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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THE PUFF THEATRICAL. 171<br />
THE PUFF THEATRICAL.<br />
It is with the most astounding rapture that the<br />
Manager of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, has<br />
to announce that the new tragedy of " Chandos<br />
the Briber, or the Independent Potwalloper," which<br />
met with the most transcendent success on its<br />
first representation, has been recharged by the<br />
Author with pathetic scenes and tender situations,<br />
abounding with the most overpowering sentiment<br />
and overwhelming pathos. The Manager regrets<br />
that the cascades of tears which fell from the<br />
boxes and gallery during the last representation<br />
should have inconvenienced the " critics in the<br />
pit," and begs to inform them that, for the future,<br />
they shall not sit ankle deep in the " briny flood,"<br />
he having, at a prodigious expense, and by the aid<br />
of a distinguished engineer, succeeded in forming a<br />
grand branch aqueduct, which will receive through<br />
the floor of the house "Nature's gentle droppings,"<br />
and, by -an appropriate channel, transmit them to<br />
the back of the stage to a grand reservoir. Thus,<br />
the last scene of the tragedy, which represents the
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