Mexico City; residence of Huerta, the most eminent living disciple of Nietzsche.
Bulgaria; a nation which scornfully rejected peace and reaped honour, widows, and orphans; where the Servians were the other day.
Servia; where the Bulgarians may be next week.
Chautauqua; any place outside the offices of the State Department.
III. ARITHMETIC
1. A ship carrying 800 passengers and crew is in collision off the banks of Newfoundland, and 700 are saved. Describe the method by which the Evening Journal computes 400 souls lost.
2. The salary of a police lieutenant is about $2,500 a year. At what rate of interest must this sum be invested to produce a million dollars' worth of real estate in ten years?
3. 2+2=4. Show this to be true otherwise than by writing a four-act play with its principal scene laid in a house of ill fame.
4. The loss to the nation from disease has been estimated at $200,000,000 a year. Show the profit that would accrue to the nation from abolishing every form of disease after deducting the cost of maintaining the dependent widows and orphans of 50,000 doctors who have starved to death.
5. In a certain gubernatorial campaign several disinterested gentlemen contributed $10,000 each to the campaign fund; yet the total of campaign contributions was a little over $5,000. Explain this.