AN OBDINARY WOMAN, AFTER ALL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2750, 13 December 1894, Page 3

AN OBDINARY WOMAN, AFTER ALL.

She was versed in mathematics, physics, calculus, quadratics, and the compass’s declension that the mariners deplore, And to her cube root’s extraction was as simple as subtraction; she could figure vapour’s tension to nine decimals or more; Browning, who makes people shelly, was as plain to her as Shelley; William Sbakspeare’s master-pieces, line for line, she could recall; She was competent to lecture on Egyptian architecture; she could write a dozen theses upon any theme at all. On the mite of a bacillus, how it multiplies to kill us, and its constant war with nature, she was qualified to speak; She could tell just how far distant every asteroid existent; astronomic nomenclature she could talk about in Greek; She could give you the location, area, and population of the smallest fishing village in the Russian Czar’s domain; Could explain just how our prairies or the barren English scaries, with the proper kind of tillage, could be changed to fields of grain ; With some bits of rock for data could discourse off-hand on strata ; as for meteoric showers, she knew whence and how they came , All the genera of fishes, birds, plants, mollusks, reptiles vicious, insects, animals and flowers, she could classify and name. She fyad mastered all this culture within College walls’ sepulture, and her bookish lore was sot off with discretion above par; Yet, with all her wealth of learning and intelligent discerning, she was never known to get off fro,ntvfqr<| whqn she left a car. —yf. P. Eourke, in Free Proas.