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The art of fabricating beer remained for a long time a privilege of convents. The priests drank Pater's beer, while the lighter or convent beer was used by the laity. Although beer has been manufactured of all the cereals, barley only can be called its true and legitimate father.
Or was it, after all, but a hallucination due to grief, trouble, and the drug of the opiate? I sat and brooded until I thought I could hear the voices of Burker and Dolores in converse. He took me for a long ride, kept me to dinner, and manufactured a job for me a piece of work that would occupy and tire me.
The whole commerce of Iceland thus lies in the hands of Danish merchants, who send their ships to the island every year, and have established factories in the different ports where the retail trade is carried on. These ships bring every thing to Iceland, corn, wood, wines, manufactured goods, and colonial produce, &c.
Finally, she inquired of the landlord what was the value of the carpet in her bedroom, as well as where the said carpet had been manufactured; but, the landlord could do no more than promise to make inquiries. "What donkeys these people are!" she commented. Next, she turned her attention to the bed. "What a huge counterpane!" she exclaimed. "Turn it back, please." The lacqueys did so.
In addition to the expansion of the several economic interests of the various sections of the country, inventions and improvements were taking place which affected the general problems of production and distribution. Improvements in machinery saved forty to eighty per cent. of the time and labor demanded in the production of important manufactured goods.
The old woman was occupied, when we entered, in distilling spirits from cara, an edible root similar to the potato, by means of a clay still, which had been manufactured by herself. The liquor had a reddish tint, but not a very agreeable flavour. A cup of it, warm from the still, however, was welcome after our long journey.
Three paths, as usual, are open to science, in the present state of our knowledge of the question. We may pronounce the unfamiliar relics genuine, and prove it if we can. We may declare them to be false objects, manufactured within the last ten years. We may possess our souls in patience, and "put the objects to a suspense account," awaiting the results of future researches and of new information.
After order had been restored, which I will say was very soon, the Coroner, with an added gravity of tone, went on with his questions: "Did you recognize this bit of steel as belonging to any instrument in the medical profession?" "No; it was of too untempered steel to have been manufactured for any thrusting or cutting purposes. It was of the commonest kind, and had broken short off in the wound.
"Just go over that again, will you?" And Granice went over it again. It had all been so simple at the time and he had been so clever in covering up his traces! As soon as he decided on poison he looked about for an acquaintance who manufactured chemicals; and there was Jim Dawes, a Harvard classmate, in the dyeing business just the man.
The taxation of ancient Egypt was levied in kind, and government servants were paid after the same system. To workmen, there were monthly distributions of corn, oil, and wine, wherewith to support their families; while from end to end of the social scale, each functionary, in exchange for his labour, received cattle, stuffs, manufactured goods, and certain quantities of copper or precious metals.
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