1. In what does the business of the baker consist?

2. When did man begin to use farinaceous grains, as his principal means of support?

3. In what manner was the method of making fermented bread discovered?

THE BAKER.

8. What are the component parts of flour?

9. How many general methods of making bread are there? 10. Explain the theory of mak

5. From what material were the primitive ovens formed?

6. Why is it that the animal economy requires dry food?

12. Is the art of making bread universally practised?

15. In what manner is the price of bread regulated in many of the cities of Europe?

16. What is said of the laws regarding this subject in the United States ?

17. What is said of the labo rious nature of this business? 18. Describe the daily ro tine of the baker's labours.

12. In what manner is soda water prepared?

13. Of what materials are pies and tarts composed?

1. What is meant by the art of brewing? What kind of grain is usually preferred by the brewer?

2, 3. By what means is barley converted into malt?

4. 5. Describe the process of mashing.

6. How many times does the same malt require to be mashed?

7. What is done with the product of the mashing-tun?

8. By what means is the fermentation effected?

different kinds of beer differ from each other?

12. Why are ale and porter called stock liquors ?

13. Where were fermented liquors first used?

14. What nation is most celebrated for brewing good liquors?

THE DISTILLER.

1. From what substances is alcohol extracted?

2, 3, 4. From what materials is whiskey obtained: and what is the process by which this liquor is produced?

11. In what respects do the

1, 2. What is said of the subsistence of man on vegetable and animal food? What is said of the preference of one to the other, in different climates?

3. What is said of the Divine permission and prohibitions in regard to the use of flesh as food?

4. Where did the doctrine of transmigration arise? in what

6. From what are brandy, rum, arrack, &c. distilled? 7. What is said of the alembic?

THE BUTCHER.

| countries did it spread in ancient times ? and where is it still entertained?

5. What is the leading feature of this doctrine and why does it lead to abstinence from the flesh of animals?

6. How are the people in the country supplied with meat? and how in the villages, large towns, and cities?

8. For what purposes are crude spirits re-distilled, after having been brought to market?

9. What is said of the deceptions practised in this kind of merchandise?

10. What is said of the ambix? 11. Were the ancients acquainted with alcohol?"

12. What opinion with regard to the use of alcohol is becoming general?

13. What is said of the antiquity of the use of wine?

14, 15. Describe the process of making wine.

16. What deleterious substances are used to improve the sensible qualities of wine?

17. What kinds of wine are most usually met with in this country?

7. From whom do the butch-· ers obtain their animals?

8. In what manner does the butcher proceed in slaughtering an ox?

9. Where is the meat sold in large towns and cities?

10. What is said of the employment of runners?

11. What is said of the health and corpulency of butchers?

THE TOBACCO PLANTER. 1. Of what country is tobacco a native production? What is said of the several names by which it has been distinguished?

2. When was this plant introJuced into Europe?

3. 4. Detail the circumstances which were attendant upon its introduction.

6. What is said of the different species of this plant? 8. In what manner is a to co bed made?

9 When are the plan

fered to the field, and how is their cultivation continued?

10. What is said of the tobacco worms?

11. In what manner is the tobacco secured?

2. How many kinds of snuff are there?

4. In what manner are the different kinds of snuff put up

THE TOBACCONIST. 1. What is the business of the tobacconist?

5. Of how many principal parts are cigars composed?

6. Where is the best kind of tobacco for cigars cultivated? 7. How many cigars can an expert hand make in a day?

9, 10. In what manner is chewing tobacco prepared? 11. What is said of the use of snuff as a dentifrice?

12. What is said of the effects of tobacco on the constitution? 13. What is said of the extent of the use of tobacco here?

14. In what manner is the use of tobacco perpetuated?

THE MANUFACTURER

OF CLOTH.

1. In what manner were men clad in the primitive ages?

2. What fibres of the vegetable and animal kind are employed in the manufacture of cloth?

3. How many principal operations are comprised in the manufacture of cloth?

4. What objects are effected in carding? and in what manner is the operation performed?

5. What is said of machines for carding wool in the United States?

6. What kinds of wool are combed? and in what does the operation consist?

7. When, and by whom, was the first machine for combing wool invented?

8. In what does the process of spinning consist?

9, 10, 11. By whom, and in what manner, is the operation performed?

12. When, and by whom, was the jenny invented?

13. When, and by whom, was the water spinning-frame in

vented?

14. By whom, and when, was the mule invented?

15. In what manner are the fine and short wools carded and spun in the manufactories?

16. What is said of spinning worsted? and what of spinning flax, by machinery?

17. What is the first step preparatory to weaving?

18. After the warp has been wound on a cylindrical beam, how is it prepared for the reception of the filling?

19. Describe the manner in which weaving is performed.

20. What is said of weaving in general? and what of power looms?

32. What is said of the cotton and woollen manufacture in the United States?

21. By what means is the regular nap removed from the finest cottons?

22. How are stuffs made of vegetable fibres whitened? 23. How are fine cottons converted into calico?

24. What is said of worsted fabrics?

25. To what kind of stuffs is the art of fulling applicable? 26. Describe the process of fulling.

27. In what manner is the nap raised, and cut off to an even surface?

28. What is said of the manufacture of cloth in families?

29, 30. Relate the history of the woollen manufacture in England.

31. What is said of the extent of the woollen manufacture in England?

4, What is said of the origin of the silk worm?

5. When did the Greeks and the Romans become acquainted with silk?

6. What is said of the costliness of silk in ancient times?

8. Until what period was the Roman empire supplied with silk by the Persians?

9. By whose assistance did Justinian obtain some eggs from India?

10. When, and by whom was the rearing of these worms introduced into Sicily?

11. By whom, was the silkworm introduced into England? and how has it succeeded there?

12. What is said regarding the silk-worm, and the silk manufacture in the United States?

caps?

23. Can the origin of hats be ascertained with certainty? 24. What tradition have the hatters in regard to the origin of the art of felting?

25. When did hats become generally known?

26, 27. What is said of the adoption of the hat by the clergy?

28. What opposition was made to the introduction of hats in England?

1. What vegetable substances are used as materials for ropes? 2. Where are the operations of rope-making performed?

3. In what does the first part of the process consist?

4, 5, 6. Describe the wheel of the rope-maker, and the operations of spinning.

7. In what does the second part of the process consist?

THE ROPE-MAKER.

8. Of how many strands does cordage generally consist?

9, 10. In what manner are the strands formed into small cordage, and also into large cordage?

11. At what stage of the process, and in what manner, is tar applied to the material?

animal fibre in the manufacture of ropes?

15. Where is hemp cultivated? What is said of flax, as a material for cordage, and of hemp, as a material for cloth?