Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1890 — A Puzzling Problem. [ARTICLE]

A Puzzling Problem.

A friend asks me to multiply $5 by JBS. I do so, and announce the result a* $25. Now multiply 500 cents, give the answer m cents, pure aud simple, not as fractional parts of a dollar. Ido so, and am surprised td see the figures climb up to 250,000 cents,, which is $2,500. As $5 and centsarauaqui vale nt the result is ■puzfflhg. flkged that deci\ mal marks jSdfja D 4 such, is as distinct a unitVs a dotluf, and as the resnlbtis fib ti|kannq|Mnced in‘cents the decimal cannot be pleaded in extenuation pMheirather surprising, result, But there is clearly something wrong. Gin any reader of the Young People’s Department explain iti-r-.Veic York Press.

State of Omb, ‘f'rfY of Toledo, i-' •' Lucas County, SS. f Fbank J,. Cheney makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney Jt Co., doing business in the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ft r each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the usedf Hall's Catarrh Cure. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and suba bribed in my presence, thia 6th day of December, A. D., 1886. , . A. W. GLEASON. -J seal, z Notary Public.. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts directly upon the blood and muons surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohio. . 43* Sold by druggists, 75 cents. An officer high in army circles suggests that, as a solution of the Indian question the red man be enlisted ip the regular army. He says that they make good soldiers but very poor farmers. The American nr my has found the former to be a serious fact, while the Interior Department hng made almost an utter failure of converting them into farmers.