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But now they may be congratulated on better success, the statistics for 1896 showing, at home and abroad, a total of nearly 90,000 members, with 1,622 chapels, 417 ministers, 3,448 local preachers, 1,350 Sunday schools, and 203,712 scholars.
It will be recalled that in the Japanese investiture of Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese war, thousands of lives were expended upon the retention and assault of 203 Metre Hill. It was the most blood-stained spot upon the whole of the Eastern Asiatic battlefield. General Nogi threw thousands after thousands of his warriors against this rampart while the Russians defended it no less resolutely.
Grisolles mentions a child who was so fat at twelve months that there was constant danger of suffocation; but, marvelous to relate, it lost all its obesity when two and a half, and later was remarkable for its slender figure. McNaughton describes Susanna Tripp, who at six years of age weighed 203 pounds and was 3 feet 6 inches tall and measured 4 feet 2 inches around the waist.
See above, p. 309. Theal, p. 54. The Teton lady who became a mermaid was summoned, by singing an incantation, to suckle her child; "Journal Amer. F. L." vol. ii. p. 137. Schreck, p. 71. Poestion, p. 55; "Cymru Fu," p. 474. "Y Cymmrodor," vol. iv. p. 177, vol. vi. p. 203.
In the three-days battle around Santiago, the Americans lost 22 officers and 208 men killed, and 81 officers and 1,203 men wounded, and 79 missing. The Spanish loss as best estimated was near 1,600 officers and men killed and wounded. Santiago was surrendered July 17, 1898, with something over 22,000 troops.
I, however, reproduce below the Iranian subjects touched upon in these two Arabic books on adab in the Cairo editions. Iranian material from the Mahasin-wal masawi, Part I, p. 1. A dictum of Buzarjmahir. Interesting is the interpretation of the Persian word Mihman at another place in the same Arabic books, viz: MA, 79, 6 to 11=MM, 202, 16 to 203, 2.
That for 1869 showed 17,203, earning from fifty centimes to one franc twenty-five centimes daily; 11,000 of these workers being furnished lodging, food, and washing. Of the entire number 88,340 earned from one franc fifty centimes to four francs a day; 767 earned from four francs fifty centimes to ten francs daily, most of the latter class being heads of work rooms or shops.
The conflagration of the bridge of course checked their onward movement, and we quietly continued the retreat." Von Borke, vol. i. p. 203. The command of his brigade passed to Colonel George Crook of the Thirty-sixth Ohio. Through some misunderstanding Rodman took the road to Jefferson, leading to the left, where Franklin's corps was moving, and did not get upon the Hagerstown road.
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Above, pp. 118, 163 sq. Above, p. 201. Above, p. 203. Above, p. 250. Above, pp. 251, 262, 263, 264. Above, p. 112. Above, p. 141. Above, p. 214. Above, p. 204. Above, p. 194. Above, p. 185, 189; compare p. 174. Above, p. 166. Above, pp. 249, 250. Above, pp. 107, 109, 111, 119; compare pp. 116, 192, 193. Above, p. 115. Above, p. 180. Above, pp. 113, 142, 170, 233.
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