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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160 FIGURES FOR THE MILLION.<br />
"cross buttock," to have a "shind eye" with<br />
capital, and to end in an " offal" bankruptcy.<br />
From a consideration of the immediately preceding<br />
rules, and assuming as a fact the spiritual<br />
and ethereal nature of stock or capital, it is therefore<br />
proposed to found a Joint-Stock Company of<br />
unlimited capital, to be called the Boreal Pneumatic<br />
Joint-Stock Company, for " raising the wind,"<br />
and making "darkness visible," or the National<br />
"Puff" Company.<br />
Raising the wind has been the great problem<br />
of all financial operations. It is of far more<br />
importance than "raising the dead."<br />
The "wind"<br />
is a conventional term for the " needful." It is<br />
called wind because it is raised by various " Puffs."<br />
There are various kinds of Puff; the Puff<br />
National, the Puff Medical, the Puff Legal, the<br />
Puff Literary, the " Puff Theatrical," and the<br />
Puff Scholastic.<br />
THE PUFF NATIONAL—A ROYAL SPEECH.<br />
My Lords and Gentlemen,—The flourishing<br />
state of my empire having filled me with the most<br />
intense satisfaction, I have called you together to
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