The U. S. Government paid out in the year 1865 the sum of $1,297,555,324. If one wished to remember the exact figures, he could easily find an analytic phrase, if he thinks of the act of delivering or handing over the money, as “They unpack loyally all money here.” If any analytic phrase is long or awkwardly constructed, it is very easy to memorise it by the analytic-synthetic method; as (1) They unpack. (2) They unpack money. (3) They unpack money here. (4) They unpack all money here. (5) They unpack loyally all money here.

The number of letters delivered in Great Britain during the postal year of 1881–82 was 1,280,636,200. If the student knows that the Central Post Office of London is a very large building, he could instantly find the analytic phrase, “Within office huge much news we see.”

The amount lost annually by fire in the United States is estimated at $112,853,784. If we do not go outside of the subject matter of losses by fire, we shall readily find an analytic phrase by means of which we can certainly‌ remember that large number of dollars—“A debt on flaming fire.”

There are 653,020 Freemasons in U. S. A. Those who know what is meant by the phrase, “From labor to refreshment,” in the masonic ritual, will at once translate those figures into the analytic phrase, “Jolly Masons.”

There are 591,800 Odd Fellows in the United States. Notice if you can find figures to translate “Odd” or “Fellows,” or any other fact pertaining to the Order, and you have the analytic phrase, “All happy ‘Odd’ faces.”

There have been granted 428,212 patents in the United States. Can you find any word pertaining to patents in those figures? “We here invent anew.”

The number of Indians in the United States is estimated as 241,329. Considering how unkindly treated many of them have been, we find an analytic phrase which fits the fact—“No red man happy.”

The population of the state of New York in 1880 was five millions, eighty-two thousand, eight hundred and seventy-one (5,082,871). An analytic phrase founded on any conspicuous characteristic of the population, or on any prominent aspect of the geography of the State [Niagara Falls, for instance], which many of its people have witnessed, would suffice, or “A (5) Legal (0) Census (8) Of (2) New-York’s (8) Folks (7) Comprising (1) Eighty’s.”

The pupil who conscientiously studies the rules and examples in this lesson will find that he can have the great satisfaction of always being exact and reliable in regard to numbers.

  1. Give an original analytic phrase expressing the number of acres in Yellowstone National Park.
  2. Why do we not give all three of the l’s in the word “loyally” a figure value?
  3. In translating the word “debt,” why is it not 191 instead of 11?
  4. What makes these phrases easy to remember?
  5. Give an analytic phrase expressing the number of patents granted in the United States.
  6. What great satisfaction can the conscientious pupil always have?
  7. Suppose, when the pupil reaches this page, he has learned that the number of the population, or of patents, or of Masons, Odd Fellows, &c., has changed, what is he to do?
  8. Must he not deal with the latest statement of the fact, and find his own analytic number words?