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Parent Issue
Day
14
Month
May
Year
1875
Copyright
Public Domain
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A man walks tliree miles iu an hour ; ! a horst! trote seven ; steamboats ron eigh. teen ; sailing véasela, ten; slo.w rivors I flow four ; rapid rivers, sovon ; moderate wind blows sovon ; storm moves thirtysix ; hurricane, ejgfity ; a rifle ball, une thousand ; soumi, seven lmndred and íorty-three ; light, 0110 hundred and ninoty thousand ; electricity, two lmndred and eighty thousand. A barrel of flour weighs a hundred and uiuety-nix pottnds ; barrel of posfc, two hundred; barrel of vico, six lmndred ; barrol of powder, twonty-ftve ; íirküi of butter, ñfty-six ; tub oí bútter, eighty-fonr. Wlieat, Ixuis and olover seed, GOpounda to tho bnshol ; corn, rye and Jlux seed, lifty-six ; buekwhoat, lifty-two ; barliiy, forty-eight; oats, tliirty-iivo ; brau, ! twenty ; timothy seed, forty-flve ; ooarse galt, cighty-five. Sixty drops make a draehm, eight arachmxa nn onnoe, four onnecs a gilí, sixteen g-ill.s a i)int, sixty drops a toaspoonful, fonr teaspoonfiils a tablsspooni'ul or half au ounce, two tablespoonfuls an onnee, eight tablospooníuls a gil], two gills a colïeo cup or tntflblcr, six fluid ounces a tcacupful. Fonr thousand, eiglit hundred and forty ! square yards an acre ; a square mile, six hundred and forty acres. To meastire í an acre : Two hundred and niño feet on oach side makinga square acre withinan ; inch. There are two thousand sevi n hundred and iifty languages. Two persons dio every second. A goneratioB ia ñf teen years ; average of lifc, thirty-one years. Tho standing army in Prussia, war timen, oim ínillion, two hundred thousand; Frailee, abe million, tliree hundred and ñixty thousaud ; Russia, one million ; Austria, eight hundred and twenty-flve thousand ; Italy, two hundred : thousand ; TSelgium, ninety-Jive. thousand , Euglaud, seventy-live thousaud ; Unitod States, twenty-four thousand. Koman CaíhoHcs in United States, five

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Subjects
Old News
Michigan Argus