Kirby, R. S. [Hrsg.]; Kirby, R. S. [Bearb.]: Kirby's Wonderful And Eccentric Museum; Or, Magazine Of Remarkable Characters: Including All The Curiosities Of Nature And Art, From The Remotest Period To The Present Time, Drawn from every authentic Source. Illustrated With One Hundred And Twenty-Four Engravings. Chiefly Taken from Rare And Curious Prints Or Original Drawings. Six Volumes (Vol. VI.) (London: R.S. Kirby, 1820)

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Question proposed to Zerah Colborne, the American cal-
culating boy, November 4, 1818, at the Yorkshire Stingo,
Paddington New Road, before a respectable company of gen-
tlemen :—If the globe is 24,912 miles in circumference, and
a balloon travels 3,878 feet in a minute, how long would it
be travelling round the world ? Colborne continued nine
minutes in study, and gave it up, saying he could not do it.
It was then proposed to George Bidder, who answered it in
two minutes : 23 days, 13 hours, 18 minutes.
If eight cows and three calves cost 136/. 10s. and two
cows and thirty calves cost the same money, what is the price
of a cow and calf? This Colborne also refused to try.
George Bidder answered the same in half's minute : 15/. 15$.
the cow, and 3l. 10s. the calf.
The following questions were answered by Master George
Bidder, in one minute and twenty seconds each :
Suppose a city to be illuminated with 9,999 lamps, each
lamp to consume one pint of oil every four hours in succes-
sion, how many gallons would they consume in forty years ?
Ans. 109,489,050 gallons.