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During the same period the payments made in redemption of the public debt, including interest and premium, amounted to $9,844,528.
"A better life than you, my dear Sir:" I repeated. He replied warmly, "Don't compliment not." Croker's Boswell, p. 844 See ante, p. 293 The French historian, Jacques-Auguste de Thou, 1553-1617, author of Historia sui Temporis in 138 books. See ante, ii. 42, note 2. Mr. Hutton was occasionally admitted to the royal breakfast-table.
Another indication of the general prosperity of the country is found in the fact that the number of depositors in savings banks increased from 693,870 in 1860 to 4,258,893 in 1890, an increase of 513 per cent, and the amount of deposits from $149,277,504 in 1860 to $1,524,844,506 in 1890, an increase of 921 per cent. In 1891 the amount of deposits in savings banks was $1,623,079,749.
His fortune was the colossus of the times; an object of awe to all wealth-strivers. Necessary as manufactures were in the social and industrial system, they, as yet, occupied a strikingly subordinate and inferior position as an agency in accumulating great fortunes. Statistics issued in 1844 of manufactures in the United States showed a total gross amount of $307,196,844 invested.
"Knowing Ashby's ascendency over his men, and finding himself thus deprived of legitimate power, the general was constrained to pause, and the cavalry was left unorganised and undisciplined. One half was rarely available for duty. The remainder were roaming over the country, imposing upon the generous hospitalities of the citizens, or lurking in their homes. O.R. volume 12 part 3 page 844.
The expenditures of the second Convention did not exceed $2,844.07; while the total cost of the first Convention was $7,850.20. Here then was economy in men, economy in time, and economy in expenditures. The thrifty pioneers were proud of the record. The Constitution of 1846 was modeled upon the Constitution of 1844, although it was by no means a servile copy of that twice rejected instrument.
NAVY DEPARTMENT: Navy Department proper 116,101,730.24 117,029,914.38 119,768,860.83 119,596,870.46 3,667,130.59 3,495,140.22 + 171,990.37 New navy building program 12,840,428.00 12,844,122.00 12,844,122.00 14,790,122.00 3,694.00 1,949,694.00 1,946,000.00
There are mills scattered all over the country. The industry dates from 1851, and during the last twenty years the number of looms has increased 100 per cent and spindles 172 per cent. January 1, 1891, there were 127 mills, with 117,922 operatives, representing an investment of £7,844,000.
To Clara Colby, July 22, 1895, Anthony Collection, Henry E. Huntington Library. Harper, Anthony, II, p. 842. N.d., Anthony Collection, Henry E. Huntington Library. Harper, Anthony, II, p. 843. Ibid., pp. 844, 859. Ms., Diary, July 10, 1896. Sept. 8, 1896, Anthony Collection, Henry E. Huntington Library. Shaw, The Story of a Pioneer, pp. 274-275.
This resulted in the expansion of our flying corps from a total of 1,844 officers and men, and seven squadrons with some 150 machines fit for war use, to a total of nearly 300,000 officers and men, and 201 squadrons and 22,000 machines in use at the end of the war, and in the evolution of the machine to a point where we can regard it, not only as a weapon of war, but as a new method of transport for commercial purposes in peace.
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