Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 297, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1913 — Q. E. D. [ARTICLE]

Q. E. D.

"Ten years ago," said the professor of mathematics, “I killed a fly that had got into my office. If I hadn’t killed that fly, she would certainly have laid 1,500 eggs. From these eggs would have come other flies, who would in turn have increased and multiplied so that by now we should have 550,637,841,296 more flies. Obviously they would have made Hfe an inferno. Therefore, it is certainlnkt by the killing of that fly I did the world a great service.” —Neyv York Evening Post.