The decrease in the rain- and snow-fall since the close of the glacial period in the Sierra is much less than is commonly guessed.

There is in most churches, however we may dislike to own the fact, a decrease of interest and proportionate membership, a waning prestige, a general air of discouragement, and a tale of baffled efforts and of disappointed hopes.

In one case the output was increased eight percent by reducing the weekly hours from sixty-eight to fifty-nine, and it was found that a decrease to fifty-six hours per week gave the same output as fifty-nine.

From statistics published giving the first results of the French census of 1921without the new territory of Alsace-LorraineFrance, in the interval between the two census periods, has decreased by 2,102,864; from 39,602,258 to 37,499,394 (1921).

The military burden laid on the population of the land has been decreased from 2,000 men to 500 per annum, and latterly to 280.

Chemical analysis of it has shown that the iodine content decreases with the age of the individual, and becomes specially low after forty.

So cleverly are the fibres twisted, that when the strainer is hung up, with a stone weight at the lower end, the diameter of the strainer decreases as its length increases, and the juice is squeezed out through the pores to drip into a calabash, and, nowadays, to be thrown carefully away, lest children or goats should drink it.

The bills of mortality rose the first week in September to seven thousand, and though they slightly decreased during the second weekawakening a momentary hopeon the third they advanced to twelve thousand!

however, leads me to conclude that the speed of time had been steadily decreasing for a very considerable period.

In northern Italy, where movable property is more developed, the crime of theft assumes a greater intensity, while crimes due to conditions of the blood are decreasing on account of the lesser poverty and the resulting lesser degeneration of the people.

The answer to this objection wasin the first place, that this disproportion would be continually decreasing under the influence of the republican laws introduced in the Southern States, and the more rapid increase of their population; in the second place, that local considerations must give way to the general interest.

It seems to me, also, that to the exclusive cultivation of sugar is owing, more than to any other cause, that frightful decrease throughout the islands of the white population, of which most English people are, I believe, quite unaware.

But while he was thus becoming assimilated to the enthusiasts, his contempt, in no wise decreasing toward them, grew very fierce against himself; he imagined, also, that every face of his acquaintance wore a sneer, and that every word addressed to him was a gibe.

For small families, perhaps the above quantity of pickle will be considered too large; but this may be decreased at pleasure, taking care to properly proportion the various ingredients.

It had wonderfully decreased within the last three years.

The legitimate exchange trade has decreased between England and America for thirty years.

If these were not to be had well grown children were preferable to the middle-aged, since they were much less apt to die in the "seasoning," they would learn English readily, and their service would increase instead of decreasing after the lapse of the first few years.

she asked, her sobs decreasing into sniffs again.

If the temperature decreases below 20oC, then a 200W bulb (for a small room) should be lit to generate heat.

Its thickness is eight yojanas, it is greatest in the middle, and decreases towards the margin, till it is thinner than the wing of a fly.

He had now, he said, made good his first propositionthat in the condition of the slaves there were causes, which should lead us to expect, that there would be a considerable decrease among them.

He watched her till her masts and sails formed only a white obelisk, gradually decreasing against the horizon.

In a preceding period the loss was greater; and, in a period before that greater still; there having been a continual gradation in the decrease through the whole time.