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Throughout the country the total number of pieces of ordinary mail handled by 3,855 railway postal clerks on the lines, during the year ending June 30, 1883, amounted to 3,981,516,280; the number of errors made in their distribution was 958,478 pieces, or a per centage of correct distribution of 99.97. This minutia of detail is applied to the distribution of a vast bulk of mail.
Let me assist the reader's comprehension of the magnitude of this number by giving the population of a few important Cities, according to the census of 1870: Cambridge, Mass 89,639 Charleston, S. C. 48,958 Columbus, O. 31,274 Dayton, O. 30,473 Fall River, Mass 26,766 Kansas City, Mo 32,260
The ordinary expenditures of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1888, were $259,653,958.67, leaving a surplus of $119,612,116.09. The decrease in these expenditures as compared with the fiscal year ended June 30, 1887, was $8,278,221.30, notwithstanding the payment of more than $5,000,000 for pensions in excess of what was paid for that purpose in the latter-mentioned year.
We may judge by these expressions that his patience was at length worn out. He wrote to the City of Rotterdam, which had deferred nominating a Pensionary since the sentence passed against Grotius, that they might now chuse one, since they ought no longer to look on him as a Dutchman. Ep. 330. p. 849. Ep. 352. p. 127. Ep. 337. p. 851. Ep. 577. p. 227. Ep. 330. p. 849. Ep. 572. p. 958.
Now the singular thing about this famine is that during it there was no scarcity of food in Ireland; there was only a shortage of potatoes. "In 1847 alone," writes Mr Michael Davitt in his "Fall of Feudalism," "food to the value of £44,958,000 sterling was grown in Ireland according to the statistical returns for that year. But a million of people died for want of food all the same."
It was early in the year 958, a spring day when the sun shone brightly and all things spoke of the coming summer the songs of the birds, the opening buds, the blossoming orchards. But peace was banished from those who sat in that council chamber. Edwy was strangely disturbed, his face was flushed, and he bore evidence of the most violent agitation.
The building of this temple is recorded between A.D. 913 and 921; and it is afterwards mentioned between the years 958 and 972, as having escaped destruction when the King Abhimanyu Nero-like set fire to his own capital. As this is the only temple situated in the old capital, there can be very little, if any, doubt that it is the very same building which now exists.
Wessex, therefore, remained faithful to him, at least for a time, but Mercia was utterly lost; and Edgar was recognised as the lawful king north of the Thames, by all parties; friends and foes, even by Edwy himself. Many months had passed away since the destruction of the hall of Aescendune and the death of the unhappy Ragnar, and the spring of 958 had well-nigh ended.
If he had recourse to the returns of the commissioners, he would have found, that while in the year ending January 1844 the gross number of those who received parochial relief in Ireland was 53,582, the number of those who received similar relief in England amounted to 4,279,565, considerably more than one-fourth of the population, of whom 958,057 actually entered the Bastiles.
The few mythical stories that have survived play an insignificant part in the religious system a sort of result that is to be expected whenever a substantially definite monotheistic conception has been reached. +958+. Egypt produced a couple of myths of great interest.
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