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It is estimated by the Superintendent of the Coast Survey in the accompanying report that the extent of the seacoast of Texas on the Gulf of Mexico is upward of 400 miles; of the coast of Upper California on the Pacific, of 970 miles, and of Oregon, including the Straits of Fuca, of 650 miles, making the whole extent of seacoast on the Pacific 1,620 miles and the whole extent on both the Pacific and the Gulf of Mexico 2,020 miles.

Ah, the train was on time that day, and got in at half-past nine at night. Here they are three boxes and a bag, numbered 15,020, went out on the 28th. Yes, that's right enough. Now I will just ask my mate if he remembers about their going out." The other man was called. Oh, yes! he remembered quite well the three boxes standing in the corner. They went out some time in the afternoon.

The latest census returns show that of the whole population, 109,020, there are: Males, 72,517; females, 36,503. The latest information of labor, under contract for sugar-making, make the number of males on the island more than double that of the females. There has been an increase of population of more than 50,000 in the eighteen years from 1878 to 1896.

Fuel consumption is 0.48lbs. of fuel per brake horse-power hour at full load, and oil consumption is 0.020 lbs. per brake horsepower hour. The dry weight of the engine, complete with propeller boss, carburettors, and induction pipes, is 850 lbs., and the gross weight in running order, with fuel and oil for six hours working, is 2,671 lbs., exclusive of cooling water.

The total receipts, as here stated, were $13,749,020.68 greater than for the previous year, but the increase from customs was $11,434,084.10 and from internal revenue $4,407,210.94, making a gain in these items for the last year of $15,841,295.04, a falling off in other resources reducing the total increase to the smaller amount mentioned.

The meteoric rise in the price of shares in the moon-mountain project of the Cacklogallinians is no greater than the actual rise in prices of shares during the South Sea Bubble, when, between April and July, 1720, shares rose from £120 to £1,020.

DEBIT. 2,000,000 francs per annum, in the French 5 P. C., bought from 1825 to 1832, at an average price of 99f. 50c. . . . . . . . . . . . 39,800,000 900,000 francs, ditto, in the French 3 P. C., bought during the same years, at an average of 74f 25c . . . . . . . . 22,275,000 5;000 shares in the Bank of France, bought at 1,900 9,500,000 3,000 shares in the Four Canals, in a certificate from the Company, bought at 1,115f . . . . . 3,345,000 125,000 ducats of Neapolitans, at an average of 82. 2,050,000 ducats, at 4f. 400 . . . . . . . 9,020,000 5,000 Austrian Metallics, of 1,000 florins, at 93 say 4,650,000 florins, at 2f. 50c . . . . . . . . 11,625,000 75,000 pounds sterling per annum, English Consolidated 3 P. C., at 88 3/4 say 2,218,750, at 25f . . . . . . . . . 55,468,750 1,200,000 florins, Dutch 2 1/2 P. C., at 60-28, 860,000 florins, at 2f. 100. . . . . . . . . . . 60,606,000 Cash in banknotes, gold and silver . . . . . . . . 535,250 Francs 212,175,000

William died in 1702, and the number of ships had then increased to 272, and the tonnage to 159,020 tons. The permanent navy, begun by Henry VIII. and given its first system of regular warfare by the Duke of York in 1665, had become well established, and trading vessels had ceased to form a part of the regular establishment.

Schroeder is said to have reached an altitude of 36,020 feet on a Napier biplane, and, owing to failure of the oxygen supply, to have lost consciousness, fallen five miles, righted his machine when 2,000 feet in the air, and alighted successfully. Major Schroeder is an American.

Hartford 2,790 13 2,000 Wood Katahdin 2,155 4 5,068 Steel Ajax 2,100 2 340 Iron Canonicus 2,100 2 340 Iron Mahopac 2,100 2 340 Iron Manhattan 2,100 2 340 Iron Wyandotte 2,100 2 340 Iron Detroit 2,089 10 5,227 Steel Montgomery 2,089 10 5,580 Steel Marblehead 2,089 10 5,451 Steel Marion 1,900 8 1,100 Wood Mohican 1,900 10 1,100 Wood Comanche 1,873 2 340 Iron Catskill 1,875 2 340 Iron Jason 1,875 2 340 Iron Lehigh 1,875 2 340 Iron Montauk 1,875 2 340 Iron Nahant 1,875 2 340 Iron Nantucket 1,875 2 340 Iron Passaic 1,875 2 340 Iron Bennington 1,710 6 3,436 Steel Concord 1,710 6 3,405 Steel Yorktown 1,710 6 3,392 Steel Dolphin 1,486 2 2,253 Steel Wilmington 1,392 8 1,894 Steel Helena 1,392 8 1,988 Steel Adams 1,375 6 800 Wood Alliance 1,375 6 800 Wood Essex 1,375 6 800 Wood Enterprise 1,375 4 800 Wood Nashville 1,371 8 2,536 Steel Monocacy 1,370 6 850 Iron Thetis 1,250 0 530 Wood Castine 1,177 8 2,199 Steel Machias 1,177 8 2,046 Steel Alert 1,020 3 500 Iron Ranger 1,020 6 500 Iron Annapolis 1,000 6 1,227 Comp Vicksburg 1,000 6 1,118 Comp Wheeling 1,000 6 1,081 Comp Marietta 1,000 6 1,054 Comp Newport 1,000 6 1,008 Comp