A WONDERFUL CALCULATOR
From my youth upwards I have ever been able to say with the schoolboy who first used the distich, " The rule of three it puzzles me, and fractions drive me mad." George Bidder, the calculating boy of whom I had heard, I always looked upon as a wonderful being, and it was with feelings almost amounting to awe that I saw the rapidity and accuracy of the " Lightning Calculator," whom Mr. Charles Duval introduced at his lecture. Americans are given, according to common belief, to " calculate " and " reckon ; " Mr. Joha Stone must be facile princeps among them. Addition sums of several lines and five or six units in each, are " resulted " almost before the last figure is written. A a a last test of his powers, tell Mr. Stone the date of the month and the year you were born, when as fast as he can write them on the blackboard will appear, first the number of years you have lived, and then the months, and the weeks, and the days, and the hours, and the minutes and the seconds, with the additional information of the day of the week of your birth. Moreover Mr. Stone offers £IOO to anyone who can prove that he has made any error. Mr. Stone is very wonderful, almost as wonderful in his particular way as the Morritts, who continue in some mysterious manner to carry on their "thought transference" at the Star,
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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1583, 1 April 1887, Page 3
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242A WONDERFUL CALCULATOR Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1583, 1 April 1887, Page 3
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