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  2. FACTS AND FIGURES.

    Money represents labour or work done. A sovereign is an accumulation of ten days' labour, at two sbillings a-day wages; every man who is in debt 10s., owes five days' labour. If a person save £10, and leaves it to his family, ...

    Article : 299 words
  3. EASTERN MODE OF MEASURING TIME.

    The people of the East measure time by the length of their shadows. Hence, if you ask a man what o'clock it is, he immediately goes into the sun, stands erect, then, looking where his shadow terminates, he measures the length with ...

    Article : 117 words
  4. PROVIDING AGAINST A RAINY DAY.

    One example will show how small a saving in early life will keep a man independent of the workhouse in his old age. Suppose he save but one sbilling a-week from the time he is twenty years old till he is forty, and put it every ...

    Article : 145 words
  5. MILEAGE OF A MAN.

    The number of square inches of surface in a man of ordinary height and bulk is 2,500, the number of pores, therefore, 7,000,000; and the number of inches of perspiratory tube 1,750,000; that is, 145,833 feet, or 46,600 yards, or ...

    Article : 51 words
  6. ARITHMETICAL PARADOX.

    Sir—In squaring the number 99999999, some time since, I found that if I had multiplied 123456787654321 by 81, I could have performed the operation in one-haf the time, obtained the same result, and saved myself the trouble of ...

    Article : 289 words
  7. THIS IS THE WAY THE MONEY GOES.

    In the year 1843, eight million one thousand four hundred and forty-nine pounds, one shilling, and fourpence, was spent by the people of England in tobacco I a tolerably round sum to " end in smoke." If the weed had been ...

    Article : 78 words
  8. MENTAL ARITHMETIC.

    Within five miles of Huntsville, Alabama (says an American journal), there is now living a Negro youth, fourteen years of age, and weighing upwards of fourteen stone. He has no idea of a God—says he was " made by nobody—has ...

    Article : 1,250 words
  9. CURIOUS CALCULATIONS.

    If twelve dozen of buttons were to be bought by giving for the first button, one barley corn; two for the second, and so on, doubling each button until the last, the number of barleycorns would be 22,300,745,198,530,623,141,535, ...

    Article : 220 words
  10. PERPETUAL ALMANACK.

    We have already twice published, a rule for finding what particular day of the week corresponds to any given day of a month in any year forward or backward in the present century—a rule of considerable importance for testing the ...

    Article : 390 words
  11. USEFUL ARITHMETICAL COMPUTATIONS.

    At the present time, when speculations involving immense capital, contributed by individuals, have given to private life a commercial feature, and occasioned society at large, equally with the professional man, to resort to figures, ...

    Article : 777 words
  12. PRIMITIVE MODE OF RECKONING.

    Some years since, I Was in the employ of a tradesman in and while making out Christmas bills, I arrived at one, amounting to the sum of £27, due from a respectable farmer living near that town. I presented him with the ...

    Article : 384 words
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