Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1889 — Page 8

COUNTING TIME.

Why Sixty Seconds Make a Minute —The Division of Time. Why is our hour divided into 60 minutes, ea.h minute into 60 seconds, etc.? Simply and solely because in Babylonia there existed, by the side of the decimal system of notation another system, the sexagesimal, which counted by sixties. Why that number should have been chosen is el ear enough, and it speaks well for the practical sense of those ancient Babylonian merchants. There is no number which has so many divisors as 60. The Ba bylonian’s divided the sun’s daily journey into 24 parasangs or 720 stadia. Each parasang or hour was divided into 60 minu es. A parasang is a German mile, and Babylonian astronomers compared the progress made by the sun during one hour at the time es the equinox to the progress made by a good walker daring the same time, both accomplishing one parasang. The whole course of the sun during the 24 equinoctial hours was fixed at 25 parasangs, or 720 stadia, or 360 degrees. The system was nanded on to the Greeks and Hipparchus, the great Greek philosopher, who lived about 150 B. C., introduced the Babylonian hour into Europe.— Ptolemy, who wrote about 150 A. T>.. and whose name still lives in the systam of astronomy gave still wider currency to the Babylonian way of reckoning time. It was carried along on the quiet stream of traditional knowledge ■through the middle ages, and, strange to say, it sailed de *n safely over the Niagara of the French revolution. For the Freneh, when revolutionizing weights, measures, coins and dates, and subjecting all to the decimal system of reckoning, were induced by some unexplained motive to respect our clocks and watches, and allowed our dials to remain sexigesimal, that is, Babylonian, each hour consisting of sixty mit utes. — Here you see again the wonderful coherence of the world, and how what we cad knowledge is the result of an unbroken tradition of a teachixg dr l enling from father to son. Njt more than ab >ut 100 arms would reach from us to the builders of the palaces of Babylon, and enable us to shake hands with the founders of the oldest pyramids and to thank them for what they have done for us.—Max Muher in Fortnightly Review.

Shall We Know Each Other There? We often read and hear discusaions ou the question “whether we shall recogize our friends hereafter?” How can we ever doubt it? If love abides, are we not to know those whom we love? What would immortality be if we were to go there alone, separated from all the loved ones, the knowledge of whom has made the very essence and sweetness of nut human life? Would that be immortality if we left behind us the richest part of our souls? Am Ito go into the other world poor, lonely, homesick, alone? Am Ito Qonsole myself by being an unembodied spirit, wandering solitary among the stars or filling space, with no home, no society, uo brotherhood? I do not so understand the lessons of experience or the facts of observation. When all other memory fades from the mind of the dying, when his other tho’ts are bewildered, the other impressions of time effaced, he still shows by a faint pressure of the hand, by a feeble sign of his hea'‘, that his love remains. The last look of the dim eyes seeks the faces of those he lovjs. The last faint whisper of the failing voice is a murmur of blessing on thos* dear ones. Love is stronger than death; will it not survive the grsve? Yps; when I open my eyes on a new world. I expect to come once more into the eompany of those who have been my inspiration, my comfort, my joy in this lite. 1 shall learn what ihes- years have been teaching them, and they shall be again my friendly ompanions and helpers. I shell see again the parents and the dear vhildran whose love has sweetened my life. I shall be a little child onee more myself Yes, ad 1 hop* io come very near tonry Maste . .J-sus, and to have my er; o s cur e and , b? flight .th? ’■ ■ truth• Not all : - for the laws of g. lion an,.’ : . ftatiou will a* .h-re. j But if faith and hope and love I

abide, then there will be always mor* of knowledge, more of work, and more of love in that divine bevond. With such views as these, we can be better consoled for the loss of those who leave our side. We can be more ready io go ourselves when the time comes. —Rev. James Freeman Clark.

SEWING ON BUTTONS.

‘ When I get a bright idea, I always want to pass it along,” s .ida lady, as she sat watchin? a young girl sewing. “Do your buttons ever come off, Lena 0 ” “Ever? The/re always doing it. They are ironed off, washed off and pulled off antd I despair. I seem to shed buttons at every step.” “Make use of these two hints when you ar* sewing them on, then, and see if they make any differe ice. Wh en you begin, before you lay the button on the cloth, put the thread through so that the knot will be on the right side. — That leaves it under the button, and prevents it from being worn or ironed away and thus beginning the loosening process. “Then, before you begin sewing, lay a large pin across the button, so that all four threads will g > over the pin. After you have finished filling the holes with thread draw out your pin and wind your thread round and round beneath the button. That makes a eompact stem to sustain the possible pulling and wear of the buttonhole.” “Ir is no exaggeration to say that my buttons never con e off, and fm sure your’s won’t if you use my method of sewing.”—Youth’s Companion. Hon. Abrxm S. Hewitt, ex-may-or of New York, ex-congressman &?., is now in Europe, where he will remain until the 3d of August. He was interviewed in London* and says that he is now studying the process of manufacturing basic steel. “I am convinced,” he says, “that America will make iron and steel for mankind in the long future We have the coal, iron, caoital, skill and energy necessary to do it. He is opposed to the tariff and fays it alone prevents the United States from being the “greatest exp rtmg country on the earth, and it ought to be. The soonerj duties are abolished, the B eoner it will become so. Now

MAMMOTH FURNITURE WARE-ROOMS’ Parlof Sei?, A!1 Wof Jrtia h, K Furnilurs. M lota Pita. ill tt of Pita. W. • • —DEALER IN— I-'V'HXiT - CJRB. WILLIAMS-STOCKTON BLOCK, Third Door West of Marketer House, Rensselae, Indr Rensselaer Marlileloiist ta Mackey. jOSlßfej ftirji lw« MACKEY & BARCUS. —Dealers In — American and Italian T A BL ET®. Hf ABSCESS, SxiAlg, SLATE AND MARBLE MANTELS, Front Street. Rensselaer 1 Indiana.

that food, eotton and petroleum form the bulk of our exports. ought to export very largely of manufactured,articles.” “By removing the duty on iron,” he says, “we would simply be compelled to m-ke our hod whtr.se eilities are favorable, and stop making it where they are not We Would Lave shui up some of cunmills, which are now where they have no business to be. The iron and steel manufacture would be confineu chiefly to the territory lying between Ohio and Lake Su peiior, to Tennessee and Alabama, and there is where it ought to be.” There are said to be 9,000 women doctors in the United States. The men of the Revolution suffered hardsnipo. General Groon, in hie dispatches after the battle of lutaw, says; “Hundreds of my men were naked as they|werr born ” Judge Johnson, In hit “Life of Green,* says; “Posterity will soaroolv believe that the ioins u* many men whe carried death into the enemy's ranks at Eutaw, were galled bv their oartoueh boxes, while a fold of rag or tuft es moss protected the shoulder from toe save injury from the musket” Gee. eral Greee says, in his letter te the Secretary of War: “We have three hundred men without arms, and more than one thousand so naked that they can not be put on duty only in the most desperate cases. Our difficulties are so enormous, aud our wants so pressing, that I have not a moment’s relief from the most painfel anxieties. 1 have more embarrassments than it is propor to disclose to the World.*

EUPEPBY. This is what you ought to have in fact, you must have it, to fully enjoy life. Thousands are searching for it daily, and mourning because they find it not. Thousands upon though ands of dollars are spent aßaually by our people in the hope that they may attain this boon. Aud yet it may be had by all! We guarantee th t Electiic Bitters, if used according to directions and the us? persisted in, will bring you Good Digestion and oust tho demon Dyspepsia and install Eupepsy. We rooommond Electric Bitters for Dyspepsia and all diseases of Liver. Stomach ami Kidneys. Sold at 50c. and SI.OO per bottle by F. B. Meyer, • rngglot. 4 Baron Liebig, the German chemist' says that “as much flour as can li« on the point of a tanle knife cont ins as much nutriment constituents as eight quarts of the best aid most nu ritious beer '.hat is made. The litjle prayer beginning ‘Now 1 lay me down to sleep” was written by John Rogers, the martyr.

It Makes You Hungry]

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A medical journal states that ths average Chinese baby weighs bid five pounds. The journal did not state Whether the Chinese baby’s capacity for •quailing was less, in proportion tc nht, than that of any other baby, but iey howl in the Chinese language as loud as the American kid does in the United States language, how the poor mother must suffer. If any one Has •ver heard two Chinamen holding a convention in their native tongue, they can readily see that a child who is just learning to lisp a few syllables in the Chinese .language would make Rome howL—Peck’s Sueu BEATTY’S . CELEBRATED Organs W Pianos. > For Catalogue?, address, DANIKL F.BRATTY, Washington, New Jersey ij/jufl Hlin --BEATTY'S Oumw at rgains qjJUViUUU" For particulars, catalogs address Daniel F. Deatty, Washington. New Jersey. - Are the Best. Write DDftlll 0 UntrfllW, foi catalogue, address Daniel. F. Beatty, Washington, New Jersey. PIAKfIQ -I* l U6e Everywhere. DliAlll 0 riRHUc. Write for catalogue Address, Diniel F Beatty, Washington, New Jersey. LADIES! Do Your Own Dyeing, at Home, with Peerless Dyes They will dye evarything. They are sold every where. Price 10c a package—4o eolors. Thev have no equal for Strenth, Brightness, Amount in Packages or for Fastness of Color, or nonfading Qualities. They do not crack or smut.— For sale bv Frak B. Meyer. Rensselaer, Ind. Maich23, Iv.

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