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The public debt on the 1st day of July last, as appears by the books of the Treasury, amounted to $1,740,690,489.49. Probably, should the war continue for another year, that amount may be increased by not far from five hundred millions. Held, as it is, for the most part by our own people, it has become a substantial branch of national, though private, property.
However clearly democratic strategists showed that the Mithradatic war could only be regarded as terminated by the capture of the king, and that it was therefore necessary to undertake the pursuit round the Black Sea, and above all things to keep aloof from Syria Pompeius, not concerning himself about such talk, had set out in the spring of 690 from Armenia and marched towards Syria.
He had brought a copy of Homer with him, and is said to have established a school of Greek in Canterbury. He died in 690, and after his death there was no archbishop for three years. In 693, one #Brethwald#, an English monk, some time Abbot of Reculver, was appointed to the see.
The London Metropolitan Police District covers 690 square miles, extending 12 to 15 miles in every direction from Charing Cross, and contained in 1881 a population of 4,764,312; but what is generally known as London covers 122 square miles, containing, in 1881, 528,794 houses, and a population of 3,814,574, averaging 7.21 persons per house, 49 per acre, and 31,267 per square mile.
Time has made commonplace the proportions of the "Great Eastern," the marine marvel not only of her age, but of the forty years that succeeded her breaking-up as impracticable on account of size. She was 19,000 tons, 690 feet long, and built with both paddle-wheels and a screw. The "Celtic" is 700 feet long, 20,000 tons, with twin screws.
"Why don't you go and see if 690 is in his box?" said the first clerk, turning with affected asperity to one of the others. The clerk went away, returned, and said with singular gravity, "He was there a moment ago, but he's gone out to stretch his legs. It's rather crampin' at first; and he can't stand it more than ten hours at a time, you know." But simplicity has its limits.
The court of Ctesiphon would thus have had reason enough for going to war with Rome; it seemed the prelude to its doing so, when in 690 it declared war on Armenia on account of the question of the frontier. But Phraates had not the courage to come to an open rupture with the Romans at a time when the dreaded general with his strong army was on the borders of the Parthian empire.
The suggestions of the Secretary relating to the practical operations of this important Department, and his recommendations in the direction of simplification and economy, particularly in the work of collecting customs duties, are especially urged upon the attention of Congress. The ordinary receipts from all sources for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1885, were $322,690,706.38.
=================================================================== | New England | Michigan | Iowa Total land area | | | square miles | 62,000 | 57,500 | 55,500 Number of farms | 192,000 | 203,000 | 229,000 Acreage in farms | 20,500,000 | 17,500,000 | 34,600,000 Acres of improved | | | land | 8,135,000 | 11,800,000 | 29,900,000 Value of farms | $640,000,000 | $690,000,000 | $1,835,000,000 Value of farm | | | products | $170,000,000 | $147,000,000 | $365,000,000 Persons engaged in | | | agriculture | 290,000 | 312,000 | 372,000 Rural population | 1,500,000 | 1,200,000 | 1,260,000 Value of products per| | | acre of improved | | | land | $20 | $12 | $12 Number of Granges | 1,200 | 725 | Number of Grange | | | members | 120,000 | 45,000 |
The machine climbed at 280 feet per minute and reached a height of 5,000 feet, while in the landing test, in spite of its great weight and bulk, it pulled up on grass in 56 yards. The total weight was 2,690 lbs. when fully loaded, and the total area of supporting surface was 500 square feet; the motive power was supplied by a six-cylinder 120 horsepower Austro-Daimler engine.
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