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Its net gold holdings on November 1, 1898, were $239,885,162 as compared with $153,573,147 on November 1, 1897, and an increase of net cash of $207,756,100, November 1, 1897, to $300,238,275, November 1, 1898.
The following statistics show the increase in our trade with the countries with which we have reciprocal trade agreements from the date when such agreements went into effect up to September 30, 1892, the increase being in some almost wholly and in others in an important degree the result of these agreements: The domestic exports to Germany and Austria-Hungary have increased in value from $47,673,756 to $57,993,064, an increase of $10,319,308, or 21.63 per cent.
Gregory II. saved the city from the attacks of the Lombards, who had seized Ravenna and extinguished the series of Greek exarchs in 751. He secured the assistance of Pepin, and the real governor of the French monarchy Charles Martel, who, by his signal victory over the Saracens, had saved Europe from the Mohammedan yoke. Twice in 754 and 756 Pepin marched to the relief of the city.
The latter defended himself desperately, but the odds were too great, and the dastardly El Senix ended the struggle by felling him with the butt-end of his musket, when he was quickly despatched. Thus died the last of the Omeyades, the famous dynasty of Arabian caliphs founded in 660, and established in Spain in 756.
They were as peaceful as two cows in a pasture. I can remember once remarking that mankind, with all its boasted modern progress, had not yet been able to invent a turnstile that will commute in fractions. I have now learned that 756 rights-of-way cannot operate simultaneously at one point. Right-of-way, like fighting women, requires space.
The 81 paras is the rarest of the series, as will be seen from the following inventory taken in February, 1859, of the then unsold stock: 27 paras, printed 6,000, sold 3,675. 54 " " 10,000 " 4,756. 81 " " 2,000 " 693. 108 " " 6,000 " 2,568. All these stamps were printed by hand on coloured paper in sheets of thirty-two impressions in four rows of eight stamps.
For interest on the public debt 59,160,131.25 Total 265,408,137.54 Leaving a surplus revenue of $132,879,444.41, which, with an amount drawn from the cash balance in the Treasury of $1,299,312.55, making $134,178,756.96, was applied to the redemption Of bonds for the sinking fund $44,850,700.00 Of fractional currency for the sinking fund 46,556.96
Without attempting to enumerate all, it will be conceded that there should be deducted from those which it includes 375,143 carpenters and joiners, 285,401 milliners, dressmakers, and seamstresses, 172,726 blacksmiths, 133,756 tailors and tailoresses, 102,473 masons, 76,241 butchers, 41,309 bakers, 22,083 plasterers, and 4,891 engaged in manufacturing agricultural implements, amounting in the aggregate to 1,214,023, leaving 2,623,089 persons employed in such manufacturing industries as are claimed to be benefited by a high tariff.
This picture, commonly distinguished by the appellation of the St. Jerome of CORREGGIO, is undoubtedly his chef d'oeuvre. In the year 1749, the king of Portugal is said to have offered for it a sum equal in value to L18,000 sterling. N deg. 756. Catherine. This last-mentioned picture has just been engraved in an excellent manner by an Italian artist, M. ROSA-SPINA.
Error of three dollars in the valuation of goods captured at Arica. 73. Forty dollars for repairing pumps at a time when the ships could hardly be kept afloat. 75. Imputed error of one dollar! in the purchase of 756 gals. of gin, &c. &c.
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