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We find histories of Europe from 476 to 918, from 1270 to 1492, as if the accession of a capable German king in 918, or the death of a famous French king in 1270, or the discovery of America, marked a general change in European affairs. In reality, however, no general change took place at these dates or in any other single year.
During the last fiscal year the receipts from customs were for the first time more than $64,000,000, and from all sources $73,918,141, which, with the balance on hand up to the 1st of July, 1855, made the total resources of the year amount to $92,850,117.
The coffee tree being a shrub that yields a good harvest only in the fourth year, the exportation of coffee from the port of the Havannah was, in 1804, only 50,000 arrobas. It rose: In 1809 to 320,000 arrobas. In 1815 to 918,263 arrobas. In 1815, when the price of coffee was fifteen piastres the quintal, the value of the exportation from the Havannah exceeded the sum of 3,443,000 piastres.
One of the preachers of those old days, who was born in the "Valley of the Three Forks o' the Wolf" and preached at Pall Mall as part of his circuit when ordained, has left a record of one year's work: "During the conference year I preached 152 times, traveled 1,918 miles on horseback, prayed with 424 families, witnessed 80 conversions to God, and received 67 persons into the church.
MOVEMENT IN ORBIT. Period of revolution in years and days. MOVEMENT IN ORBIT. Orbital velocity in miles per second. Mean diameter in miles Surface compared with earth as 1. Mass compared with earth as 1. Planets Mercury..... 0.88 23 to 35 1.6 3,000 0.14 0.056 0.13 Venus.....0.224 1/2 21.9 1.17 7,700 0.94 0.92 0.78 The Earth... 1.00 18.5 1.0 7,918 1.00 1.00 1.00
Bezold, Catalogue, pp. 1437, 1438. Bezold, ib. p. 918. I.e., over him. Various traditions were current in Babylonia regarding the manner in which the universe came into existence. The labors of the theologians to systematize these traditions did not succeed in bringing about their unification.
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