But, really, if anyone has any faculty for statistic-mongering, and wishes to exercise that faculty, let me cordially recommend him to try his hand on statistics taken from astronomy, and, if he emerges scatheless from the fray, he may thank his stars (no pun intended).
He might, for example, calculate how long a London Chatham and Dover train would take to travel from Capella to the Great Bear, supposing it ran(!) day and night. Or again, he might reckon how long it would take an average bargee to circumnavigate the canals of Mars.
FIG. 6 ACCURATELY TELLS HOW MANY BEANS MAKE FIVE.
Or yet again he might work out how many threepenny pieces it would require piled one above the other to reach from Whitechapel to the Moon.
FIG. 7.
Scientific diagrams of such things as these would be extremely interesting, and nearly as useful as those of the present article.