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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ASSURANCE COMPANIES. 155<br />
It is proposed to form the company of the above<br />
" Live Stock," the members of which are each to<br />
possess a share in each other.<br />
The young maids'<br />
class. No. 1, beauty, rank, and fortune, being the<br />
highest prizes—there are supposed to be a hundred<br />
of such prizes. The second class of prizes is rich<br />
old widows, with short lives, of which there are<br />
also a hundred. The third class of prizes is rich<br />
old maids, of which there are also a hundred. The<br />
fourth class comprehends beauty and intelligence ;<br />
the fifth, beauty only ; and so on in a sliding<br />
scale, but all prizes.<br />
The male stock also comprehends a reciprocity<br />
:— system of prizes 1st class, of the whiskered ; 2d,<br />
no whiskered; 3d, monied and whiskered; and so on<br />
to widowers, with or without families, down to<br />
that least of all valuable of the genm Jiomo, old<br />
men-women.<br />
RULES.<br />
Each subscriber of a pound annually to have<br />
one ticket, which shall entitle him to draw for<br />
each of, the prizes on the 1st of April in every<br />
year, at Exeter Hall, under a commission selected<br />
from the " Lumber Troop."
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