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be broken at the city end of the line.A NEW USE I'OIt A NICKEL.How It Can lieCned to Complete the FrenchMetric System.I)r. L. B. Clifton, of Macon, gives this bit of information which will prove valuable to those interested :Editor Telegraph 1 am in frequent receipt or inquiries as to the method of reducing our system of measurement by yards, feet ana inches, to the French metric system, used in all scientific measurements. It is in the power of every person who is fortunate enough to be in possession of a nickel five cent coin of the United States to reduce any • calculation by the metric system to any other unit of measure desired.The diameter of the nickel piece is exactly two centimeters and its weight is five grammes. I’lacelivo of these pieces in a row and this will give the exact kngth of the decimeter. The kilolilcr is a cubic meter and the nickel piece which anv one inav carry in his |*ocket will enable him to compute the entire metric system of weights and measures. Yours very truly,L. B. Clifton.For Throat Diseases, Coughs, Colds,
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Macon Weekly Telegraph
Macon, Georgia, US
Tue, Mar 20, 1888
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