Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1885 — Maryland, My Maryland. [ARTICLE]

Maryland, My Maryland.

Maryland legislators, who are always alive to the public interests, have indorsed the new discovery, lted Star Cough Cure, because it contains neither morphia nor opium, and always cures. The price is only 25 cents.

An interesting comparison in the mechanical work of past and present times is presented in the claim made by James Watt, namely, that he had attained remarkable accuracy in boring a cylinder of a steam engine and fitting its piston so closely that “the thickness of a halfcrown could not be introduced between them,” and the fact thac standard gauges are now made that show errors of but 1-100,000 of an inch, and work is positively exacted to 1-50,000 of an inch. Such accurate work is not, however, generally necessary, except in the construction of gauges, these standard gauges being the means provided for keeping or producing within proper, useful, and practical bounds thousands of pieces of the same size and shape, in which oftentimes a certain amount of variation is allowed, both plus and minus. A certain amount of looseness is to be allowed, for instance, in the fit of journals and beavings, the amount to be determined according to the length and size of the journal; but this variation is to be referred to some particular gauge as a standard, hence the value of accuracy in the latter.