LUMBER MEASUREMENT TABLE. Square timber and scantling. Measurement at sight. Dimensions in inches head 11.11.828 10.12.88 10.11. 10.10. 33. 36. 24. 6 28. 31.6 35. 38.6 42. 32. 36. 40 44. 48. 40.6 45. 49.6 54. 50. 9 49.6 54. 36. 9 42. 47.3 52. 6 57. 9 63. 48. 54. 60. 74.3 81. 10 55. 60. 40.10 46.8 52.6 58. 4 64. 2 70. 53.4 60. 66.8 82.6 90. 14 77. 84. 55. 60. 60. 6 66. 72. 66. 72. 60.9 67.6 20110. 120. 21 115.6 126. 22/121. 132. A Stock Broker's Technicalities. A Bull is one who operates to depress the value of stocks, that he may buy for a rise. A Bear is one who sells stocks for future delivery, which he does not own at the time of sale. A Corner is when the Bears cannot buy or borrow the stock to deliver in fulfillment of their contracts. Overloaded is when the Bulls cannot take and pay for the stock they have purchased. Short is when a person or party sells stocks when they have none, and expect to buy or borrow in time to deliver. Long is when a person or party has a plentiful supply of stocks. A Pool or Ring is a combination formed to control prices. A broker is said to carry stocks for his customer when he has bought and is holding it for his account. A Wash is a pretended sale by special agreement between buyer and seller, for the purpose of getting a quotation reported. A Put and Call is when a person gives so much per cent. for the option of buying or selling so much stock on a certain day, at a price fixed the day the option is given. Are the Planets Inhabited P This question is one which very naturally arises, when we think of the planets as worlds in so many respects similar to our own. Many think that the only object God can possibly have in making any world is to form an abode for man. Our own earth was evidently fitted up, although perhaps not created, for this purpose. Coal and oil for fuel and light, forests for timber, metals for machinery, rivers for navigation, and plains for corn. Our bodies, the air, light, and heat are all fitted to each other with exquisite nicety. When we turn to the planets, we do not know but God has other races of beings who inhabit them, or different ends to attain. We are assured that, if inhabited, the conditions on which life is supported vary much from those familiar to us. No human being could reside on Mercury, while no inhabitant could endure the intense cold of polar Uranus. At the sun, one of our pounds would weigh 29 pounds; on our moon the pound weight would become only about 2 ounces; while on Vesta, one of the planetoids, a man could easily spring sixty feet in the air and sustain no shock. Yet while we speak of these peculiarities, we do not know what modification of the atmosphere or physical features may exist even on Mercury to temper the heat, or on Uranus to reduce the cold. With all these diversities, we must admit the power of an all-wise Creator to create beings adapted to a life or land different from our own. Chinese Method of Preserving Grapes. The Chinese have a method of preserving grapes, so as to have them at their command during the entire year. The method adopted consists in cutting a circular piece out of a ripe pumpkin or gourd, making an aperture large enough to admit the hand. The interior is then completely cleaned out, the ripe grapes are placed inside, and the cover replaced and pressed in firmly. The pumpkins are then kept in a cool place, and the grapes will be found to retain their freshness for a very long time. A very careful selection must be made of the pumpkin, the common field pumpkin, however, being well adapted for the purpose in question. Preservation of Milk and Cream. Put the milk into bottles, then place them in a saucepan with cold water, and gradually raise it to the boiling point; take it from the fire, and instantly cork the bottles, then raise the milk once more to the boiling point for half a minute. Finally let the bottles cool in the water in which they were boiled. Milk thus treated will remain perfectly good for six months. Emigrants, especially those having children, will find the above hint adding much to their comfort during their voyage. Table for Engineers and Machinists. Size and strength of cast iron columns. Iron 1 inch thick. Height in feet. 41 6! 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22] 24 Load in cwt. 15 18 11 721 60 49 401 321 261 221 18 119 105 91 77 65 55 47 40 34 29 25 178 143 145 128 111 97 84 73 64 56 49 247 232 214 191 172 156 135 119 106 94 83 326 318 288 266 242 220 198 178 160 144 130 418 400 379 354 327 301 275 251 229 208 189 522 501 479 452 427 394 365 337 310 285 262 607 592 573 550 525 497 469 440 413 386 360 1032 1018 989 959 924 887 848 808 765 725 686 1333 1315 1289 1259 1224 1185 1142 1097 1052 1005 959 1716 2697 1672 1640 1603 1561 1515 1461 1461 1364 1311 2119/2100/2077/2045/2007 1964 1916 1865 1811 1755 1697 2570 2550 2520 2490 2450 2410 2358 2305 2248 2189 2127 3050 3040 3020 2970 2930 2900 2830 278012730 2670/2600 How Van Buskirk's Sozodont is Made. Castile soap, 1% drams; glycerine, 14 drams; alcohol, 1 ounce; soft water, 4 ounces; oil of wintergreen, oil of cinnamon, oil of anise (either), sufficient to flavor. Mix. Accompanying this is a powder which is composed of equal parts of chalk (prepared), orris root, and carboñate of magnesia. How to Preserve Meat. Meat of any kind may be preserved in a temperature of from 80° to 100 for a period of ten days after it has been soaked in a solution of 1 pint of salt dissolved in 4 gallons of cold water and gallon of a solution of bisulphate of calcium. By repeating this process the preservation may be extended by the addition of a solution of gelatine or the white of an egg to the salt and water. How to Cut or Bore Glass. Any hard steel tooth will cut glass with great facility when kept wet with camphor dissolved in turpentine. A drill bow may be used, or even the hand alone. A hole may be readily enlarged by a round file. The ragged edges of glass vessels may also be thus easily smoothed by a flat file. Flat window glass can readily be sawed with a watch-spring saw by the aid of this solution. In short, the most brittle glass can be wrought almost as easily as brass, by the use of cutting tools kept constantly wet with camphorated oil of turpentine. How to Make Hens Lay in Winter. Give a portion of minced meat, mixed with their other food, every day, or as often as convenient, and see that they have plenty of gravel, old plastering, or powdered egg-shells. The latter may be mixed with their food. Without some substance of this kind, which cannot be obtained when the ground is frozen or covered with snow, there will be nothing to form the shell. The "Sun" Cholera Mixture. Tincture of opium, 2 oz.; tincture of camphor, 2 oz.; tincture of capsicum, 2 oz.; tincture of rhubarb, 2 oz.; tincture of peppermint, 2 oz. Mix. Dose-A teaspoonful in water after each evacuation of the bowels. Of What Muscles_Consist, and How Many Muscles a Human Body Has. A muscle consists of three parts muscular flesh or belly, fascia and tendon, the two last attachments brought together by the swelling of the belly. The head has 77 muscles; the eye, 8; the nose, 1; hips, 8; jaw, 8; tongue, 11; larynx, 11; ear, 11; head and neck, 17; to move the hairy scalp, 1; the eyebrows, 1; the chest, abdomen, and loins, 5; the shoulder, 15; the arm and wrist, 15; the hands and fingers, 23; the hip, 10; the thigh, 14; leg and foot, 24. Contracting muscles are called flexor muscles; expanding muscles, extensor. Human Respiration. In the ordinary respiration of man 16 or 17 cubic inches of atmospheric air pass into the lungs 20 times a minute, or a cubic foot every 5 minutes; 274 cubic feet in 24 hours. The lungs hold 280 cubic feet. At each respiration 1.375 of oxygen is converted into carbonic acid gas. The nitrogen inspired and expired is exactly equal. During the act of inspiration the lungs have been found to be the coldest part of the body. Rule for Making Family Wines from the Various Fruits. Ripe fruit, crushed, 24 pounds; soft water, 1 gallon; loaf sugar, 4 pounds; cream of tartar, 14 ounces; brandy, 1 quart. Dissolve the cream of tartar in water, mix all the ingredients and let them stand for one week before drawing off.. How to Alloy Various Metals. Copper and tin make bath metal. Tin and copper make bronze metal. Tin, antimony, copper, and bismuth make britannia ware. Tin and copper make cannon metal. Copper and zinc make Dutch gold. Copper, nickel, and zinc, with a little iron, German silver. Gold and copper make standard gold. Gold, copper, and silver make old-standard gold. Tin and copper make gun metal. Copper and zinc make mosaic gold. Tin and lead make pewter. Lead and a little arsenic make sheet metal. Silver and copper make standard silver. Tin and lead make solder. Lead and antimony make type metal. Copper and arsenic make white copper. Facts of Great Value to Housekeepers. A little quicklime placed in the infested places will drive away any kind of ants. How to Make Leather Waterproof-Saturate it with castor! ol; to stop shoes squeaking, drive a peg into the middle of the sole. How to Wash Colored Calicoes.-Dissolve 5 cents worth of sugar of lead in 3 to 4 quarts of pure water (rain-water is best), and, after the garments are washed and rinsed, let them be dipped in and wrung out; it sets the color and keeps it. A good cement for glass is made by dissolving an ounce of isinglass in 2 wine glasses of spirits of wine. How to Remove Clinkers from Stove or Fire-Brick.-Put in about half a peck of oyster shells on top of a bright fire. This may need repeating. How to Remove Tar from Cloth.-Rub it well with turpentine, and every trace of tar will be removed. How to Set the Color in Lawn.-Dissolve a half-pound of |