Encyclopedia of Practical Receipts and Processes

How to silver a mirror, brew ginger beer, kill moths, make fireworks, tan a hide, bronze iron, cure a ham and clean a straw hat: William B. Dick's numbered encyclopedia answered the questions a nineteenth-century household actually had.

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Turkish Money

In Turkey, money is reckond by the Piaster, 22 of which = Precious stones are weighed by the ounce are equivalent to $1.00. 1 Ounce 1 Sequin = 100 Piasters 1 Quilate 1 Piaster = 40 Paras 1 Para 3 Aspers 1 Piaster (grush) = 100 Aspers. = The 140 Quilates 4 Granos

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