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The resolution was carried by 272 votes against 266 on the other side, a small majority, indeed, but a majority that at such a time was large enough to show a man of Peel's intellect the practical progress which the demand for Catholic Emancipation had already made.

Of funded loan of 1881, continued at 3 1\2 per cent 65,380,250.00 Of loan of July and August, 1861, continued at 3 1/2 per cent 20,594,600.00 Of funded loan of 1907 1,418,850.00 Of funded loan of 1881 719,150.00 Of loan of February, 1861 18,000.00 Of loan of July and August, 1861 266,600.00 Of loan of March, 1863 116,850.00 Of loan of July, 1882 47,650.00

They calculated that, if their plans succeeded, they could buy 266, 267, and 268 for about a sovereign apiece the holders of them being made to suppose, by their manoeuvres that those numbers would have very little chance of obtaining the prize.

There are, according to Hugh Miller, 1,658 known species of mammalia, 6,266 of birds, 642 of reptiles, and 550,000 of insects; how could one man, or a hundred men, have collected specimens of these in those days, and in such & brief space of time?

PRIMEVAL. In the world, at the present day, nothing is known of the primeval state of man, which is called a state of integrity, 355. What the primeval state of creation was, and how man is led back to it by the Lord, 355. PRINCE of a society in heaven, 14 and following, 266. PRINCIPLE, the primary, of the church is the good of charity, and not the truth of faith, 126.

Bradford was in the cab of 266 when Williams eased his engine and the service-car over the unsafe culvert, and inched the throttle open for the speeding race down the hill curves toward the wide valley plain of the Red Desert. "Turn it loose, Andy," said the big engineman, when the requisite number of miles of silence had been ticked off by the space-devouring wheels.

Of funded loan of 1881, continued at 3 1\2 per cent 65,380,250.00 Of loan of July and August, 1861, continued at 3 1/2 per cent 20,594,600.00 Of funded loan of 1907 1,418,850.00 Of funded loan of 1881 719,150.00 Of loan of February, 1861 18,000.00 Of loan of July and August, 1861 266,600.00 Of loan of March, 1863 116,850.00 Of loan of July, 1882 47,650.00

The language at pp. 266, 267, which he puts in the mouth of a majority, and his observations immediately preceding this note, seem to furnish the key to his meaning; although it must be admitted that there are other passages to which a wider construction may be given.

W.R. Paton, in Folk-lore, i. p. 524. Hist. xvii. 266, xxviii. 78; Columella, De re rustica, x. 358 sq., xi. 3. 64; Palladius, De re rustica, i. 35. 3; Geoponica, xii. 8. 5 sq.; Aelian, Nat. A similar preventive is employed for the same purpose by North American Indians and European peasants.

It glows with new stained-glass windows, splendid marbles, exquisite sculptures, and bronze work. Its western tower, 266 feet in height, turreted spires, central octagon tower, flying buttresses, unequaled length of 517 feet, and its vast, irregular bulk soaring above the insignificant little town at its foot, make it a most commanding object seen from the flat plain.