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"But I can't!" old Zack would reply. "'Twouldn't come to me 'less I sung it!" Toward the last weeks of the term he was able to multiply with considerable accuracy and to divide in short division. Long division he did not attempt, but he rapidly learned to cast interest at six per cent.
Other land pays between July and August and September and December. Let us see what the average yield is. The gentleman in the sun-hat and the loin-cloth would shriek at the figures, but they are approximately accurate. Wheat and maize of the first spring crop is worth about eleven shillings per koku. The rice crop at two koku or £1:10s. the quarter acre gives £6 an acre. Total £9:12s.
Forty thousand pounds were issued during Nicolson's government, over and above former emissions, by which increase the exchange with Britain, and the price of produce arose in one year from five to six hundred per cent.
It would appear to be even higher as regards the West End of London. In America, among two thousand prostitutes, Sanger states that forty-three per cent, had been servants, dressmakers coming next, but at a long interval, with six per cent.
At this date, and during the four years of the Revolution, the total arrears of taxation amounted to six hundred and thirty-two millions a bad debt that can hardly be recovered, and, in fact, it is already reduced one-half, since, even if the debtor could and was disposed to pay, he would pay in assignats, which, at this time, were at a discount of fifty per cent.
To go boldly into the kitchen and announce to Bridget that she would hereafter be expected to pay into Bobberts' bank ten per cent. of the value of every necessity and thirty per cent. of the value of every luxury she brought into the house was the last thing that Mrs. Fenelby would have thought of doing.
A family of ci-devant nobles of my acquaintance, once possessing a revenue of one hundred and fifty thousand livres subsist now on fifteen hundred livres per year; and this sum must support six individuals the father and mother, with four children! It does so, indeed, by an arrangement of only one poor meal in the day; a dinner four times, and a supper three times, in the week.
The ranch in the Outlet had paid us a higher per cent on the investment than any of our ventures, and to neglect fully stocking it was contrary to the creed of Hunter, Anthony & Co.
"Wall, I guess they're putty well satisfied with what we've been doin', ain't they?" Mr. Strout leaned back in his chair with a self-satisfied look on his face. "Wall, they must be a pretty near set if they expect more'n twelve per cent, on the capital. No, they're all right, 'though one of 'em, that Mr. Merry, is mighty inquisitive 'bout small things.
If a man has no connection with those in authority, or cannot obtain powerful intercession, or is unable to give heavy bribes, his property is valued at perhaps five per cent, or is set at so low a figure as to make the appraisal differ little from downright robbery.
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