, and that Jan. will usher in al
auspicious season Of material and nnan
cial prosperity.
Tho number 1890 Is equally divisibl'
by 8. So is the sum Of its diglts, plu
plus 8 plus Q (and tho reverse Is nee
essarily tho same) equalng "a, which
again united, 3 plus 4, equals O. Sepa
rating Its hundreds from tho tens, Il
and 90 or s. and 60, they are still mul
| tiplos OF 5. The sum Of tho first an(
last digits, / plus 0, equals 7. Added tc
tho two middle figures they produce 90,
which IL the last two units Of tho date,
being equally divisible by 8, as is its
sum, plus 0, equals 8.
Tho centuries l8 arc divisible wholly
BY 0, 0 and 8; tho number reversed, 81,
Dy 0 and by 3, by the product Of these
two numbers % multiplied by 81 ~,
and tho sum Of tho digits, plus s,
equals 0. The sum Of tho first two Ag-
ures in tho date, represented as diglts.
equals the third. Eighteen plus 90
equals ! ID, and 90 minus IS equals rs,
over which the mystic has full con-
troll, as it does over the sum Of tho digits
in these latter numbers, plus / plus
A equals 9, and 7 plus equals l5.
And IS minus 0 equals 0, while 10 plus
0 equals 2l, the sum Of whose digits,
plus /, equals .. The product Of the
digits in the year, | multiplied by 5 by
0 by 0, equals 432, a multiple Of $, and
tho sum Of tho unit figures. plus 8
plus 2 Is 8, Eighteen minus 0 equals 8,
and 0 minus G equals 8.
From this can be derived the infalli.
bic rulo that when the sum Of the digitf
Of any number is equally divisible by .
the number itself isa common multiple.
For instance the numbers 26l equals O.
aud 3i4l equals l2) must necessarily
20 equally divisible by the mysterious
factor 5. ALBERT =. SoUTHwIcK.
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