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The Comstock lode has given up an amazing amount of precious metal. Between 1860 and 1890 it produced $340,000,000. After 1890, however, its product grew less. The vein was not so rich, the price of silver fell, while the cost of mining it at great depths increased. Not nearly so much was mined, and at length water rose in the mines up to the level of the Sutro Tunnel.
Sentimens des Theologiens de Hollande, p. 395. Esprit de M. Arnaud, t. 2. p. 308. Sentimens des Theologiens de Hollande, Lettre 17. p. 402. Lettre 7. T. 1. p. 340. Ep. 536. p. 915. However much Grotius was employed in the business of his embassy, he still found time for study, which was one of the greatest pleasures of his life.
The motive in figure 339 is reducible to triangular and rectangular forms, and while exceptional as to their arrangement, no new decorative feature is introduced. The specimen represented in figure 340 has as its decorative elements, rectangles, triangles, parallel lines, and birds' tails, to which may be added star and crosshatch motives.
Farm owners and tenants probably now have $45,000,000,000 in property , fully a third of the national wealth, and with 6,340,000 farms they are just about a third of our population. But it indicates the prosperity of a large part of the farming class.
A former Director of the East India Company has, on this subject, issued a book of course, in defence of the Company. Here are two or three facts extracted from this book: From 1835 to 1851 sixteen years the entire net taxation of India has produced 340,756,000l.; the expenditure on the Government in the same period having been 341,676,000l. an amount somewhat in excess of the revenue.
The wearisome solitude of the long evenings did indeed suggest to me the convenience of a club in my neighbourhood, but I have been hindered from attending it by want of breath. Piozzi Letters, ii. 340. 'Dec. 31. I have much need of entertainment; spiritless, infirm, sleepless, and solitary, looking back with sorrow and forward with terrour. Ib, p. 343. "I think," said Mr.
Moreover, it was proved that a Zeppelin, if travelling under military conditions with full armament and ammunition aboard, could carry sufficient fuel for only ten hours at the utmost, during which, if the slightest head-wind prevailed, it could not cover more than 340 miles on the one fuel charge.
M. Martini drew the Sarty guide-book out of his pocket and read: "This city was originally a colony founded by the Phocians of Marseilles, about 340 B.C. They gave it the Greek name of Antipolis, meaning counter-city, city opposite another, because it is in fact opposite to Nice, another colony from Marseilles.
In 1899 statistics began to be compiled by means of which the race and nationality of aliens might be determined. From 1899 to 1907 about seventy-two per cent of the Slavic immigration came from Austria-Hungary. Since 1900 at least 100,000 aliens from this country have come to the United States each year; in 1905, 1906, and 1910 the number exceeded 250,000 each year, and in 1907 it was 340,000.
In 1907, 217 new companies were formed in Germany, issuing $62,050,900 in securities; in 1909, 179 new companies issued $54,929,450 of securities; in 1910, 186 new companies issued $57,437,700 of securities. In 1910, 340 companies increased their capital by $142,657,200. In 1910 there were 5,295 companies in Germany with a nominal capital of $3,680,979,400.
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