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He has lived more than eighty years.

Has anybody ever told you that you're beautiful?

If Len has time, maybe he could help me.

He has a mind to spend the rest of his life in that country.

If he has custody, she couldn't get the money.

It has GPS navigation.

He has been received by the Emperor.

Everything has to go according to your plans, doesn't it?

If one of us has to leave, I'll go.

If we have once seen, "the day is ours, and what the day has shown."

He says he has a cold.

He has a bicycle!

A lot has changed.

Or when he has a wife to point the way.

You know it has cost money!

He has a way of looking at you...

Maybe she has someone more suitable in mind.

He has you and now he forgets me.

Sometimes I think Brandon being here has backfired.

Well, he has a home office and he goes there pretty often, but I can't figure out what he's doing.

This will be extremely useful, because the game, as they say, has just changed completely.

He has been here about an hour.

I keep telling him that as long as he gives her money, she'll never get out of trouble, but he just says she's the only sister he has and he has the money.

It has living quarters at the back.

Do you know that she has lost her father?

He has a daughter, but his wife must not live with him because he needs a sitter, she stammered.

She has a way about her.

He has an appointment.

We could say he has excellent taste.

But the enemy has lost masses...

It looks like he has other plans.

They did another x-ray this morning and the infection has spread to the other lung.

A woman has a right to protect herself – any way she can.

It has to be stopped.

He has no choice.

He's at home with Jonathan and he can't come in because Destiny might catch what he has.

Like he said; he only has one mother, and he can finish his schooling later.

Has it always been on the farm?

Has she ever been wrong?

She has to work late.

Everybody has a mother and father.

It's been almost a week and she hasn't been coughing today.

Has your mother always taken care of Tammy?

I bet he has an angle.

One of us has to keep the other calm, and it won't be me.

Has he started the ark yet?

I'm the only one who hasn't lied to you.

I must know who among us has a tracking beacon.

Someone has to clean up this mess I made.

That account has $10,000 in it.

How has your trip been?

She has the entire Reynolds family — and we'll be there for her.

It has no value to anyone but me.

Do you know he has over four million in savings?

I know you've been preoccupied, but everyone else has noticed his interest in you.

Mom is fixing supper and I'm sure she has something you can wear in the morning.

I can't figure out who owns this house or who has the money.

You're the first girl who has ever accepted me for what I am.

Mom said Dad hasn't been feeling well, and he won't go to the doctor.

I want to get an engagement ring on her finger before she has time to change her mind again.

After all, he has a right to know.

Neither of us has ever done this before.

She has to get ready, you know.

The life of a bachelor has too many advantages.

She has feelings too.

It has a familiar ring, doesn't it?

He probably hasn't had any cause to speak French.

I guess I can't deny that, but in all these years, why hasn't Uncle Fabrice's name come up in a conversation at least once?

She has to talk to father about it and she will call back later this morning to let me know when she will be here.

He says he thinks he has a cold, but the doctor told me he could get pneumonia real easy.

The money comes on time and he has fulfilled all his promises.

Some medical attention has to beat none.

Jonathan has to go back day after tomorrow.

How long has it been snowing?

No one has ever come this close to catching me!

Think how many Howie has accused.

The entire business of the psychic tipster has faded rapidly without new news to feed the sharks.

She has father's eyes.

Has he been around?

Has he moved out?

Has he spoken to you of going away? she asked.

Claudette has no reason to be concerned about Mrs. Cade's furniture.

If he hasn't been with a woman, it's probably because he's had other ways of...

The house has been unbearably lonely without you.

Has it been this tense the entire time?

It all has to do with the light.

Yes, but he has not suggested it.

I mean, he has to be able to.

He has seven brothers.

He has direct access to you and the most to gain.

It has always been this way.

That has me wondering, too.

It has 1500 windows.

His family has been very understanding.

It has me worried.

Has he been expanding his clientele?

Has he done something?

I don't know what Arthur Atherton is up to but he has no more evidence your husband is alive than the man in the moon.

He hasn't sampled her... wares... yet.

Uncle Alex has them penned up by the house right now.

Judging by what she has told me, I don't think Josh actually intends her any physical harm.

God has truly blessed us.

No White God has fallen in the history of our worlds.

It has been awhile since you have been you.

Darian has to leave his past behind, or we're all screwed.

No host has ever survived.

The prince of Dierdirien himself has come!

Every family has issues to work out.

My phone has been off.

My wife has it.

What has become of the sugar?

But how can we explain the formation of this poetic wisdom, which, albeit the work of ignorant men, has so deep and intrinsic a philosophic value?

Astorga has been the see of a bishop since the 3rd century, and was formerly known as the City of Priests, from the number of ecclesiastics resident within its walls.

She has all the abandon of an Italian improvisatore, the simplicity of a Bernardin de St Pierre without his mawkishness, the sentimentality of a Rousseau without his egotism, the rhythmic eloquence of a Chateaubriand without his grandiloquence.

As a painter of nature she has much in common with Wordsworth.

No one has better understood or more skilfully portrayed the artistic temperament - the musician, the actor, the poet - and no French writer before her had so divined and laid bare the heart of a girl.

In Russia her influence has been greater.

In England she has found her warmest admirers.

It is by no means certain that he made the remark often attributed to him, "Let us enjoy the papacy since God has given it to us," but there is little doubt that he was by nature devoid of moral earnestness or deep religious feeling.

The town is the seat of the tribunal of first instance of the arrondissement of Poligny, and has a communal college.

In the area of the Newer Appalachian Mountains, the eastern Panhandle region has a forest similar to that of the plateau district; but between these two areas of hardwood there is a long belt where spruce and white pine cover the mountain ridges.

It is the principal seat of the linen trade in the county, and has extensive cloth and thread factories, bleachfields and chemical works.

Since 1731 it has been composed of the two towns of Clermont and Montferrand, now connected by a fine avenue of walnut trees and willows, 2 m.

His style is clear and vivid; his method of describing what he sees extraordinarily plastic; above all, he has the art of presenting objects to us from their most interesting and attractive side.

The city has immense coal piers.

Geneva has a public library, a city hospital and hygienic institute.

It has also been conferred during the closing years of the 19th century by letters patent on other cities - Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, Bristol, Sheffield, Leeds, Cardiff, Bradford, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Belfast, Cork.

The crown has a fall which may amount to as much as 18 in.

The density of helium has been determined by Ramsay and Travers as 1.98.

Instruction in the Albanian language is prohibited by the Turkish government for political reasons; a single exception has been made in the case of an American school for girls at Kortcha.

There are two conjugations; the passive formation, now wanting inmost Indo-European languages, has been retained, as in Greek; thus kerko-iy, " I seek," forms kerko-n -em, " I am sought."

In the use of these no uniform system has yet been adopted.

An alphabet of fifty-two letters, some presenting ancient Phoenician and Cretan forms, was found by Hahn in partial use at Elbassan and Tirana; its antiquity, however, has not been established.

Its population was given in 1894 as 135,232, but its area has been largely reduced since then.

The town has industries of tanning, founding, carriage-building and flour-milling.

It has no charter of incorporation.

Its geographical situation has made it a place of commercial importance throughout history.

Kaisarieh is the headquarters of the American mission in Cappadocia, which has several churches and schools for boys and girls and does splendid medical work.

It has several ginning factories and a cotton-mill; two high schools, one maintained by the Government and the other by the Basel German Mission.

The District Of Dharwar has an area of 4602 sq.

The whole district lies high and has no large rivers.

The early history of the territory comprised within the district of Dharwar has been to a certain extent reconstructed from the inscription slabs and memorial stones which abound there.

While resembling the parabola in extending to infinity, the curve has closest affinities to the ellipse.

The hyperbola which has for its transverse and conjugate axes the transverse and conjugate axes of another hyperbola is said to be the conjugate hyperbola.

Experience has shown how valuable and wise this course was.

The resolutions of the Lambeth Conferences have never been regarded as synodical decrees, but their weight has increased with each conference.

It has then met at Lambeth, and after sitting for five days for deliberation upon the fixed subjects and appointment of committees, has adjourned, to meet again at the end of a fortnight and sit for five days more, to receive reports, adopt resolutions and to put forth the encyclical letter.

In the book of Zechariah Zerubbabel has already fallen into the background and the high priest is the leading figure of the Judean community.

Apart from the weighty objections that the Edomites would have frustrated such a recrudescence of the remnant Jews as has been described, it must be remembered that the main stream of Jewish life and thought had been diverted to Babylon.

The name, arising from this unusual sound, has been by metonymy translated into " God's Voice."

The extent of overflow has thus on each occasion been less.

The loose soil on the banks of the river is every year carried away in great masses, and the channel has so widened as to render the recurrence of an overflow unlikely.

In April and May the rivers have opened, the snow has disappeared, and the opportunity has been afforded the farmer of sowing his grain.

It has four members in the Canadian Senate and ten in the House of Commons.

It has affiliated to it colleges of the Roman Catholic, Episcopalian, Presbyterian and Methodist denominations, with medical and pharmaceutical colleges.

This railway has six radiating lines leaving the city of Winnipeg, and its main line connects Port Arthur on Lake Superior with Edmonton in the west.

The Canadian Northern railway has a remarkable network of railways connecting Winnipeg with every corner of Manitoba.

The Great Northern railway has also three branch lines in Manitoba and one of these has Winnipeg as its terminus.

Tecuci has a large transit trade in grain, timber, cattle and horses, on their way from northern and eastern Moldavia to the Danubian ports.

The open grate still holds favour in England, though in America and on the continent of Europe it has been superseded by the closed stove.

This has immense advantages over the ordinary type of fireplace.

Hitherto the large bill for electric energy has debarred the general use of electrical heating, in spite of its numerous advantages.

Heating by warmed air, one of the oldest methods in use, has been much improved by attention to the construction of the apparatus, and if properly installed will give as good effects as it is ossible to obtain.

The piping takes a winding or zigzag course, and by the time the outlet is reached, the water it contains has reached a high temperature.

With the success of this undertaking in view it is a matter of wonder that the example set in this instance has not been adopted to a much greater extent elsewhere.

Bale is also the authority for another assertion that figures in what has been aptly termed the poet's "traditional biography," viz.

Recent criticism has been far more impartial, and almost too much respect has been paid to his attainments, especially in the matter of metre, though Lydgate himself, with offensive lightheartedness, admits his poor craftsmanship.

Methodism has always been aggressive, and her children on emigrating have taken with them their evangelistic methods.

At the same time there has been a steadily These first three were joined in 1907 under the name of the United Methodist Church.

A fine pavilion or kiosk, named de l'Etoile, has also survived.

He did not, however, as has been supposed, spend the best years of his manhood abroad, for he was certainly at home in 1571, when the preliminaries of his marriage were arranged at Merchiston; and in 1572 he married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir James Stirling of Keir.

A few years afterwards he married again, his second wife being Agnes, daughter of Sir James 1 The descent of the first Napier of Merchiston has been traced to "Johan le Naper del Counte de Dunbretan," who was one of those who swore fealty to Edward I.

It has been asserted (by Sir Thomas Urquhart) that the piece of artillery was actually tried upon a plain in Scotland with complete success, a number of sheep and cattle being destroyed.

He adds that he has appended it to the Rabdologia, in addition to the promptuary, because he did not wish to bury it in silence nor to publish so small a matter by itself.

With respect to the calculating rods, he mentions in the dedication that they had already found so much favour as to be almost in common use, and even to have been carried to foreign countries; and that he has been advised to publish his little work relating to their mechanism and use, lest they should be put forth in some one else's name.

It has been usually supposed that John Napier was buried in St Giles's church, Edinburgh, which was certainly the burialplace of some of the family, but Mark Napier (Memoirs, p. 426) quotes Professor William Wallace, who, writing in 1832, gives strong reasons for believing that he was buried in the old church of St Cuthbert.

The work in question, which is rare, was printed at Paris, and has the date 1636 on the title-page, but the royal privilege which secured it to the author is dated in October 1635, and it may have been written several years earlier.

It has been stated that Napier's mathematical pursuits led him to dissipate his means.

The Rabdologia attracted more general attention than the logarithms, and as has been mentioned, there were several editions on the Continent.

These rules were published in the Canonis Descriptio (1614), and Napier has there given a figure, and indicated.a method, by means of which they may be proved directly.

There seems but little doubt that Napier was the first to make use of a decimal separator, and it is curious that the separator which he used, the point, should be that which has been ultimately adopted, and after a long period of partial disuse.

Aventinus, who has been called the "Bavarian Herodotus," wrote other books of minor importance, and a complete edition of his works was published at Munich (188'- 1886).

More recently a new edition (six vols.) has appeared.

Jowett's theological work was transitional, and yet has an element of permanence.

As has been said of another thinker, he was " one of those deeply religious men who, when crude theological notions are being revised and called in question seek to put new life into theology by wider and more humane ideas."

In either case a grave crime has been committed which deserves a grave punishment.

Go and get my kitten, please, Jellia, and we'll hear what she has to say about it.

Otto goes to every bar around that has trivia night and drinks for free.

One of us has to walk the straight and narrow.

I think it has something to do with you.

The name, it has been suggested, is identical with Libyan or Libi.

By his exposition of the political history of the kingdom, based on a study of its laws and institutions and of the legal conflicts between the state and the court of Rome, Pietro Giannone was the initiator of what has been since known as civil history.

According to Vico, law emanates from the conscience of mankind, in whom God has infused a sentiment of justice.

On these grounds it has been sought to establish a close relation between Vico and Grotius.

It has been justly observed by many that this continuous cyclical movement entirely excludes the progress of humanity towards a better future.

It has been replied that these cycles are similar without being identical, and that, if one might differ from another, the idea of progress was not necessarily excluded by the law of cycles.

Weissenfels manufactures machinery, ironware, paper and other goods, and has an electrical power-house.

In correspondence with the fundamental constitution of the zooid, each of the three segments has its own body-cavity separated from the others.

The suggestion has been made by Allmann and recently upheld by Schepotieff that Rhabdopleura is related to some of the Graptolites.

It is the chief health resort of the state, and its climate is one of the finest in Australia; it has a mean annual temperature of 58.6° F., and the summer heat is never excessive.

In addition, Albany has the finest harbour in West Australia.

The Great Southern railway has a line to the seaward end of the pier, and affords direct communication with the interior of the colony.

Its presence has also been detected in the sun and in meteoric iron.

In the massive state it has a colour resembling polished iron, and is malleable and very tough.

Cobalt dioxide, Co02, has not yet been isolated in the pure state; it is probably formed when iodine and caustic soda are added to a solution of a cobaltous salt.

It would have been well if Kossuth had had something more of Gdrgei's calculated ruthlessness, for, as has been truly said, the revolutionary power he had seized could only be held by revolutionary means; but he was by nature soft-hearted and always merciful; though often audacious, he lacked decision in dealing with men.

The Church has always exercised a dominating influence in this region, and the city has many churches and religious establishments.

His deposition has been ascribed to a formal act of the Witan, but this seems an antedating of constitutional methods and the circumstances point to a palace revolution.

At Kufstein, down to which point it has still pursued a north-easterly direction, it breaks through the north Tirol limestone formation, and, now keeping a northerly course, enters at Rosenheim the Bavarian high plateau.

Mr Rockefeller would not allow his name to be a part of the title, nor has he permitted the designation of any building by his name.

The struggle between them has been represented as one of a patriotic archbishop resisting the encroachments of the papacy on the Church of England.

Both still exist, but the school has been deprived of its house, and the Fitzwilliam family, who now own the lands, still continue to pay only £10 a year.

The city has railway shops and foundries, and manufactures furniture, carriages, tile, cigars and gas engines.

This body is being continually formed in the yeast cell, and decomposes the sugar which has diffused into the cell.

Duclaux stated that the yeast question as regards low fermentation has been solved by Hansen's investigations.

In the United Kingdom the employment of brewery yeasts selected from a single cell has not come into general use; it may probably be accounted for in a great measure by conservatism and the wrong application of Hansen's theories.

From the foregoing it will be seen that the term fermentation has now a much wider significance than when it was applied to such changes as the decomposition of must or wort with the production of carbon dioxide and alcohol.

It is supposed by some that Saccharomyces is a very degraded Ascomycete, in which the Torula condition has become fixed.

Duclaux found that acetic acid is formed in small quantities during fermentation; aldehyde has also been detected.

It has not, however, been possible to transform a typical top yeast into a permanent typical bottom yeast.

The Sicilian-Ionian basin has a mean depth of 885 fathoms, and the Levant basin, 793 fathoms. Deep water is found close up to the coast of Sicily, Greece, Crete and the edge of the African plateau.

The steepest slope observed occurs off the island of Sapienza, near Navarino, where 1720 fathoms has been obtained only 10 miles from land.

Dr Natterer, the chemist of the " Pola " expeditions, has expressed the opinion that the poverty of the pelagic fauna is solely due to the want of circulation in the depths.

The ovary has many cavities with a large number of ovules attached to its walls, and is surmounted by a flat stigma of many radiating rows as in a poppy.

He has also been the recipient of many foreign orders.

The "bed of Procrustes" has become proverbial.

I was like one who never casts a look behind, who hesitates before some Rubicon to be crossed, but having touched the farther bank sees no more the shore he has just left."

A recent critic has sought in religion the clue to her character and the mainspring of her genius.

As a novel Valentine has little to commend it; the plot is feeble and the characters shadowy.

It hangs in my room over a portrait the original of which no one here has seen.

The mention of Liszt has led us to anticipate the end of the story, and we must revert to 1836, when the acquaintance began.

The church of St Just, founded in the 10th century, has good wood-carving.

Arbois is well known for its red and white wines, and has saw-mills, tanneries and market gardens, and manufactures paper, oil and casks.

A theory that has received much support in the past attributes the reflections to thin bubbles of water, similar to soap-bubbles, in which form vapour was supposed to condense.

On the other hand, that the direction of complete polarization should be independent of the refracting power of the matter composing the cloud has been considered mysterious.

This has come down to us through a Latin version of an Arabic manuscript; it cannot, however, have been written by Archimedes in its present form, as his name is quoted in it more than once.

The mode of succession of the teeth in the mastodons exhibits so many stages of the process by which the dentition of elephants has been derived from that of more ordinary mammals.

The nature of these structures has been much disputed.

C. Borner has stated that the unpaired piercer is attached directly to the base of the left maxilla.

The young insect resembles its parent in most points, but the head is disproportionately large; the anterior abdominal spiracles are on the second segment instead of on the first, and the foot has only a single segment.

In 1415 it was recovered by the Turks under Mahommed I., and since that period has belonged to the Ottoman empire.

It also has a lycee, training-colleges, a school of artillery, a library and several learned societies.

It is a centre of the paper-making industry, with which the town has been connected since the 14th century.

It has stations on the London & North-Western and the Lancashire & Yorkshire railways, with running powers for the Midland railway.

The site of the church of St Peter has long been occupied by a parish church (there was one in the 12th century, if not earlier), but the existing building dates only from 1870.

The cognate industry of bleaching has been carried on since early in the 18th century, and large ironworks grew up in the latter half of the 19th century.

It consequently has four vertices and six edges.

Whilst no small amount of observational work has been done in these new branches of atmospheric electricity, the science has still not developed to a considerable extent beyond preliminary stages.

It is thus difficult to form a judgment as to what has most claim to acceptance as the general law, and what may be regarded as local or exceptional.

This method in one shape or another has been often employed.

Of liquid collectors the representative is Lord Kelvin's water-dropping electrograph; while Benndorf's is the form of radium collector that has been most used.

At any single station potential gradient has a wide range of values.

The third line gives the range of the regular diurnal inequality, the next four lines the amplitudes of the first four Fourier waves into which the regular diurnal inequality has been analysed.

Thus the 12-hour term has a much greater uniformity than the 24-hour term.

In support of his theory Exner states that he has found but little trace of the double maximum and minimum in Ceylon and elsewhere.

Gerdien has more recently repeated the experiments, employing an apparatus devised by him for the purpose.

At several stations enjoying a wide prospect the dissipation has been observed to be specially high on days of great visibility when distant mountains can be recognized.

The air, as is now known, has always present in it ions, some carrying a positive and others a negative charge, and those having the opposite sign to the charged body are attracted and tend to discharge it.

A cylinder condenser has its inner surface insulated and charged to a high positive or negative potential.

No distinct relationship has yet been established between potential gradient and radioactivity.

If, however, Mache's views were correct, we should expect a much closer connexion between I and A than has actually been observed.

Wilson supposes that by the fall to the ground of a preponderance of negatively charged rain the air above the shower has a higher positive potential than elsewhere at the same level, thus leading to large conduction currents laterally in the highly conducting upper layers.

This latter sense has been adapted and extended by modern historians concerned with the frontiers of the Roman Empire.

Indeed all the extant writings by which he has earned his place as a poet and translator belong to this period.

Douglas's literary work, now his chief claim to be remembered, belongs, as has been stated, to the period 1501-1513, when he was provost of St Giles.

From certain indications in the latter and the evidence of some odd leaves discovered by David Laing, it has been concluded that there was an earlier Edinburgh edition, which has been ascribed to Thomas Davidson, printer, and dated c. 1540.

The parts of a mushroom consist chiefly of stem and cap; the stem has a clothy ring round its middle, and the cap is furnished underneath with numerous radiating coloured gills.

These two fungi usually grow in woods, but sometimes in hedges and in shady places in meadows, or even, as has been said, as invaders on mushroom-beds.

When the weather is temperate, mushrooms will appear in about a month after the bed has been made, but at other times a much longer period may elapse.

It has more than one advantage over the meadow mushroom in its extreme commonness, its profuse growth, the length of the season in which it may be gathered, the total absence of varietal forms, its adaptability for being dried and preserved for years, and its persistent delicious taste.

Colon has a deep, though poorly sheltered harbour, and is either the terminus or a place of call for seven lines of steamships.

The United States government has also opened a port at Cristobal, within the Canal Zone.

A considerable overland trade has sprung up since the opening of Mengtsze.

Cannock has tool, boiler, brick and tile works.

The city has a fine court-house, a United States government building, a Carnegie library and a large auditorium.

Joplin is the trade centre of a rich agricultural and fruit-growing district, but its growth has been chiefly due to its situation in one of the must productive zinc and lead regions in the country, for which it is the commercial centre.

The plateau portion of West Virginia is largely covered by hardwood forests, but along the Ohio river and its principal tributaries the valuable timber has been removed and considerable areas have been wholly cleared for farming and pasture lands.

Much of the natural gas is piped out of the state into Ohio (even into the northern parts), Kentucky, Pennsylvania and Maryland; within the state gas has been utilized as a fuel in carbon black and glass factories.

Railway development in West Virginia has been due largely to the exploitation of the coal and lumber resources of the state.

The Monongahela has been improved by locks and dams to Fairmont.

The Little Kanawha, which has also been improved, serves chiefly for the transportation of logs which are floated down to the Ohio.

In order to relieve the circuit judges the legislature has established by special acts inferior courts, generally with criminal jurisdiction only, in nine counties of the state.

Each of the magisterial districts (of which, as has been said, there must be at least three and not more than ten in each county) elects one or two magistrates and constables, and a board of education of three members.

Clermont has several handsome squares ornamented with fountains, the chief of which is a graceful structure erected by Bishop Jacques d'Amboise in 1515.

Montferrand has several interesting houses of the 15th and 16th centuries, and a church of the 13th,14th and 15th centuries.

It also has important fisheries.

The first has an elevation of 354 ft., the second of 259, and the third of 202.

Erith has large engineering and gun factories, and in the neighbourhood are gunpowder, oil, glue and manure works.

At Magdalen College, Oxford, is one which is perforated, and has a most beautiful effect.

The Latin term is consecratio, which of course has a variety of senses, including simple burial.

The town has considerable repute as a health resort, owing partly to its elevation (737 ft.) and partly to the natural charms of the district.

The place has become an important junction of the Great North of Scotland railway system.

It is thus different from legal fiction, by which a new rule is introduced surreptitiously, and under the pretence that no change has been made in the law, and from statutory legislation, in which the obligatory force of the rule is not supposed to depend upon its intrinsic fitness.

English equity has one marked historical peculiarity, viz.

We shall suppose they did it upon great consideration and weighing of the matter, and it would be very strange and very ill if we should disturb and set aside what has been the course for a long series of times and ages."

From that time certainly equity, like common law, has professed to take its principles wholly from recorded decisions and statute law.

It may be assigned to 25 B.C. The dates of the publication of the rest are uncertain, but none of them was published before 24 B.C., and the, last not before 16 B.C. The unusual length of the second one (1402 lines) has led Lachmann and other critics to suppose that it originally consisted of two books, and they have placed the beginning of the third book at ii.

An elaborate symmetry is observable in the construction of many of his elegies, and this has tempted critics to divide a number of them into strophes.

Cattle-raising, however, has received some attention and is the principal industry of the landowners.

In 1752 its capital was situated on the right bank of the Guapore river and was named Villa Bella da Santissima Trindade de Matto Grosso, but in 1820 the seat of government was removed to Cuyaba and Villa Bella has fallen into decay.

At La Carlota the Spanish government established a station for the study of the culture of sugar-cane; by the American government this has been converted into a general agricultural experiment station, known as "Government Farm."

In the medieval inventories are sometimes found albae, described as red, blue or black; which has led to the belief that albs were sometimes not only made of stuffs other than linen, but were coloured.

It has a length of 52 m., and an average width of 1 2 m.

Lava streams and other signs of volcanic action abound, but there has been no igneous activity since the Spaniards took possession.

An interval of three years without rain has been known.

The university, founded in 1869, built mainly of basalt, has schools of arts, medicine, chemistry and mineralogy.

The name has a curious origin, which explains also the particular meaning of the adjective "spruce," neatly dressed, smart in appearance, fine.

The work of fortifying the place has been carried on by the British government, which possesses here a naval hospital, military prison and other necessary institutions.

Since the British occupation Valletta has been a naval and military station of the first importance.

This medieval fortress, strong by art as well as position before the invention of modern artillery, has since undergone numerous sieges.

The period of Vansittart's government has been truly described as "the most revolting page of our Indian history."

Against his private character not even calumny has breathed a reproach.

The conseil colonial, besides its advisory functions, discusses and votes the budget, determines the nature of the taxes, has supreme control over the tariffs, and extensive powers in the administration of colonial domains.

Norfolk is the see of a Protestant Episcopal bishopric. The city has a public park of 110 acres and various smaller ones, and in the vicinity are several summer resorts, notably Virginia Beach, Ocean View, Old Point Comfort, Pine Beach and Willoughby Beach.

The progress of civilization has resulted in a vast change in the method of punishment.

On the one hand the retributive principle itself has been very largely superseded by the protective and the reformative; on the other punishments involving bodily pain have become objectionable to the general sense of society.

It lies on the south side of the Bukken Fjord, and has a picturesque harbour well sheltered by islands.

Stavanger is the first port of call for northward-bound passenger steamers from Hull and Newcastle, and has regular services from all the Norwegian coast towns, from Hamburg, &c. A railway runs south along the wild and desolate coast of Jaederen, one of the few low and unprotected shores in Norway, the scene of many wrecks.

The municipal borough is under a mayor, 6 aldermen and 18 councillors, and has an area of 2751 acres.