The United States has eight telephones
per hundred of population, while no other country has one-half as many.
You could draw my pension, and repay yourselves at the rate, say, of L500 a year, taking your five
per cent interest as well."
The projectile ought to be propelled with an initial velocity of 12,000 yards
per second.
If I could get twenty or thirty pounds to begin with, I could pay five
per cent for it, and then I could gradually make a little capital of my own, and do without a loan."
Hence that immense fortune, which, in Lord Wilmore's opinion, possibly amounted to one or two millions
per annum, -- a precarious fortune, which might be momentarily lost by the failure of the mine.
Of course we can't afford to take these structures down under a bonus of five hundred
per cent upon the prime cost of our lot and plaster.
"What will sixty-five
per cent of the gate receipts be?" Rivera demanded.
"A capital profit, -- four hundred
per cent., Planchet."
Over fifty
per cent are thralls by virtue of the fact that they are merely tenants or are mortgaged.
Our loves are not given, but only lent, At compound interest of cent
per cent.
Hence, the stopcock of my cylinder, when fully open, expends 27 cubic feet
per hour, with a flame at least six times as strong as that of the large lamps used for lighting streets.
On the other hand, Daylight could have taken in fully a dozen horses to pasture, which would have earned him a dollar and a half
per head
per month.
