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ematics-lDStances of Boys
When, a few days ago, young William
James Sidis, of Harvard, aged
eleven, lecturcd to a select circle of
mathematicians on the fourth dimension
everybody gasped open-mouthed.
"Did you ever hear of anything
like that?" and privately looked up
what the fourth dimension was. Taking
this ejaculation not as a mere expression
of a state of stupefaction,
but literaly as a request for information
the answer is that such a feat
has very seldom, if ever, been
equaled. There is no doubt that the
boy Sidis stands very near the top
of the list of prodigies. For he is not
a mere mathematical prodigy, specimens
of which occur in every century.
His mind is marvelously developed
on every side, and that is
what does not often happen.
h The majority of children who are
i gifted with extraordinary precocity
run to mathematics. And it is noticeable
that even if they are not confined
to mathematics, they shine in
I that subject. Macauley is perhaps
the only case 01 a precocious child
who nad no gift for figures, and he
yent so far as to fail in his examinations
on that account. Curiously
enough, Sidis, although he is at present
more remarkable in mathematics
than in any other subjects, was backward
in it for a number of years, although
"backward," in connection
with this wonderful boy, is meant
only that he must have been all of
seven or eight before be had got up
to the point most men attain just before
leaving college.
So he stands not with the class of
child prodigies like Zerah Colburn.
who early mastered mathematics and
never ranked higher than an interim
esting freak of nature, but with that
3 limited group of wonder children to
whom by some strange law scholarly
genius flowers in babyhood ? men
like Pascal, Sir William Rowan, Hamilton,
Ampere, Gauss, and Macauley.
The list does not take long to tell.
F Nature is not often in a mood as generous
as that which must fill her
when she sends those creatures from
' another world to let us have a glimpse
of how things may be if we are good
and are allowed to go to a higher
planet before we die.
Blaise Pascal is. of course, the
bright and shining example of a marvelous
boy. Like Sidis, an only son,
educated by his talented father, he
was purposely kept from developing
the evident bent of his mind toward
mathematics and turned as far as possible
to languages and literature. He
made remarkable progress, but figures
continued to interest him more
than declensions.
He asked for a definition of geometry,
and was told that it consisted
of drawing lines and defining their
' relation to one another. He got a
bit of chalk and descended to the cellar,
where he worked in secret for a
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was twelve years old, his father went
i to the cellar and found him deep in
chalk circles and triangles, and what
J not. He showed, when questioned,
that he had evolved for himself the
whole theory of geometry and had
worked out its principles as far as the
thirty-third proposition oi Euclid. He
was at that moment seeking to prove
that the sum of the angles of a triangle
equaled two right angles.
All this, with absolutely no help
of any kind, and so little knowledge
of the vocabulary of mathematics
that he called circles "rounds" and
lines "bars." Not ever Sidis* lecture
on the fourth dimension can equal
this working out by a child of twelve
of the theory of mathematics as the
world's greatest minds had painstakingly
put it together with centuries of
effort.
At the age of twelve, too, the
young Pascal wrote a treatise on
acoustics, sueeested bv the fact that
when a pewter dish was struck with
a knife the resulting sound could be
stopped by pressing the finger against
the dish. A little later he made elaborate
calculating machines. At sixteen
he wrote a treatise on conic sections
which Descartes declared the
work of a master.
Ampere, who left his name to the
science of electricity, was another
child genius. At the age of three he
?..had taught himself to count with the
ai:J -?f pebbles and had found out for
him&elf a good many theories of arithmetic.
At this age he became very
111 and was for three days denied food.
!At the end of the fast he was given
a biscuit, but instead of eating it he
broke it up into pieces to count with,
an operation he considered nore interesting.
He read everything: with avidity.
His mind did not run in one channel
and he welcomed every volume that
came in his way. When he was ten
or twelve years old he went to a library
to ask for the works of a certain
author. The librarian told him, in
amazement, that the books were in
Latin. The boy went home chagrined,
for he did not know Latin, being a
sickly child, and held back from
books as far as possible, but after six
weeks he appeared again and told the
librarian he had learned to read the
books now.
Ampere is one of the few child
prodigies who seems to have been
sickly. He had fits from time to
time, while most child wonders appear
to have been physically normal
in every respect.
Sir William Rowan Hamilton road
Hebrew at seven, and at twelve knew
^ Latin and Greek, spoke French, Ger&
man, Italian, Spanish, and had a fair&
I? thorough knowledge of Persia?.
H Syriac, Arabic, Hindustani, Sanskrit
and Malay. This rather singular
choice of tongues arose from the fact
that he was destined by his family
|K for the East Indian service.
Sra| At twelve, too, he had mastered j
most of the higher mathematics, have|H
ing taught himself. At seventeen the
boy found an error in reasoning in
ffljg Laplace's "Mecanique Celeste," which
brought his wcVk lo the attention of j
W astronomers. At nineteen he had
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written a paper which, according to
an authority of the day, "made a new
science of optics."
These three men represent the high
water mark of child genius, unless
young Sidis is to rank with them.
They were gifted not in any one subject
to the exclusion of others, but in
every domain of thought they chose
to enter. And their genius did not
die with maturity. They went on
from good to better and made each
his indelible mark on the world's history.
In the same class, though less famous,
was the late Professor of Astronomy
at Williams College, Truman
Henry Stafford, who died in
1901. He had an extraordinary gift
for mental calculation, which first
showed itself at the age of three
years. At seven he was studying algebra
and geometry, and at eight
higher mathematics and astronomy.
Wanting logarithms he found them
for himself at thi3 age by a theory of
his own.
At ten he computed almanacs and
a year after brought out an almanac
of his own, which had a large sale,
and in which the calculations in regard
to the moon were made by a
hew and labor-saving device. At ten
he squared in his head the neat sum
of 365, 365, 365, 365, 365, 365 in
not more than one minute. But he
was not only mathematical. He was
interested in history, the natural
sciences and philosophy. He took his
Harvard degree at the age of eighteen
and specialized on astronomy,
which he taught for many years.
Carl Frederich Gauss, the famous
German mathematician, when he was
three years old, overheard his father
making a calculation in regard to the
wages of some workmen. Young
Carl suddenly looked up and called
his father's attention to the fact that
he had made an error in his figures
in one place. This boy entered the
gymnasium at the age of eleven and
mastered all studies with the greatest
rapidity, so that at fourteen he was
thoroughly well informed in literature,
science and philosophy. His
mathematical faculty increased rather
than diminished with years, and much
of modern mathematical science is
due to his labor.
George Parker Biddle, another celebrated
boy mathematician, was
taught, when six years old, to count
up to 100. This was all the teaching
in mathematics he ever received, but
four years later he had evolved a system
to take the place of logarithms.
He did not show any remarkable aptitude
for other studies, but ranked
well and became an excellent engineer,
with his mathematical faculty
unimpaired throughout life.
Zerah Colburn, the Vermont farmer
boy who startled the world a hundred
years ago, lost his strange faculty
in later life, and though he had
a fair education and did well enough
he never distinguished himself in any
way after reaching maturity. He
made extraordinary calculations at
six, and at seven he had raised, in his
head, the number eight to the sixteenth
power For the benefit of
those who do not care to figure for
half an hour the answer to this little
sum is 281, 474, 975, 710, 656. He
was considered a backward child before
his unusual gift was discovered,
but he was not, apparently, deficient
in other ways. The trouble had been
only that he had been secretly devoting
himself to reasoning out mathematical
problems, and had not given
thought to other matters.
He stands high among mathematical
prodigies pur* and simple, even
though he falls below the standard of
several others. These wonders at figures
are not infrequently of the type
of Jedediah Buxton, a worthy Englishman
born some 200 years ago
with a remarkable mathematical
sense. He devoted himself from the
age of twelve to keeping in his head
an itemized account of all the free
beer ever given him, and found this
edifying occupation so absorbing that
he never had mind to attend to minor
matters of a scientific nature.
Thomas Babington Macaulay should
perhaps have been ranked with the
universal geniuses, but it is true that
his precocious gift was largely in the
direction of literature. He read innpccantlv
frnm tho orra nf Vivacx A +
seven he had composed a very fair
compendium of universal history from
the creation to the year 1800. At
eight he had written a treatise destined
to convert the natives of Malabar
to Christianity. As a recreation
from this weighty work he wrote in
the same year a romance in the style
of Scott in three cantos entitled "The
Eattle of Cheviot."
A little later came a long poem on
the history of Olaf Magnus and a vast
pile of blank verse entitled "Fingal, a
Poem in Twelve Books." But he disliked
mathematics, and did not pass
his examination in that subject?thus
standing out among all child prodigies.
His memory was such that he
literally never could forget anything,
and after twenty years could repeat
bits of poetry read only once.
Horace Greeley would undoubtedly
have been numbered among those
prodigies if he bad been born in a
different environment. Before he
was three years old, and before he
could speak plainly, he had learned
to read, and would have acquired a
Macaulavlike fund of information at
an early age if the information had
been there to acquire. But unfortunately
one cannot be a prodigy of
learning without something to learn,
and Greeley chose his birthplace indiscreetly
so far as making a reputation
along those lines is concerned.
A universal genius can come only
from a cultured family. A mathematical
wonder may spring up anyivlinrp
tint mn) homn (irs was Tint tli*>
strongest point of the budding journalist
Greeley.
Mozart is classed high among wonders.
though he was prococious only
in regard to music. He began to take
lessons at three. At four he com
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posed and wrote a part of a concerto
so difficult, his father said, that no
one could play it. At five he played
in public; at six he toured Europe,
petted at every court. At seven he
played the harpsichord, the organ,
the violin, and had published two sets
of sonatas.
At ten he had written an oratorio
and had played at Haarlem on the
then largest organ in the world. At
fourteen he heard the Miserere in the
Sistine Chapel at Rome, and going
home transcribed every note of it.
This feat created a great sensation,
for it was forbidden by severe penalties
to take down a pote of the music
as it was being sung in the chape],
and any mortal less a wonder than
Mozart would have been accused of
breaking the law.
Handel, too, was by way of being a
child prodigy. He taught himself
music on an old harpsichord in the attic,
for his father wanted him to be a
doctor and would not encourage the
child's evident inclination for another
profession. He was discovered playng
a great organ one day when his
father and he were at the court of
Saxe Weissenfels, and the Duke
forced the unmusical old gentleman
to promise net to thwart his son's genius.
But of all stories the most touching
is that told by Sir John Evelyn in
his diary when he records in his
quaint, dignified style the death of
his wonderful little boy.
"Died my deare son Richard, to
our inexpressible griefe and affliction.
5 yeares and three days onely, but at
that tender age a prodigy for witt and
learning. * * * To give only a <
little taste of them, and thereby glory '
to God, sense of God. * * * at
two and a halfe old he could perfect- i
ly reade any of ye English Latine or <
French or Gothic letters, pronouncing <
the first three languages exactly. Ho '<
had before the 5th yeare or in tha". 1
yeare * * * got by heart almost the ]
entire vocabularieof Latin and French '
primitives and words, culd make congruous
syntax, turne English into
Latine, and vice versa, construe and
prove what he read, and did the government
and use of relatives, verbes,
substantives, elipses, and many figures
and tropes and made considerable
progress in Comenius* Janua;
began for himself to write legibly
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* * * As to his piety astonishing
were his applications of Scripture to
the occasion. ? ? ? He dpclaim'd I
against ye vanities of the world before
he had seene any. * * * So
early knowledge, so much piety and
perfection! Such a child I never saw
and for such a child I blesse God in
whose bosom he is." ? New York
Times.
London has a trackless trolley.
One-third of the poorest families of
New York that manage to exist in an
underfed condition spend about twenty-two
cents a day for food.
New York City is now producing
4,682,000 barrels of beer each month,
tut New Yorkers don't drink it all.
It is planned to extend the New
York Central electrification to North
White Plains.
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The 6ity Council of Cincinnati is
planning a subway to connect the
business section of the city with the
outlying residential sections.
The Standard Oil Company's real
estate holding in Bayonne, N. J.,
where its largest oil refining plant in
the East is situated, have been increased
from $7,360,000, the value
fixed upon them in 190S for taxation,
to $13,000,000.
In Paris, owing to the increasing
length of women's hatpins and th?
list of accidents, such as eyes put out,
ears, noses and cheeks torn, the police
officials propose to place some restriction
on wearing hatpins in omnibuses,
railway cars, theatres and other pub- '
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lie places. j
More than fifty thousanG children I
were enabled by the authorities of ,
Berlin to spend this summer on land (
within easy reach of the city limits. 3
They were assigned plots where they .
could play and cultivate gardens pro- ,
fitably with the help of their families j
and the advice of public instructors. |
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Edward B. Sterling, of Trenton, N. j ]
J., has discovered in the outskirts of j
the town the largest specimen of poly- ' 1
porous on record. This mushroom ,
weigh:? forty-three pounds, is thir- .
teen inches in height and measures j
105 inches in circumference. | <
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Forty years ago the stretch be- 1
tween El Monte, in Los Angeles
County, and San Bernardino was
known as the "Forty-Mile Desert,"
and was somewhat dreaded by teamsters.
To-day. thanks to irrigation,
there are to be found in that section
some of the finest vineyards and ^
orange groves of California.
When the llama is too heavily
loaded, about 125 pounds, the wise
beast lies down right then and there I
and goes on strike and refuses to j
budge a peg despite any amount ci1 I
coaxing, beating or swearing?actual- i
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should be almost to an ounce, or i
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During the last eight years Cana- J
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Of this number 540,621 came from !
the United Kingdom. 425,412 from I
the United States and 400,(117 from
other countries. The total population <
of Canada is now estimated to be i
about seven millions.
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Nc.w York City.?Shirt waists made
In tailor style, but finished with a frill
at the left of the front, are new and
smart. This one is so made that the
frill is removable and can be used or
amitted as liked and can be renewed
without renewing the entire waist.
The tucks over the shoulders are arranged
close to the armhole seams in
conformity with the latest style and
>n exceedingly becoming lines. There
ire two tucks at each side of the box
pleat at the front, and when the frill
s used it is attached to an additional
Dand, which is buttoned into place.
Linen -with the frill of handkerchief
lawn makes the waist illustrated, but
Ihere are a great many fashionable
waisting materials this season. Shirt
waists of thin materials made in tailDred
style are greatly liked, the fa
miliar madras and fabrics or tne sort
ire more beautiful than ever, and
such a waist as this one is equally
appropriate for silk and flannel.
The waist is made with fronts and
sack. The tucks are laid on indicated
lines, and a neck-band finishes the
neck. The collar is of the high
turned-over sort, attached by means
Df buttonholes and studs. The sleeves
ire of regulation fulness, but are finished
with bands and rolled over
luffs that are held in place by means
Df links. The frill is of graduated
width and can be pleated or gathered.
The quantity of material required
for the medium size is three and oneFourth
yards twenty-one or twentyFour}
two and three-fourth yards thirty-two
or two yards forty-four inches
iviflo with fhrpp-fiip-hth vard twcntv
Dne or twenty-four, one-fourth yard
thirty-two, one-eighth yard forty-four
inches wide or one and three-eighth
pp.rds of ribbon four inches wide for
'rill.
Chenille Trimmings.
If, as fashion-makers forecast, this
season is to be one of sumptuous and
ligniGed beauty rather than any
showiness of clothes, the arrival of
chenille is most opportune. It is extremely
soft and elegant, and comes
is a smart relief from lloss silk and
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Scant Skirt?.
In spite of the many rumors to thoj
contrary, the newest skirts still give i
.he scant cffect about the foet.
of Fashioir||||v
Roumanian Embroidery.
Roumanian embroidery appears oc
many hats, blouses, frocks and coat
suits.
Neck Ornaments.
Neck chains and pendants have seldom
been more to the fore than at
the present time, and they are by no
means confined to evening wear,
though they are pernaps seen at ineir
best with a decollete dress.
Saede Gloves in Fashion.
Smart women seem to have laid
aside the white glace glove in camphor.
Suede is the thing. It is worn
for street in its heavy texture, with
wide stitching on the back, and is
worn in the evening in the pale golden
tones that are very becoming to
the arm and hands.
Large Muffs Favored.
Muffs will be larger than ever,
according to the best authorities.
Immense pillow and rug muffs will be
on sale and the sizes will run as high
as twenty-eight and thirty inches.
There seems to be a sort of rivalry
between the milliners and the furriers,
and the latter are trying to produce
a muff that will compete' with
the gigantic hats that have for some
time been the fashion. It looks as if
they would succeed.
Circular Knickerbockers.
Knickerbockers are always in aemand
during the cold weather. They
mean perfect protection against
searching winds and are thoroughly
comfortable and satisfactory to wear.
They are well liked for the exercise
suits that have become general and
are, in fact, generally desirable. They
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can be made to take the place of petticoats
for skating, tramping and any
out-door sports. These are circular,
which means that they are smooth
over the hips, while they are comfortably
full about the knees. They
are closed at the sides and are easily
adjusted. Serge is much liked for
their making, flannel is used by a
great many women, and those who do
not care for so much warmth like
pongee, sateen or silk, and often they
are made with removable linings of
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like the outside, but finished separately.
The bloomers are circular, the leg
portions being joined at front and
back, and they are fitted by means of
short hip darts. The front and back
portions nrp ioined to separate bands
and the openings aro finished with
over-laps.
The quantity of material required
for the medium size is four yards
twenty-four, three yards thirty-two or
two yards forty-four inches wide.
flat More Modest.
Many hats l)?dn? sent to private
customers direct from the French milliners
of Paris do not show the exaggeration
that advance models here
demonstrate
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In its production a
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msumption. It needs a cureflH
id there is one medicine
1 the world that cures
ASCARETS.
Cascarets?10c. box ? week's treat- ^B98
ment. All drutfjrtstt. Biggest teller BWB
is the world?million boxes a month. MflH
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est rust-roslstlng onion seed ever Wll/,fc
on the market. Thoroughly tcs- yufarfRitr
jy the largest onion growers. A IflHHPm
lendous croppcr. No onion equals nmfm> \\iM HBI
ir storage. Our customers In 1903 wliliilV//7lv
rested over 800 bushels per acre.
.75 per pound, prepaid.
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Vhen curve pitching wn introduced I ^
Vho holds tbe louc-distaiice throwing record!
low many years tbe National League hM HH
been in eiittence 1
Pho pitched forthn Coaton team In 187it
low many clubs have been members of tM HHW
National and American Leagues since their
organization
Vhlch toad ha? won the National League |HR
pennant Uie grentest tiumbvr of times 1
Vho were the pluyera iu the World's Series
from 1SS4 to 190t# 1
'he answers to above questions and a great HHB
eal of oth? r Interesting base ball information
contaiuad in the new, illustrated
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