The "Catalogue Raisonné" of the imperial library of the present dynasty mentions two quotations from it by Le Tâo-yüen, a geographical writer of the dynasty of the Northern Wei (A.D. 386-584), one of them containing eighty-nine characters, and the other two hundred and seventy-six; both of them given as from the "Narrative of Fâ-hien.

" "Sixty-three,and there were only eighty-nine," and Braddock sighed heavily.

In this day of monetary papyrus, it is pleasing to read of an ancient matron in Lafayette, Ind., who, at the age of eighty-nine, has gone to her reward, leaving no property save a $20 gold piece.

He told me that he was eighty-nine years old, and that he and Bonpland, alone, were living of those who in early life were on expeditions together; that Bonpland was eighty-five, and much the more vigorous of the two.

He rejoiced in labor, and knew no rest until he was eighty-nine.

Sickened with the world, he still labored for the world, and died in 1564, over eighty-nine years of age, in the full assurance of eternal blessedness in heaven.

I have a suite in the Court, number eighty-nine.

All these tributary fires amount to eighty-five tomans, besides four tomans of the Saracens, making in all eighty-nine tomans; and one toman contains 10,000 fires.

MS. 7,650,a small quarto of eighty-nine leaves.

Wherefore, the plaintiff demands judgment against the defendant for the sum of (eighty-nine) dollars and (sixty) cents, with costs of suit.

He had lived fifty-four years [and eighty-nine days] and had reigned for a year lacking ten days.

My bill has passed by a vote of eighty-nine to eighty-three.

"Heard the news, eighty-nine?" She asked Miss Jennings the question, but she was looking straight at Faith.

"Any one can see you're fairly green with envy, eighty-nine!

There are on an average eighty-nine rainy days in the year; the quantity of rain falling amounts to forty-two inches,the smallest amount being in January, and the largest in June.

There are at present five thousand nine hundred and thirty male, and six thousand six hundred and eighty-nine female apprentices in my district, (B,) which comprises a part of the parishes of Christ Church and St. George.

She is now one hundred and eighty-nine days out, and the voyage has rarely taken one hundred days.

During the eighty-nine years of his earthly pilgrimage he saw Italy enslaved and Florence extinguished; it was his exceeding bitter fate to watch the rapid decay of the arts and to witness the triumph of sacerdotal despotism over liberal thought.

She died in 1677, at the age of eighty-nine years.

4. Eighty-nine rules for "the sounds of the consonants, according to position."

Returning home in separate squads, they were successively intercepted by the Federal dragoons acting as a posse to the Deputy United States Marshal, who arrested them on civil writs obtained in haste by an active member of the territorial cabal, and to the number of eighty-nine were taken prisoners to Lecompton.

An aftermath of Reeves' story is finding out that most people consider Henry Banner, whose story has been previously given and whose age was given as eighty-nine, is considered by many persons to be ninety-four.

From his accounts we find that in 1759 he made thirty-four thousand one hundred sixty pounds of tobacco; the next year sixty-five thousand thirty-seven pounds; in 1763, eighty-nine thousand seventy-nine pounds, which appears to have been his banner tobacco crop.

By the treaty with Spain, France was to keep Metz, Toul, and Verdun, and have back Saint-Quentin, Le Catelet, and Ham; but she was to restore to Spain or her allies a hundred and eighty-nine places in Flanders, Piedmont, Tuscany, and Corsica.

At the conclusion of the proceedings Judge Watkins permitted a voluntary collection to be taken up by Mr. Tutt on behalf of the accused among the jury, the court attendants and the spectators, which amounted to eleven hundred and eighty-nine dollars.