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At the moment of our making the acquaintance of this vessel a very unsatisfactory state of affairs happened to prevail on board her. She was, as we have already seen, a large ship, as ships went at that time, being of 870 tons register, and capable of carrying close upon 1200 tons dead-weight.
Other authors call the natives of the Canaries Guanchos. Continuation of the Voyage by Cape Branco, the Coast of Barbary, and the Fortia of Arguin; with some account of the Arabs, the Azanaghi, and the Country of Tegazza. Leaving the Canaries, we pursued our course towards Ethiopia, and arrived in a few days at Cape Branco, which is about 870 miles from these islands.
On the long lines, where it had to be as thick as a lead pencil, the expense seemed to be ruinously great. When the first pair of wires was strung between New York and Chicago, for instance, it was found to weigh 870,000 pounds a full load for a twenty-two-car freight train; and the cost of the bare metal was $130,000.
On the 29th, John B. Floyd, Secretary of War, having failed to secure the consent of the Administration to an entire withdrawal of the Federal garrison from the harbor of Charleston, also resigned, and the next day he having in the meantime escaped in safety to Virginia was indicted by the Grand Jury at Washington, for malfeasance and conspiracy to defraud the Government in the theft of $870,000 of Indian Trust Bonds from the Interior Department, and the substitution therefor of Floyd's acceptances of worthless army-transportation drafts on the Treasury Department.
In 1909 the street accidents in Paris numbered 65,870, and there was one summons for every 77 motor taxicabs, but Paris is now without a rival as the dirtiest, worst-paved capital in Europe, and the home of social anarchy; a place where adventurous spirits will go soon rather than to Africa, or to the Rocky Mountains, for excitement in affrays with revolvers, vitriol, and chloroform.
Argentine, with a population of 8,284,000, reported annual revenues of $159,000,000 ; and Chile, with a population of 3,870,000, had an annual revenue of $77,964,000 . These four states rank in political and economic importance close to Canada. Great Britain holds a number of strategic positions in the West Indies. Other nations have minor possessions in Latin America.
This sent the Fishers home happy with sixteen years' interest on $8,873 the same amounting to $8,997.94. Total, $17,870.94. For an entire year the suffering Fisher family remained quiet even satisfied, after a fashion. Then they swooped down upon the government with their wrongs once more.
I have roughly estimated the total value of the coffee annually produced in Mysore at £870,000, and if, for the sake of even numbers, we knock off £70,000, a 7 per cent. export duty on this will amount to £56,000, and if the Government could raise, as it proposes, the rupee to 1s. 6d., £168,000 a year would be the price that the measure would entail on a portion of the inhabitants of the native state of Mysore on this single article of export.
For the image, 986,030,000 lbs. of copper were needed, and on the gilding of its surface 870 lbs. of refined gold were used. These figures represented a vast fortune in the eighth century.
The profits of Scotch banks run thus: Capital L Dividend Bank of Scotland 1,500,000 12 British Linen Company 1,000,000 3 Caledonian 125,000 10 Clydesdale 900,000 10 Commercial Bank of Scotland 1,000,000 13 National Bank of Scotland 1,000,000 112 North of Scotland 280,000 10 Union Bank of Scotland 1,000,000 10 City of Glasgow 870,000 8 Royal Bank 2,000,000 8 9,675,000
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