Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-03-08 | Page 3 | Cold Comfort for the Schoolboy

uu COLD COMFORT FOR THE SCHOOLBOY It is impossible to know who was the author of the multiplication table, but it 1b known to have been in existence in the days of tho builders of the mined cities of Mesopotamia whose records are now being patiently deciphered by archeologists. Tablets are found which tell us of their system sys-tem of education, banking account-and account-and among others are multiplication tables. So the multiplication table is ing business correspondence, etc., probably not less than six thousand years old. The; Christian Herald. oo HE WAS RIGHT A man rushed to the entrance of a lunatic asylum in the middle of the night and yelled to the keeper to let him in. "Let me in!" he cried. "I have suddenly sud-denly gone insane." The keeper woke up, thrust his head out of a first-story window and bellowed down in rage: "What? Come here at this time of night? Man, you must be crazy!"