The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-04-12

HOW TO AND
WHAT IT WILL Do. The following
rules are so simple and so true accord
ing to all business usages, that every
banker, broker, merchant or clerk should
post them up for reference. There be-
ing no such thing as a fraction in it,
there is scarcely any liability to error or
mistake. BY no other arithmetical pro-
cess can the desired information be OBJ
tanned by SO few figures:
Six per cent. - Multiply any given
number of dollars by the number of
days Of interest desired, separate the
right hand figure and divide by six, the
result is the true interest on such sum
for such number of days at six per cent.
Eight per cent.-Multiply: any given
amount by the number of days upon
which it is desired to ascertain the in
terest, and divide by forty-fve, and the
result will be the interest Of such for
the time required at eight per cent.
Ten per cent.-Multiply the same as
above, and divide by thirty-six, and the
result will show the rate OF interest at
ten per cent.
What it will do.-If a mechanic or
clerk saves only Of cents per day, from
the time he is 81 until he is three score
and ten, the aggregate, withinterest, will
amount to $4,000; and a daily saving OF
274 cents reaches the important sum OF
$4,000.
A sixpence saved daily viii provide a
chase a good farm. There are few en-
ployees who cannot ave daily, by alb
staining from the use of cigars, tobacco,
liquor, etc, twice or ten times the
amount of the six cent piece. Every
person should provide for old age, and
the man in business who can lay by a
dollar a day will eventually find him
self possessed of over 100000. 49,
THE CHEMIsTY OF SoAP-MAK1NG.-
At first thought, it might seem that
of household duties as s~Oap-making,
had little of scientific interest.
Contrariwise, however, it is purely
o chemical operation, and soap either
hard or soft, is as much a definite
chemical compound as sulphate of iron.
The housewife saves up lard and talloW
wastes, and by and by, usually at
spring and fall, the soap is made.
These kinds of fat are considered fixed
oils, because they do not eVaDorate at
ordinary temperatures. They are COM
posed of margaric, stearic, and oIeic
oils, united with glycerine. Glycerine
then is the base or alkali that we dis
play by presenting to the above named
acids the stronger base, potassa, for
which also the acids have a stronger
affinity than for the glycerine.
The I've from the leach holds in s0lu-
ton carbonate OF pOtassa, and in this
specialization process the carbonic acid
is set free or displaced by the stronger
acids, of the fats. This is the chemistry
of the operation in brief, andi if we can
make a practical application of it, it
will be well.
When the soap does not "come,"
there is usually, contrary to what peo-
pie imagine, an excess of alkali. An
easy way of testing is to taste of it. If
it be alkaline, add grease and boil till
the alkalinity disappears. It is easy to
know il it be too greasy, by setting a
cupful away and cool, when the fat will
separate and be at the top.-[Exchange.
How A HoTEL-KEEPER KNOWS AN
HONEST MAN. A New York hotel
keeper has discovered an infallible rule
for determining the honesty of his GUS
toners. He says: II have made tia
rule in my house, whenever man wants
room and has no baggage, to demand
pay in advance, as is usual. If he man
lLC5HS III OnINANlOA9 tb4ANA p1AIS Al 4lttAl0 III
his pocket for money, / tell him it is all
right; that he can pay just as well when
he goes away. That kind of man al
ways pays. But there is another sort of
fellow who, when informed of the rule,
pfetends to be very indignant, insisting
that he is a gentleman, by, and is
not in the habit of having his name
questioned or his honesty doubted. In
such q case, I invariably insist on the
production of the funds, for Iknow If +
don't get them then / never should get
them in the world. Men who talk about
their honor, and assume to be insulted
when requested to pay, can bedepended
on for frst-class dead-beats.n
USELESS TREAsURERs.-A rich noble
man was once showing q great colleer
ton of precious stones, whose value
was almost beyond counting. There
were diamonds, and pearls, and rubies,
and gems from almost every country
on the globe, which had been gathered
by their possessOr with the greatest Ia
Dor and expense. "And YETI he re-
marked, "they yield me no inco1ne.D
His friend remarked that he had two
stones which cost him about ten forins
each, yet they yielded him an income
of two hundred horins a year.
In much surprise the nobleman de-
sired To see the wonderful stones when
the man led him down to his mill, and
pointed to the two tOiling grey mill
stones. They were laboriously crusll-
ing the grain into snowy -four for the
use of hundreds who depended on its
work for their daily bread. Those two
dull, homely stones did more good ID
the world, and yielded a larger income,
than all the noblemanis Jewels. So 1T
is with the idle treasures eyrywhere.
chronological journal,
fan editor omits anything, he is lazy.
lie lie speaks of things as they are, peo-
ME aremad. Mheg CLOSES oyeT-smooths
down the rough points-he il bribed.
TIE he calls things By their proper names;
he il unit for the position of an editor.
NE he does dot furnish his readers with