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An oppressed people gladly adopts as chief the head of an allied tribe if he has shown skill and daring, and offers to protect them from their oppressors. The revolt of Arsaces has been placed by some as early as the year B.C. 256. The Bactrian revolt is assigned by most historians to that year; and the Parthian, according to some, was contemporary.
There's $75 for the house, dirt cheap the ladies have a pull with the landlord; $65 for the orchestra; stage hands, $15; advertising and printing, $60; flowers, $20; costumes, $11.75; sundries, $10. How much is all that?" "Let me figure it up. Have you a pencil? Never mind, I have one. Well, that, my friend, foots up $256.75." "Why, that ain't much." "No.
She at present has berth-room for twenty men, but bunks can be arranged in the hold for 256 more, with provision for ample ventilation. She has one complete set of sails and two extra spars. The remaining information in regard to her I will have to obtain and send you to-morrow.
Ibid. 256. Hitherto the general officers had been divided between Whitehall and Wallingford House, the residences of Richard and of Fleetwood.
Observations have already been made on the distinctness of the organic remains of the Oolitic and Cretaceous strata, and the proportion of species common to the different members of the Oolite. Between the Lower Oolite and the Lias there is a somewhat greater break, for out of 256 mollusca of the Upper Lias, thirty- seven species only pass up into the Inferior Oolite.
Then he, too, pressed forward to the notice-board, and read the awards, thus: 1st...No. 247. 2nd...No. 248. 3rd...No. 261. V.H.C...No. 256. H.C...No. 259. Not daring to be quite certain, the Master drew out the little medal from beside Finn's collar, and read again on it Finn's number: 247.
Above, pp. 121, 122, 124, 140 sq., 145, 146, 174, 176, 183, 184, 187, 188, 190, 191, 192, 249, 250, 252, 253, 254, 258. Above, pp. 108, 121, 140, 146, 165, 183, 188, 196, 250, 255, 256, 258. Above, pp. 107, 195 sq. Above, pp. 162, 163, 166, 171, 174. Above, pp. 165, 168, 189, compare 190. See above, p. 343 note.
In the middle of the third century B.C. the greater part of the China of that time was already in the hands of Ch'in, and in 256 B.C. the last emperor of the Chou dynasty was compelled, in his complete impotence, to abdicate in favour of the ruler of Ch'in.
Record of an Obscure Man. Boston. Ticknor & Fields. 16mo. pp. 216. 75 cts. Essays. By the late George Brimley, M.A., Librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge. With an Introduction by R.H. Stoddard. New York. Rudd & Carleton. 12mo. pp. 409. $1.25. The Cloister and the Hearth; or, Maid, Wife, and Widow. A Matter-of-Fact Romance. By Charles Reade. New York. Rudd & Carleton. 8vo. pp. 256. $1.00.
The land grants to Canadian railroads, Dominion and provincial, stand 55,256,429 acres. Cash subsidies to railroads in Canada up to June 30, 1913, stand thus: from the Dominion, $163,251,469.42; from the provinces, $36,500,015.16; from the municipalities, $18,078,673.60.
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