INTEREST TABLE

A SIMPLE RULE FOR ACCURATELY COMPUTING INTEREST AT ANY GIVEN PER CENT FOR ANY LENGTH OF TIME.

Multiply the principal (amount of money at interest) by the time reduced to days; then divide this product by the quotient obtained by dividing 360 (the number of days in the interest year) by the per cent. of interest, and the quotient thus obtained will be the required amount.

ILLUSTRATION

Solution

Require the interest of $462.50 for one month and eighteen days at 6 per cent. An interest month is 30 days; one month and eighteen days equal 48 days. $462.50 multiplied by .48 gives $222.0000; 360 divided by 6 (the per cent. of interest) gives 60, and $222.0000 divided by 60 will give you the exact interest, which is $3.70. If the rate of interest in the above example were 12 per cent., we would divide the $222.0000 by 30 (because 360 divided by twelve gives 30); if 4 per cent. we would divide by 90; if 8 per cent., by 45; and in like manner for any other per cent.

6)360 _____) 60)

$462.50 .48 _______ 370000 1850000 ________ $222.0000 ($3.70 180 ____ 420 430 ____ 0

NAMES OF THE STATES OF THE UNION, AND THEIR SIGNIFICATIONS.

Virginia--The oldest of the States, was so called in honor of Queen Elizabeth, the "Virgin Queen," in whose reign Sir Walter Raleigh made his first attempt to colonize that region.
Florida--Ponce de Leon landed on the coast of florida on Easter Sunday, and called the country in commemoration of the day, which was the Pasqua Florida of the Spaniards, or "Feast of Flower."
Louisiana was called after Louis the Fourteenth, who at one time owned that section of the country.
Alabama was so named by the Indians, and signifies "Here we Rest."
Mississipi is likewise an Indian name, meaning "Long River."

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Arkansas, from Kansas, the Indian word for "Smoky Water." Its prefix was really arc, the French word for "bow.".
The Carolinas were originally one tract, and were called "Carolina," after Charles the Ninth of France.
Georgia owes its name to George the Second of England, who first established a colony there in 1732.
Tennessee is the Indian name for the "River of the Bend," i.e., the Mississippi which forms its western boundary.
Kentucky is the Indian name for "at the head of the river."
Ohio means "beautiful;" Iowa, "the beautiful land;" Minnesota, "cloudy water," and Wisconsin, "wild-rushing channel."
Illinois is derived from the Indian word illini, men, and the French suffix ois, together signifying "tribe of men."
Michigan was called by the name given the lake, fish-weir, which was so styled from its fancied resemblance to a fish trap.
Missouri is from the Indian word "muddy," which more properly applies to the river that flows through it.
Oregon owes its Indian name to its principal river.
Cortez named California.
Massachusetts is the Indian name for "The country around the great hills."
Connecticut, from the Indian Quon-ch-ta-Cut, signifying "Long River."
Maryland, after Henrietta Maria, Queen of Charles the First, of England.
New York was named by the Duke of York.
Pennsylvania, means "Penn's Woods," and was so called after Wm. Penn, its owner.
Delaware, after Lord De La Ware.
New Jersey, so called in honor of Sir George Carteret, who was Governor of the Island of Jersey, in the British Channel.
Maine was called after the province of Maine in France, in compliment of Queen Henrietta of England, who owned that province.
Vermont, from the French word Vert Mont, signifying Green Mountain.
New Hampshire, from Hampshire County in England. It was formerly called Laconia.
The little State of Rhode Island owes its name to the Island of Rhodes in the Mediterranean, which domain it is said to greatly resemble.
Texas is the American word for the Mexican name by which all that section of the country was called before it was ceded to the United States.

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POPULATION OF THE SEVERAL COUNTIES OF IOWA 1880 CENSUS

COUNTIES	Organized	COUNTY SEAT	Population in 1880
Adair	1854	Greenfield	11,190
Adams	1853	Corning	11,888
Allamakee	1849	Waukon	19,791
Appanoose	1846	Cenerville	16,936
Audubon	1855	Audobon	7,488
Benton	1846	Vinton	24,888
Blackhawk	1853	Waterloo	23,913
Boone	1849	Boonsboro	20,838
Bremer	1853	Waverly	14,1081
Buchanan	1847	Independence	18,547
Buena Vista	1858	Storm Lake	7,537
Butler	1854	Butler Center	14,293
Calhouon	1855	Rockwell City	5,595
Carroll	1856	Carroll	12,351
Cass	1853	Atlantic	16,943
Cedar	1836	Tipton	18,937
Cerro Gordo	1855	Mason City	11,461
Cherokee	1856	Cherokee	8,240
Chickasaw	1853	New Hampton	14,534
Clarke	1851	Osceola	11,512
Clay	1858	Spencer	4,248
Clayton	1838	Elkader	28,829
Clinton	1840	Clinton	36,764
Crawford	1855	Denison	12,413
Dallas	1847	Adel	18,746
Davis	1844	Bloomfield	16,468
Decatur	1850	Leon	15,336
Delaware	1840	Delhi	17,952
Des Moines	1834	Burlington	33,099
Dickinson	1857	Spirit Lake	1,901
Dubuque	1834	Dubuque	42,997
Emmet	1859	Swan Lake	1,550
Fayette	1850	West Union	22,258
Floyd	1854	Charles City	14,677
Franklin	1855	Hampton	10,248
Fremont	1849	Sidney	17,653
Greene	1849	Jefferson	12,725
Grundy	1856	Grundy Center>	12,639
Guthrie	1851	Guthrie Center	14,863
Hamilton	1857	Webster City	11,252
Hancock	1858	Concord	3,453
Hardin	1853	Eldora	17,808
Harrison	1853	Logan	16,649
Henry	1836	Mt. Pleasant	20,826
Howard	1855	Cresco	10,837
Humboldt	1857	Dakota	5,341
Ida	1858	Ida Grove	4,382
Iowa	1845	Marengo	19,221
Jackson	1838	Maquoketa	23,771
Jasper	1846	Newton	25,962
Jefferson	1838	Fairfield	17,478

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POPULATION OF THE SEVERAL COUNTIES OF IOWA, 1880 CENSUS.

COUNTIES	Organized	COUNTY SEATS	Population in 1880
Johnson	1848	Iowa City	25,249
Jones	1839	Anamosa	21,052
Keokuk	1844	Sigourney	21,259
Kossuth	1855	Algona	6,179
Lee	1837	Ft. Madison	34,859
Linn	1839	Marion	37,235
Louisa	1839	Wapello	13,146
Lucas	1849	Chariton	14,530
Lyon	1872	Rock Rapids	1,968
Madison	1850	Winterset	17,225
Mahaska	1844	Oskaloosa	25,201
Marion	1845	Knoxville	25,111
Marshall	1850	Marshalltown	23,752
Mills	1851	Glenwood	14,135
Mitchell	1854	Osage	14,361
Monona	1854	Onawa	9,055
Monroe	1851	Albia	13,719
Montgomery	1858	Red Oak	15,895
Muscatine	1838	Muscatine	23,168
O'Brien	1860	Primghar	4,155
Osceola	1872	Sibley	2,219
Page	1851	Clarinda	19,667
Palo Alto	1857	Emmetsburg	4,131
Plymouth	1858	Le Mars	3,567
Pocahontas	1859	Pocahontas Center	3,713
Polk	1846	Des Moines	41,395
Pottawattamie	1848	Council Bluffs	39,846
Poweshiek	1848	Montezuma	18,936
Binggold [Ringgold]	1855	Mt. Ayr	12,085
Sac	1858	Sac City	8,774
Scott	1838	Davenport	42,270
Shelby	1853	Harlan	12,696
Sioux	1860	Orange City	5,436
Story	1853	Nevada	16,906
Tama	1854	Toledo	21,585
Taylor	1851	Bedford	15,635
Union	1853	Afton	14,900
Van Buren	1837	Keosauqua	17,042
Wapello	1844	Ottumwan	25,282
Warren	1839	Indianola	19,578
Washington	1849	Washington	20,375
Wayne	1851	Corydon	16,127
Webster	1853	Fort Dodge	15,950
Winnebago	1857	Forest City	4,917
Winneshiek	1851	Decorah	23,937
Woodbury	1853	Sioux City	14,997
Worth	1857	Northwood	7,953
Wright	1855	Clarion	5,062
Total		...................	1,624,463

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The total footings for the State of Iowa, according to the census, are, males, 848,235; females, 776,228; native, 1,363,015; foreign, 261,418; white, 1,614,510; colored (including 47 Chinese and 464 Indians and half-breeds), 9,953, total, 1,624,463.

POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES

The revised and corrected returns of the census bureau show the population of the several States and Territories of the country to be as follows:

Alabama	1,262,505	Montana	39,159
Arizona	40,440	Nebraska	452,402
Arkansas	802,525	Nevada	62,266
California	864,694	New Hampshire	336,991
Colorado	104,327	New Jersey	1,131,116
Connecticut	622,700	New Mexico	116,565
Dakota	135,177	New York	5,082,871
Delaware	146,608	North Carolina	1,399,750
District of Columbia	177,624	Ohio	3,198,062
Florida	269,493	Oregon	174,768
Georgia	1,5542,180	Pennsylvania	4,282,891
Idaho	32,610	Rhode Island	276,531
Illinois	3,077,871	South Carolina	995,577
Indiana	1,978,301	Tennessee	1,542,359
Iowa	1,624,615	Texas	1,591,749
Kansas	996,086	Utah	143,963
Kentucky	1,648,690	Vermont	332,286
Louisiana	939,946	Virginia	1,512,565
Maine	648,936	Washington	75,116
Maryland	934,932	West Virginia	618,457
Massachusetts	1,783,085	Wisconsin	1,315,497
Michigan	1,636,937	Wyoming	20,789
Mississippi	1,131,597		______
Missouri	2,168,380	Grand Total	50,155,783

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