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By multiplying the number of pennyweights contained in the ring with the price mentioned, he showed that you either lost one dollar on the ring, or filled the centre with some baser metal." "Well?" The blood had, by this time, risen to the very brow of the jeweller. "'Cut the ring, said my friend. It was done, and, to my mortification and astonishment, it proved to be even as he had said.
Bythe-bye, there was a prospecting party who sank two or three shafts in the flat before the house last year; and I saw about eighteen pennyweights of gold which they took out. But it did not pay, and is abandoned. "Is Tom Troubridge come home, mother?" said he, as he leaned out of the saddle to kiss her. "Not yet, my boy," she said. "I am all alone.
Then, Bonney, listen to my lay, And if you wish to thrive, Send back the money quick to me, To number sixty-five. Who wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long, Had better to Echunga go, And not to Mount Coorong. But as for me I like a swag, At least a little more Than what we got there in a week Eight pennyweights 'mongst four.
"Holy Moses!" cried one of them, as he drew his forefinger through the bright, yellow dust, "there's more than an ounce there." "There is," affirmed Grainger: "there are twenty-five pennyweights, and all that came out of not more than 250 lbs. of tailings!"
"Pearls, I have learned, change their color, their degree of luster, even their weight, according to atmospheric conditions and location. A ten-penny-weight pearl in Vienna might weigh eight or nine pennyweights here in California, or it is more likely to weigh twelve.
I have known it lose, by this process of purifying, as much as from five to six pennyweights in the ounce. Sometimes he will bring only a few shillings' worth, and, when the money is tendered for it, he will turn it over in his hand, like a London cabman when his regular fare is given him.
"Counting it at the present value of gold, every pennyweight would be worth a dollar." "Let me see; twenty pennyweights in an ounce, and twelve ounces in a pound; that would be two hundred and forty dollars in a pound." "That is right." "And then twenty tons would be 40,000 pounds. And multiplying that by 240 would make $9,600,000. My, what a lot of money!"
It was discovered at Crystal Park, Col., weighs 59 pennyweights 6 grains, and measures 1-4/5 inch in length and 1-1/5 inch in thickness. Thousands of garnet crystals, found at Ruby Mountain, near Salides, Col., have been made into paperweights and sold to tourists. Those that weigh a few ounces sell for about ten cents each. One was sold that weighed 14 pounds.
Looking at him disdainfully, but vouchsafing no reply, Yoomy began over again. "It is now above ten hundred thousand moons, since there died the last of a marvelous race, once inhabiting the very shores by which we are sailing. They were a very diminutive people, only a few inches high " "Stop, minstrel," cried Mohi; "how many pennyweights did they weigh?"
The decision of the court protecting a trickster in paying treasury-notes worth but fifty cents for the gold loaned by a friend, savored to the plain miner of rank injustice. To avoid even this opportunity for a legal tender, sometimes notes promised to pay a certain number of ounces and pennyweights, with interest at a fixed rate.
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