Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1880 — A Convenient Land Measure. [ARTICLE]

A Convenient Land Measure.

To aid farmers to obtain accuracy in estimating the amount of land in different fields under cultivation, the following table is given: Five yards wide by 968 long contains one acre. Ten yards wide by 484 long contains one acre. Twenty yards wide by 242 long contains one acre. Forty yards wide by 121 long contains one acre. Seventy yards wide by 90 1-7 long contains one acre. Eighty, yards wide by 60 1-5 long contains one acre. Sixty feet wide by 726 feet long contains one acre. One hundred and ten feet wide by 896 long contains one acre. One hundred and thirty feet wide by 363 long contains one acre. Two bundled and twenty feet wide by 181 J long contains one acre. Four hundred and forty feet wide by 99 long contains one acre.

Many saloon keepers pay only 82 per gallon for whisky. One gallon contains an average of sixty-five drinks, and at ten cents a drink the poor man pays six dollars and a half per gallon for his whisky. In other words he pays 82 for the whisky, and 84-50 to the man for handing it over the bar. While it would be better for all not to drink, some men will have whisky, and a friend makes the following suggestion: Make your wife your bar keener. Lend her two dollars to buy a gallon of whisky for a beginning, and every time- you want a drink, go to her and pay her for it By the time you have drank a gallon, she will have 86.50, or enough to return the 82 borrowed of you, and have a balance of 84.50. She will he able to conduct, future operations on her own capital, and when you become an inebriate, unable to support yourself, shunned by respectable people, your wife will have saved enough money to keep you until you get ready to fill a drunkard’s grave. But had you paid all this money to a barkeeper, he would not have given a cent to bury you, and you would go to the pauper’s cemetery.

When the sea-shell is held up to the oar there is a peculiar vibrating noise, which the children assure each other is the roar of the sea, however distant they may be from it. Philosophically investigated, the peculiar sound thus recognised is a phenomenon that has puailed scholars for a long time. The experiment is easily made by simply pressing a spiral shellover thecerebraof either ear; the sound is very much like a far-off cataract. Now, what causes it? Every muscle in the body is always in a state of tension. Some are more on a stretch than others, and particularly those of the finger. It is conceded that the vibrations of the fibres in those fingers being communicated to the shell, it propagates and intensifies them, as the hollow body of a violin does the vibrations of the strings, and thus the acoustic nerve receives the sonorous expressions. Muscles of the leg below the knee are said to vibrate in the same wav, and if conducted to the ear produce same results. Glycerine should not be rubbed on the akin in an undiluted state. One of its remarkable properties is its power to absorbe moisture, and hence its irritating effect on the skin. About three fluid ounces of water to one of glycel- - will form a mixture which neither attracts moisture nor evaporates, the weight scarcely varying from week to week, either in one direction or the ''♦her' "

*' -r-r ■ ■’ - • - Thou Hctkixg Paxubb.—And the husking parties—hold me for a minute! remLnber°th 8 lEtera’rirß* oJ cSS from one great beam to the other, each comer bringing his own lantern, I remember the lights and the darkness overhead; the bright flashes and the great shadows that swallowed them up: and the hens that nodded and blinked on the scaffolding; and the one fool of a rooster that kept crowing, thinking that the morning had come, and the huge pile of yellow ears that grew and grew in rise: and the greater pile of strawcolored husks that were thrown backward and pushed out until they blocked the great bam doorway; and the sleepy cattle in the stalls that looked stupidly but benevolently out at the strange goings on: and the red ear!—how the young fellows wished the red ears were thicker; and the chasings and tumblings through the rattling nusks; and the screams and laughter. I know all this is heretical, but who would be a saint when heresy is so pleasant? The Old Pair or Gloves.—There is a great field of reflection in even such a trifle as a pair of old gloves. We turned ap, by accident the other day, a white pair, well soiled, that had seen much service in our younger days; «ad, oh! how they spoke to us through our memory* of scene, long pari, but still touching in their reminiscences! There they were, all torn and shrivelled up, but how very elegant in their minuteness. What dances had they not gone through? dance, now forgotten, not only in figure but almost by name. What gentle fingers had they not pressed?—some now m the grave, and some playing the curls of their grandchildren. Wnat waists had they not affectionately clasped while the pulse leaped madly at the glorious privilege?—waists that, at this moment, two pair of arms would scarcely be able to embrace. Well, well! every agehasitsown follies and enjoyments, and a pair of old gloves is an excellent teacher of that moral lemon* He who climbs above the cares of the world and turns his face to his God, has found the sunny side of life. At Delaware Water Gap, the other day, four ladles ran over a mile to get away from a cow. who stood still and dumbly wondered at the commotion.