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Prelates and priests, monks and nuns exert an influence that is all- pervading. William E. Curtis, United States Commissioner to South America, wrote: "One-fourth of all the property belongs to the bishop. There is a Catholic church for every 150 inhabitants. Ten per cent. of the population are priests, monks or nuns, and 272 out of the 365 days of the year are observed as fast or feast days.
The balance on hand in the Treasury, March 31st, 1874. 764.57 That, under the head Finance, includes the interest on borrowed money. The funded national debt is $340,000. Of this sum a portion bears no stated interest, only such as may arise from the very dubious profits of the Hawaiian hotel. The interest charges are 12 per cent. on $25,000, and 9 per cent. on $272,000.
The Governor had only a salary of £272 sterling, out of which he was expected to clothe, maintain, and pay a guard for himself, consisting of two sergeants and twenty-five soldiers, furnishing them with firing in winter, and other necessary articles. A Governor was compelled to trade to be on a pecuniary level with the merchant.
Egypt: poetic teaching, 121; trip, 271, 272; Sphinx, 330. Election Sermon, illustration, 112. Elizabeth, Queen, verbal heir-loom, 313. Ellis, Rufus, minister of the First Church, Boston, 43. Eloquence, defined, 285, 286. Emerson Family, 3 et seq.
Copies Cash Cash Total Total Value of Sold Profit Loss Profit loss stock Erewhon 3843 62 10 10 69 3 10 6 13 0 The Fair 442 41 2 2 27 18 2 13 4 0 Haven Life and 640 4 17 1.5 7 19 1.5 12 16 3 Habit Evolution 541 103 11 10 89 13 10 13 18 0 Old & New Unconscious 272 38 13 5 38 13 5 Memory Alps and 332 113 6 4 110 18 4 22 8 0 Sanctuaries Selections 120 51 4 10.5 48 10 10.5 2 14 0 from Previous Works Luck or 284 41 6 4 13 18 10 27 7 6 Cunning?
Total tonnage destroyed British, 316,204; American, 3,322; other belligerents, 44,272; neutrals, 93,019. Grand total February 1-28, 456,817 tons. On the other hand the German admiralty made the following official announcement on March 19, 1917; "In February 368 merchant ships of an aggregate gross tonnage of 781,500 were lost by the war measures of the Central Powers.
"James Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, has, seven leagues from London, Hatfield House, with its four lordly pavilions, its belfry in the centre, and its grand courtyard of black and white slabs, like that of St. Germain. This palace, which has a frontage 272 feet in length, was built in the reign of James I. by the Lord High Treasurer of England, the great-grandfather of the present earl.
She died on July 30, 1762, aged "about sixty-three years." Arthur Young, visiting Chambéri in 1789, with some trouble procured the certificate of her death, which may be found in his Travels, i. 272. See a letter of M. de Conzié to Rousseau, in M. Streckeisen-Moultou's collection, ii. 445. Conf., xii. 233. Conf., viii. 210. Gaberel's Rousseau et les Genevois, p. 62. Conf., viii. 212.
Ignatius there were 272 colleges, and in 150 years the collegiate and university houses of education numbered 769. "Looking at these seven hundred institutions of secondary and superior education," says Father Thomas Hughes in his work on Loyola, "in their scope of legislative executive power we find they were not so much a plurality of institutions as a single one.
Upon a platform of crude brick, raised a few feet above the level of the alluvial plain, was built the first or basement stage of the great edifice, an exact square, 272 feet each way, and and probably twenty-six feet in perpendicular height.
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