The American annual cyclopædia and register of important events of the year .. . he metric system more easy andplain of comprehension, we give the following illustrations: 1. The meter.—This is a meas-ure of length, and the cut represents five cen- 496 METRIC SYSTEM. MEXICO. timeters, or one-twentieth of a meter. Its di-visions show what is the exact length of thecentimeter. 2. The Square Meter.—This, as the figuredemonstrates, contains one hundred square deci-meters, each side being one meter or ten de- cimeters in length, and each square decimeter,if subdivided, would be found to contain one
The American annual cyclopædia and register of important events of the year .. . he metric system more easy andplain of comprehension, we give the following illustrations: 1. The meter.—This is a meas-ure of length, and the cut represents five cen- 496 METRIC SYSTEM. MEXICO. timeters, or one-twentieth of a meter. Its di-visions show what is the exact length of thecentimeter. 2. The Square Meter.—This, as the figuredemonstrates, contains one hundred square deci-meters, each side being one meter or ten de- cimeters in length, and each square decimeter,if subdivided, would be found to contain onehundred square centimeters. 3. The Cubic Meter.—Each of the six facesof the cubic meter is a square meter, and itconsequently contains one thousand cubic de-cimeters, and each cubic decimeter one thousandcubic centimeters, as the figure demonstrates. The metric system is already in use in somearts and trades in this country, and is especiallyadapted to the wants of others. Some of themeasures are already manufactured at Bangor,Me., to meet an existing demand at home and. 0/2. 3 Ij. S S 7 3 9 10 abroad. The manufacturers of the Fairbanksscales say that for several years they have had alarge export demand for their scales with theTrench weights, and that the demand and saleare constantly increasing. For the uses of thechemist, the apothecary, the manufacturerjeweller, and all artisans engaged in the finerdescriptions of work, and for all scientific pur-poses, this system is greatly preferable to thathitherto in vogue. Since the passage of the actof Congress, the chambers of commerce in sev-eral of our larger cities have taken up the mat-ter, and reported favorably on the more generalintroduction of the system in the weighing andmeasuring of commodities for sale or export. MEXICO. The opening of the year foundthe condition of affairs in Mexico as deplorableas the most determined enemy of Imperial rulecould desire. Wherever the authority of Maxi-milian was sustained by an im
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