Periodical Appletons' annual cyclopædia and register of important events of the year Volume 8
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Appletons' annual cyclopedia and register of important events of the year APPLETONS ANNUAL CYCLOPIEDIA AND REGISTER OF IMPORTANT EVE TS OF THE YEAR 1 8 S 3 EMBRACING POLITICAL CIVIL MILITARY AND SOCIAL AFFAIRS PUBLIC DOCU MENTS BIOGRAPHY STATISTICS COMMERCE FINANCE LITERATURE SCIENCE...- Date: 1875-01-01
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Appletons' annual cyclopedia and register of important events of the year COPYRIGIIT 1884 By D APPLETON AND COMPANY- Date: 1875-01-01
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Appletons' annual cyclopedia and register of important events of the year CONTRIBUTORS_ Among the Contributors to this Volume of t Wilbur 0 Atwater Ph D Professor of Chemistry in Wesleyan University Middletown Conn FOODS COMPOSITION AND NUTRITIVE VALUE OF Tarleton H Bean X...- Date: 1875-01-01
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Appletons' annual cyclopedia and register of important events of the year PREFACE IN the present volume of the ANNUAL CYCLOREDIA the eighth of the New Series some improvements have been introduced which it is hoped will add to its attractiveness and usefulness The...- Date: 1875-01-01
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Appletons' annual cyclopedia and register of important events of the year vi PREFACE The articles Failures in Business Financial Review of 1883 and United States Finances show clearly what has taken place in the monetary world These and the numerous other articles most...- Date: 1875-01-01
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Appletons' annual cyclopedia and register of important events of the year THE ANNUAL CYCLOP1EDIA A AFGHANISTAN Abdurrahman Khan since he was set up by the British as Amir of Af ghanistan has struggled vigorously to con solidate the Afghan state and maintain his...- Date: 1875-01-01
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Appletons' annual cyclopedia and register of important events of the year 2 ALABAMA at the Khyber pass The spirit of discontent began to pervade the great Ghilzai nation up on whose loyalty the power of the Amir main ly rests These warning signs...- Date: 1875-01-01
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Appletons' annual cyclopedia and register of important events of the year ALABAMA corporation of the city of Selma and to provide for the application of the assets thereof to the payment of the debts thereof To prevent cruelty to animals To empower the...- Date: 1875-01-01
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Appletons' annual cyclopedia and register of important events of the year 4 ANGLICAN CHURCHES two of them dating from the last century aid theological students requiring pecuniary help besides which a few diocesan societies exist for the same purpose and special funds are...- Date: 1875-01-01
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Appletons' annual cyclopedia and register of important events of the year ANGLICAN CHURCHES 5 Missionary Societies The principal foreign missionary societies of the Church are the So ciety for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts which was organized in 1701 and...- Date: 1875-01-01
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Appletons' annual cyclopedia and register of important events of the year 6 ANGLICAN CHURCHES tuted as one of inquiry rather than as a com mittee to make any report or recommendation In the course of the discussion which followed while some of the...- Date: 1875-01-01
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Appletons' annual cyclopedia and register of important events of the year ANGLICAN CHURCHES 7 If by refusing to accept Mr Mackonochies resig nation I had defeated the late archbishops dying desire and effort to promote the peace of the Church I could never...- Date: 1875-01-01
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Appletons' annual cyclopedia and register of important events of the year 8 ANGLICAN CHURCHES and to its decision when duly pronounced I am pre pared to bow Meanwhile I am anxious as far as may be without raising partisan passion or animosity calmly...- Date: 1875-01-01
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Appletons' annual cyclopedia and register of important events of the year ANGLICAN CHURCHES 9 gyman who during suspension or deprivation attempts to conduct divine service in a church forbidden to him may be charged with dis turbance of public worship The practical effect...- Date: 1875-01-01
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Appletons' annual cyclopedia and register of important events of the year 10 ANGLICAN CHURCHES to support a measure of which its friends could not give an intelligible account He was not tenacious of temporal honors and he hoped they would not forfeit their...- Date: 1875-01-01
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Appletons' annual cyclopedia and register of important events of the year ANGLICAN CHURCHES recommending the recognition of deaconesses and sisterhoods Objection being made to the feature of sisterhoods the synod adopting the principle of the desirability of making arrangements for the better employment...- Date: 1875-01-01
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Appletons' annual cyclopedia and register of important events of the year 12 ARGENTINE REPUBLIC The estimated population of the city of Bue nos Ayres was in September 1882 295000 and those of other important cities as follows Cordoba 39651 Rosario 32204 Tucuman 24237...- Date: 1875-01-01
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Appletons' annual cyclopedia and register of important events of the year ARGENTINE REPUBLIC of the number of primary schools no precise idea of the status of rudimentary education can be derived the following comparative statistics are transcribed from the report of the Minister...- Date: 1875-01-01
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Appletons' annual cyclopedia and register of important events of the year 14 ARGENTINE REPUBLIC from the mint 5755257 coins gold silver and copper representing an aggregate of 4 15451916 and most of which was to replace the fractional paper currency the withdrawal of...- Date: 1875-01-01
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Appletons' annual cyclopedia and register of important events of the year ARGENTINE REPUBLIC 15 ured tobacco 120339 clocks and watches 30347 against 24006 from France and 14 926 from Great Britain Of American musical instruments of all kinds but 5939 worth were sent...- Date: 1875-01-01
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Appletons' annual cyclopedia and register of important events of the year 16 ARIZONA were official By Dec 31 1883 1727 addi tional miles of Government line were com pleted Telephone In December 1882 there were two telephone companies in Buenos Ayres with 1500...- Date: 1875-01-01
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Appletons' annual cyclopedia and register of important events of the year ARIZONA COUNTIES Horses Mules Yavapai Maricopa Cochise Graham Pinal Gila Yuma Mohave Pima Apache no data 10000 5000 4000 8000 2000 1000 SOO 1000 6000 Total 32800 2000 2000 3000 1000 1000...- Date: 1875-01-01
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Appletons' annual cyclopedia and register of important events of the year 18 ARKANSAS Treasurer W G Woodruff Jr Attorney Gen eral C B Moore Superintendent of Public Instruction W E Thompson State Land Com missioner W P Campbell Judiciary Su preme Court E...- Date: 1875-01-01
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Appletons' annual cyclopedia and register of important events of the year ARKANSAS 19 5078692 Of this amount 2495500 bears interest at the rate of 6 per cent and 22000 at the rate of 5 per cent per annum 6200 bears no interest and...- Date: 1875-01-01
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Appletons' annual cyclopedia and register of important events of the year 20 ASTRONOMICAL PHENOMENA AND PROGRESS case went to the Supreme Court of the United States These issues of railroad aid bonds form a portion of the alleged public debt of the State...- Date: 1875-01-01
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Appletons' annual cyclopedia and register of important events of the year ASTRONOMICAL PHENOMENA AND PROGRESS 21 Prof Young and Mr McNeill showed unmis takably the presence of water vapor in the at mosphere of Venus Between the first and second contacts the atmosphere...- Date: 1875-01-01
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Appletons' annual cyclopedia and register of important events of the year 22 ASTRONOMICAL PHENOMENA AND PROGRESS planet was discovered on the morning of Nov 29 1883 by Dr Palisa of Vienna Distribution of the Asteroids in SpaceFlam marions LAstronomie for June 1883 con...- Date: 1875-01-01
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Appletons' annual cyclopedia and register of important events of the year ASTRONOMICAL PHENOMENA AND PROGRESS ably broader than the streak and what is very remarkable portions of blue streak appeared on the north and south sides of the square patch as though the...- Date: 1875-01-01
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Appletons' annual cyclopedia and register of important events of the year 24 ASTRONOMICAL PHENOMENA AND PROGRESS that the inner edge of Cassinis division which is situated at the distance thus indicated is especially distinctly marked The outer edge is very indistinct the influence...- Date: 1875-01-01
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Appletons' annual cyclopedia and register of important events of the year ASTRONOMICAL PHENOMENA AND PROGRESS 25 Periodicity of Comets At the session of the Paris Academy of Sciences on January 8 1883 M Zenger read a paper on the periodicity of comets The...- Date: 1875-01-01
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Appletons' annual cyclopedia and register of important events of the year 26 ASTRONOMICAL PHENOMENA AND PROGRESS twilight in England on the 6th of July at 8 50m Its course was from northeast to east at an altitude of 27 when first seen and...- Date: 1875-01-01
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Appletons' annual cyclopedia and register of important events of the year ASTRONOMICAL PHENOMENA AND PROGRESS Gylden has reached the conclusion that the mean parallax of stars of the first magnitude is about one tenth of a second With this re sult the average...- Date: 1875-01-01
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Appletons' annual cyclopedia and register of important events of the year 28 ASTRONOMICAL PHENOMENA which the medal was chiefly awarded may be considered as an extension of Argelanders scale of magnitudes to all the stars which can be seen by a good eye...- Date: 1875-01-01
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Appletons' annual cyclopedia and register of important events of the year AURORA BOREALIS 29 the northnortheast His studies of this phe nomenon led him to the conclusion that the earth is provided with a permanent luminous corona about 400 kilometres from the surface...- Date: 1875-01-01
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Appletons' annual cyclopedia and register of important events of the year 30 AUSTRALIA AND POLYNESIA with a long base north and south are always erroneous as the two observers never see the same aurora Occasionally the characteristic auroral line was revealed in the...- Date: 1875-01-01
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Appletons' annual cyclopedia and register of important events of the year AUSTRALIA AND POLYNESIA 31 machineguns Queensland ordered two gun boats identical with the smaller Victorian ves sel Victoria will have three torpedo boats New Zealand four Queensland two and Tas mania one...- Date: 1875-01-01
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Appletons' annual cyclopedia and register of important events of the year 32 AUSTRALIA AND POLYNESIA colony which has already five square miles of land to every male inhabitant by a proclama tion issued without consulting the home au thorities contains 312000 square miles...- Date: 1875-01-01
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