Pocopson Families

What is the meaning of Ton in Cubic Measure, and why does it take 50 feet of square timber

to make a Ton and only 40 feet of round timber.

[This is a technical, well presented article, giving the process by which formulas for such measures are arrived at, including allowance for the weights of different kinds of wood.]

Is there any place south of the tropic of capricorn from which a person’s shadow would fall north?

This question may be understood in two different ways. It may be construed to mean whether [sic] a person’s shadow would fall north of the tropic of capricorn, or it may mean northward from the place on which the person may be standing. Taking the first as the meaning I will answer that there is none to my knowledge, taking the second, I answer there are many places, and at the south pole is one of them.

[This paper has much insect damage. Below is a fragment.]

...is previous to us, it departs not hastily. From yonder field comes the odor of the new hay but yesterday the victim of the scythe. The brook makes pleasant music, and the songs of the birds blend with it so sweetly that our hearts when hearing them must surely feel that God has given all lovely things for our benefit, and these might teach us to feel anew each day that He intended our lives to be as harmonious and beautiful as theirs.

[Some insect damage to this page.]

                        Botany

How interesting and instructive it must be to trace the different species of Flora’s beauties

which bedecks the face of nature from their germ hidden in the ground up through all its changes