Much of the substance and pith of historic eras can be expressed in the analytic words, phrases, or sentences with which their dates are enunciated. If the foregoing and subsequent examples are carefully, not hurriedly, studied, the student can readily hereafter retain a great deal of the significance of facts, events, or epochs by his infallible recollection of the analytic expression of their dates. As with history, so with the arts and science, etc.
Population of the United States of America is now (1895) 67,000,000 = { G}eneral { C}ultivation or { Sh}arp Yan{ k}ees. When dealing with the _number_ of millions or thousands only, it is not necessary to express the ciphers. Pop. of Great Britain = 38,000,000, or (3) { M}ightiest (8) { F}olks; or { M}anufacturing { F}abrics; or { M}oney-making { F}reetraders. Pop. of Africa, 127,000,000 = { Th}e { N}egro Continent. Pop. of Bombay = 804,470 or { F}oreigners a{ s} a { r}ule a{ r}e E{ ng}lish { C}itizens.
A gentleman in Bombay, who had to deal with complaints about water supplies there, told me the true population is 817,564, which he fixed by my method as follows: { F}rightful { T}o { K}eep A{ l}l { J}ust { R}ight.
Pop. of Calcutta = 840,000; or { V}iceroy's { R}esidential { S}eat. Pop. of India = 292,000,000; or I{ n}dia's { P}opulation E{ n}umerated.
Pop. of Australasia, &c., 4,250,000 = Ou{ r} I{ n}dependent { L}iving Au{ s}tralians.
Pop. of Melbourne with its suburbs (1891) = 490,912 = (4) Ou{ r} (9) { B}iggest (0) { C}ity's (9) { B}uildings (1) { d}ecidedly (2) u{ n}equalled. The "City" contains 73,361 = (7) { G}reat (3) { M}elbourne (3) { M}akes a (6) { Ch}ief (1) { T}own.
Pop. of Sydney (1891) = 386,400 = A (3) { M}ost (8) { V}aried (6) { Sh}eltering (4) Ha{ r}bour (0) Ha{ s} (0) { S}ydney.
Pop. of Hobart (Tasmania), 1891 = 31,196; (3) { M}any (1) { T}asmanians (1) Ea{ t} (9) Ho{ b}art's (6) { J}am.
Pop. of Auckland (New Zealand), with suburbs, in (1891) = 51,287; (5) A{ l}l (1) { Th}e (2) I{ n}habitants (8) O{ f} (7) Au{ ck}land.
The Specific Gravity is the relative weight of a body compared to an equal bulk of some other body taken as a standard. This standard is usually water, for all liquids and solids, and air for gases.
1. Gold 19.2--{ D}ollars { B}uy { S}u{ n}dries.--Gold is made into money. The specific gravity of gold is 19.2; that is, nineteen and two-tenths. The initial consonants of the phrase "{ D}ollars { B}uy { S}undries" express through "D" and "B" the figures 19. The "S" of "Sundries" expresses the decimal point, and the first subsequent consonant "n" expresses the decimal two-tenths.