United States or Czechia ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !


The amounts taken were as follows: From the Washington Pouch, $278,000.00 From the Baltimore Pouch, 150,000.00 From the Philadelphia Pouch, 100,000.00 From the New York Pouch, 150,000.00 $678,000.00

Excess of At end of period Budget ex- penditures Public Cash bal- Fiscal Year over receipts debt ance 1945 53. 6 258. 7 24. 7 1946: July-Dec. 1945 18. 1 278. 1 26. 0 Jan.-June 1946 10. 5 275. 0 11. 9 Although the public debt is expected to decline, a substantial volume of refinancing will be required, because of the large volume of maturing obligations.

In the old construction of furnaces and cauldrons, a tarea of wood, of one hundred and sixty cubic feet, is burnt to produce five arrobas of sugar, or, for a hundred kilogrammes of raw sugar, 278 cubic feet of the wood of the lemon and orange trees are required.

Then he was employed in the melancholy task of carrying on Alva's detestable work in Flanders. See The Story of the Moors in Spain, p. 278. See the complete list in Girolamo Catena, Vita del gloriosissimo Papa Pio Quinto, 1587. Read the admirable and graphic description of the battle in Jurien de la Gravière, La Guerre de Chypre et la Bataille de Lepante, ii., 149-205.

Already there were sixteen free-States to fifteen slave-States. Minnesota and Oregon, inevitably destined also to become free, were applying for admission to the Union. Greeley, "Am. Conflict," Vol. I., p. 278. Still, the case of the South was not hopeless. Kansas was apparently within their grasp.

Agricultural products constituted 78.1 per cent of our unprecedented exports for the fiscal year which closed June 30, 1892, the total exports being $1,030,278,030 and the value of the agricultural products $793,717,676, which exceeds by more than $150,000,000 the shipment of agricultural products in any previous year.

Scarcely was he inaugurated, before he was obliged to march against the Alans, who had spread their destructive ravages over Pontus, Cappadocia, Cilicia, and Galatia. He lost his life, though successful in battle, amid the hardships of a winter campaign, and Probus, one of his generals, who had once been an Illyrian peasant, was clothed with the imperial purple, A.D. 278.

About the same time, Manchester, who advanced from the eastern associated counties, having joined Cromwell and young Fairfax, obtained a considerable victory over the royalists at Horncastle; where the two officers last mentioned gained renown by their conduct and gallantry. * Rush, vol. vi. p. 275. Warwick, p. 261. Walker, p. 278. laudable.

With a Preface by A. Herzen. Translated from the French. New York. D. Appleton & Co. 12mo. pp. 301. $1.00. The Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe. With an Original Memoir. New York. Redfield. 18mo. pp 278. 75 cts. Aguecheek. Boston. Shepard, Clark, & Brown. 12mo. pp. 336. $1.00. The Three Eras of Woman's Life. A Novel. By Eliza Elton Smith. Boston. T.O.H.P. Burnham. 12mo. pp. 322. $1.00.

These bars generally have a quadruple arrangement, and are horizontal, vertical, or, as in the illustration, inclined at an angle. They are often found on the lips of the bowls and in a similar position on jars, dippers, and vases. The parallel lines shown in figure 278 are seven in number, and do not encircle the bowl. They are joined by a broad connecting band near one extremity.