The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-05-31

/ purpose He was entertained By tbe ed
( tor OF the Genten1alrs NfagazI1e at II
JOho cate and exhibited 10 the ROEa
ward referred 10 az the N-olly AZ Sfar,
courJ. During his stay in .onfloY he wa,
taken 70 Drury Lane theatre 10 Sc,
Fichard HI but neither the nove.t1
4 nor tAe, spIendor- OF the snow nor IA
I eAhlDlelon OF paSSioia, made any visibl,
which 8arTtCiS uttered during ms peF.
4 IoIfhSrtse Ihe. tientiemans NfagaziTlt
Jededtdh had returned tes the place Of hi.
odtn without regretting anything which
na had ieit behlnd ntn IN EOndOn
Worhs and. cutie convinced that "a slice
81 rusty bacon afforded a. more delicious
fspasl than anything TO be obtained n
/ the gIasat city
AneeHer Untausht arithmeticsIf genius.
Iefah- COibHrn, whose IA bubrnnal oeveiol4-
tneAt raises an inJeresting prGblsm, was
brought to London by his father i, 1917
/ q heil > years old, wheu he was examined
fancis f5atlE ana other sLlfiIfut ynsthe-
mittlclaIlS ftwas found that "a thate-ls he,
49, 20 istl9tttlt or the PRIMARY rules OF
arithmetic thar he could not perform on
paper slmple sum Ia multiplication o..
olFlsl9n. yet that he gould rner5aI ~. null
tlplN any number less than ran INTO it,
SELF sucoesSiveiy nine times ard eIyFe tne.
results IaSLer than the person -4rf1afr4faS
- - record them could take them down.
LIiIeS, or 20 Use technical terms, Ealsed
II 20 zoe sixteenth power, and the result
- -,.,e- > y, I'll oia5fLs; was 4ound to
ishiIlE enough, but he, was aBIeYTt0 "a
lt.ltaSs even more wonderful ~ mem asked
49, NJ her multiplied by itself gave
lg5, %z9s he answered betOre the oI.ieinaI
s3Qinper coniq be written down that Il
We o. Ia aS9in, when asked what
itta ger, multiplied twice into itself gave.
o9.sso'4Z2, or, % put It stechnteafly what
w. me cu5e foot of that array of fig
Ures, ne replied with equal facIIity aud
promptness that it was 6G5
ne paathenat iCaI experts who we're e-x-
safniping the boy found that it was irnpos-
sible 70. ind the cube root OF these, nine
figures in the shortest and most. eonv6n-
lent way, in less than three or four min
0tss. But what most surprised the math-
e33lsslcians was that he could almost as
E3aUilN d4SWerf questions Tor which they
nd not been able TO provide any system
sltiE Ii1fce'cllIre themselves. For Instance
he Was asked to fame two bdfabers which
Inultlphed together, would give the. num-
and 268. which are said TO be the erlSr TWO
nunhaps which will do so Andas when
asked e, name a number which would di-
Etae 56sso5 exactly, he 1nhesitatingly re-
piled that no number would do So IT aHv
or our znathematically minded readers
VIII address themselves to this problem.
they win find that It viii give theTr AZ
least a quarter of an hour 5 stiff eaIcIla4
hon before they can assure themselves
tha J0,yo5 IS what IS called a prime mum :
Der, or a number only dfvfsibie BIZ itself
anu unity, a soluuon WHICH this child
was, IN some mysterious way. able to see.
lnTnediatelX the question was proposed 10
him
Colbgrn. like Buxton, seems to have had
= HlethQd OF ms own, but he constantly
declared that ne did not know how the
answers came into his mind Cod mt
these Things .fnto my head he said on
Helus pressed Tor an explanation, and L
cannot put them into YOURS IedgrliaI1
ltyeu 70 lug age Of s. With no more gen
era4 knoyFIedge or stO68E OF .idsaS than a
enlid 81 l6 aud he kept Bis EXTRAORDINARY
gate Qla0hS faculty TO the end; hat Zerah-
as me general culture OF his mind Inn
pre- Ned.. round his sDeciaIplOCwer to fade,
aWf+F FRANCIS BaiA, was Of opinion that.
Zerttils Eo2burn 8 eats indicated the exist
ence q certain properties OF numbers
Nentel4 nl3theIna ticfans had not yet dis
e2Eefed- But II IS, perhaps, equally pos
sfble that they Indicate capacities Of the
human mi nd which have hitEert0 been
pndredmed Of