Word: offing
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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THE University Echo, Oakland, California, in the language of the honest miner, appears to have seen itself and gone four pages better; or, on second thoughts, suppose we say larger! It has a good deal of news, a superabundance of poetry, and one very entertaining article on "Roads and Railroads...
FIRST. The cost of one vote in a public body varies inversely as the whole number of votes in that body.
SECOND. The cost of a vote varies directly as the amount of money to be made out of the scheme.
This is illustrated by the case of the "Tammany Ring." "Suppose that the swindle amounted to $30,000,000. Let n = 100. Then we have
Now, it is a remarkable fact, that a statement of Judge Davis, on information obtained from a prominent lobbyist, makes the price of Senators on that occasion exactly twenty thousand dollars."