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This is the third year in which the house has been in operation. Our last visit was in the early part of August, 1863, when we counted 734 bunches of grapes, weighing from one to seven pounds each, the Syrian being the grape which reached the last figure. Almost as many bunches were thinned out. In some cases too many are left, but they look very fine.
The imports for the fiscal year ending on the 30th of June last were of the value of $117,254,564, of which the amount exported was $15,346,830, leaving a balance of $101,907,734 for domestic consumption. The exports for the same year were of the value of $114,646,606, of which the amount of domestic articles was $99,299,776.
The royal and municipal taxes of importation at the custom-house of the Havannah in 1823 were 2,734,563 piastres. The total amount of the revenue of the Havannah in 1824 was 3,025,300 piastres. In 1825 the revenue of the town and jurisdiction of the Havannah was 3,350,300 piastres. These partial statements show that from 1789 to 1824 the public revenue of Cuba has been increased sevenfold.
The receipts into the Treasury during the first three quarters of this year from all sources amount to $23,467,072.52; the estimated receipts for the fourth quarter amount to $6,943,095.25, amounting to $30,410,167.77, and making with the balance in the Treasury on the 1st of January last $31,397,512.80. The expenditures for the first three quarters of this year amount to $24,734,346.97.
Stefan's rule of a fourth-power relation, if not actually a law of nature, is a colourable imitation of one; and its employment has afforded a practical certainty that the sun's temperature, so far as it is definable, neither exceeds 12,000° C., nor falls short of 6,500° C. Mag., vol. xxiii. Roy. Jour. of Science, vol. i. Roy. Observatory, vol. i.; Comptes Rendus, t. cxxxi., p. 734; Astroph.
Your mother having read these two days 1,734 pages of memoirs of the Coke family, one of whose members wrote the great law commentaries, another carried pro-American votes in Parliament in our Revolutionary times, refused peerages, defied kings and begad! here they are now, living in the same great house and saying and doing what they darn please we know this generation of 'em! well, your mother having read these two big volumes about the old ones and told me 175 good stories out of these books, bless her soul! she's gone to sleep in a big chair on the other side of the table.
In 1914 Austria contributed 134,831 people; Hungary 143,321; Italy 283,734; Russia 255,660; while the United Kingdom contributed 73,417; Germany 35,734; Norway 8,329; and Sweden 14,800. For twenty years the predominant immigration has been from south and central Europe. And it is this "new immigration," so called, that has created the "immigration problem."
To North America and the West Indies ...... L4,791,734 To Africa. ................................ 866,398 To which, if you add the export trade from Scotland, which had in 1704 no existence .. 364,000 L6,022,132 From five hundred and odd thousand, it has grown to six millions. It has increased no less than twelve-fold.
Petersburg, 1,200,000 4. Royal Library of Prussia, Berlin, 1,000,000 5. Royal Library of Bavaria, Munich, 980,000 6. Library of Congress, Washington City, 840,000 7. Boston Public Library, 734,000 8. University Library, Strasburg, Germany, 700,000 9. Imperial Public Library, Vienna, 575,000 10. Bodleian Library, Oxford 530,000
Prior Moore, A.M., Cavan. Dublin: Wm. Curry and Co., 1847. The number of persons employed on the public works reached its highest point in March, 1847, viz., 734,000. But this was the average for the whole month.
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