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This island contains five volcanic mountains, of which Kea, 13,805 feet, is the highest; next to that, Loa, 13,675 feet; after these, Hualalai, rising 8273 feet; Kilauea, 4158 feet; and Kohala, 5505 feet above the sea; this last is largely buried beneath the lavas of Mauna Kea.
+805+. The importance attached by the Romans to the family life is expressed in the cult of Vesta, the guardian of the hearth as the center of that life. The Penates, however, the divine protectors of the household, were no less important in the family cult than she. The state also had its Vesta and its Penates.
On this day 21 officers and 182 men were killed, 72 officers and 1,245 men were wounded, 6 officers and 180 men missing; besides these, 13 were reported as killed, 84 as wounded, and 2 as missing without distinguishing between officers and men, thus making a total of 216 killed, 1,401 wounded, 188 missing in all, 1,805.
Interior Department 189,151,875.00 191,224,182.90 193,948,582.02 214,754,278.00 4,796,707.02 -25,602,403.00 -20,805,698.98 Post-Office Department proper 1,697,490.00 1,695,690.00 1,695,690.00 2,085,005.33 + 1,800.00 387,515.33 389,315.33 Deficiency in postal revenues 10,634,122.63 10,634,122.63 10,634,122.63 -10,634,122.65 -10,634,122.63
The ordinary receipts of the Government for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1886, were $336,439,727.06. Of this amount $192,905,023.41 was received from customs and $116,805,936.48 from internal revenue.
This powerful empire, as at present constituted, embraces: square miles inhabitants 1 The hereditary States of Austria, 76,199 9,843,490 2 The duchy of Styria, 8,454 780,100 3 Tyrol, 11,569 738,000 4 Bohemia, 20,172 3,380,000 5 Moravia 10,192 1,805,500 6 The duchy of Auschnitz in Galicia, 1,843 335,190 7 Illyria, 9,132 897,000 8 Hungary, 125,105 10,628,500 9 Dalmatia, 5,827 320,000 10 The Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom, 17,608 4,176,000 11 Galicia, 32,272 4,075,000
The expenditure on the navy has increased in the last ten years from $47,500,000 to $110,000,000, and the number of men from 31,157 to 60,805, with another increase in both money and men, voted at the moment of this writing in the summer of 1912. The debt of Germany, exclusive of paper money, in 1887 was 486,201,000 marks; in 1903 it stood at 2,733,500,000.
Saturated brine Evaporated salt Baked salt Michigan salt Onondaga salt. Calcium sulphate 0.73 1.50 0.46 0.805 1.355 Sodium sulphate .92 6.28 10.03 Sodium chloride 7.95 72.19 86.02 90.682 95.353 Insoluble matter 2.14 .16 .45 Water 88.03 19.19 1.78 6.752 3.000 Undetermined .23 .68 .1.26 Calcium chloride .974 .155 Magnesium chloride .781 .136 Total 100 100 100 99.994 99.999
Between the years 1856 and 1882 51 bears were killed and 22 persons killed by them, one of whom was Lord Edward Percy St. Maur, second son of the Duke of Somerset. Between the years 1856 and 1877 805 panthers were killed and 22 persons killed by them.
He was a fearless and brilliant tactician, and within two months had succeeded in capturing 7,757 officers and 350,845 men, with 805 guns and remember that this was in face of all the obstacles that the Minister of War, who was working with Rasputin as Germany's friend, had placed in his way. Brusiloff had done splendidly. No Russian general has eclipsed him in this war.
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