Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 183, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1910 — An Estimate. [ARTICLE]

An Estimate.

Our friend, the expert mathematician, sits with a dreamy gaze for some moments, and from time to time tallies something on his fingers. At last he nods his head and looks up. “What is it?” we ask, knowing that he has done some tremendous figuring along some line or other. “I’ve just calculated,” he says, "that If there had been as much digging done on the Panama canal as there had been talking done about It, we could have cut the world square in two In the middle and have sawed a gap 40,000 mtlbs long and 10,000 miles deep In the heart of space.”