Show A CHATTANOOGA gentleman 01 mathematical turn of mind baa invented in-vented a sum for the figgerers to wrestle with or rather he ha adopted the sum invented by the republican party and framed from it iBO i-BO me deoidedly interesting problems t ± o says me public debt ui the close of the civil war was of such colossal proportions that if B twoyear old boy should begin counting the principal prin-cipal and ehould count a dollar a second working every second in the I year he would be 107 years old by I the time bis tack was done Four men counting a dollar eac a second night and day could not keep up with the interest The debt in eilver dollars would make a column of silver four feet square and 24000 feet drover four miles high |