Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1878 — Tho Romance of Arithmetic [ARTICLE]

Tho Romance of Arithmetic

“The mest romantic of all numbers,” says a writer in Chambers’ Journal, “is the figure niDe, because it can be multiplied away, or got rid of anyhow. Whatever you do, it is as sure to turn up again as the baby of Eugene Aram's victim. One remarkaole property wf this figure (said to have been discovereu by W. Green, who died in 1754,) is, that all through the multiplication table the product of nine comes to nine Multiply by what you like and it gives the same result. Begiu with twice niue 18; add the digits together, and 1 and 8 mal e 9. Three times 9 are 27; aud 2 ana 7 mak 9. So it goes on up te eleven times nine, whi«h99. Very good; at.d the digits; 9 and 9 are 18, and 1 and 8 aie9. Going to auy extent it is impossible to get iid of the figure 9. — Take a couple of instances at random. Three hundred and thirty-nine times nine are 3,051; add up the figures and they give 9. Five thousand and sev-enty-one times nine are 45.639; the sum of these digits is 27; and 2 and 7 are 9. M. de Maivan found out another very queer thing about this number, namely that if yon take any row of figures, and reversing their order, make a subtraetr n sum of it, the total is sure to makt 9.”

Referring to the purposes of the Potter Committee, the Washington Post says: “The Committee will go for the bottom facts, and Mr. Hayes himself will be invited to take the stand, and tell the country what connection he had with the outrageous frauds that were perpetrated in his interest. He will be asked to explain certain cheeks signed by himself when Governor of Ohio, and on which money to aid in carrying out the Radical scheme was drawn. In order to refresh his memory the Committee will show him the checks. The presidenr will also be given an opport n’ty to inform a patient people how he came to give every one of *he returning board rascals and the thieves who helned lucrative Federal offices, Znch. Chandler and certain members of the syndicate ring will he called upon to tell what use was made of certain large sums of noon y which were spe >t 'n the campaign by the Republican candidates. Officers of rhe National Bank of New York, from which Johh Sherman obtained thousands of dollars, will be summoned to bring their books for inspection. Stanley Matthews will be again invited, and, if he again declines, he will be urged. On the other side, Manton Marble, Colonel Pelton and all the parties whose names were connected with the cipher telegrams will be called President T himself wll be requested o t itify, and the New York Tribune erl--1 ors will be required to tell where they got the cipher telegrams. Fact* showing clearly how the Electoral votes of Florida and Louisiana weid stolen wih be put In evidence and published. The names of the visiting Republican statesmen will figure conspicuously in connection with these telegrams, which are the ones which were secretly abstracted from Orton’s trunk, as has been described by the Post,”