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[ [14] That is, before the Revolution of half a century ago, when the Tokugawa Shogun resigned his powers to the Emperor.
[ [15] The Japanese bed, futon, consists of a soft mattress of cotton wool, two or three inches thick. It is spread on the floor, which itself consists of mats of almost the same thickness, 6 ft. long by 3 ft. wide.
[ [16] Most of the really big men of Australia have left political life in comparatively impoverished circumstances. Not only did Sir Henry Parkes die poor. Sir George Reid took the High Commissionership in London; Sir Graham Berry was provided with a small annuity; Sir George Dibbs was made the manager of a State savings bank; Sir Edmund Barton was lifted to the High Court Bench.—Times, January 11, 1921.
To the last day of his life, executions were levied in his house.—Rosebery on Pitt.
[ [17] For his figures see [Appendix I].