Show tho year the year 1881 was a chronological oddity of the oddest kind besides being a curiosity seldom equaled from right to left and left to right it reads the same eighteen divided by 2 alvea 9 as a quotient 81 divided by 9 0 it divided by 0 the quotient contains n 0 it multiplied by 9 tho product contains two as 1 and 8 aro 0 8 and I 1 are 0 if the 8 bo placed under the 81 and added the sum Is 09 it the figures be added thua 1 8 8 1 it will give IS a the result heading to tb from right to left or from left to right it la 18 and 18 Is two nintha ninths of 81 by adding dividing and multiplying ten oa are produced being one 0 for each year to the beginning 0 the last decadent deca deot the nineteenth century no wonder tho fortune tellers tho as gers and the mathematicians weave po migny strange fancies around that curious combination of neuron it may have been what induced mother to end prophetic jingle with and nt last the world to an end ceball come in eighteen hundred and jhc |