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This has long been a practice in Sweden, but is not universal. There are at present 5,277 relief establishments of all kinds in the kingdom, and the total contributions for the benefit of the poor amount to $3,000,000 annually, or on an average of 58 cents per capita of the entire population, an average of 44 cents in the country and $1.18 in the cities.

In some villages the boys and girls went together, but the higher civil and ecclesiastical authorities, the king and the bishops, more familiar with the manners of the court than with those of the village, looked on these mixed schools with disfavor. Ibid., Le Village, 277. Ibid., L'Ecole de village, 17, 18. Mathieu, 262.

See also ante, ii. 100, 450, in. 23, 277, 331; and post, May 18, 1784, and Steevens's account of Johnson just before June 22, 1784. Thomas Shaw, D.D., author of Travels to Barbary and the Levant. See ante, iii. 314. The friend very likely was Boswell himself.

All historians are pretty well agreed upon the relation of the Polk administration to the Mexican war. But the story has never been so clearly and admirably traced by any other as by von Holst in the third volume of his history. December 22, 1847. Printed by Lamon, 282. See, also, Herndon, 277.

"This is your stake out yonder. The rule shows it to be a little over 34-5/8 inches from the base line at B. That is, by the scale, a few inches over 277 feet and that is the distance from here to where Grace stuck it into the ground. Our hundred-foot steel tape line is at your service, Mr. Hooper." Mr. Hooper merely glanced at Bill. He took up the tape line and spoke to his nephew.

The result of the election, which took place on November 5th, hung in suspense for many days. Then it appeared that Wilson, by capturing thirteen California votes, had won by 277 electoral votes to 254. for Hughes. Of the popular vote, Wilson got 9,128,00 and Hughes, 8,536,000. So the slogan, "He kept us out of war," accomplished its purpose.

About the year B.C. 277 it was menaced by the Gauls, to whom the Byzantines were forced to pay tribute. When those invaders had been driven back by the Thracian tribes, these in turn exacted from Byzantium like payments, and to increase its revenues the city taxed all vessels entering the Euxine.

A French fleet, bringing over a strong reinforcement, had appeared on the coast of Kent, where they were attacked by the English, under the command of Philip d'Albiney, and were routed with considerable loss. D'Albiney employed a stratagem against them, which is said to have contributed to the victory. Ann. Waverl. p. 183. W. Heming. p. 563. Trivet, p. 169. M. West. p. 277.

Salary Secretariate of State 14 18 $100,500 $8,340 Justice and Police 277 3,271 110,205 637,602 Public Instruction 3 9 1,320 1,824 Finance 7 3,084 10,320 730,268 Commerce, P. Work 1 347 2,400 69,808 Arms 125 51,885 Total 303 6,854 $224,755 $1,490,747 M. De Rayneval admits that the people are not enterprising.

Pitt and Fox, and their respective followers then left the house, leaving the ministerial party and the Grenville party to decide the fate of Patten's resolutions, which were negatived by 275 votes against 34. A comparison of the figures of the two divisions, allowing for tellers, gives as the voting strength of Pitt's party 58, of Grenville's 36, of Fox's 22, and of Addington's 277.

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