Practical Arithmetic made Easy, Simple, and Convenient for all, by this unique and wonderful work. Is worth its weight in gold to everyone not quick in figures. Contains nearly 100,000 Business Calculations, Simple and Practicable Rules and Original Methods—the CREAM of this great and useful science—which makes it possible and EASY for any one, even a child, to make CORRECT and Instantaneous computations in Grain, Stock, Hay, Coal, Cotton, Merchandise, Interest, Percentage, Profit and Loss, Wages, Measurement of Lumber, Logs, Cisterns, Tanks, Granaries, Wagon-beds, Corn-cribs, Cordwood, Hay-stacks, Lands, Carpenters’, Plasterers’, and Masons’ work, besides THOUSANDS of other practical problems which come up every day in the year. Will prove of GREAT BENEFIT, almost a necessity, in the hands of every Farmer, Mechanic, and Tradesman.
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How to Paint
A new work by a Practical Painter, designed for the use of Tradesmen, Mechanics, Merchants, Farmers, and as a guide to Professional Painters. Containing a Plain, Common-Sense Statement of the methods employed by Painters to produce satisfactory results in Plain and Fancy Painting of every description, including Formulas for Mixing Paint in Oil or Water, Tools required, etc. This is just the book needed by any person having anything to paint, and makes
“EVERY MAN HIS OWN PAINTER.”
Full directions for using White Lead—Lamp-Black—Ivory—Black—Prussian Blue—Ultra-marine—Green—Yellow—Brown—Vermillion—Lake—Carmine—Whiting—Glue—Asphaltum—Pumice Stone, and Spirits of Turpentine—Oils—Varnishes—Furniture Varnish—Milk Paint—Preparing Calcimine.