Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 220, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1913 — Three Ideas of Nothing. [ARTICLE]

Three Ideas of Nothing.

In an Irish school not long ago, a school teacher asked a class to define “nothing." . fie wrote the question on the blackboard, and did so quickly and rather carelessly. A little red-headed fellow's hand shot up. “Well, Thady, what iq nothing?” said the teacher. “You may tell us.” “It’s the dot on the 1 ye’ve just forgotten to make, sor!” was the triumphant reply. An equally good definition was that of the lad who declared that nothing was “a footless stocking without a .leg.** He, too, was Irish. Less imaginative, but not less convincing, waa the mercenary definition given by a canny “chler* of Scotland. "It’s when a man asks ye to hand his horse,” he explained, ruefully, “and then just says, ’Thank ye.’"Youth’s Companion. \ .