The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-01-18
Educational Column.
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Some Facts for Builders.
ora thousand shingles laid four ! '
inches 10 the weather, will cover Il
ten square feet of surface, and hVe e
Mound Of shingle nails will iasleh t
them on. aoor I
One-6fth more siding and iioor, II
inc is needed than the number oi
square u feet Of surface to be covered;
because Of the lap in siding anu
matching. IL ,.tbs
will cover seventy yards OF surface,
and eleven pounds Of lath naiis VII.
: na;i them on. Eight bushels OIL
GOOD GOO lime. sixteen bushels OF sand
and one bushel of hair, will MAKE aRe
enough good mortar to plaster ioo
4 cord of stone, three bushels OF
, lime and a cubic yard OF sand VIII
Law 100 cubic feet OF wall. !,
. Five courses Of brick will lay !
loot in height on chimney. a.. SlA
Of hr;ct in a course will make a hue
nc fnur inches wide and II inches
long. and eight brick in a cours'
viii make flue 8 inches wioe any
Is inches long. ..nd
Cement. one bushel, and sano
q. ,wo bushels. will cover 3's squar
ards | inch thick; AZ squar
n. md yards 2, inch thick and ga squar
sue ards !. inck thick; one bushei
try sament and one Of sand will cove
y "a square yards ! inch thlck'
SQUARE wards q inch thick and
b. square yards = inch thick. :,
Wa suggest to our readers to u
Srh ,he above facts in a variety OF pra
tical problems.-Wis. 'ouf''a'
Education.
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2. A. old man of seventy eight "
sent to iail for three days by
Marvlebone (England) police M ~
,,r ;strate recently, as he was unable
IH' nav fine Of sixty cents Tor not 7
Inc that his twelve-year-oid graz
,,ac- e nh;,J went TO school. He was
ON periect.y respectable worklngm,
b;s vile was bed-ridden, the chil
:, 20. narents were dead and he could
90 after the truant himself.
:, - =.
! w. II i said that the late Hans
Rulow left directions that 7
dining mortem examination OF ms 0
ied to. should he made to ascertain
cause Of the excruciating heads
= = = r@s 70. from which he was life long
- ierer The autopsy revealed
LIPS. TACT that the end of the nerves
'PS. become imbedded in scar o
. ~ injury to the brain that ne hao
AWs ceiyed in childhood.
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''S,miI%s 'eoiIee. Over seventy lamps have
public found ranged around the wall
. - one Etruscan tomb.
,RESEy. ~,
~Cv The toothsome reed bird
Quail will have rival IN .hl'
aw, elaimant for popular favor.
The tinamou, a native OF
Amer;ca whence they are exp
,sIon S Civ. The bird is described as being
% A,,... tle larger than the quail, but
large as a pheasant. II is a
: olive color, slightly and ma
!. @ barded with black, with
ornwn, Il is decidedly gan
Az, flavor, and sells for s6
MA. The bird promises to becom
i JualeIa,, yorite -Philadelpbia Record
b any civil
county OF
lie square The st. Louis public scho'
- dren we're used by Professor
g rxxrr. Of Harvard, for series OF
NJ, acuteness Of vision. The rig
hItL, and left ewes Of more than
Y.0~ ch;ldren of both sexes wer'
separately. They were pla
: metres. or sixteen feet, from
dubois and a. which we're shown IN SUI
!. a series Of test letters ran
are .s s. Essi ys.y . size One Of the results q
was that it was clearly she
!. nuuser. there was greater amount
rwCR siabtedness in girls than IN
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Law, The Norwegian b bark :. ,,
which recently arrived At e
Ma Fla, had sample OF me
Dubois and Of a swordtish. Through
state Bank. sheathing Of her hall, then
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