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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24 FIGURES FOR THE MILLION.<br />
highest number, being placed above the line<br />
expressing the smaller number. In this arrangement,<br />
the upper line is called the subtrahend^ and<br />
the lower the suhtractor ; the difference is called<br />
the remainder. Our readers, the million, are the<br />
subtrahend. The following are subtractors :<br />
Corn and sugar monopolists.<br />
Tax-collector.<br />
Easter- dues, beadle and clerk.<br />
Poor-rate.<br />
Christmas-box and Christmas-piece.<br />
Subscriptions for Chiggered Niggers.<br />
Parson Smith and his orphans.<br />
Poor relations.<br />
The Rule of Subtraction is perhaps the most<br />
useful in either national, political, or commercial<br />
Arithmetic ; "Take from" being the universal<br />
maxim of mnnkind from the day that Adam and<br />
Eve stole the forbidden fruit.<br />
In sacred history<br />
we find various exemplifications of the principle :<br />
Jacob made use of it when he obtained his<br />
brother's birthright and his blessing ;<br />
he took the wife of Uriah.<br />
history abounds with examples.<br />
David, when<br />
Profane or classical<br />
It was the royal<br />
and sacerdotal rule, in aU climes, countries, and
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