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Show USED HIS STORED KNOWLEDGE. When High Schorl Learning Came In Handy to Business Man. "I used for tho first time to-day somothlng I learned 15 years ngu, said n writer In tho Milwaukee Sentinel. "It was the application of a principle in geometrv n relation to tho Inscribing Inscrib-ing ot n hexagon in a circle, which I learned when at the high school. I had an oider placed lor some taborets (that Is flower stands) given me and the party that gave me tho order wants the tops 1C Inches across. Well, that was easy enough to fill, but be-stdo be-stdo that tho sides were to be hexagonal, hexa-gonal, so I had to sit down and figure out how much llve-elghths-lnch wood would havo to be loveled off to havo tho paits fit exactly. Here Is wheio I used my geometry. "Daniel Webster Is quoted ns saying that ho once used n fact which had lain dormant for 14 years, so I have hlni beaten by a year. "You often hear people say 'What Is tho use of learning this?' seeing no use for It nt the time, but things which nt tho time seem most Impracticable aro often later of lite. That is ono of the complaints In our public schools, but as In my rnso It may somo day prove of use." |