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The expenditures of the Post-Office Department during the past fiscal year, ending on the 30th June, 1859, exclusive of payments for mail service specially provided for by Congress out of the general Treasury, amounted to $14,964,493.33 and its receipts to $7,968,484.07, showing a deficiency to be supplied from the Treasury of $6,996,009.26, against $5,235,677.15 for the year ending 30th June, 1858.

When on the farther side of the sun i.e., in conjunction with the sun as seen from the earth Mars's average distance from us is about 235,000,000 miles. In consequence of these great changes in its distance, Mars is sometimes a very conspicuous object in the sky, and at other times inconspicuous.

If he has returned from his promenade, make some excuse to have him sent out of his cell again; and don't allow him to return there while we are using his book." "Oh, trust me!" replied the governor, hastily leaving the room. Less than a quarter of an hour afterward he returned, carrying in triumph a little volume in 32mo. With a trembling hand Lecoq turned to page 235, and began to count.

By revitalizing the Section 235 program, we have enabled nearly 100,000 moderate income households to purchase new homes. By reducing paperwork and regulation in Federal programs, and by working with State and local governments to ease the regulatory burden, we have helped to hold down housing costs and produce affordable housing.

The only truly educative method is the method which trains the pupil to find, establish, and apply systems of knowledge in the attainment of ends of felt value. III. part ii. sec. 2. Principles of Heredity, by G. Archdall Reid, p. 235. Cf. Herbert Spencer, Education, especially chap. i.

On the other hand, the Russian attacking force was 70,000 strong, and they had with them 235 guns. It was in truth another battle of giants, like Waterloo. "Hard pounding," as the great duke said of that other fight; a fierce trial of strength; a protracted, seemingly unequal, struggle between the dead weight of the aggregate many and the individual prowess of the undaunted, indomitable few.

We beseech God to graciously assist all to do His will and pleasure. 235 Now, however, all have lost sight of every other consideration, and are bent upon the persecution of this people.

Pope Gelasius was a subject of Odoacer, and he affirms, with strong exaggeration, that, in Emilia, Tuscany, and the adjacent provinces, the human species was almost extirpated." GIBBON, vol. vi. c. xxxvi. p. 235. Of the progress and extent of this decay, Gibbon gives the following account in another part of his great work:

* Forbes, vol. i. p. 134, 136, 149, 150, 159, 165, 181, 194, 229, 231, 235 241, 253. Forbes, vol. i. p 387 Jebb, vol. i. p. 448. Keith, Append. 24.

He never came any nearer to the faith, and after thirteen years of good and firm government he was killed in a mutiny of the Prætorians in 235. These guards had all the power, and set up and put down Emperors so rapidly that there are hardly any names worth remembering.