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Asshur-nazir-pal's yoke lay lightly upon his vassals, and during the remainder of his long reign from B.C. 877 to B.C. 860 he seems to have desisted from military expeditions, and to have exerted no pressure on the countries situated west of the Euphrates.

On another side the vast accumulation of the religious ideas and usages of lower tribes led Herbert Spencer to his euhemeristic view. Neither of these theories has seriously affected the growth of the science of mythology. +877+. A saner direction was given to investigation by the great biological and sociological studies made in the second half of the nineteenth century.

* Dugdale, p. 798. Dugdale, p. 791. * Dugdale, p. 820. Dugdale, p. 877. v Dugdale, p. 826, 827 What rendered an accommodation more desperate was, that the demands on these three heads, however exorbitant, were acknowledged, by the parliamentary commissioners, to be nothing but preliminaries.

Before he could be afoot again in the spring of 877 the main body of the pagans at Exeter had made that city too strong for any attempt at assault, so the King and his troops could do no more than beleaguer it on the land side, as he had done at Wareham.

The precarious condition of financial affairs among the people still needing relief, immediately after the 30th day of June, 1887, the remainder of the 3 per cent bonds then outstanding, amounting with principal and interest to the sum of $18,877,500, were called in and applied to the sinking-fund contribution for the current fiscal year.

There are only twenty-nine towns with more than 100,000 inhabitants; forty-nine with more than 50,000; 471 with more than 10,000; 877 with more than 5,000, and 2,134 organized municipalities with a population of 1,000 or more.

The operations of the Post-Office Department constitute one of the most active elements of our national prosperity, and it is gratifying to observe with what vigor they are conducted. The mail routes of the United States cover an extent of about 142,877 miles, having been increased about 37,103 miles within the last two years.

The precarious condition of financial affairs among the people still needing relief, immediately after the 30th day of June, 1887, the remainder of the 3 per cent bonds then outstanding, amounting with principal and interest to the sum of $18,877,500, were called in and applied to the sinking-fund contribution for the current fiscal year.