The Inter Ocean Curiosity Shop for the Year ...Inter Ocean Publishing Company, 1889 Being a series of questions and answers on practical matters for the information of everybody, selected from that department of the Inter ocean known as Our curiosity shop. |
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... claimed , would run 100 years without being wound . The weight weighed 600 pounds , and was to fall six feet four inches during the century . This is probably as near perpetual motion as man has yet come , and even this may fail to ...
... claimed , would run 100 years without being wound . The weight weighed 600 pounds , and was to fall six feet four inches during the century . This is probably as near perpetual motion as man has yet come , and even this may fail to ...
Halaman 19
... claimed to be 24,800 feet high . Sahama stands next , credited by some with an altitude of 23,000 feet ; Aconcagua next , 22,422 feet ; Chimborazo next , 21,424 feet ; Illimani next , 21,300 feet . Other geographers rank these mountains ...
... claimed to be 24,800 feet high . Sahama stands next , credited by some with an altitude of 23,000 feet ; Aconcagua next , 22,422 feet ; Chimborazo next , 21,424 feet ; Illimani next , 21,300 feet . Other geographers rank these mountains ...
Halaman 22
... claimed by good authorities , it must have been very near the first . Printing was introduced into Peru the same cen- tury ; and before the year 1600 at least ninety- three books had been published in Mexico and seven in Peru . The ...
... claimed by good authorities , it must have been very near the first . Printing was introduced into Peru the same cen- tury ; and before the year 1600 at least ninety- three books had been published in Mexico and seven in Peru . The ...
Halaman 23
... claimed that the highest single fountain jet in the world is on the estate of 200 acres given by the late Trenor W. Park as a Home for Destitute Children and Women , at Bennington , Vt . This jet rises to the height of 198 feet . EUGENE ...
... claimed that the highest single fountain jet in the world is on the estate of 200 acres given by the late Trenor W. Park as a Home for Destitute Children and Women , at Bennington , Vt . This jet rises to the height of 198 feet . EUGENE ...
Halaman 25
... claimed by Russia . Denmark's colonial possessions are the Faroe Islands , Iceland , Greenland , and the Danish West Indies . The last consist of the Islands of St. Croix , St. Thomas and St. John . The islands in the Baltic ...
... claimed by Russia . Denmark's colonial possessions are the Faroe Islands , Iceland , Greenland , and the Danish West Indies . The last consist of the Islands of St. Croix , St. Thomas and St. John . The islands in the Baltic ...
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Halaman 70 - Act, given jurisdiction, concurrent with the court of claims, to hear and determine all claims founded upon the constitution of the United States or any law of congress, except for pensions, or upon any regulation of an executive department, or upon any contract, express or implied, with the government of the United States...
Halaman 87 - Government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions, as of the mode and measure of redress.
Halaman 171 - ... that on the first day of january in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the united states shall be then thenceforward and forever free...
Halaman 48 - No person shall manufacture for sale, or sell, or keep for sale, as a beverage, any intoxicating liquors whatever, including ale, wine, and beer. The General Assembly shall by law prescribe regulations for the enforcement of the prohibition herein contained, and shall thereby provide suitable penalties for the violation of the provision hereof.] [The foregoing amendment was adopted at a special election held on June 27,1882.
Halaman 53 - That all persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall be entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, facilities, and privileges of inns, public conveyances on land or water...
Halaman 154 - that the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.
Halaman 88 - ... and reservations solemnly agreed to in that compact, is not for the peace, happiness, or prosperity of these States: And that therefore, this Commonwealth is determined, as it doubts not its co-States are, tamely to submit to undelegated and consequently unlimited powers in no man or body of men on earth...
Halaman 138 - For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.
Halaman 188 - It was desirable that the sense of the people should operate in the choice of the person to whom so important a trust was to be confided. This end will be answered by committing the right of making it, not to any preestablished body, but to men chosen by the people for the special purpose, and at the particular conjuncture.
Halaman 68 - A Treaty to settle and define the Boundaries between the Territories of the United States and the Possessions of her Britannic Majesty in North America : For the final Suppression of the African Slave Trade ; and for the giving up of Criminals, fugitive from Justice, in certain Cases...