Crossword-Solution: CENTNER 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Hence there is a great demand for sulphur in all the vine-growing countries of Europe, and Waltershausen estimates the annual consumption of that mineral for this single purpose at 850,000 centner, or more than forty thousand tons.

The Congress of the Deputies of the Zollverein, at Stuttgard, have in a new tariff, which was to take effect on the 1st of January, besides some minor alterations of an unfavourable kind, decreed, upon the proposal of Prussia, that goods mixed of cotton and wool, if of more than one colour, shall pay fifty thalers the centner, instead of thirty; that is, instead of a very high, shall be liable to an exorbitant, and, as it may prove, a prohibitory duty.

Note: The metallurgists use a weight divided into a hundred equal parts, each one pound; the whole they call a centner: the pound is divided into thirty-two parts, or half ounces; the half ounce into two quarters; and each of these into two drams.

Hence there is a great demand for sulphur in all the vine-growing countries of Europe, and Waltershausen estimates the annual consumption of that mineral for this single purpose at 850,000 _centner_, or more than forty thousand tons.

Assuming the German _pfundt_ to weigh 7,219 troy grains, and the Roman _libra_ 4,946 grains, then a _centner_ would weigh 145.95 _librae_, which checks up fairly well with the second case; but under what circumstances a _centner_ can weigh 133-1/3 _librae_ we are unable to record.