Gentlemen of the
Statistical Department, add two more to the number of social failures produced by England in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and seventy-one--Julian Gray and Mercy Merrick.
All the papers, pamphlets, reports-- all the journals published by the scientific, literary, and religious societies enlarged upon its advantages; and the Society of Natural History of Boston, the Society of Science and Art of Albany, the Geographical and
Statistical Society of New York, the Philosophical Society of Philadelphia, and the Smithsonian of Washington sent innumerable letters of congratulation to the Gun Club, together with offers of immediate assistance and money.
Most
statistical tables are parchingly dry in the reading; not so in the present case, however, where the reader is flooded with whole pipes, barrels, quarts, and gills of good gin and good cheer.
You see, you gentlemen have, to the best of my knowledge, taken your whole register of human advantages from the averages of
statistical figures and politico-economical formulas.
ACCOUNT OF THE DEPORTATION OF THE ACADIANS FROM "HALIBURTON'S HISTORICAL AND
STATISTICAL ACCOUNT OF NOVA SCOTIA."
It was obvious that to him Blanche Stroeve was only a unit to be added to the
statistical list of attempted suicides in the city of Paris during the current year.
I only use the word to express a monster in a lecturing castle, with Heaven knows how many heads manipulated into one, taking childhood captive, and dragging it into gloomy
statistical dens by the hair.
Staid,
statistical articles were published, proving that he had made his start by robbing poor miners of their claims, and that the capstone to his fortune had been put in place by his treacherous violation of faith with the Guggenhammers in the deal on Ophir.
Expatiating upon this learned and remarkable theory, and citing many curious
statistical and other facts in its support, Sam Weller beguiled the time until they reached Dunchurch, where a dry postboy and fresh horses were procured; the next stage was Daventry, and the next Towcester; and at the end of each stage it rained harder than it had done at the beginning.
He seemed oppressed by a humiliating sense of having been overpaid, and wished apparently to redeem his debt by the offer of grammatical and
statistical information in small installments.
3, or to issue a
statistical diagram showing the proportion of married women to spinsters in New Zealand; or that the net profits of Mrs.
A little later in our conversation I asked him a simple little question about the liability of workingmen to accidents, and received a
statistical lecture in return.