Think of the centuries this vast wealth has lain idle upon these royal crowns, and of the aggregate sum in current money which it represents; then calculate the annual loss of interest, say at three per cent per annum, and the result will reach a sum approximating to the amount of the National debt of Great Britain!
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
That's ten per cent, a year on the Major's investment, which means five hundred dollars per annum for him and Miss Julia to live on-nothin' handsome, you see, but it'll keep 'em from gettin' hungry.
"The Man from Jericho"
Edwin Carlile Litsey
A competitor came into the field, stirred things up, and now the old mail order house is doing eight to ten times as much business per annum as they did before they had the competition.
"Dollars and Sense"
Col. Wm. C. Hunter