Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1889 — Chicago Mathematics. [ARTICLE]

Chicago Mathematics.

San Francisco Wasp. “What is the matter, Nelly?” “Nothing, ma, except”— “Except what, Nelly?” “Except that we’ve got a new teacher, and she’s just as uppish and insaltirg." “Who is she?” “Priscilla Ryan from Boston.” “What did she do?” “Oh, she took ns out of our A B C’s, and begun some fanny business right off,such as ‘How many feet make a yard? Three.’ And she made us say it, too. I knew it was a slur about Chicago feet. The idea of our yard being only big enough to hold three feet!”