River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-07-07
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10. The proportion of the principal
paid each year must be such that
the first payment at compound inter-
est for years, the second for 4 years,
the third for years, etc, will all be
equal; these payments will be proper
tionate to the present worth of ST. due
in 5, 4, 3, 2, and years, respectively.
Hence q0D5 l 900 4, l 400 3, l
Q07) 2, and l (10D l are the pIopor-
tional quantities. Reduce these to
common denomination and take their
numerators. Is their sum is to ST so
is $4,000 to x, or (sum); ST. +! $4,000 X;
K $52l.87 X, to this add one year s
interest on $4,000, which is $2l0, and
we have $731.67 X as the annual pay
ment. y. Il. Il.
20. In answer to this question, we
take the following bodily from the
election and registry laws OF thls
State;
ELECTION LAWS.
SECTION 2. No person under guard.
ianship. non compos mentis. OF insane;
shall be qualified to vote at any
election; nor shall any person convict
ed of treason, felony or bribery, UNI
less restored to civil rights; nor shall
any person who, being an inhabltant
of this state, may hereafter be engag-
ed, directly or indirectly, in duel,
either as principal or accessory, be
permitted to vote ut any election; nor
shall any person who shall have made
or become directly or indirectly inter
ested in any bet or wager. depending
upon the result of any election at
which he shall offer to vote, be per-
mitted TO vote at such election. NOR
shall any person be deemed to have
gained residence in any town OF
ward in this state, so as to entitle him
to vote at any election in such town
| or ward, by remaining in such town
or ward as a pauper, supported by the
town or county in which he shall be
living at the time of such election;
and no person shall be deemed to have
| lost his residence in any town or ward
by remaining in any other town or
ward as such pauper.
Governmental. TERMS.-A confederacy
| or confederation is the union OF
number of States, combined together
| for mutual aid and defence. re-
public is a commonwealth in which
the government is conducted by rep
resentatiyes elected for that purpose
by the whole people. A democracy is
state in which the government is adj
ministered directly by the people, with
out the mediation of representatives.
Often, however, the words republic
and democracy are used synonymous
ly.
BALBoA.-In answering the second
| half of the second question in U. 5.
History, published some time ago,
we will review the life of one Of the
uoblest and :avest of the early
American explore yet, on account
of his retiring nature, historians are
generally very reticent when speak
ing of his achievements as an explorer
in the wilds of the New World. Soon
after the exhibition Of Juan Ponce de
Leon to Florida, discovery of much
greater Importance was made in
another part of America. Vosco
Nunez de Balboa, having been made
governor of the small Spanish colony
at Santa Maria, in Darien, by the
voluntary suffrage of his associates,
was DESTROYS of having his election
confirmed by the crown. Conscious
that he could not expect any favors
from Ferdinand's ministers with
whom he was uncennected, or from
a count to the arts of which he was q
stranger, he endeaYored to merit the
position to which he aspired by per-
forming some signal service. Full of
this idea, he made frequent inrOads
into the adjacent country, subdued
several of the Caziques, and collected
considerable quantity of gold. In
one of those excursions, the Spaniards
contended with such eagerness about
the division of some gold, that they
were about proceeding to acts of vio-
lence against one another. A young
Cazique who was present, being
astonished that they should quarrel
so fiercely about a thing Of whose
value he did not appreciate, indig-
nantly tumbled the gold out of the
balance, ana turning to the Spaniards
said: "Why do you quarrel about
such a trifle! If you are so passion
ately fond of gold, rs to abandon your
own country, and to disturb the
tranquility Of distant nations for its