Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1857-10-01
Things to be ReImeH,l bered.


in general use, and not generally under
stood:
A leagie is 3 statute miles.
A fathom is 6 feet.
A cable length is 1870 feet.
The nautical league is equatorial miles,
or $4,000 statute miles,
The Arabian mile is 2,148 yards.
The Bohemian mile Is 1O,l37 yards.
The Chinese mile is 629 yards.
The English mile is l,76o yards.
The French mile is 1851 yards.
The German mile is 1926 yaeds.
The Russian verst is 1,l67 yards.
The Turkish berri is 1896 yards.
LIQUID CAPACITY.
Wine MEASURE gallon-4 QUARTS
pints=l6 gills.
Apothecaries--1 gallons pints-l29
fluid ounces-1, O24 fluid drachms=6l,-
440 drops=231 cubic inches.
Apothecaries also use the following mea-
sures
A tea cup wine glasses-8 table
spoons=32 tea spoons-4 fluid ounces.
A wine gallon measure must contain 23l
cubic inches. A wine quart 57a cubic
inches.
A gallon of wa:er weighs 81 pounds.
DRY MEASURE.
The bushel used in commerce is the old
Winchester bushel of England, and must
contain 215O 2-5 cubic inches, and would
contain 77s pounds of water, or 31-1oO
gallons (not 81 The heaped measure, to
be correct bushel, must be cylindrical
vessel, 49, inches inside diameter, l94
inches outside, and be eight inches deep.
The heap should be true cone six inches
high, covering the entire surface of the en-
tire measure, which will then contain 2,747
9-iO inches.
The heaped peck contains 686 90 GU
bic inches--the struck peck 537 600. The
heaped quart 85 90; the struck quart 81
2-lO. The heaped wine gallon 23l. The
heaped wine quart 57a.
There is no such thing, legally, or hon.
estly, as a gallon in dry measure-no GAL
ION of beans, berries, or nuts, or any thing
of dry nature, merchants who retail SO
, to the country Notwithstanding.
A buart of berries measured in wine
quart, even full, and sold at 10 cents, cost
the purchaser at the rate of 145 cents for
the quart he is entitled to-more than AZ
t per cent advance.
To measure a half bushel Tor other meas
ure) square the diameter in inches, multi
ply by the decimal O7854, which gives the
G top or bottom in square inches, if the di
B ameter is uniform. Multiply this area by
the depth in inches, and the product is tht
contents in cubic inches.
I Erample--A half bushel measure is Il
e inches in diameter, its depth inches; Il
h squared is 1863, multiplied by 0.7854 j:
y l327326, multiplied by 8 gives 1oei.8t
cubic inches, which shows that it would b.
too small, as it must contain 1075.21. 1t:
g depth should be 8.1OO5, or about 8 Lie
! inches.
. The true half bushel should contain jus
/. one half Of the full bushel, or 1075.21 cubic
d inches, and still retain just one half thu
> area of the top of the fall bushel, so as t.
!, give the exact half of the cubic contents o
Q the cone or heap, which depends upon ill.,
v area of its base. Areas of circles are il
proportion to their diameters, but t
: the squares of their diameters. The are'
; of the top of the full bushel is 268 8-ll
y square inches, therefore that Of the hal
}. bushel should be 134 A. 10. and must there
# fore have a damrter of IS liz inches
Il nearly. To preserve the accuracy OF tn
|" beaped measure--or the cone--all fractional
measures should preserve their proportion
n ate areas of tops.
e The cubic yard contains 81 cubic feet
= The cubic perch contains 25 cubic feet 10.
e custom). The perch is the rod, 16a feet
a and in masonry is 16k feet long, foo
Of wide aud ! feet deep, making 24a cubi
feet
:, The standard Of the yard is measured OF
q a pendulum vibrating seconds in London
e at the level of the sea, measured on bras
% rod, at the temperature of SO degrees Fab
renheit.
4 Gg-Partisan paper says: 1t is mis-
7 take that the opposing party plays upon