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Title: ... Handy notes and queries
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Hopkins, Henry, (from old catalog) comp
Subjects: Metal-work Hardware
Publisher: New York, H. Hopkins & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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nts, Splices and Bolts, Length of Rail. No. of Rails,Chairs or Joints. No. of Splices. No. of Bolts. 18 584 1,168 2,336 20 528 1,056 2,112 21 503 1,06 2,012 22 480 960 1,920 24 440 SSO 1,760 25 422 S14 1,686 26 406 812 1,624 27 391 7S2 1,564 28 377 754 1,508 30 352 704 1,408 No allowance made for side track in above tables. Number of Cross Ties for each Mile of Track, Centre to Centre. No. of Ties. 1V2 feet 3,520 1% 3,017 2 2,640 2^ 2,348 Centre to Centre. No. of Ties 2^feet 2.113 2% 1,921 3 1,761 Capacity of a Freight Car. A load is nominally 10 tons of 20,000 lbs. The following can be carried:Whiskey, 60 bbls.; salt, 70 bbla.; lime, TO bbls.; flour, 90 bbls.; eggs, 130 to160 bbls.; flour 200 sacks; wood, 6 cords; cattle, 18 to 20 head; hogs, 50 to60; sheep, 80 to 100; lumber, 6,000 feet; barley, 300 bushels,>heat, 340 bush-el«; flax seed, 360 bushels; apples, 370 bushels; core, 400 bushels; potat/>es,430 bushels; oats, 680 bushels; bran, 1,000 bushels; butter, 20,000 lbs. 14!
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■Hi M (ft ;Bk (4 0 H • 1$ 3 cl5 Pi hH sq e D E-i ille, PACT CO R § 5 0 &2 ^ oS M « te S 2X2 C=3 h CD S Pm ^ i n H pi * HOPKINS HANDY NOTES AND QUERIES. SOME THINGS THAT ARE MISNAMED. The misapplication of a name in speakingof the common things of life is a sourceof many errors, especially in the young. The reason why things are not rightlynamed in all cases is not because of any deficiency of our language, but because thenames of most common substances were given long years ago, and very often be-fore the true nature of the articles were understood. The Journal of AppliedScience has this to say upon the subject: Why should trade not have a Johnson to classify and correct the mass of incon-sistencies that go to make up its nomenclature ? We not only tax our brains to in-vent fantastic names for every new fabric, varied, perhaps, only by a thread or ashade from what our grandparents wore a century ago, but there are in use positivemisnomers for many staple articles of merchand

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