Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1872-03-01
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Letter from GAINESVILLE.
RAnNrsyl1nr. Feb. 10. 1872.

BARNEsvItLE, Feb, 10, 1872.
Mr. Editor, AS it has been some time since
"Blabher'sp name appeared in the ''Senfintt,"
and he has gotten pretty well over all the trib-
ulalions and scares that followed his former
epstes, he ventures to address you again, and
hopes to find you agreeable.
The trade and commerce Of GAINESVILLE is in
| about its usual condition. No remarkable
sales or invoices to report Our weather re-
port we condense into the general phrase, va
rabe, but cola, the thermometer indicating
various degrees Of temperature, as we carry 1t
out of and into the house. Our Barometer
hasn been bought yet, therefore, we cannot
report its actual condition with any degree Of
certainty. Our rain measure has been so
shrunk that it leaks and will not hold water,
which accounts for our lack of certainty on
that point These observations are noted for
the ''bcnolt of commerce"
The heal;hfulness Of our metropolis con-
tinues unimpared therefore, our Board of
Health has no report or suggestions to make,
unless it may be in the interest Of physicians
and undertdkers. Our usual board-which
we consider the best board of health-is pork
trimmings and hominy-with other luXuries
also various drinks, hot and cold, strong and
weak, principally strong, for our pumps have
all given out and water is scarce Should all
the different sets Of petitioners for whiskey
laws get the different laws they want, we will
be in IA bad fix, unless the Legislature at the
same time appropriates money with which 10
finish our water-works. We have completed
them so far as to find the branch from which
the water can be had, and already have several
barrels running to it. The proprietors Of these
trains, learn, soon propose to form n Board
of Water W orks, or Water Board, whichever
may be the proper name.
Valentine day passed off quietly with us,
but the next day didn't Some of st. VS. fa-
vortes were in no tranquil mood over tho
iavors they received, and might have been
heard quoting Scripture in a very disjointed,
but emphatic mauer.
The "sum" in week before lasts Sentinel
set some Of our smart men working, and
Babber, of course, wanted to know about ii,
so he went and saw our schoolmasler, and
here 5 how he answered it.
Says he ''Mr. X, doesn' state his problem
clearly, or perhaps the printer muddled part
Of it for him for if there must be but oneaere
to the rail- how can there be Two pannels to
rood r. Blabber didn know But" said
the master, Il suppose he means rodS.' That's
it, says Bltbber, 'of course, he means rods"
"But here another mudded condtion, " says
the teacher, 'the wants acre for every rail,
stake and rider, yet speaks Of his fence as ten
rails per pannel, stnked and ridercd. Now
there will be considerable difference in the
number of rails and acres in the field, made by
the difference of three rails to the pannel, for
tina, believe is the number required to stake
and rider pannel.n Eyes" Blabber replied,
CHATS tue nuinbor." swell" continued
Blaboer, 81 want the field big, let's work it
out to thirteen rails in the panel" every
well - says the teacher, and at II he went, and
here's what he give me See If yon can make
it out ! can't, though wrote it down as he
said it off
Let equal the size Of the field, and also tho
number Of rails then,
u equals 4 times the square root Of q, 100
times multiplied by 4 oy by % therefore,
g square equals 10, SIG by 100 times Z or, y
square equals ,73O, $50 times q which divi-
ded by makes equal 730, &c., the number
ofacres in the field or, if you substitute 10 for
10 in the solution, it wal, give 1924, 900 acres
in the field.
Well Blabber put off again up town, and
told his friends Blubber and Badger that he'd
worked the sum
Blubber said he didn't believe there was llat
many acres in the whole United States, if in
the whole world, while Badger declared that
one of his lncles out West has patch twice
that big out in Kansas just 10 raise vegetables
and chop wood on. Badger is pretty sharp,
and guess if he were pinned down, he would
say he meant his Uncle Samuel.
But goodbye and good luck to you.
BLABBER