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The islands are to a great extent mountainous and volcanic, but the soil is highly productive. Sugar, rice, and tropical fruits grow in abundance, and over ninety per cent of the trade is with the United States. The world knows comparatively nothing about the great fortunes that have been amassed in Hawaii in the last thirty years.
It was natural for him to assume that the Russian Government would only be too glad to accept this enormous contribution which was bound to stimulate productive labor in the country and raise the welfare of its destitute masses.
Do not accept the experience of any one if you have eggs you very much desire to be productive of the caterpillars of rare moths; after six days take a peep every day if you would be on the safe side. With many species the shells are transparent, and for the last few days before emergence the growth of the little caterpillars can be watched through them.
Before him, on yellowing paper, was old Gid's name, and at it he slowly shook his head, for fretfully he nursed the consciousness of having for years been the dupe of that man's humorous rascality. The plantation was productive, the old fellow had gathered many a fine crop, and for his failure to pay rent there could be no excuse, except the apologies devised by his own trickish invention.
Then plays as they are called were introduced; such as hunt the slipper, cross questions and crooked answers, ladies' toilette, and several others of the same kind, in which forfeits had to be redeemed by the parties making mistakes in the game a procedure of course productive of much noise, kissing, and laughter.
The judicious operations of banking, by substituting paper in the room of a great part of this gold and silver, enable the country to convert a great part of this dead stock into active and productive stock; into stock which produces something to the country.
But the most singular part of the proceeding is, that the question was decided in favor of the anthropophagi." As a matter of fact, productive land is always appropriated, and in many parts of the Islands is difficult and expensive to purchase. Ind. Arch. In Buitenzorger's garden, Java, the author observed, however, some specimens growing in fresh water.
SWEETLY, most sweetly, have two days more passed since I wrote: but I have been too much engaged to be exact in my journal. To-day has been less tranquil. It was destined for the decision of the important bet, and has been productive of general confusion throughout the house. It was settled that the race should be run at five o'clock in the afternoon.
Certainly not; for on such conditions the tenant, though producing no more than before, would soon be obliged to labor for nothing, what do I say? to actually suffer loss in order to hold his lease. In fact, revenue can increase only as productive soil increases: it is useless to build walls of marble, and work with plows of gold.
I readily assented to this view of the case. "And so assuming that Green is a gambler," said I, "he has grown richer, in consequence of the opening of a new and more attractive tavern in Cedarville." "Yes, and Cedarville is so much the poorer for all his gains; for I've never heard of his buying a foot of ground, or in any way encouraging productive industry. He's only a blood-sucker."
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