The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-02
THE NEWER ARITHMETIC
Some Easy Lessons in Frenzied FL
nance.


| united ages are five-sevenths of the
J number of behring's in a box. What
are the extra figures?
| A man died leaving property valued
at sly, 900 to a certain relative. Eight
| other relatives wouldn't have it that
way, and contested the will. The pro-
'perty was then divided pro rata, and
each ones share was found to be II
! cents. What became? But. of
| course, you know that the lawyers got
| it.
A farmer takes four dozen eggs to
| town and exchanges them for two
pounds of sugar at nine cents per
| pound, and when he returns home his
| wife gives him 55 cents worth of ''you
| internal old saphead!'' Figure it all
| in and find out how much he received
per dozen for the eggs?
| A lightning rod man sits down to try
and remember how. many farmers he
has Swindled. He can't begin to recall
names and dates, and so he multiplies
his IS years Of experience by two, adds
five, subtracts one, and calls the result
one-fourth of the grand, total What is
the total? ..-A
How do you obtain a concrete num-
Der? Answer: Mix one part Akron ce
ment with two parts of sand, and
spread
A citizen whose gas bill was 81 for
the month of January shut his house
JlD 1Or Two weeks iii MARCH ana MS
gas bill was $7.75. How much did he
make?
If a butcher-cart going at the rate
of mile in three minutes strikes an
alderman who is walking at the rate
of four miles an hour what is the re-
sisting power of each?
A county treasurer knows of a dead
sure thing in wheat. and he puts in
$4,000 of the peoples cash. The dis
tance from his town to Canada is $50
miles, and the average speed of rail-
road train is 35 miles an hour. Find
but they never find EN-.
A lady bought some tape for II cents,
and some thread for two cents, and
worked off quarter with a hole in it
on the peddler. How much did she
save to buy tracts for the heather?
A stone weighing % pounds is con-
cealed under an old hat, and man
kicks it with such force as to send
half pounds of active pressure to move
one pound of dead weight one foot,
what force did he exert?
A farmers wife has % hens. A
preacher comes to stay over Sunday.
and she cooks a neck-piece of corned
beef. How many hens has she left?
A boy earns so cents a day and beats
the old man out of his board at SO per
week. How much will he have after
the first grand aggregation of gigantic
WOI1Q0TS leaves IOWH.
Albert has nine marbles and Aaron
steals four. How many are left? Aaron.
drops a dime from his pocket and AL
bert swallows it. What was Aaron's
profit the whole business?
A man trades a $40 watch for a $45
shotgun, pays So for repairs, and then
exchanges it for a $50 horse, which
kicks a $2S COW to death and then dies
of a broken heart. How much did the
man lose?
In a certain room there are IL women |
sitting down. lady passed the house |
with a new spring bonnet on. Find the |
number who got up and rushed to the |
window Chats where you are fooled. |
One of 'em was too lame to get out of |
her chair.) |
The distance from roadside fence to |
certain harvest apple tree is three
times the distance from the ground to |
the first limb, which is two yards one |
foot and nine and one-half inches. |
What is the distance from the fence, |
and how many harvest apples can a |
fat boy eat?
A has an overcoat for which he paid |
SIS. and his wife trades it off for two |
red-clay busts of Andrew jackson I
worth so cents each. How much money
will she get from her husband to buy
a fall bonnet?
If six men who talk politics and dis
pute Biblical questions can build a I
wall in five days, how long will it take
two men who whistle and flirt with the
widow on the corner to do the same |
work?
A man pays 80 cents for three pounds |
of evaporated apples, and gets a $14 |
newspaper puff for sending them to
an orphan asylum Does he gain or /
lose, and how much?
How many 0eck peach baskets, each |
holding six quarts, will be required to |
hold seven bushels of peaches, each !
bushel of which is short of four quarts? |
How do you obtain an abstract num- |
Der? Answer: Hire a strange boy to |
take a dozen oranges to your house.
"A citizen desires to move a cook |
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