Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 237, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1913 — Marked Similarity. [ARTICLE]

Marked Similarity.

"If 12 persons were to agree to dine together every day, but never sit in exactly the same order around the table,” didactically stated the professor, “it would take them thirteen million years, at the rate of one dinner a day, and they would have eaten more than four hundred and seventy-four million dinners, before they could get through all the possible arrangements in which they could place themselves. “Yep,” snarled Uncle Pepys. “That would be nearly as many ways as a small boy rearranges himself during a long sermon. —Judge.