Ulysses
5% compound interest of the collective worth of 5,000,000
pounds stg (five million pounds sterling). A contract with
an inconsiderate contractee for the delivery of 32 consign-
ments of some given commodity in consideration of cash
payment on delivery per delivery at the initial rate of 1/4d
to be increased constantly in the geometrical progression
of 2 (1/4d, 1/2d, 1d, 2d, 4d, 8d, 1s 4d, 2s 8d to 32 terms). A
prepared scheme
based on a study of the laws of probability to break
the bank at Monte Carlo. A solution of the secular prob-
lem of the quadrature of the circle, government premium
1,000,000 pounds sterling.
Was vast wealth acquirable through industrial chan-
nels?
The reclamation of dunams of waste arenary soil,
proposed in the prospectus of Agendath Netaim, Ble-
ibtreustrasse, Berlin, W. 15, by the cultivation of orange
plantations and melonfields and reafforestation. The utilisa-
tion of waste paper, fells of sewer rodents, human excrement
possessing chemical properties, in view of the vast produc-
tion of the first, vast number of the second and immense
quantity of the third, every normal human being of average
vitality and appetite producing annually, cancelling by-
products of water, a sum total of 80 lbs. (mixed animal and
vegetable diet), to be multiplied by 4,386,035, the total pop-
ulation of Ireland according to census returns of 1901.
Were there schemes of wider scope?
A scheme to be formulated and submitted for approval
to the harbour commissioners for the exploitation of white