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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INVOLUTION AND EVOLUTION. 117<br />
The man who lives within his meam is never<br />
considered to have any means, A man in debt<br />
possesses an interest and an importance truly<br />
pleasurable. It is surely something to know that<br />
in your little self a hundred are subject to hopes,<br />
fears, anxieties, speculations, aspirations, and a<br />
world of such like poetry.<br />
The greater the number<br />
of creditors, the greater must be the sensation<br />
produced ; and the production of a sensation is<br />
every thing in fashionable society.<br />
The old proverb was, " Out of debt out of<br />
danger ;" but modern arithmetic teaches, *^ In debt<br />
out of danger ; ''<br />
the law of debtor and creditor<br />
being fashioned according to this maxim, which is<br />
now the Lex Scripta of the courts. To be over<br />
head and ears in debt, is the best security; "debt<br />
is the safest helmet." To be not worth powder<br />
and shot, or to make believe you are not, is the<br />
best method of keeping on the wing. It requires,<br />
however, some curious evolutions to enable an<br />
empty sack to<br />
stand upright.<br />
LOVE EVOLUTION, OR GETTING IN LOVE.<br />
This is an involuntary process, and an entanglement<br />
equally powerful with the meshes of
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