horse trots seven; steamboats ran eighteen; sailing ves!? sels make ten; slow rivers now four; rapid rivers Aowt seven moderate winds blow seren; storms move thirty-six; hurricanes, eighty; a rille ball, 1,000 miles an hour; sound, 743; light, 190,000; electricity, 280,000. A barrel of flour weighs 196 pounds; a barrel of pork, 200; a barrel of powder, 25; a firkin of butter, 56; a tub of butter, 84; wheat, beans and cloverseed, 64 pounds to the Lushel; corn, rye and flaxseed, 56; buckwheat, 52; barley, 43; oats, 35; coarse salt, 85; 60 drops make a drachm; 8 drachms make 1 ounce; 4 ounces make a gill; 60 drops make a teaspoonful; S teaspoonsful a ta blespoonful, one-third of an ounce; 4,840 square yards make an acre; a square mile, 640 acres; to measure an acre, 209 feet on each side make a square acre within an inch. There are 2,750 languages. One person dies each pulsation of the heart; a generation is thirty years; average of life, thirty-four years.

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