The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-11-11

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FROM the Boston Transcript
An Important and viGerons, move
mont has lately been made throughout
the United States t. bring int moro
generak sse. tho European (metric or
decinaia systsm Of Weights snd meas
ures. The system Was.degalized oby
our .Csngress nine years ago, and has
new been adopted in our principal
scientfdc works. The American pub
Tic is already familiar with the princi-
p1es Of this system without being
clearly conscious ef tho fact. inasnnch
as It appears In tie simplest and most
familiar Of our tables, namely that of
the Federal cGrrency-eur mills, cents
and dimes corresponding both in no.
|menclature snd1in their decimal rcia-
ITEMS ts each others with the mili-me-
ter, cent-meter, aecimeter, the1 miilli-
gram, cent-igram, deci,gram, the mill
litter, eent-iliter. deciliter, which cen
stitute the metric system OF weights
and measures. This perfectly. simple
nomenclature is composed OF twelyo
words, all in nse in the English lam
guage, thus: meter in Thermometer !;
milf, cent? deci in mill, cont and
dime; deka. in decade, hectic in heca-
tomb. kilo in chilisd, myria in myrid,
liter in litrsmeter, gram fl gram, (see
Webster's dic.), are ia area; stero in
stereOscope. Although, therefore. the
System has long been taught in. orr
schools, especially since its legation
by Congress in 1865, ..no, schooling. is
necessary to teach principles. and .
nomenclature with which We. are al
ready faniliar. A. for the value of
the several units, they may be learned
| in few hours BY giancisg at full
sized models Of them exhibited. as
was dane in Germany, at the time Of
fts Introduction in that country in 1862,
in all the shop windows. No one
could walk twenty steps in the busi-
iness part Of thee city without seeing
before him at every turn foll-siEed
charts and models Of the. metric
weights and measures. With those
constantly In view, the most ignorant
class found no difficulty in understand
ing the decimal system; whereas, the
se.oalled English "system" now in use
hero 10 Z mystery even t. such as may
have enjoyed q dozen years schooling
therein, Speaking Of metric tables,
Charles Sumner said: "In this brief
space ysu behold the whole metric
system OF weights and measares.-
What Q contrast to the anterior con-
ifusiont a boy at school can master
fthe metric system in IAN afternoon.
Months, II not years, are required to
I store away the perplexitiss, incongru-
titles and Inconsistencies Of tho existiug
| weights and measures, and them tho
memory must often fail in reproduc-
| ing them. The mystery of compound
arithmetic is essential in the calcula-
ton which they require. All this is
done away by tho decimal progression
so that the frat few rules of arithme-
tic are ample for the pupils"
THE CHANGE PROPOSED.
| "A circular containing an agreement
binding the sigaers to the use of the
netric syetem after July 4. 1876, has
been sent to all the cities and towns
in the United States containing up
wards OF 5000 Inhabitants. Every
city and town SO far canyassed has re-
turned Overwhelming majsrities. Ma
ljerities had previously been secured
from New Fork, Chicago, Brooklyn,
Boston, st. Loais, Baltimore, Portland
Newport, &C., and from over thirty
other cities and towns co-operatien
has been promised, The number Of
signatures of architects from Boston
aloneamounts to l04, nearlyia totality
of the profession. a.ll -. aas,' 4.vt'4
isa THE NEW TABLES. % s=aift
1.-THE following simple tables give oil
] that there is in the metric or; decimal
system Of weights and measures :e9
- ,ie Money. 80 3ls-1
10 mills make a cent, u.:
10 cents make a-dine.
/ 10 dimes make dollar.
10 dollars make an eagle. 7
/ ). f9s;{s1r.I 81 Length. ts9,s.
10 milli-meters make centimeter.
/ 10 eenti-meters make q decimeter.
II. .deci-meters make meter.
/ 10 meters make q adekameter. vaa
/ 10 deka-meters make aheetemeter.
10 to-meters make , kilometer.
10 kilo-meters make myriameter,
Heights.
T 10 fniili-grams make centigram.
| 10 cent?. grams make decigram.
/ 10 deci-grams make q gram.
10 grams make deksgram.
/ 10 deka-grams make a hectogram.
| hecto-grams make kilogram.
I 10 Kilograms make q myriagram.
/ Capacity. vgz.esEs
| 10 milli-liters name centiliter,
I 10 centi.lfters make deciliter.
| 10 deci-liters make a liter. =.
| 10 liters make dekaliter. ..fi1df
10 aeka-liters make a hectoliter.
The sQusre and cubic measures are
nothing more than tho squares aud