Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1892 — Easy Lessons in Arithmetic. [ARTICLE]

Easy Lessons in Arithmetic.

A, who is a young girl, is seated at ope end of a 50-foot veranda with her rhbther, while B, who is a palpitating young man, is seated at the other end all alone, says the St. Louis Repub. lie. The mother is taken with headache and retires. The young folk are attracted toward each other at the rate of a foot and a half every 42 seconds. How long will it take them to bump together. A tin-peddler cheats a farmer’? wife out of 11 cents on her paper rags and 17 cents on a calfskin, while she works off two dozen bad eggs on him at 14 cents a dozen, and stuffs £, pound and a half of hens’ feathers -into the sack of geese feathers sho sells at* 40 cents a pound. How much is the tin-peddler ahead? And why doesn't he smile over it? A preacher on a salary of SBOO a year and a steady job, buys a croquet set for $2 and invites one of the church trustees to play a game with him. How much would the salary of the preacher have amounted to in three years, seven months and thirteen days, had he staid on instead of having a “call” within four weeks after beating the trustee? A dry-goods clerk on a salary of sls a week, and having a cash capital of SI,OOO in the bank, begins to court a girl. His intended father-in-law borrows of him at the rate of $32 a week, and he saves $7 a week out of his salary. What will be the state of his finances at the end of one year?

At Jefferson's recent appearance in Boston the box-office receipts were $25,000, probably the largest on rec ord for eight nights’ performances.

Atlas must have learned something about the weigh of the world. Yonkers Statesmwu