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From 2,856 yards manured with No. 2, 962 lbs. of wheat were obtained, and 155 stones 9 lbs. of straw; this is equal to 27 1/4 bushels per acre, or with one-third added, for estimated damage, it is equal to 36 bushels per statute acre.
It is now impossible to state accurately our loss of life and men in any one separate battle; for the fighting was continuous, almost daily, among trees and bushes, on ground where one could rarely see a hundred yards ahead. Killed and Missing. Wounded. Total. 1,863 7,436 9,299 Total ................... 42,856
W. Taylor, Vol. XVI, p. 856, entitled "Piece Rate System." *end footnote* Under this system the pay of each girl was increased in proportion to the quantity of her output and also still more in proportion to the accuracy of her work.
By act of Congress, passed on April 21, 1792, the Ohio Land Company, for example, received 100,000 acres, and in the same year it bought 892,900 acres for $642,856.66. But this sum was not paid in money. Nearly all of the land companies had banking adjuncts.
It appears from the paper that twenty-three Edison stations were then equipped with 5187 meters, which were relied upon for billing the monthly current consumption of 87,856 lamps and 350 motors of 1000 horse-power total. This represented about 75 per cent. of the entire lamp capacity of the stations.
In the same year Great Britain received, from all the English islands, 194,820 hundredweight; or 9,896,856 kilogrammes; which proves that Jamaica only produced six-sevenths. Guadaloupe sent, in 1810, to the mother country, 1,017,190 kilogrammes; Martinico, 671,336 kilogrammes.
With Schmidt's Charte der Gebirge der Mondes, Germany once more took the lead. This splendid delineation, built upon Lohrmann's foundation, embraced the detail contained in upwards of 3,000 original drawings, representing the labour of thirty-four years. No less than 32,856 craters are represented in it, on a scale of seventy-five inches to a diameter.
Dec. 18, 1895, Anthony Collection, Henry E. Huntington Library. Woman's Tribune, Feb. 1, 1896. History of Woman Suffrage, IV, p. 264. Harper, Anthony, II, p. 855. The action of the National American Woman Suffrage Association on the Woman's Bible was never reversed. Ibid., p. 856. Susan thought seriously of Clara Colby as a collaborator but concluded she was too involved with the Woman's Tribune.
De Morgan wished to read tabulae et crepae, which he construes 'tables and raps, but he only finds crepae in Festus, who says, that goats are called crepae, quod cruribus crepent, 'because they rattle with their legs'. De Morgan's guess is ingenious, but lacks confirmation. We are not, so far, aware of communication with spirits by raps before 856 A.D.
The balance in the Treasury at the beginning of the present fiscal year, July 1, 1855, was $18,931,976; the receipts for the first quarter and the estimated receipts for the remaining three quarters amount together to $67,918,734; thus affording in all, as the available resources of the current fiscal year, the sum of $86,856,710.
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