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The extra strain put upon it by the transport of troops and the maintenance of the armies exposed its weakness, and with each succeeding week of war, although in 1916 and 1917 Russia did receive 775 locomotives from abroad, Russian transport went from bad to worse, making inevitable a creeping paralysis of Russian economic life, during the latter already acute stages of which the revolutionaries succeeded to the disease that had crippled their precursors.

Compare M. Kowalewsky, in Folk-lore, i. p. 467. W.R.S. Ralston, op. cit. p. 240. W.R.S. Ralston, l.c. F.S. Krauss, "Altslavische Feuergewinnung," Globus, lix. p. 318. Ligho was an old heathen deity, whose joyous festival used to fall in spring. Ovid, Fasti, vi. 775 sqq. J. Grimm, Deutsche Mythologie,* i. 519.

"But I won't admit the supposition of his being lost, not for an instant." "Neither will I," said Paganel. "Is Australia a big place?" inquired Robert. "Australia, my boy, is about as large as four-fifths of Europe. It has somewhere about 775,000 HECTARES." "So much as that?" said the Major. "Yes, McNabbs, almost to a yard's breadth. Don't you think now it has a right to be called a continent?"

Less losses sustained by failures, expenses of commission and brokerage, and salary of three generations of trustees, as per statement annexed 13,775,000 212,175,000 Francs 212,175,000 "It is quite right," said Samuel, after examining the papers, contained in the cedar-wood box.

The mountain is, therefore, 15,775 feet above the level of the sea. Bird Catching. The golden-crested wren may be taken by striking the bough upon which it is sitting, sharply, with a stone or stick. The timid bird immediately drops to the ground, and generally dead. As their skins are tender, those who want them for stuffing will find this preferable to using the gun. Mag. Nat. Hist.

Those emigrants who embarked from Irish ports proceeded as follows: 189,225 to British America, namely, 107,792 males and 81,233 females; to the United States of America 19,775, namely, 10,725 males, and 2,950 females; to the Australian colonies, there went 4,553, in the proportion of 2,300 males and 2,253 females; and 494 persons embarked for the West Indies 300 males and 194 females.

Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. N. Brit. Rev., 11, 32, or 95; I, Naturelle des Poissons, Vol. 326; 8, 160; or Liv. Age, 2, XXI. 291; 17, I. Blackwood, 51, 296. Richardson's Fauna Bor. Amer. Quart. Rev., 67, 98, or 332; 69, 226. Blackwood, 10, 249; 49, 302; De Kay, ZoAlogy of N. Y. 21, 815; 24, 248; 35, 775; Agassiz, Lake Superior. 38, 119; 63, 673; 5, 123; 5, 281; 7, 137. Fraser, 42, 136.

When the ninety-seventh prize was drawn, the one consisting of seven thousand marks, the audience feared for a moment that Sandgoist was the winner of it. It was won, however, by ticket number 9627, which was within only forty-five points of Ole Kamp's number. The two drawings that followed were numbers very widely removed from each other: 775 and 76,287.

The expenditures of that Department for the year ending 30th June last were $9,060,268.58, The estimates for the year commencing 1st July next and ending June 30, 1853, are $7,898,775.83, showing a reductions of $1,161,492.75, The board of commissioners to whom the management of the affairs of the military asylum created by the act of 3d March last was intrusted have selected a site for the establishment of an asylum in the vicinity of this city, which has been approved by me subject to the production of a satisfactory title.

Well, then, how was Sir Bale in pocket as he rode up to his ancestral house of Mardykes, where a few thousand pounds would have been very welcome? He had won exactly 775 guineas; and had he staked a hundred instead of five on each of the names communicated by Feltram, he would have won 15,500 guineas.

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