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These were in all instances 10-1/2 a day and 5-1/2 on Saturday. There was no overtime. But on five nights in the week, women preparing yarn for the following day worked at speeding and spinning from six at night until six in the morning, with half an hour for lunch at midnight. This arrangement had always been the custom of the mill.
About 30 years back, the labourers in this parish received 6s. per week; at this time they received 8s. per week 30 years back, the quartern loaf averaged about 5d. at this time it is 10-1/2d. 30 years back, the labourer could purchase with his week's pay, 6s. fourteen quartern loaves; now he can only purchase with his week's pay, 8s. nine quartern loaves about 30 years back, the principal farm in this parish, then belonging to the late Mr.
MY DEAR UNCLE: I hope you haven't bought the book yet, as Dickson Secundus has found out that there is a shop in the Strand where all the books are sold cheap. You get threepence off every shilling, so you would get a ten-and-six book for 7s. 10-1/2d. That will let you get me a cheapish one next year, after all. I inclose the address. December 7th.
I have put their respective weights at the lower part of this table, along with, for comparison, the weights of the other gases we have been examining: Pint. Cubic Foot. Hydrogen, . . . . 3/4 grains. 1/12 ounce. Oxygen, . . . . 11-9/10 " 1-1/2 " Nitrogen, . . . . 10-1/10 " 1-1/4 " Air,. . . . . . 10-7/16 " 1-3/8 " Carbonic acid, . . 16-1/3 " 1-9/10 "
It would reduce the sea journey from England to Karachi from 22 to 5 days; from England to Johannesburg from 21 to 7 days; and from England to Perth from 32 to 10-1/2 days. Its achievements have already been considerable.
For example, the 10-1/2-inch Armstrong 150-pound shot, thrown by 50 pounds of powder at 1,770 feet per second, has nearly twice the destructive effect upon striking, and four times as much upon passing its whole diameter through armor, as the 15-inch 425-pound shot driven by the same powder at 800 feet.
In spite of my remonstrances, Tom determined, at half-past nine, to cease steaming and try sailing again. About twelve o'clock a puff came that sent us along at the rate of 10-1/2 knots for a short time; but it soon dropped, and during the rest of the afternoon and evening, our average speed was only three or four knots an hour.
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