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In heavy guns the Chinese were the better armed, but in quick-firing guns the Japanese were vastly superior, and while the Chinese battleships Ting Yuen and Chen Yuen, each of 7,430 tons, were superior to any of the Japanese warships, the three largest of which were each of 4,277 tons, the gross tonnage of the Japanese fleet was 36,000 to 21,000 of the Chinese.
Rambure, MS. Mém. vol. i. pp. 276, 277. Albert de Bellièvre was the second son of the celebrated Chancellor Pomponne de Bellièvre and of Marie Prunier, demoiselle de Grignon. He was a distinguished classic and an elegant scholar. Having become Archbishop of Lyons, he subsequently transferred that dignity to his younger brother Claude, and retired to his abbey of Jouy, where he died in 1621.
In a few cases only disappointment has resulted from the changes made, and commission government is still in its experimental stage. 277. =The City Manager.= A modification of the commission plan was tried in several cities of the South and Middle West in 1913-14. This has been called the city-manager plan.
Nothing turns on the actual names in these stories; they have been evidently much corrupted, probably past all recognition. Ibid. p. 189; vol. v. pp. 59, 66; vol. vi. p. 196. Pliny l. xvi. c. 95; Thorpe, vol. ii. pp. 275, 277; Stephens, p. 248, citing the "Barzas Breiz." Bayol, the Governor of Kotenon, who was recently imprisoned by the bloodthirsty King of Dahomey.
In the last ten years two nations have almost doubled their naval personnel: Germany has increased hers from 31,157 to 60,805, and Austria-Hungary from 9,069 to 17,277. In Great Britain the increase has been about one seventh, and this one seventh is about equal to the present strength of Austria.
This is shown by the fact that although more than one-third of the 952 plants above mentioned are under municipal control, only 30 out of 277, or less than one-ninth of the largest plants, are municipally owned.
Amid flashes of lightning and peals of thunder this document was read to a council whose membership had shrunk during seven months of deliberation from 767 to 547 attendants, 277 qualified members had never put in an appearance, and of these all but two had been cowed into abject submission.
For a general account of religious dances, see Major-General Forlong's Faiths of Man, art. "Dancing." Catlin, North American Indians, i. p. 36. Cited by Frazer, Taboo and the Perils of the Soul, p. 161. Turner's Samoa, p. 345-6. Brady, Clavis Calendaria, vol. i. p. 223. Cited by Tylor, Primitive Culture, ii. pp. 412-3. Natural Causes and Supernatural Seemings, p. 277.
Its truthfulness is neither ugly nor depressing. Iliad, xxiv. 277 f. Nor again is the Greek truthfulness identical with objectivity. An objective writer tells his story and conveys his impressions, as far as possible, by relating facts without commenting upon them. But such a writer would not of necessity be more truthful or impartial than any one else.
He died in Albany, New York, in the summer of 1867. 136, 137, 163, 277, 287, 432, 461, 533, 535. WALTER D. McINDOE was born in Scotland, March 30, 1819. He emigrated to New York City in his fifteenth year, and was a clerk in that city, and afterwards in Charleston and St. Louis. He subsequently settled in Wis-' cousin, and engaged in the lumber trade.
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