Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1889 — Sefinition of Bible Terms. [ARTICLE]

Sefinition of Bible Terms.

A gerah was one cent. A cab was three p’tts. An omer was six pints. A farthing was three cents. A shekel of gold was SB. A firkin was seven pints. A talent f gold was $13,809. A mite was less than £of a cent. A talefit of silver was $548,40. A bin was one gallon and two pints. A shekel of silver was about 50 t ents. Ezekiel’s reed was nearly elevta feet. A cubit was nearly twenty-two inches. A piece of silver, or a penny, was 13 cents. A finger’s breadth was equal to one inch. A Sabbath day’s journey was about one English mile. An epeah, or bath, contained seven gallons and five pints. A hand’s breadth was three and fivi eighth inches. A dty’s ionrney was about twen-ty-three and one-fifth mile.

The Logansport Journal relates that the prosecuting attorney of Tippeoanoe county has filed still another, and this time a monster list, and the amounts of hidden taxables (notes and mortgages) range from SIOO to $42,000, the Aggregate being over half a million. In every case out the delin* quent will be required to pay a penalty of SSO. where tho am’t hidden exceeds SSOO the tax hider will pay an additional three per c*nt. upon the excess over that sum. Bach and all will also be required to pay the taxes,penalties, interests, costs, ete., for all the years of delinquency. The process will put a very large amount into the Tippecanoe county treasury, and enrich the prosecuting attorney.

The whirligig of time brings arouud many changes. An exchange says: Ten years ago the superintendent of an lowa railroad booted a tramp out of his office for having the cheek to ask fpr a pass. To-day that tramp is the superintendent of that same road, while the man who lifted him on his boots keeps a restaurant and seuds him over lunches. Morooto Courier: iss Cora Clark, of Rensselaer, Sundayed with old friends in Morocco.