Curious Calculation

- It has beencalcula'ed that a single penny put out at five per cent, compound interest, at the birth ofour Savior, would have produced in the year 1806,L290,991,000,000,000,000,000;000,000,000, 000,000, sterling, which would malee a bulkofsolid gold, of 110 million times the nmgniturie of the whole earth ; whilst at simple interest, the same spoce of time would only liave produced seven shillings atid eixpeace.