286 TABLES OF WEIGHTS, MEASURES, WOODS, HEAT, COLD, WAGES, Etc. Weights of a Cubic Foot. Metals. WEIGHT OF A CUBIC FOOT. Pure Silvert. 625 13 Castile Soap.. ...56 15 White Ash.. 77 Steel. 2,500 Dogwood 75 White Hazel.. 72 Apple Tree.. Cow 20 70 Brass .543 12 White Beech. 69 Zinc India Rubber.......56 .428 13 Hard Maple. The value of a ton of pure gold is $602.799.21. Pressed Cotton.......... 25 Black Walnut.. Yellow Oak... +The value of a ton of silver 58 Beeswax .151 Red Oak. 56 Substance. Lbs. Oz. Wild Cherry Rabbit. 55 Lignum Vitæ.. Yellow Pine. 54 Squirrel.... 83 5 75 Rates of Speed 66 Degrees of cold above zero at White Cak. 53 12 Lbs. Oz. Ash .52 13 which substances freeze. At which Birds Fly. Apple. 49 9 PER HOUR. Maple.. .46 14 2 Cherry Common Stone...157 8 Shellbark Hickory.43 2 Pitch Pine... Birch .35 Quantity Per Acre. The following shows the av erage yield of different grasses and vegetables per acre. Milk Sea Water. .28 Mortar Mud. Loose Earth.. 109 6 Degrees below zero at which 101 14 the following freeze: Spruce.. .31 Yellow Pine. Butternut.. .23 8 Proof Spirit.. Fair winds make their flight much more rapid. 20 bushels Mercury. 40 .10 tons Difference in Weight of Wood, Green and Dry. Beans, bush. Beets... Cabbages, without stalks.... Carrots.. 20 tons 10 tons .30 bushels .2 tons 50 bushels 1 tons .40 bushels .20 bushels 10 tons 10 tons 9 200 bushels Petroleum 9 TABLE OF WAGES; COMPUTED ON A BASIS OF TEN HOURS LABOR PER DAY. $1.00 $1.50 $2.00 $2.50 $3.00 $3.50 $4.00 $4.50|$5.00 $5.50 $6.00 $6.50 $7.00 $7.50 $8.00 $9.00| .45 1.50 .20 .21% .234 .25 .26% .30 .33/1.36% .40 .40 .53% .66% .75 .80 .93% (1.06% 1.20 1.08% 1.16% 1.25 EXPLANATION. The large figures at the top of the columns show the rate per week, while the smaller figures indicate the amount per hour or per day. Thus if it is desired to find the amount per hour when working for $8.00 per week, we commence with the figure 1, in the left hand column under the head of "hours," and trace towards the right till we reach the column headed by $8.00, where we find 13 cents, the equivalent of one hour's labor at $8.00 per week. In like manner we find the price of several hours, one day, or several days. To find wages at $13, $14, $15, $16, or more, per week, find the amount at $6.50, $7, $7.50, $8, etc., and multiply by 2. Principal Countries of the World; Population, Area, Religion and Government. 130,536 • Australasia has seven organized colonies-New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia, New Zealand and Tasmania, whose respective capitals, with the population of each city in 1881, are as follow: Sydney, 220,427; Melbourne, 282.981; Brisbane, 31,109; Adelaide, 38,479; Perth, 5,007: Auckland, 39,966; Hobart-Town, 19,449. There is no general seat of government in Australasia, the whole being controlled by the home government in England. ..San Jose. .Republic 14.852. .Protestant... Obi Nile... All these collectively are estimated to speak 3,064 languages, and to possess about 1,000 different forms of religion The amount of deaths per annum is 33.333.333, or 91.954 per day, 3.730 per hour, 60 per minute, or 1 per second. It is estimated that the population of the earth at the present time is being increased at the rate of nearly one million per month. The average duration of life throughout the globe is thirty-three years One-fourth of its population dies before the seventh year, and the half before the seventeenth. Out of 10.000 persons only one reaches his hundredth year, only one in 500 his eightieth; and only one in 100 his sixtieth. Another estimate of the earth's population, classified by race and relig.on, is as follows: Whites Mongolians Blacks.. The Longest Rivers of the World. Locality. Rise. N. America.. Rocky Mountains N. America... Lake Itaska... Brazil.... China.. ... Andes Koulkoun Mountains.. Australasia.. Australian Alps. Siberia. ... Altaian Mountains. Egypt, Nubia. Blue Nile, Abyssinia. Yang-tse-Kia.... Chíña........... Lena. Niger.. Thibet. Heights of Irkutsk. Base of Mt. Loma. River St. Louis. St. Lawrence.. Siberia.. Soudan.. Canada.. Russia... Siam Hindostan Germany. Lake in Volhonsky.. Thibet. Volga.. Maykiang. Indus.. Danube.. Mackenzie Little Thibet.. Black Forest. N. America... River Athabasca... Brahmapootra. Thibet........ Himalaya..... Columbia Colorado... Susquehanna.. N. America... Lake Otsego... James.... Potomac Hudson Copper Colored.... 12.000,000 Jews.. THE CHRISTIANS are divided as follows: Greek and East Church. 60,000,000 Church of Rome. 170,000,000 Protestants. 90,000,000 Southern, Arctic, Oceans, Seas, Bays and Lakes. Sq. Miles. .80,000,000 .40,000,000 .20,000,000 .10,000 000 ...5 000 000 NOTE. The seas, bays, gulfs, etc., connected with each ocean, are included in the foregoing estimate. It may be proper to remark, however, that the exact superficial extent of the several oceans is not known with certainty, nor the exact proportion of land and water. Seas. Length in Miles. Mediterranean, about......2,000 Bays. Baffin's.... Chesapeake Lakes. Caribbean..... China. Red Japan. Black Caspian.. Baltic... Okhotsk Aral. N. America... Allegheny Mountains... Chesapeake Bay. N. America... Gr. Black Bone Mount'n. Chesapeake Bay. N. America... Adirondacks, Mt. Marcy Bay of N. Y...... Historical Facts Relating to the United States. 1623 N. Hampshire'. St. Augustine.......... Spaniards.. Admit'd to the Union 1,000 400 Capitals. 500 400 325 1845 Tallahassee. 1788+ Richmond. Jamestown Manhattan.. English. Dutch. 1788+ Albany. Plymouth . 1788+ Concord. 1820 Augusta. Dover... Bergen. Bristol Cape Henelopen. Windsor... 60 1636 Rhode Island. Providence English Puritans., 1788+ Boston. Dutch and Danes.. 1787+ Trenton. Swedes and Finns. 1787+ Dover. From Massachu'ts 1788+ Hartford. 1790+ Prov. & N`port 1789+ Raleigh. Baikal. .360.. .35 1634 Maryland* St. Mary's. English 1788+ Annapolis. English Great Slave .300. ..45 English 1848 Madison. 1837 Lansing. 1788+ Columbia. 1787 Harrisburg. 1836 Little Rock. 1845 Austin. 1816 Indianapolis. 1812 Baton Rouge. 1814 Montgomery. 1817 Jackson. 1818 Springfield. Fort Dummer... From Massachu'ts 1791 Montpelier. Savannah Fort London... St. Louis San Diego. Boonesboro.. Marietta. Astoria.. St. Paul. English French... 1788+ Atlanta. From N. Carolina. 1796 Nashville. Spaniards.. 1821 Jefferson City. . 1850 Sacramento. From Virginia.... 1792 Frankfort. Burlington....... From N. England. 1846 Des Moines. Washoe 1862 West Virginia.. (See Virginia)... Formed fr. Va..... 1862 Charleston. 1854 Nebraska.. Fr.N.E.&W.States. 1867 Lincoln. Fr. Western States 1876 Denver. 1858 Colorado........ Denver.... The thirteen original States. + Date of adoption of Constitution. Principal Exports of Various Countries. ARABIA-Coffee, aloes, myrrh, frankincense, gum arabic. EASTERN, WESTERN and SOUTHERN AFRICA-Gold, ivory, ostrich feathers. ECUADOR and NEW GRENADA-Coffee, cotton, indigo, fruits, sugar, cocoa. FRANCE-Silks, woolens, linens, cottons, wine, brandy, porcelain, toys. GERMANY-Linen, grain, various manufactures of silver, copper etc. GREAT BRITAIN-Woolens, cottons, linens, hardware, porcelain, etc. GREENLAND-Whale oil, whale bone seal skins. HINDOSTAN -Cotton, silks, rice, sugar, coffee, opium, indigo. HOLLAND-Fine linens, woolens, butter, cheese, various manufactures. IRELAND- Linens, beef, butter, tallow, hides, potatoes, barley, etc. MEXICO Gold, silver, logwood, cochineal, fruits. PERSIA-Carpets, shawls, wine, silk, cotton, rice, rhubarb, guns, swords, etc. PERU-Silver, gold, Peruvian bark, mercury, sugar, cotton, fruits. RUSSIA-Hemp, iron, linen, grain, timber, furs, tallow, platina. SPAIN and PORTUGAL-Silks, wool, wine, oil, fruits, salt, etc. SWEDEN and NORWAY-Iron, steel, copper, timber, fish. SWITZERLAND-Watches, jewelry, paper, laces, linen, cotton and silk goods, etc. WEST INDIES-Sugar, rum, molasses, coffee, spice, cotton, indigo, fruits. NAME. George Washington John Adams. Thomas Jefferson. James Madison.. James Monroe. Va.......1758....1817....58....8" John Quincy Adams....Mass. ...1767....1825....58....4" Andrew Jackson.......Tenn. ...1767....1829....62....8" Martin Van Buren.....N. Y.....1782... 1837....55 ..4" William H. Harrison..Ohio .1773....1841....68....1 month.. John Tyler... James K. Polk.. Height of Monuments, Towers, Etc. NAME. Cathedral of Cologne.. Age Died. at Death. Pyramid of Cheops Dec. 14, 1799....68 ..July 4, 1826....91 July 4, 1826....83 .June 23, 1836....85 July 4, 1831....72 .Feb. 23, 1848....80 June 8, 1845....78 July 24, 1862....80 ...April 4, 1841....68 Va.......1790....1841....51....3 yrs. 11 mos...Jan. 17, 1872....72 ..Oct. 8, 1869....65 .June 1, 1868....77 Abraham Lincoln.....Ill. ...1809....1861....52....4 y. 1 m. 10 d... April 15, 1865....56 Andrew Johnson.... .Tenn. ...1808....1865....57....3 y. 10 m. 20 d..July 31, 1875....67 Ulysses S. Grant... .III. .1822....1869....47....8 yrs. Rutherford B. Hayes..Ohio ....1822....1877....55....4 ** ↑ James A. Garfield....Ohio ....1831....1881....50....6 ms. 15 dys....Sept. 19, 1881....50 Chester A. Arthur.....N. Y.....1830....1881.. .51. Abraham Lincoln died from the effects of a pistol shot, fired by John Wilkes Booth, at Ford's theater, Washington, on the evening of April 14, 1865. He lived ten hours, and died the next morning. + President Garfield was shot by Charles J. Guiteau, at Washington, July 2, 1881, and died at Long Branch, N. J., Sept. 19, 1881. For this crime, Guiteau was bung at Washington, D. C., June 30, 1882. Capacity of Large Rooms. Estimating a person to occupy an area of 19.9 inches square. CHURCHES. St. Peter's, Rome.. Cathedral, Milan. St. Paul's, London... Cathedral of St. Stephen.. Cathedral at Strasburg. St. Peter's Church at Rome. Porcelain Tower at Nankin. 289 Will Contain No. Persons. cago.. 54,000 1,786 Potatoes, Irish, baked. 2 30 Salt 70 66 37,000 Ford's Opera-House, Bal Cabbage, head, raw.. 2 30 Lime timore... 2.001 Custard, baked 2 45 Flour. St. Paul's, Rome.. 32,000 25.600 National Theater, Wash Apples, sour, hard, raw.... ington.. Oysters, fresh, raw.. 1.500 Cathedral, Florence. 24,300 De Bar's Opera-House, St. Eggs, fresh, soft boiled.. Wood Cathedral, Antwerp.. Louis Beefsteak, broiled.. 24,000 1,696 California St.Sophia's, Constantinople 23,000 Mutton, fresh, broiled.. St. John's, Lateran. 22,900 Francisco... Mutton, fresh, boiled....... 3 Hogs. 1,651 Notre Dame, Paris.. 21,000 Euclid Ave. Opera-House, Soup, bean, boiled.. Sheep Cleveland Chicken soup, boiled. Lumber Cathedral, Pisa.. 1,650 13.000 St. Stephen's, Vienna.. 12,400 Opera-House, Berlin.... 1,636 Dumpling, apple, boiled.... 3 Barley.. St. Dominic's, Bologna 12,000 Opera-House, Albany. 1,404 Oysters, fresh, roasted. 3 15 Wheat.. St. Peter's, Bologna. 11,400 Hooley's Theater, Chicago 1,373 Pork, salted, broiled 3 15 Flax Seed Cathedral, Vienna.. 11,000 Coulter Opera-House, Au Porksteak, broiled.. 3 15 St. Mark's, Venice.... 7,500 rora, Ill..... 1,004 Opera-House, Montreal.... 928 Periods of Digestion. Mutton, fresh, roasted. ... 3 15 3 15 Apples Corn.. 370 3 15 Oysters, fresh, stewed Butter, melted 3 30 Butter Stadt Theater, New York.. 3,000 Cheese, old, raw 3 30 Academy of Music, Phila Oyster soup, boiled.. 3 30 delphia.. Carlo Felice, Genoa.... 2,560 Eggs, whipped, raw... 1 30 Acad. of Music, Brooklyn.. Trout, fresh, fried.. Opera-House, Munich. 2.307 Soup, Barley, boiled... 1 30 Alexander, St. Petersburg. 2,332 Apples, sweet, mellow, raw. 1 30 San Carlos, Naples. 2,240 Venison steak, broiled. 1 45 Adelphi Theater, Chicago. 2.238 Sago, boiled... 1 45 Impérial, St. Petersburg.. 2,160 Tapioca, boiled.. Salmon, salted, boiled.. 4 La Scala, Milan.... 2.113 Barley, boiled.... Beef, fried.. 4 Academy of Paris, Paris... 2,092 Milk. boiled.. Veal, fresh, broiled. 4 Covent Garden, London... Academy of Music, N. Y... 2,526 Eggs, fresh, raw... Beef, old, salted, boiled... 4 15 20,000 pounds. This table is for 10-ton cars. Freight cars of larger capacity have been made of late. Quantity of Seed to Plant. Asparagus Roots.-1,000 plants to bed 4 x 225 feet. Beans.-1 qt. plants 150 ft. of row. Beets.-1 oz, plants 150 ft. of row. Cabbage.-1 oz. gives 2,500 plants. Celery-1 oz. gives 7,000 plants. Cucumber.-1 oz. for 150 hills. Lettuce.-1 oz. gives 7,000 plants. Melon.-1 oz. for 120 hills. Boston Theater, Boston.... 2.972 Apples, sour, mellow, raw.. Pork, salted. fried.... 4 15 Music Hall, Boston...... 2,585 Cabbage, with vinegar, raw Onion.-Four pounds to the acre. Radish.-1 oz. to 100 ft. of ground. Grand Opera - Hall, New Milk, raw.... 2 15 Veal, fresh, fried.. 4 30 Spinage.-1 oz. to 250 ft. of row. Orleans.. 2.052 Eggs, fresh, roasted... 2 15 Turkey, domestic, roasted. 2 30 Goose, wild, roasted.... 2 30 Cabbage, boiled...... 4 30 Squash.-1 oz. to 75 hills. 5 15 Tomato.-1 oz. gives 2,500 plants. |