United States or Bahamas ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Spain instituted a ship-construction bounty system in 1880, when her merchant marine was languishing, and in 1886 a comprehensive system of mail subventions, contracting for the whole ocean service with a single steamship company, La Compañia Transatlantica Española.
Now, either of these two conditions I do not refer to the act of benediction or its reverse, but to the fact of its being Sunday and wet would have been sufficient to detract from the attractive merits of any English town; how much more, therefore, from those possessed by the great cosmopolitan metropolis of Transatlantica?
I hurried off instanter to the address mentioned; and, although newspaper men of the New World, unlike ours, are uncommonly early birds, getting up matutinally betimes so as to catch the typical worm in which respect they resemble the entire business population of Transatlantica I found, on my arrival, that I was the first candidate who had appeared on the scene.
Do you know, Transatlantica is about the very worst quarter of the globe for an educated man to go to, who has no scientific attainments, such as a knowledge of chemistry and engineering which may occasionally stand him in good stead.
Word Of The Day