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Show APPLIED MATHEMATICS. J. M. Baries relates an Instance of tho lato Professor Chrystal's readiness readi-ness In applied mathematics. One day i when he was producing on the black-j black-j board those "spiders' webs in chalk," which wero the despair of the unlearned, un-learned, a student noar the top of I tho room dropped a marble, which bumped down, step by step, to the lovel of the rostrum. Chry6tal, unheeding un-heeding tho glgglos of tho class went on with his work. When the marble camo to a rest he observed, "Will the student at tho end of Bench 41 kindly stand up?" He had counted the bumps made by tho marble in Its descont. London Globe. |