Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1894 — A Mathlmatical Wonder. [ARTICLE]

A Mathlmatical Wonder.

Rube Field, the Warrensburg Penn., mathematical wonder, is an imbecile and does not know one figure fforn another. His pastime is to give off-handed answers to problems likes this: “What will 550 2-8 yards of calico amount to at 5 cents per yard with a discount of 5 and 2 1-2 per cent*.” It takes but a moment for him to answer such questions, and the reply is said to be invariably correct. [Detroit Free Press.