This third general was Richard Montgomery, an ardent rebel of thirty-eight, who had been a captain in the British Army.

" In one casualty list made public by the British war office in September, sixteen officers were reported killed, thirty-eight wounded and ten missing.

The Silurian rocks, lower and upper, which in these islands have their chief development in Wales, and which are nearly thirty-eight thousand feet thick; and the Devonian or Old Red sandstone beds, which in the Fans of Brecon and Carmarthenshire attain a thickness of ten thousand feet, must be passed through in an upward direction before we reach the bottom of that Carboniferous Limestone of which I spoke in my last paper.

Party employed as before; killed one of the sheep, which weighed thirty-eight pounds.

The Chinese boast of having noticed and recorded a series of eclipses extending over a period of thirty-eight hundred and fifty-eight years; and it is probable that they anticipated the Greeks two thousand years in the discovery of the Metonic cycle,or the cycle of nineteen years, at the end of which time the new moons fall on the same days of the year.

When a step collar and a man's tie are worn, the ordinary high collar and chemisette, sold for thirty-eight cents, takes the place of the straight linen band worn with the habit high in the throat, and the proper tie is the white silk scarf fastened in a four-in-hand knot, and, if you be wise, Esmeralda you will buy this at a good shop, and pay two dollars and a quarter for it, rather than to pay less and repent ever after.

"Do I understand you to say that a gentleman from this office called upon you?" "Yes, a Mr. Bayley, a tall, good-looking man, of between thirty-eight and forty years of age.

As we went onward up the gentle slope (the rise is one hundred and thirty-eight feet in rather more than a mile), the ground became more and more full of pitch, and the vegetation poorer and more rushy, till it resembled, on the whole, that of an English fen.

A few Carat-palms {184} spread their huge fan-leaves among the curious flowering trees; other foreign palms, some of them very rare, beside them; and on the lawn opposite my bedroom window stood a young Palmiste, which had been planted barely eight years, and was now thirty-eight feet in height, and more than six feet in girth at the butt.

But (laughing) thirty-eight!

Aristotle said that a man ought to marry at thirty-eight.

" The other smiled, and, with a shrug of the shoulders, said, "I really don't know why I should have earned a reputation as a rapid traveller, except, perhaps, by that trip I made last year, from Paris to Constantinople, when I remained exactly thirty-eight minutes in the Sultan's capital.

The changes of monsoons are often accompanied with tremendous storms; during one of these, which occurred in September, the velocity of the wind was as much as thirty-seven or thirty-eight meters per second.

The learned gentleman has revived and retailed all those arguments from his own pamphlet, which had before passed through thirty-seven or thirty-eight editions in print; and now gives them to the House embellished by the graces of his personal delivery.

Because the Postmaster-General, at the moment in the Capitol, informed me that the contractors themselves had offered to increase the speed on this route to thirty instead of thirty-eight days at a less cost than that authorized by the joint resolution.

He has recently published a readable book giving an account of his experience during thirty-eight years of military service in India.

Yet Michelangelo, aged fifty-one in 1526, was destined to live on another thirty-eight years, and, after the death of Clement, to witness the election of five successive Popes.

Its dimensions are one hundred and two feet long, thirty-eight broad, and fifty-seven high.

I worked for the railroad company thirty-eight years.

The cost of thirty-eight chickens till ready to kill was $4 37.

The total number of these was 123, of whom thirty-eight came through an illegitimate granddaughter, and eighty-five through legitimate grandchildren.

"There are thirty-eight elements in the English alphabet, and to represent those elements by appropriate characters, we should have thirty-eight letters.

CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT A Tale that is told and a Day that is done

An outline of careers; a practical guide to achievement, by thirty-eight eminent Americans.

Of the thirty-eight delegates assigned to the non-Christian provinces, one only, good old Lino Abaya of Tiagan, was a non-Christian.