Q. What are the denominations used? A. Tons, hundreds, quarters, pounds, ounces, and drams. Q. Can you repeat the table? A. 16 drams (dr.) make 1 ounce 16 ounces 66 1 pound, 66 66 marked oz. 66 lb. 1 quarter of a hund. weight, qr. 1 hundred weight, gross, cwt. 66 1 ton, 66 T. Q. Are coarse goods now weighed in buying and selling by gross weight, or 112 lbs. for a cwt. as formerly? A. They are not the merchants in all the principal towns and cities in the United States, now buy and sell by ncat hundreds, or 100 lbs. for a cwt., and 2000 lbs. for a ton. APOTHECARIES' WEIGHT. Q. What use is made of this weight? A. It is used by druggists and physicians in compounding medicines. Q. Do they buy and sell their articles by this weight? A. They do not: their goods are bought and sold by Avoirdupois weight. Q. What are the denominations used? A. Pounds, ounces, drams, scruples, and grains. Q. Can you repeat the table? A. 20 grains (gr.) make 1 scruple, marked sc. or 3 scruples 8 drams 66 1 dram, 66 dr. 12 ounces 933 CLOTH MEASURE. Q. What use is made of Cloth Measure? A. Cloth, and all articles are measured by it which are bought and sold by the yard or ell. Q. What are the denominations used? A. Ells, yards, quarters, and nails. Q. Can you repeat the table? A. 4 nails (na.) make 1 quarter, marked qr. 4 quarters 66 1 yard. 3 quarters 66 1 Ell Flemish, 5 quarters 66 1 Ell English, 6 quarters 66 1 Ell French, LONG MEASURE.. Q. What use is made of this measure? A. It is used in measuring distances or other things, where length is considered, without regard to breadth or thickness. Q. What are the denominations used? A. Degrees, leagues, miles, furlongs, rods, yards, feet, inches, and barley corns. Q. Can you repeat the table? A. 3 barley corns (b. c.) make 1 inch, marked in. 12 inches 66 60 geographical or 69 st. miles 1 degree, 360 degrees make a great circle or circumference of the earth. 1 league, 66 1. 66 deg. WINE MEASURE. Q. What articles are measured by Wine Measure. A. All kinds of spirituous liquors except ale, beer, vinegar, cider, &c. Q. What are the denominations used? A. Tons, pipes, hogsheads, tierces, barrels, gallons, quarts, pints, and gills. Q. What is the table? 2 pipes or 4 hhds. 1 ton, Q. Are the dimensions of the different casks, as pipes, hogs. heads, tierces, &c. as given in the table, the same as those used by merchants in importing and exporting liquors? A. They are not: there is no nation with whom the United States have any commerce, from whom they import liquors in casks of the size of those given in the table. Q. What is the usual size of pipes? A. They gauge from 110 to 140 gallons. Q. How much do tierces usually contain? Q. What is the common size of barrels ? Q. If pipes and hogsheads are so nearly of a size, how are they distinguished from each other? A. They differ in shape. Pipes are made longer, with a smaller circumference, than hogsheads which contain the same number of gallons. Q. What articles are imported in pipes? A. Wine, brandy, and gin. Wine is also imported in tierces, and quarter casks, or barrels. Q. What are imported in hogsheads? A. Rum and molasses. Molasses is also imported in barrels. CIRCULAR MOTION. Q. What do you understand by Circular Motion? A. The motion of the earth and of the heavenly bodies. Q. In what respect are the denominations of circular motion adapted to the motions of the earth and heavenly bodies? A. They are used to divide the orbits of the planets, and the geographical circles that surround the earth. Q. What are the denominations? A. Signs, degrees, minutes, and seconds. A. 60 seconds (") make 1 minute, marked 60 minutes 30 degrees 1 sign, 12 signs, or 360 degrees, make the great circle of the zodiac. LAND, OR SQUARE MEASURE. Q. What use is made of this measure? A. It is used in measuring land, and any other things where length and breadth are considered. Q. What are the denominations used? A. Miles, acres, roods, rods, yards, feet and inches. Q. What is the table? A. 144 square inches make 1 square foot, marked sq. ft. 9 66 feet 66 1 66 304" yard, 66 sq. yd. 40 66 sq. rd. sq. rd. 640 sq. ac. sq. mi. SOLID, OR CUBIC MEASURE. Q. What use is made of this measure? A. It is used in measuring things that have length, breadth, and thickness; as timber, wood, stones, bales of goods, &c. Q. What are the denominations used? Q. What is the table? A. 1728 solid inches, that is, 12 inches in length, 12 in breadth, and 12 in depth, make 1 solid foot. 27 solid feet make 1 solid yard. 40 feet of round timber, or ( 50 feet of hewn timber, 30 feet make 1 cord of stone. make 1 ton or load. 128 solid feet, that is, 8 feet long, make 1 cord of wood. 4 feet wide, and 4 high, TIME. Q., Into what denominations is Time divided? A. Years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, and seconds. Q. What is the table? A. 60 seconds (sec.) make 1 minute, 60 minutes 24 hours 7 days 66 marked m. 66 1 hour, h. 66 1 day, 66 1 week, 66 1 lunar month " mo. 4 weeks 13 lunar months, 1 day and 6 hours 1 common or 12 calender months Julian year. 365 days, or 365 days, 6 hours, make 1 year, marked yr. 100 years make 1 century, " cen. Thirty days hath September, February hath twenty-eight, April, June, and November; And thirty-one the others rate. Every fourth year is Leap Year, in which February has 29 days. Whenever the year of our Lord can be divided by 4, without a remainder, it is leap year. DRY MEASURE. Q. What articles are measured by this measure? A. All kinds of grain, together with fruits, salt, coal, &c. Q. What are the denominations used? A. Chaldrons, bushels, pecks, quarts, and pints. TABLE OF MISCELLANEOUS PARTICULARS. 12 single things make 1 dozen, marked doz. 12 dozen 66 1 single gross. 12 gross or 144 doz. “ 1 great gross. 20 single things 66 1 1 24 sheets of paper 1 20 quires 6 points 12 lines inch, score. hundred. ream. used in measuring the pendulums of clocks. used in measuring the height of horses. used in measuring depths at sea. Q. What is the RULE for addition of sterling money, weights, and measures? A. Place the several denominations so that those of the same name may stand directly under each other: add the first or least denomination together, as in simple addition, and divide the sum by as many of this denomination as will make one of the next greater; set down the remainder, under the column added, and carry the quotient to the next greater denomination, which add and divide on the same principle as before, and thus continue through all the denominations, till you come to the last, which add and set down as in simple addition. N. B.-The teacher will take notice, that, in Compound Addition, twice the amount of the true answer is given in the |