OUR SCRAP ALBUM

Lake County Press, Issue 499, 28 April 1892, Page 9

OUR SCRAP ALBUM

THE CL.UTIIA. The disci,argo of the Molynenux or C 11 th* liter is, wo ln-ii ;vc , la. or th 11 t at i.i* any ui In r river in N-Zenlas.cl. To use, ; ti .n that if is I in- thi'il largest ■ v;*i iu th<- world is, however, incorrect. f l hj • Missi sippi j* said to discharge •'LI 9 f0( 0 rnbic feet per mi..uie ; the Curi s. 12,-120,000; the IrrawrJv, •1.-no 000; Rhine 3 900.000 ;• Nil , I 08 ‘,OOO- Balfour gave th** discharge o*' >ii" (flu bans 1 690 000 while D. Do tir places it at 1.088 736. Tie d : sc mruo of the Duller Dr Hector pic s at 990.87911,. and that of the Waikato at 830,108 ft We are not aware whst ' lie discharge of the Wtiiau is.—Otago Witness. .MAUVELr.orrs powers. A boy wlio astoni hed many of the p.ovanial towi s some yea is ago, and hvs now grown into a young man, was introduced to the Academy of Sciences ut tin ir Lst meeting, and gave the ass• • *» 1 1 led members ** a taste of his quality.” Jacques Juandi, as the phenomenal calculator is called, is an eici euinyly clever aritiimetician. He •• iinuieiiced doing a subtraction sum of nineteen numbers. He was then asked by M. Darboux : “ What number is taut of which the square and the cube tige hnr amount to 3,800?’ He repin'd instam ly “Fifteen.” After s -veial other instances of his wonderful power, he ottered to converse and solve t-vo problems nn nt lly at the same (' Cue of the questions was: What day of the week was March 11, ! LN2 ?' Tlie other proldem was to s juaie a number and divide it by six, j in answered both these almost in- !

t-ntiy, iiiid also threw ip (lie informallmt a person horn March 11, 1522, would to-day have lived so many hours, minutes, and seconds. The . .cauemy appointed a committee to uiiy the nn ntal process by which • "midi arrives at his astonishing rtn s dfr.