COMIC ARITHMETIC
Arithmetic is the art or science of computing bj numbers. It is national, political, military, and commercial. It is of the highest importance to the community ; because it pre-eminently teaches us to take care of Number I. Our ministers succeed according to their knowledge of the science of numbers. Witness the skilful management of majorities of the lower house. He who understands the true art of Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication^ and Division, as here laid down, will not be considered a mere cipher in tlie world; but will, in all probability, make a considerable /^wre ; and in the figurative words of Horace, be "Dives agris dives positis in foenore nummis." Let us, therefore, under the guidance and protection of that god of honest men, the light-heeled and light-fingered Mercury, be diligent so to add to our store by subtracting from the stores of others, that we may add to our importance. Let us so multiply our resources, by encouraging dimsion among our contemporaries, that we may see their reduction in the perfection of our own practice.
Arithmetic is the art or science of computing
bj numbers. It is national, political, military,
and commercial. It is of the highest importance
to the community ; because it pre-eminently
teaches us to take care of Number I. Our ministers
succeed according to their knowledge of the
science of numbers. Witness the skilful management
of majorities of the lower house.
He who understands the true art of Addition,
Subtraction, Multiplication^ and Division, as here
laid down, will not be considered a mere cipher in
tlie world; but will, in all probability, make a
considerable /^wre ; and in the figurative words of
Horace, be "Dives agris dives positis in foenore
nummis."
Let us, therefore, under the guidance and protection
of that god of honest men, the light-heeled
and light-fingered Mercury, be diligent so to add
to our store by subtracting from the stores of
others, that we may add to our importance. Let
us so multiply our resources, by encouraging dimsion
among our contemporaries, that we may see
their reduction in the perfection of our own practice.
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SOLID MEASURE. 141<br />
heads," or "thickheads," or " bumbleheads," or<br />
" numbsculls," exemplified in " senior wranglers,"<br />
''<br />
tripos," "professors of Greek," and teachers of<br />
Latin.<br />
The advantages of a thick scull are great.<br />
It<br />
was found upon the gauging of Person's head,<br />
by the heads of his college, that his scull was so<br />
thick that it became the subject of marvel how<br />
knowledge could get in—once 2w, it was held im^<br />
possible to get out. The case is the same with<br />
most of our schoolmen.<br />
Solid Measure has been applied with great<br />
success to the measure of blockheads by Messrs.<br />
Gull and Spuzzy, Epps, Ham and Co. The<br />
measure is now principally performed by a Scotch<br />
"Combe," consisting of four "bushel-heads" in one.<br />
This instrument, the length and breadth and<br />
thickness of a head being given, will work out the<br />
solid contents and capacity of the understanding,<br />
to the fraction of a fraction.<br />
The science so formed upon the measure of<br />
wooden heads was invented by Albertus Magnus,<br />
who flourished in the thirteenth century and made<br />
a wooden man with a wooden head, dividing it into
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