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Reports are also received from 25 Canadian stations, 375 volunteer observers, 52 army surgeons at military posts, and 333 foreign stations. The expense of the service during the fiscal year, after deducting receipts from military telegraph lines, was $792,592.97.
In 1901 the men of the life-saving corps were called to give aid to 377 wrecked ships. Of property in jeopardy valued at $7,354,000, they saved $6,405,035 worth. Of 93,792 human beings in peril of death in the waters, all save 979 were saved.
They are to be found in some of the editions printed in Holland, and are very highly commended by Vossius , who says the learned world is much obliged to their author. A letter from Grotius to his brother informs us, that the latter part of the notes of Lucan were by William Grotius. Præs. Vir. Epist. p. 377. Ep. 128. p. 792.
Experience quickly proved, however, that some more efficient management was necessary in the maritime provinces, and in 792, Kwammu being then on the throne, an edict abolished the provincial troops in all regions except those which, by their proximity to the continent of Asia, were exposed to danger, namely, Dazai-fu in Kyushu, and in Mutsu, Dewa, and Sado in the north.
Cologne has 7 libraries and 6 reading- rooms, with 24,898 volumes. The smallest library is in the village community of Dudweiler, in the Rhine province, which contains 132 volumes for the 22,000 inhabitants. There were 14,941 books published in Germany in 1880, 18,875 in 1890, 24,792 in 1900, and 31,281 in 1910.
The mean distances from the Sun are: Mercury, 36 million miles; Venus, 67 million miles; the Earth, 93 million miles; Mars, 141 million miles; Jupiter, 483 million miles; Saturn, 886 million miles; Uranus, 1,782 million miles; Neptune, 2,792 million miles.
A. The coefficients of a greater number of screw vessels have been obtained and recorded, but it would occupy too much time to enumerate them here. The coefficient of performance of the Fairy is 464.8; of the Rattler 676.8; and of the Frankfort 792.3. This coefficient, however, refers to nautical and not to statute miles.
My dear Sister, The election here is going on as well as possible. Today the poll stands thus: Marshall Macaulay Sadler 1,804 1,792 1,353 The probability is that Sadler will give up the contest. If he persists, he will be completely beaten. The voters are under 4,000 in number; those who have already polled are 3,100; and about five hundred will not poll at all.
Multitudes flocked towards Westminster, and insulted the prelates and such of the lords as adhered to the crown. * Nalson, vol. ii. p. 646. Journ. 16th Nov. 1641. Dugdale, p. 79. Rush. part. iii. vol. i. p. 710. * Nalson, vol ii. p 784, 792. Nalson, vol. ii. p. 792. Journ. 27th, 28th, and 29th of Dec. 1641.
About the same time, that ancient engine of oppression, a Commission to inquire into estates forfeited, was established, and, in a short time, decreed that 1,060,792 acres were escheated to the crown. This was almost the last fragment of the patrimony of the Catholic inhabitants.
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