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It is therefore necessary to poison the germs of decay which may exist, or may subsequently enter the wood, or to prevent their intrusion, and this is the office performed by the various antiseptics. B. Baker's, C.E., recent address at the British Association of Aberdeen which has come into my hands. In speaking of stone bridges, he alludes to the bridge over the Adda as 500 years old.
These proposals, it was claimed, would leave the powers under consideration in the same relative positions. Under this plan the United States would be allowed 500,000 tons of capital ships, Great Britain 500,000 tons, and Japan 300,000 tons. Japan objected to the 5-5-3 ratio proposed by Secretary Hughes, and urged a 10-10-7 ratio as more in accord with existing strength.
A liar! a mean, cowardly schemer, but her husband for all that! She owed him love, honor and obedience; if he commanded, she must obey; if he called she must fain go to him. Oh! please God! that she had succeeded in purchasing her freedom from him by placing £500,000 in his hands.
He held on, however, ascending till 10,500 feet were reached, when he descended, having made a journey of thirty miles from the start. Ascents, all on the Continent, now followed one another in rapid succession, and shortly the MM. Roberts essayed a venture on new lines.
'Had to send round the corner for it, to the public. 'We shall be sending round the corner for a good many things now. Does anybody know anything of that fellow Melmotte? 'He's down in the House, as big as life, said Nidderdale. 'He's all right I think. 'I wish he'd pay me my money then. That fellow Flatfleece was here, and he showed me notes of mine for about £1,500!
Electrical engineers say that under proper conditions electric energy may be transmitted in large quantity to a distance of 500 miles and more at a pressure of about 170,000 volts. If such right conditions be established then New York, Chicago and several other of our large cities can get their power from Niagara.
Guicciardini informs us, that in his time the port of Armuyden, in the island of Walcheren, was the place of rendezvous for the shipping of Antwerp: in it have often been seen 500 large ships lying at one time, bound to, or returning from distant parts of the world.
It projects a formidable missile which in fact is an armour-piercing bullet 1/2- to 3/4-inch in diameter. It is designed for use with an automatic machinegun, which the inventor has devised more or less upon the well-known French system. The bullet has a high velocity about 2,500 feet per second and a maximum range of 6,000 to 8,000 feet at the maximum elevation.
The white Plymouth Rocks we can caponize and easily sell, and the white Leghorns we will either have to kill and sell as broilers, or it may be we can sell them to the farmers around here to improve their flocks. So you see, if we have 1000 chicks, we can't count on over 500 hens." "What would you do, Bob, if you had 1000 hens?" asked Edith.
Yet holding a good heart, they proceeded onwards in their journey for eighteen months, penetrating, as is said, almost 500 leagues, without ever seeing the sun or any thing else to comfort them. At length, of the 200 men who had set out from Quito, only ten returned thither; and these so weak, ragged, and disfigured, that they could not be recognized.
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