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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;yourturntoloveit, post: 256314, member: 57&quot;]I (finally) have two truly &quot;antique&quot; books to enter here as today&#039;s &quot;finds.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><u>Orton&#039;s Lightning Calculator and Accountant&#039;s Assistant</u> by Hoy D. Orton (&quot;Entirely New Edition, with extensive modifications and improvements.)&nbsp; Philadelphia:&nbsp; Collins, Printer, 705 Jane Street.&nbsp; &quot;Entered according to an Act of Congress, in the year 1871, by Hoy D. Orton, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.&quot;&nbsp; Hardcover. 194 numbered pages.&nbsp; Just two of the interesting subjects:&nbsp; &quot;Rules for determining the weight of live cattle:&nbsp; For cattle of a girth of from 5 to 7 feet, allow 23 lbs. to the superficial foot.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;To measure corn on the cob in cribs . . . .&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><u>Fun Jottings</u> (<u>or, Laughs I Have Taken a Pen To</u>) by N. Parker Willis, New York:&nbsp; Charles Scribner, 145 Nassau Street (1853).&nbsp; &quot;&quot;Entered according to an Act of Congress, in the year 1853 by Charles Scribner In the Clerk&#039;s Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp; Hardcover. 371 numbered pages (19 &quot;jottings&quot;/short stories).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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