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At the Huanchaca mines these furnaces cost about 100l. each, and are capable of roasting from 2 to 2½ tons of ore in twenty-four hours, the quantity and cost of the fuel consumed being as follows: Bolivian dollars at 3s. 1d. One man can attend to two furnaces, and earns 3s. per shift of twelve hours.
He investigated his money-box, removing the top with a tin-opener. He found that he had there 3s. 3 1/2d.; a large sum, and enough to give him a royal time. Mary caught him. "Oh, Jeremy, what are you doing?" "Just counting my money," he said, with would-be carelessness. "You're going to the Fair?" she whispered breathlessly. He frowned. How could she know? She always knew everything.
One of these children, a girl, was earning 2s. 6d. a week for working short time at a mill; the other, a lad, was earning 3s. a week. The rest were all unemployed, and had been so for several months past. This 5s. 6d. a week was all the seven people had to live upon, with the exception of a trifle the sickly old woman received from the Board of Guardians.
That catty box, on which was the epigraph "STRONG FAMILY CONGO ONLY 3s. 9d," was from the country of Confutzee that heap of dark produce bore the legend "TRY OUR REAL NUT" 'Twas Cocoa and that nut the Cocoa-nut, whose milk has refreshed the traveller and perplexed the natural philosopher. The shop in question was, in a word, a Grocer's. O Youth, Youth! Happy and Beautiful!
He tells me gold holds up its price still, and did desire me to let him have what old 20s. pieces I have, and he would give me 3s. 2d. change for each. He gone, I to the office, where business all the afternoon, and at night comes Mr.
All we love around us smile, Joyful is our Desert Isle. Edited by the Rev. J. Cumming, D.D. Family Pictures from the Bible. With an Introduction by Dr. CUMMING. Illustrated with Frontispiece and Vignette, by Geo. Measom. Foolscap 8vo., cloth, full gilt back and sides, 3s. 6d. The SAME EDITION, cloth lettered, 2s. 6d.
The complaining lodger went off soon after without paying his rent. The CORONER: Was deceased at all nervous? WITNESS: No, he was a very nice gentleman. CORONER: I mean did he seem afraid of being robbed? WITNESS: No, he was always goin' to demonstrations. I told him I lost a purse with 3s. 2d. myself on Jubilee Day. Mrs. Drabdump resumed her seat, weeping vaguely.
He urged a varied planting and the making of pitch and tar, pipe-staves, potashes, iron, and bay-salt, and warned the planters against "building their plantation wholly on smoke." It was observed, however, that Charles was receiving a large sum of money from customs on tobacco, and it was not likely that his advice would be taken while the price was 3s. 6d. a pound.
Then in machinery, pieces of 74 reed printing-cotton cloth of 29 yards each could not be produced at less cost than 30s. 6d. per piece; whereas the same description is now sold for 3s. 9d. Mr.
Mary's On some estates in this parish we are informed, and particularly those under the charge of Richard Lewis, Esq. such as Ballard's Valley, Timperon's estates, Ellis' estates, &c. and of Charles Stewart, Esq. Trinity, Royal, Roslin Bremer Hall, &c., and also of James Geddes, Esq., the laborers are getting from 2s. 6d. to 3s. 4d. per day. The same rates are paid upon many outer properties.
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