The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1871-11-25

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Anding tie intsssse % any psiDsipsl for
Aay numhss of days, ths answer 10 sscI
cass bsing b esnts. separate the two
right hana figures TO express Il in dol
lasD and cents.
Four psr csnt-Multiply the principal
By tho number Of days TO run-separate
tho right hand figure from the product.
and divide BY 8.
Five Per cant--Mukiply By number
Of days. and divide By 72.
Hix per cent-Multiply BY number OF
days, sepasasing the right hand figure
and divide By 8.
Eight per :snt-Multiply BY number
Of days and divide BY 46.
Nine per csnt-Nultiply By number
Of days, separate right hand figure and
divide BY 4.
Ten per csnt-Multiply BY number Of
days. and divide By s86.
Twelve per csnt--Muitiply by mum
bsr Of days, sspsrate the right hand fig
urs. and divide By s.
Fiftesn per cent-Multiply By number
Of days. and divide BY "a.
Eighteen psr oent-Multiply by mum
bsr Of days-sepaEats right hand figure,
and divide BY 2.
Twenty per csnt-Multiply By num-
Der ofdays, and divide by -.
The ouikcest way for . man TO forget
all common miseries is to wear tight
hosts.
Drinking water neither makes man
sick. nor in debt, nor his wife widow.
Somebody wants . capital article for
something. Well capital article is A.
No extra charge.
A barber Of . statistical turn Of mind.
asserts that there are 800 different hair
dyes in circulation.
Boston people who are in doa bt as to
the best watering places have got into
the habit Of asking the milkmen.
They have . negro in jail as Hou sson
I Texas, who has committed seventeen
murders in Eve years. he is 59 years
Of age.
A boy of Eve summers in New Eng
land. recently, while. at his dsvosions.
surprised the family By praying that hs
I'might have sixty brothers and one hun
dred sisters. ~~ps
! A Hartford editor haying twitsed ~
editor Of , neighboring city Of being
bald, subsequently, apolcgized and OK
planned that 'as long as Il can
fold his ears over the top of bis head, he
doesn't need any hair anyhow
The following lines are copied from 81
English life insurance pamphlet entitled,
Thinks for the Thoughsful:'
sWhen poor pc died and went TO heaven,
| What grief mamma endured;
But an! that grief was soon assuaged,
For pa, he was insured;
And when ma went there oh, how funny
The Office paid her al! the IN oney.
| A comical passage appears in letter
from the Rev. J. P. Newman to the
Methodist, describing the voyage OF the
United States steamer Congress to and
from Greenland Dr. Newman saws.
On our homeward voyage two seaInen
were reproached for fighting, and they
were sentenced to hug each other iar
four hours with sentry over them. to
sec that they did it affectionately.'
There is needle factory 10 New Hs-
ven where the whole process is done by
single machine, without the manual IN
Dor Of any person. A coil Of steel wire
Is put in. The machine cuts it off at
the required lengths. 1t cuts the steel
pieces consecutively, punches the eye
fholes, eountersinks the eyes aud grinds
the points, and in fact does every thing
until the needle drops out completely
wrmeo. Anott,er mauLiuv picks aud ar
ranges them, heads and points together,
and third piece Of mechanism pn,s
them into paper. One Of these machinss
occupies no more space than an ordinary
table. and each of them turns out frnr,
thirty to forty thousand needles day
Most of the needles hitherto in use
have been imported from England until
= few years past. They are made shers
msialy at Redditch, in w orcester. Th,
business employs about 1000 persons
chiefly females. who are paid week.,
from 35 cents for small children t
- SO far skilled men.
GRANTS ApMrsIsTRArIoK.--A ex-
change notices the fact that the che