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Show Life and Death A man with an uncanny mania for juggling with figures produced pencil and paper and said to a friend : "Put down the number of your living brothers. Multiply it by two. Add three. Multiply the result by five. I Add the number of living sisters. Multiply Mul-tiply the result by ten. Add the number num-ber of dead brothers and sisters. Subtract Sub-tract 150 from the result." The friend did it. "Now," said the other with a ' cunning smile, "the right-hand figure will be the number of deaths, the mid- j I die figure the number of living-sisters, I I and the left-hand figure tlio number of j living brothers." And so tt was. Tit-: Tit-: Bits. i |