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The assembled two hundred and eighty-one had heard the statement in silence and forthwith had departed in a quiet and orderly manner. O'Hara asked permission to send his men back to the station house. Congressman Mallard returned to Washington on the midnight train, his secretary accompanying him.
Its chief commodity is cacao, with which it supplies most parts on the South Sea, and we were told it never exported less than 30,000 carguas yearly, and sometimes double that quantity, a cargua being eighty-one pounds weight, which only costs here two dollars and a half.
In the littleness of things, it so happened that at a time when John Stuyvesant Schuyler and Thomas Cathcart Blake, serious, solemn, side-by- side, were telling the widow of Jimmy Blair that the Tidewater Southern Railroad, in which her husband had largely interested himself before his death, had declared an extra dividend that had enabled them that day to deposit to her credit in the bank the sum of four thousand two hundred and eighty-one dollars and seventy-three cents, in a little hut on the black Breton coast a woman lay dying.
Such economy on the one hand and such generosity on the other have seldom been known in human history. But George Muller's record will compare favourably with this or any other of modern days. His frugality, simplicity, and economy were equal to Wesley's, and his gifts aggregated eighty-one thousand pounds. Mr.
"I designed it to be the tallest and finest chimney I ever erected, and I hope it is all correct." "It is, sir," said Mr. Belford. "Everything is correct to the very capstones." "It is my tallest chimney, Mr. Franklin eighty-one feet and six inches; and that is two feet taller than any chimney in the whole Salmon Falls valley." Mr.
See Pope, Epitaphs, 9. David Monypenny had been on the Bench from 1813; he retired in 1830, and died at the age of eighty-one in 1850. Parody on Moore's Minstrel Boy. "Le Pas de la Fontaine des Pleurs." Chroniques Nationales. This hint was taken up in Count Robert of Paris.
Some few years ago MM. Cartailhac and Boule discovered one of these primitive quarries at Mur de Barrez, the chief town of the department of Aveyron. They made out eight shafts in the face of a layer of limestone some eighty-one feet long, and at every turn of their excavations they came to fresh shafts.
Bliss told him he had a bare chance of recovery, 'Then, said he, 'we will take that chance, doctor. When asked if he suffered pain, he answered: 'If you can imagine a trip-hammer crashing on your body, or cramps such as you have in the water a thousand times intensified, you can have some idea of what I suffer. And yet, during those eighty-one days was heard neither groan nor complaint.
Enemies down the range among the cow men made up a purse of five thousand dollars, and hired eight men to kill the town marshal and bring his heart back South. Bill heard of it, and literally made all of them jump off the railroad train where he met them. One was killed in the jump. His list of homicides was now eighty-one.
Elderly people were but few in number, 95 only being from fifty-one to sixty years old, 43 from sixty-one to seventy, 10 from seventy-one to eighty, and 4 from eighty-one to ninety.
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