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The workers in the textile mills grew from 275,000 to 512,000, and the capital outlay from $300,000,000 to $750,000,000, but the number of factories declined from 4,790 to 4,114. A cartoon in Puck on January 26, 1881, remarked that "the telegraph companies have been consolidated, which in simple language means that Mr.
In two centuries and a quarter, the population would be to the means of subsistence as 512 to 10: in three centuries as 4096 to 13, and in two thousand years the difference would be almost incalculable, though the produce in that time would have increased to an immense extent.
It annually discharges to the ocean about 4,277,880 millions of tons of fresh water, of which 2,112,120 millions of tons may be reckoned melted snow the quantity discharged before the thaw comes on being 4,512 millions of tons per day for 240 days, and the quantity after the thaw begins being 25,560 millions per day for 125 days, the depths and velocity when in and out of flood being duly considered."
The great bell in front of its principal shrine has been broken by a shot. We then went to see the Flowery Pagoda, built A.D. 512, but now deprived of many of its decorations. The Brilliant Pagoda too, so called from having once been covered with snow-white porcelain, is now only a tall brick-pointed tower nine stories high.
By Ex-Fire-Chief Warden. 509 The Boy Mutineers; or, Slavery or Death. By Capt. Thos. H. Wilson. 510 Always Ready; or, The Best Engineer on the Road. By Jas. C. Merritt. 511 Branded a Deserter; or, Boy Rivals in Love and War. By Gen'l Jas. A. Gordon. 512 A Scout at 16; or, A Boy's Wild Life on the Frontier. By An Old Scout. 513 Diamond Dave, the Waif; or, The Search for the Great Blue Stone.
In Room 512 on the fifth floor of the dormitory, Tom Corbett and Astro, the two other cadets who, with Roger Manning, made up the famed Polaris unit of the Space Cadet Corps, were deep in their studies. Though the lights-out order had been given over the dormitory loud-speaker system, the desk lamp burned brightly and there was a blanket thrown over the window.
This may be read in the 'Preuves et Observations' appended to the Memoirs of De Comines, vol. v. p. 512. There is a curious old picture in the Pinacoteca of Perugia which represents the burning of the three friars. The whole Piazza della Signoria is shown, with the houses of the fifteenth century, and without the statues which afterwards adorned it.
These war-ships were to be of four hundred, three hundred, and two hundred tons-eight of each dimension and the estimated expense of their fitting out for five months was 512,796 florins.
Assuming that the recording and transcribing speeds of the machines were the same, this would place the original singing almost exactly in accord with the old "philosophical standard of pitch" which places c2 at 512 double vibrations per second.
The same number contained a most interesting analysis of the progress of crime during the last seven years, by which it appears that 56,308 persons had in that time been committed to the gaols of England and Wales, for criminal offences; that 4,952 had received sentence of death; 6,512 had been sentenced to transportation; and 23,795 had been subjected to minor punishments, while no bills were found against 9,287.
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