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Oak.--Strong ammonia fumes may be used for aging oak. Place the
piece to be fumed, with an evaporating dish containing concentrated
ammonia, in a box, and close it airtight. Leave for 12 hours and finish
with a wax polish, applying first a thin coat of paraffine oil and then
rubbing with a pomade of prepared wax made as follows: Two ounces each
of yellow and white beeswax heated over a slow fire in a clean vessel
(agate ware is good) until melted. Add 4 oz. turpentine and stir till
entirely cool. Keep the turpentine away from the fire. This will give
the oak a lustrous brown color, and nicking will not expose a different
surface, as the ammonia fumes penetrate to a considerable depth.

OPPORTUNITY.

They do me wrong who say I come no more
� When once I've knocked and failed to find you in;
For every day I stand outside your door,
� And bid you wake and ride, to fight and win.

Wail not for precious chances passed away,
� Weep not for golden ages on the wane;
Each night I burn the records of the day;
� At sunrise every soul is born again.

Laugh like a boy at splendors that have sped;
� To vanished hopes be blind and deaf and dumb;
My judgments seal the dead past with its dead,
� But never bind a moment yet to come.

Though deep in mire, wring not your hands and weep:
� I lend my arm to all who say. "I can."
No shamefaced outcast ever sank so deep
� But yet might rise and be again a man!

Dost thou behold thy lost youth all aghast?
� Dost reel from righteous retribution's blow?
Then turn from blotted archives of the past.
� And find the future's pages white as snow.

Art thou a mourner? Rouse thee from thy spell!
� Art thou a sinner? Sins may be forgiven;
Each morning gives thee wings to flee from hell.
� Each night a star to guide to Heaven!
�� --Walter Maloney.

WEIGHTS AND MEASURES

Troy Weight.--24 grains make 1 pennyweight, 20 pennyweights make 1
ounce. By this weight, gold, silver and jewels only are weighed. The
ounce and pound in this are same as in Apothecaries' weight.

Apothecaries' Weight.--20 grains make one scruple. 3 scruples make 1
dram. 8 drams make 1 ounce, l2 ounces make 1 pound.

Avoirdupois Weight.--6 drams make 1 ounce, 16 ounces make 1 pound, 25
pounds make 1 quarter, 4 quarters make 1 hundredweight, 2,000 pounds
make 1 ton.

Dry Measure.--2 pints make 1 quart, 8 quarts make 1 peck, 4 pecks make 1
bushel, 36 bushels make 1 chaldron.

Liquid or Wine Measure.--4 gills make 1 pint, 2 pints make 1 quart, 4
quarts make 1 gallon. 31-1/2 gallons make 1 barrel, 2 barrels make 1
hogshead.

Time Measure.--60 seconds make 1 minute, 60 minutes make 1 hour, 24
hours make 1 day, 7 days make 1 week, 4 weeks make 1 lunar month, 28,
29, 30 or 31 days make 1 calendar month (30 days make 1 month in
computing interest). 52 weeks and 1 day, or 12 calendar months make a
year; 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes and 49 seconds make 1 solar year.

Circular Measure.--60 seconds make 1 minute, 60 minutes make 1 degree,
30 degrees make 1 sign, 90 degrees make 1 quadrant, 4 quadrants or 360
degrees make 1 circle.

Long Measure.--Distance--3 barleycorns� 1 inch, 12 inches 1 foot. 3 feet
1 yard. 5-1/2 yards 1 rod, 40 rods 1 furlong, 8 furlongs 1 mile.

Cloth Measure.--2-1/2 inches 1 nail, 4 nails 1 quarter, 4 quarters 1
yard.

Miscellaneous.--3 inches 1 palm, 4 inches 1 hand, 9 inches� 1 span, 18
inches 1 cubit, 21.8 inches 1 Bible cubit. 2-1/2 feet 1 military pace.

Square Measure.--144 square inches 1 square foot, 9 square feet 1 square
yard, 30-1/4 square yards 1 square rod, 40 square rods 1 rood, 4 roods 1
acre.

Surveyors' Measure.--7.92 inches 1 link, 25 links 1 rod, 4 rods 1 chain,
10 square chains or 160 square rods 1 acre, 640 acres 1 square mile.

Cubic Measure.--l,728 cubic inches 1 cubic foot. 27 cubic feet 1 cubic
yard, 128 cubic feet 1 cord (wood), 40 cubic feet 1 ton (shipping),
2,150.42 cubic inches 1 standard bushel, 268.8 cubic inches 1 standard
gallon, 1 cubic foot four-fifths of a bushel.

Metric Weights.--10 milligrams 1 centigram, 10 centigrams 1 decigram, 10
decigrams 1 gram, 10 grams 1 dekagram, 10 dekagrams 1 hektogram, 10
hektograms 1 kilogram.

Metric Measure.--(One milliliter--Cubic centimeter).--10 milliliters 1
centiliter, 10 centiliters 1 deciliter, 10 deciliters 1 liter, 10 liters
1 dekaliter, 10 dekaliters 1 hektoliter, 10 hektoliters 1 kiloliter.

Metric

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