The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1896-10-08
HODGE-PODGB OF ITEMS
Queer Franks Of Figures 10 Which Nine
Is the Greatest Joker.
The WOOL CROP YEARLY DECREASING
Peculiar Disease Produced by che
x.Rays-Cest OF n Mine-Tasma.
mia Has n Real Devfi-Ths Dog
Market 10 Decidedly OFF.

Numerals will play queer FRANKS even
il they cannot be made to tell nntruths,
says the Chicago NeWs. The number 8
is the most obstinate and self willed num-
Der there is. All through the multiplied
ton table the product OF Q comes to 0.
Multiply 0 by any figure you like and the
sum OF the sum Of the digits Of the re-
shifting number will always add Ep TO 8 /;
twice 8 are IS, and and are 8; 4 times
Q are 36, and 8 and 9 are O; 90 it goes up
TO IL times with the result Of %. This
is gotten over by adding the two 9's, get.
ting Is, and adding l and 8. The rule is
never broken; for example. times $3.50
is 3O5l; add these digits together and
they make 8.
Other queer examples of the same kind
Of persistence are shown. n you take
any row Of figures and reverse them, put.
ting the reversed row under the original
and subtracting. the final result OF add
ing up the digits Of the answer will al
ways be a-for example:
294l
1902
144g
Add plus 4 plus plus and you
have Is aud and are 0.
The number OF 81 has it's strange pecu.
liarity; multiplied by 8 or any multiple
Of up to 27. II gives figures all alike.
Thus, 3 times 81 will be Ill. Twice 8
times e timesl 81 will be 222; times 3
times 20 times) 81 gives threes; times
3 times il2 times) 81, fours and so on.
A curious number is 142,S57, which
multiplied by l, 2, 3, 4, 5 or Q, gives the
same figures in the same order begin
ming at different point, but If multi
piled by z. gives all mines. Multiplied by
| 1t equals l42, 1857; multiplied by equals
2s5, ia, multiplied by 3 equals AIS, 571 !;
multiplied by equals 571 ,428. multi
piled by equals ia, 2S5; multiplied by
equals Ss7,l42; multiplied by equals
$685. Multiply 1887 by 8 and you
have 1872, 1856. Then add the first figure
to the last and you have 142, 1858, the or
iginal number, the figures exactly the
same as at the start.
Here is another example: Take the
number Is. Multiply that by itself and
you get 225. Now multiply 225 by itself
and so on until 10 products have been
multiplied by themselves in turn. You
may be clever mathematician but it
would take you about q quarter of a
century to work out this simple little
sum. The final products called for con-
tains $3.50 figures, the first of which are
1442. Allowing three figures to an inch,
the answer would be over 1910 feet long
To perform the operation would require
SOC, 000, 900 figures. II they can be made
at the rate OF one minute, person
working 10 hours q day for 800 days in
each year would be 20 years about it.
II in multiplying he should make row
OF ciphers as he does in other figures, the
number Of figures would lie more than
523, $3.50 ,22S. This would be the precise
number OF figures used il the product Of
the left hand figure in each muItiplicand
by each figure OF the multiplier was al
ways single figure, but as it is most
frequently though not always two figures,
the method employed to obtain the fore
going result cannot be accurately applied.
Presuming that the cipher is used on an
average Of once in ten times, AIS 900 ,0Oo,-
600 approximates the actual number.