The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-09
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
,,,~r AID THE POUND NOT THE
1--WE THE WORLD AROUND

-,..t of wheat weighs From
,,.-,, 20 Fifty Pounds Aceoro-
the state-ENamples OF Ho"
.,. Metric system Works
.--n the ST. Louis Globe-DemocraI
HE ancient mile was ISIS yards
.ti. ward Of sand is a wagon load
..-ron load Of lime is nine bushels
.,tbit was the length Of the forearm
..-4 is almost equivalent 10 meter
o-,5inarv brick weighs about -FOUR
pounds. - an. -,,ric
yard -,..,,. -,,,ont,
bricks. --..,..,,. &c
ounces. e.. -
s-luch wall -. 90
a wagon load Of mortar viii I'LL about 80
hlIs
a thousand laths require about POUNDS
Of -nree-penuy nails. $500,
THE Hebrew hand-breadth was 90 lHSh-
-- ana equaled 4 digits.
The scriptural fathOm was GUMS Va
about feet inches.
~ rubic foot of distilled water weighs
very nearly loo ounces. ,,,.
The Chinese use the breadIh OF the AiSiAI
f9refnger as a measure.
thousand bricks. closely packed to-
eerler. occupy 56 cubic feet.
A bushel of plasterers' halr' Wheh Wen
dried equals 10 pounds.
A Hebrew cubit was two spans or
foot and a little over inches.
Dr. most states of the union Oushel OF
wheat equals 90 pounds.
A klometer or 1000 meters, is equlVa-
M 20 five-eights of a mile.
An acre of ordinary English measure
Is equal 10 4-10ths of a hectare.
The common silver dollar is almost eX-
ac-y ~ inches IN diameter
An ounce avoirdupOis is equal to twen-
weight and One-third grammes.
An ounce, apOthecary or troy weight, is
eaaul to thirty-two grammes. -
A pound avoirdupois is equal TO little
less than half a klogramme.
The legal bushel of the United states
contains a. 6274 pounds of water.
one hectare or 10000 square meters, Is
equal 10 two and one-half acres.
Twelve tablespOOnfuls of any nquld
make what the doctors call teacupful.
A centimeter of the metric measure is
almost exactly 4-10ths of an inch.
Twenty ordinary bricks equal one cubic
foot OF work when laid in position.
To fence with three lines OF barDed wire
a square mile requires $50 pounds.
A hundred feet of three-line barbed-
wire fencing requires IS pounds OF wire
The earliest use of weights is attributed
10 PnedOn king OF Argos, 9S3 Il. &.
A legal bushel of dried apples is, ac-
C1rIiuE 10 iOedlllys from - 10 20 pOuilNo.
The ordinary inch of English measure
EQUALS TWO and one-haf cenumeters.
one square acre will require 152 pounds
Of bar5ed wire for fencing in three lines.
One perch, builders measure, equals p
cubic feet Of stone built into the wall.
An ordinary tablespoonful of common
SAT- dry. weighs almost exactly ounce.
sixteen tablesDoonsful of any ordinary
liquid except molasses, make half a pint.
Every perch of stone wall requires three
pecks of lime and four bushels of sand.
The standard measures of Great Britain
are preserved in the achives Of parlia-
ment
One side of a square acre will require So
pounds Of three-line barbed wire for
fencing.
A rod in length requires three pounds
Of barbed-wire fencing, three lines to the
fence
A legal bushel of anthracite coal weighs
from 76 to 50 pounds, according to local.
A foot of common measure is equal to
thirty centimeters, or hundredths OF a
meter.
Sabbath days journey among the an
Gent Jews was l461 yards, l foot and 9
inches
The standard bricklayer's nod is 1 foot
inches by inches, and equals 1896 cubic
bushel of potatoes equals fifty-six
pounds in Pennsylvania and sixty in near
ly all the other states.
A brick that has been soaked in water
absorbs about one-ffteenth of its own
weight
A kilogramme. or 1000 grammes of the
French system, is equivalent to two and
one-ha.f pounds.
A auid ounce, of United States measure,
equals twenty|nine and half cubic CEN
umeters.
gramme of the metric system is equal
70 niteen and one-half grains Of common
measure.
To nail in position thousand feet of
1ooring, thirty-eight pounds of tenpenny
nails are required
The polar axis of the earth was discov-
eT7l by Sir John Herschel to be exactly
UA1W0J0 inches.
IN most states sixty pounds make a
tsdl bushel of peas. In Arkansas the
weight is forty-six pounds.
bushel of sweet potatoes equals forty
SIX pounds in Iowa and fifty-six pounds
III most of the others.
The ell in use in cloth measures was at
Hist the exact length of the forearm OF
Edward III
The Hebrew span, often mentioned in
tAe scriptures, was 1913 inches, and equal
70 three palms.
The stadium used by both Greeks and
romans, was 400 cubits, or 246 yards, /
loot and inches.
one thousand cubic centimeters equal
d quart OF the standard measures in use
III inns country.
The reed, mentioned in several places
III me Bible rs a measure, was cubits
Ut ~ feet II inches.
1t is convenient for housekeepers to
Nv mat one quart OF wheat flour is al
most exactly a pound.
Inc name "barleycorn," in long meas
oIe, arose from The use of this grain as
measure of distance
blo put in position a thousand clap
uoaIGs requires the use Of about eighteen
POUNDS Of six-penny nails
10 nan on thousand feet of covering
YARDS demands the use of twenty pounds
OF elght-penny nails.
r, "A carat as a weight for gold and dia-
n2uts was originally a grain of Indian
wheat, we'll dried
49, Ie loot originally had its name from
s'7 Lact that the human foot was used as
unit Of measurement. 80
i Hen small measures are not conven-
~ II Is profitable to know that eight
'o.espoonfuls make one gill.
ia 4uaft of butter, so soft as to run cas-
-, weighs exactly 16 ounces; when hard
20 weight is slightly greater.
~ .-uusand laths will cover 20 wards of
r Ta- ana z pounds of lath nails viii he
q" -ed TO fasten them on ~
if5rn'i'aa' states Of the union, excepting Cal
INA a bushel OF rye is &c pounds IN
'Ne state it is "a pounds -