The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1870-06-20
Malone located on Rushs Ridge about

Malone located on Rush's Ridge about
twelve months ago. He has n daughter,
about fifteen years of age, and n son aged
five years His wife died about three
months ngo and rs he has no relatives liv-
ing in the country, he is very naturally
much concerned respecting the future Of
his children. He says that he Is not a
drinking man, and that his neighbors will
chcerfully testify that he is not a quarrel
some man. He has no money or property
with which opay lawyer.
Dufey is large, robust man, about
thirty years of age. He has been running
tho river as deck-hand for two or three
years, and, during the past five months,
has made his headquarters at Cairo.
When we called upon him yesterday he
was comparatively easy, and entertained
strong hopes of an enrly recovery.
Malone is under the impression that he
used his pocket knife but abystandcr says
that the cheese knife found in the vicinity
| ia the knife that was used As Malone's
pocket knife presents no stains or other
evidence that 1t has ever been opened the
! conclusion is rather unavoidable that the
wound was inflicted with the cheese knife.
HOW TO COMPUTE SIMPLE INTEREST.
Mr. EDIToR:-I frequently notice in
the papers, land especially in a late num-
Der Of tho BULLETIS) directions how to
compute simpleinterest. Having had con-
siderable experience in computing inter-
est, and using, as I think, a much more
simple rule than any have seen publish
ed, submit II to you for publication. For
instance:
What is the interest on $50 90 for 10
months and "a days at 8 per cent?
RuLE.-First find the interest on one
dollar for whole time at per cent. Then
multiply the principal by the interest Of
the one dollar and you will have the inter.
est required at 9 per cent. Then divide
this product by six and you will have one
which can be multiplied by whatever rate
is required. (Why not find the interest
on one dollar at per cent, at once, and
avoid all this decentralization 2"--ED.)
The simplest way to find the interest on
ono dollar, Is 10 take one-half Of the even
number Of months, and add II TO tho sixth
part of the whole number of days for mills,
including the days in the odd month.
Half Of thirteen Is .o6 cents. The odd
month Is 30 days, and "a makes "a, which
divided by o, makes .Oo9 Add IL TO the @
makes .06J ccnts-interest on one dollar
for the whole time.
This rule !. founded on the fact tina, there
being Il months In the year, the half Of
which is six, and 30 days legal month,
and every 9Th Of which makes one mill
interest. Therefore, to answer the qucs-
ton first proposed, l multiply $50 by .069
cents, and get S. l75 cents, interest ut G
per cent. Now divide this by 9, get
so.S25, interest at one per cent. will be
times as much, or 81 90 10 per cent. 10
times, etc.
This rule is easily worked aud rcmem-
bcrcd. Yours Resp'y, etc.
WIN. T.. THOMAS.
Riohyicw, III.
The above tedious and complicated rule
isgivcn ~ an Improvement upon the fol-
lowing;
To find interest at @ per cent; Multiply
the amount by the number Of days, and
divide byG Divide by 10 and you will
have interest at per cent. Divide by 30
aud You VIII produce intcres, at the rats OF
10 per cent,