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P. Rangiah Naidu pointed out that military expenditure had been £1,463,000 in 1857 and had risen to £16,975,750 in 1884. Mr. D.E. Wacha ascribed the growth to the amalgamation scheme of 1859, and remarked that the Company in 1856 had an army of 254,000 men at a cost of 11-1/2 millions, while in 1884 the Crown had an army of only 181,000 men at a cost of 17 millions.
Since 1834 there have been circulated, Bibles, 24,768; Testaments, 15,100; Psalms, 719; other portions of Scripture, 1,876; or, total, 42,463 Bibles or portions of Scripture. Two large buildings have been erected, a third is in the process of erection; the land on which they stand has been purchased.
The need of competent surgeons and midwives was much felt in the country, and recourse was had to the Estates General to provide them. Cormeilles-en-Parisis, A. P., iv. 463, Section 17. N., Troyes, A. P., vi. 79, Section 80. Such were the desires of the French nation in the spring of 1789. In them we may note several important points of agreement.
A much greater painter than he was Polygnotus of Thasos, the contemporary of Phidias, who came to Athens about the year 463 B.C., one of the greatest geniuses of any age, and one of the most magnanimous; and had the good fortune to live in an age of exceeding intellectual activity.
A much greater painter than he was Polygnotus of Thasos, the contemporary of Phidias, who came to Athens about the year 463 B.C., one of the greatest geniuses of any age, and one of the most magnanimous, who had the good fortune to live in an age of exceeding intellectual activity.
In 1900 the number of persons in the United States above the age of ten years who could not speak English was reported by the census to be 1,463,000, but it is probable, owing to the recent large immigration, that the number is at least twice that at the present time. Crime and Poverty. It is said that crime is apt to accompany migration.
From the sixth to the twentieth day, the log of the Minnie B was written in a sharp, pointed, scholarly hand, and this record was confined to the mere relation of distances and reckonings. Then on the twenty-first day of August there appeared the following entry: "46 degrees 57' W. Long. 27 degrees 24' 11" N. Lat. No wind. Sargasso Sea. Current 9.463 kilometers per 24 hrs. W. SW. Cast sea anchor.
General Kent says: "The bloody fighting of my brave command can not be adequately described in words. The following list of killed, wounded, and missing tells the story of their valor: "July 1st the loss was 12 officers and 77 men killed, 32 officers and 463 men wounded, 58 men missing. Total loss, 642."
Today, the last big drive against our timber assets is being waged in the forests of the Pacific Coast. Our virgin forests originally covered 822,000,000 acres. Today, only one-sixth of them are left. All the forest land now in the United States including culled, burned and cut-over tracts, totals 463,000,000 acres.
Hooker was insane were deliberately circulated. Harper, Anthony, I, p. 463. Ibid. Only a few entries relating to the Beecher-Tilton case remain in the Susan B. Anthony diaries, now in the Library of Congress, and the diary for 1875 is not there. Ibid., p. 462. Ibid., II, pp. 1007-1009. Ibid., I, p. 468. Ibid., p. 470.
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