 | 1875 - 782 Seiten
...seven hundred and forty-two years from now the Lower Mississippi will be only a mile and three quarters long, and Cairo and New Orleans will have joined their...single mayor and a mutual board of aldermen. There i • fascinating about science, .such wholesale returns of coi of such a trifling investment When... | |
 | 1886 - 508 Seiten
...Mexico like a fishing rod. And by the same token any person can see that 742 years from now the lower Mississippi will be only a mile and three-quarters...plodding comfortably along under a single Mayor and Board of Aldermen. There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesome returns of... | |
 | Edwin Samuel Gaillard - 1875 - 332 Seiten
...any person can see that seven hundred and forty-two years from now the Lower Mississippi will only be a mile and three-quarters long, and Cairo and New...Orleans will have joined their streets together, and bo plodding comfortably along under a single mayor and ;i mutual board of aldermen. There is something... | |
 | 1885 - 520 Seiten
...And by the same token any person can see that 742 years from now the Lower Mississippi will only be a mile and three-quarters long, and Cairo and New...streets together, and be plodding comfortably along nnder a single mayor and board of aldermen. There ia something fascinating about science. One geta... | |
 | Marsden Manson - 1893 - 78 Seiten
...be fatal, and entitle the result to no farther consideration, and justifies the cynical view that " There is something fascinating about science. One...gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such trifling investment in facts." ASTRONOMICAL CAUSES AND THEIR INFLUENCE. We will now consider the effect... | |
 | Herbert Alonzo Howe - 1896 - 352 Seiten
...person can see that 742 years from now the Lower Mississippi will be only a mile and three quarters long, and Cairo and New Orleans will have joined their...board of aldermen. There is something fascinating in science. One gets such wholesome results of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.... | |
 | Herbert Alonzo Howe - 1896 - 352 Seiten
...person can see that 742 years from now the Lower Mississippi will be only a mile and three quarters long, and Cairo and New Orleans will have joined their...board of aldermen. There is something fascinating in science. One gets such wholesome results of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.... | |
 | Edith Augusta Sawyer - 1899 - 386 Seiten
...reach the distant coast, The breath of heav'n must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost. Cowper. THERE is something fascinating about science; one gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of a trifling investment of facts. Mark Twain. JFcbtuarg 14. ST. VALENTINE. APOLLO has peeped through... | |
 | J. Augustus Lemcke - 1905 - 250 Seiten
...And by the same token any person can see that seven hundred and forty-two years from now the lower Mississippi will be only a mile and threequarters...gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such trifling investment of fact." Fog on a crooked river, however wide between banks, is a much dreaded... | |
 | 1915 - 936 Seiten
...rather facetiously writes: "Any person can see that seven hundred and forty-two years from now the Lower Mississippi will be only a mile and three-quarters...under a single mayor and a mutual board of aldermen." So crooked is the river's course that, although the channel distance from Cairo to the Gulf is 1200... | |
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And by the same token any person can see that seven hundred and forty-two years from now the Lower Mississippi will be only a mile and three-quarters long, and Cairo and New Orleans will have joined their streets together, and be plodding comfortably... 
