We have a
hundred thousand francs or thereabouts loaned on their securities, and we are a little uneasy at reports that have reached us that the firm is on the brink of ruin.
For a man with one
hundred thousand roubles of revenue, which was what everyone fixed as Vronsky's income, such debts, one would suppose, could hardly be embarrassing; but the fact was that he was far from having one
hundred thousand.
A TRULY Pious Person who conducted a savings bank and lent money to his sisters and his cousins and his aunts of both sexes, was approached by a Tatterdemalion, who applied for a loan of one
hundred thousand dollars.
His lieutenants had worked so hard from five o'clock until eleven, that they actually had collected a
hundred thousand roubles for him, but at such terrific expense, that the rate of interest was only mentioned among them in whispers and with bated breath.
"Two
hundred thousand pounds." at last said Morgan.
a fellow like that must be well worth a
hundred thousand crowns."
Mynheer van Baerle the father had amassed in the Indian trade three or four
hundred thousand guilders, which Mynheer van Baerle the son, at the death of his dear and worthy parents, found still quite new, although one set of them bore the date of coinage of 1640, and the other that of
Sun Tzu said: Raising a host of a
hundred thousand men and marching them great distances entails heavy loss on the people and a drain on the resources of the State.
But this cannot happen again, if the proposed system be adopted; and when these debts are discharged, the only call for revenue of any consequence, which the State governments will continue to experience, will be for the mere support of their respective civil list; to which, if we add all contingencies, the total amount in every State ought to fall considerably short of two
hundred thousand pounds.
"I have won two
hundred thousand francs!" cried I as I pulled out my last sheaf of bank-notes.
"Of four
hundred thousand who crossed the Vistula," he wrote further of the Russian war, "half were Austrians, Prussians, Saxons, Poles, Bavarians, Wurttembergers, Mecklenburgers, Spaniards, Italians, and Neapolitans.
The Waldorf-Astoria alone tops all residential buildings with eleven hundred and twenty telephones and five
hundred thousand calls a year; while merely the Christmas Eve orders that flash into Marshall Field's store, or John Wanamaker's, have risen as high as the three thousand mark.