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Lord Dunholm sometimes laughed with unfeigned delight, and sometimes the two seemed to talk of grave things. "Such occasions as these are a sort of yearly taking of the social census of the county," Lord Dunholm explained. "One invites ALL one's neighbours and is invited again. It is a friendly duty one owes." "I do not see Lord Mount Dunstan," Betty answered. "Is he here?"
Hundreds of boiler plants operate at no greater than 60 per cent efficiency, and it would be a comparatively simple matter to bring them up to 70 per cent efficiency. The saving in tonnage would be more than the combined yearly coal-carrying capacity of the Baltimore & Ohio and the Southern Railway systems.
You will find among these papers the trust-deeds for such a yearly sum of money as will enable you to hire a house of refuge for a hundred fallen women, and give such dowries to thirty of them yearly as will enable them to find suitable husbands. I have set down every detail of my plan. On its exact fulfilment depends the continuance of my gift.
Oswego, long since established on Lake Ontario, was abundantly justifying the ambitious scheme inaugurated sixty years earlier by Governor Dongan; for official corruption at Montreal had not made French goods cheaper since the days of Frontenac, and the northern Indians yearly resorted to Oswego to trade with the English.
But all the papers were so carefully arranged, that Nathanael had nothing to do but to glance over them and tie them up simple yearly records of the just life and honest dealings of a good man, who transferred unencumbered to his children the trust left by his ancestors.
O, there is a stipend waiting a stipend of three hundred ducats yearly that shall be made into six hundred presently, and all for my complaisance, all that I may be a joyous and content cornuto!" He strode to the window cursing horribly, whilst Giuliana sat white of face with lips compressed and heaving bosom, her eyes upon her plate.
"Of course it couldn't be," Jean decided as she and her father continued on their wonderful way. "Couldn't be what, my dear?" "The same man, Daddy," Jean said, and changed the subject. The next time that Jean saw Him was at the theater. She and her father went to worship at the shrine of Maude Adams, and He was there. It was Jean's yearly treat. There were, of course, other plays.
Garbage cans must have close-fitting lids, so that there will be no place in which the young may hatch and grow. =Other Insects which carry Disease.= In certain parts of Africa, the sleeping sickness has made ruins of prosperous villages. Thousands of the natives are dying yearly from this disease. The germs are carried from one person to another by the bite of a fly.
* The following table gives the yearly percentages of convictions and acquittals by verdict in New York County since 1901: NUMBER NUMBER YEAR CONVICTIONS ACQUITTALS CONVICTIONS ACQUITTALS BY VERDICT BY VERDICT PER CENT PER CENT
Meanwhile Jocelyn Pierston, the sculptor of budding fame, had gone onward to the house of his father, an inartistic man of trade and commerce merely, from whom, nevertheless, Jocelyn condescended to accept a yearly allowance pending the famous days to come. But the elder, having received no warning of his son's intended visit, was not at home to receive him.
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