NK RBPniLIC. 







in* of numerous fifebrew words and (rrainmat- 

 2oouetrucUos* is merely a matter of oaojao- 

 tmm Tha Assyrian monuments have n 



* k^Mlwt iii i^^iaiiiliia **** ^miflcat ion 

 nfwva wipiv* i^n^v^v 



{f^HTto^wJEL aH MMtaT boo* 1 . ?K 



>!<. Mil I 



W M VTWMMB H IIHBl 



S!ii..mi.l. and upon the ^theuUdty of the ma- 



--iii w Mti^r lafa* Lhem. OontemDoraneous 



mvmv ^iw^* *** ^^^Tk 



ilmisminlr are eonUoually beinff discovered 



Uw imih and historical character 

 .nia> Thus a direct and 



' ., ' ' ,-;,.'. 



. : . - .:. ' : 



in a mrtm of Ublis nlaUng to mil- 

 in thai recta, in one of which 



Km* Rri- Aku ( AriochK^Tur^ ( Kllasar) is asso- 

 cmtad with the Princes Kudur-I*gamar (Ched- 

 ar) and Tttd-Khal (the Tidal of dene- 

 In eonneotion with the overthrow of Fn- 

 Akm, ami the Samites by Khmmura)>i. the 

 rival kinf of Babylon, recorded in other tablets. 

 Mr T.ff Pinches ha* found thai the names of 

 Urn kings of the dynasty to which Khammu- 



rabi beion<ed are not Babylonian or Assyrian, 



ii >. 



names, as wall as to south Arabian names; and 

 he has found in contract tables dated in the 

 reicns of Khammurabi and other kings of the 

 djiasty the names of Yakub-ili aodYasuD-ffl, 

 of Jaoob^l and Joseph^L The names, hot 

 says, -are dUUnctively Hebrew, and 

 in the very crntur. !, the 



the lifetime of Abraham Hebrews 

 have been living in 



. 



Babykmia.- The Bfryptian monumenU of the 



. . !V . ,:/. 



'. . :/. '.. ,..:.! -... 



andProt FUndenP. 



Pharaoh, Jacob-el, who 



t>y Asiatic 



mladb] 



conquerors. 



Bri-AIra 



Abram, further, had been already 

 in Babylonian contracts of the time of 



- \: '. 



The relationship of the 



of this dynasty both to Hebrew and to 

 mes may, moreover, be taken 

 that the Hebrews and the tribes of 



Arabia had a 

 the* Un 



in UlnstraUon 



ancestor, and 

 was in Babr- 

 we read in the 



chapter of Genesis that "Unto Boer were 

 two sons." one of whom was Peleg. the an- 

 of Abram, and the other was Joktan the 



as Joktan, the 



ssor of the tribes of southern Arabia. 

 AMfJmXB HEPl BLIC, a federal repub- 

 Be South America, The President is elected 

 lor ail rears b? slsetors chosen in the several 







- N. 



yr^^-ss^ss 



of whom one half are renewed 

 k They are emoted by direct 

 . The rVsmient of the repub- 



for the 

 tTriburu, who, as Vice-l 



Saens Pefta when the Utter resigned, on Jan. -j-j, 

 1808. The following Cabin Mi.v in the 



f 18M: In' K, Vmntnna 



eign Affnirv. | r . Fduardo Costa; Finance, Dr. 



: .lust ice, Worship, ami Instn. 



: |.,p,,s. 



The area of the country is 1,196,066 

 miles. The population was estimated at 4,257,- 

 000 in 1882. The census of 1805 makes it over 

 4,750,000. The population of Buenos Ay res, the 

 eupitnl. in 1805 was 690,000, over 25 per < 

 whmii were foreigners. The numl.er of immi- 

 grant* who arrived in 1808 was 84,420 ; the total 

 net immigration since 1878 was 1,1 1G,OQO. A IIH.IUT 

 52,067 immigrants who landed at Buenos Ayres 

 in 1808, Italians numbered 87,077, Spaniard! 

 7.100. i ' M-rmans 066. Russians 748, 



tins 685, otli. r- l.'.'T'.t. More than <-ne fifth 



..f the total imputation arc of foreign birth, most- 

 ly Italians, Frvn.-h. and Spaniards. There are 

 also many English ami (iiTinan settlers. The 

 immigration, which Ml off on account of the 

 :n.m 260,009 in 1880 to 188,407 

 in 1800, and lower still in the succeeding years, 

 began to recover in 1808. Immigration 

 the British Islands, however, continued to de- 



Fin.inees. The actual revenue for 1803 was 

 $31,000,053 in gold and $108,801. '>?:> in paper; 

 the expenditure was $31,808,149 in .--M and 

 $07,627,056 in paper. The revenue for 1804 

 was estimated at $34,103,400 in gold and $20,- 

 280,000 in paper, and expenditure at $1MK 

 000 in gold and $66,033,380 in paper. The 

 a<tmtl receipts were $27,700,500 in gold and 

 $24,861, -I TJ in paper. For 1895 the gold re- 

 ceipts are estimated at $34,373.000. of whi.-h 

 $28,800,000 are import duties. $2.500.000 ex- 

 port duties, $700,000 stora.-.- duties, $840,000 

 harbor dues, $150,000 consular taxes, $220,000 

 charges for statistics, and $1,163,000 interest. 

 The revenue paid in paper ( urn n< \ is estimated 

 at $23,825,000, of which $1,600.000 are land taxes, 

 $6,600,000 stamp duties, etc., $3,350,000 postal 

 and telegraph receipts, $4,820,000 railroad re- 

 ceipts, etc., $6,080,000 excise duti.-s and $525,- 



000 miscellaneous receipts. The expenditure 



1 i L806 i- mttaated .-. *iMi-.:',o<>in P ,id and 

 $61,777,574 in paper, divided as fol 



gress, $1,060,016 paper ; Interior, $2,644,8<> 

 and $18.670,878 paper; Foreign Affairs. $150,- 

 060 gold and $788,084 paper : I man. , . * 

 540 gold and $7,343,160 paper; Justice and Wor- 

 ship. $10.267.201 paper ; War, $14,623,128 j 

 Marine, $8,170,653 paper. 



The external debt in December, 1804, amount- 

 ed to $21!M20.172, payabl. 8 total 

 funded debt was $262,033.716 in gold and $46,- 

 500,794 in paper, entailing an annual charge of 

 *ll.l!:uil cold mid $2.100.00" The to- 

 tal indebtedness of the Government in .January. 

 1804, was $416,778,005 in gold and $63,!' 

 in paper. Th- external pr 

 amounted to $131,000,000 in trold, with $21,- 

 000.000 interest in arrears and the mm 

 debU to $24,506,422 in gold, with $607,061 un- 

 paid interest 



The Arm r and Nary. There is a regular 

 army of 1,308 officers and 6,498 men and a Na- 

 tional Guard, in which 480,000 men are enrolled, 

 of whom not more than 65,000 have received 



