Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-08-06

The grand old man whose death was
announced in last weeks GAZETTE
AND JOURNAL leaves behind him the
glorious record of one who was never
weary of doing good. His philan-
thropy was eminently catholic in its
scope; the Gentle as well as the Jew
found in him an,tar to hear and strong
and liberal hand to aid in time of need.
In this noble eatholicity lay his highest
claim to that need of fame
the highest to which humanity
may aspire, which for years had been en-
bodied in his we'll known title of '.the
old man beneficent." OF him ii may be,
said, slightly varying the thought so well
applied to Washington: God made him
childless that the oppressed children of the
world might call him father" And most
gratifying must have been to him the
grand fruition of his labors, especially ON
behalf of his co-religionists, that his life
prolonged beyond century enabled
him to see. When he entered into bust
ness, years ago, it is an interesting indi-
cation of the restrictions under which
the Jews lived, even in England, that his
uncle purchased for him for 81, 200 the
right to practice rs one of the twelve
Jewish brokers licensed by the city of Lon
don, Step by step, largely through his own
unwearying efforts, all these restrictions,
civil and political, have been swept away,
and only few days ago the last
shadowy yestige of Hebrew disability in
England was obliterated by the elevation
of Nathaniel Rothschild, with whose
family the MonteiiOres were eloselyallied
bymarrlage, toa seat inthe house of lords.
DIR. W. F. Quinby of this city. contri-
butes to the international ,StaAtlt1d, IL BIZ
monthly Cleveland publication, an article
ON Our Weights and Mcnsuras,n which,
he writes, he has found after considerable
Investigation to have had q good scientific
origin, to have probably once been more
perfect than they are now, and with d
little adjustment they can he restored tc
their original harmony The writer in,
stances the existing discrepancies between
ounces of avoirdupois, troy and apothe
carries weight, and selects the ounce avoir
dupois as the most suitable unit Of
weight and capacity. This ounce mea
sured in chemically pure water, is equa
- a,,l,, al 1
A very slight change to LIZ,
cubic inches would make this a perfec
cube, with sides of IL inches, and woul,
also made the ounce exactly the one
thousandth part of cubic foot. Tn
writer explains at length the advantage
of an ounce Of LIPS cubic inches owe
any of the existing ounces. He the
suggests that the desired improvement b
made, not by reducing the uvoirlupoi
ounces but by increasing the stundar
inch. According TO Sir John Hcrschel
the English inch is too short by on
one-thonsandth part TO be exactl
cosmical, and an inch of Loo
10 tohhhlllIh Dbb.uhbspuu times Ill u
axis of the earth The difference ,
these two inches is the difference of ii
two ounces-the existing and the SUI
gested one; that is to say, 1.72S cub
inches of 1.GO1 are equal to l.732 cub
inches of 1000. Dir. Quinby won
therefore extend the standard inch
1.001 then our ounce will equal H..
cubic inches, and if the grains in
ounce be fixed at 1872 each grain NJ
equal .004 cubic inches, ''and this is /
that is needed to make our different s.
TENS mutually convertible. Such an a
iustment would certainly very material
facilitate many calculations,
The jury of inquest into the means
which Wilbur II. Jones and George y
Elzey came to their death has decided, 4
majority verdict, that there was
criminal negligence on the part of eitl