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.... Money comes in all sizes, shapes and forms. One meter long and half a meter wide copper plates were used in Alaska in the 1850s. They weighed 40 ... ...954 and The Nobel prize for Peace in 1962. http://www.nobel.se/ Nokia Some companies have at least nine lives, it would seem. Nokia was fou... ...ine lives, it would seem. Nokia was founded in southwestern Finland, in 1865, by a mining engineer, one, Frederik Idestam, as a wood-pulp mill. An ... ...ocated 25 kilometers apart in today's territory of Iraq. Clay cylinders and albast, copper and gold tablets found at the site recount the story of t... ...ed States boasts a few statue-related records. The Statue of Liberty is the largest copper sculpture in the world. Mount Rushmore - in the Black Hil... ...ing the presidency of Warren G. Harding. It involved the secret leasing to private companies of oil-containing tracts owned by the Navy, mainly in ... ... Tel- Aviv, Israel. 1982 to 1985 Senior positions with the Nessim D. Gaon Group of Companies in Geneva, Paris and New-York (NOGA and APROFIM SA): ...

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...rate figures not available (1986) Natural resources: natural gas, oil, coal, copper, talc, barites, sulphur, lead, zinc, iron, salt, precious and semi... ... sheep, cattle Major industries: petroleum, light indus- tries, natural gas, mining, petrochemical, electrical, automotive plants (under con- structio... ...growth (1986 est.) Natural resources: petroleum, diamonds, iron, phosphates, copper, feldspar, gold, bauxite, uranium Agriculture: cash crops coffee, ... ...ire food imports Fishing: catch 112,000 metric tons (1982) Major industries: mining (oil, diamonds), fish processing, brewing, tobacco, sugar processi... ...cations, 7.7% finance and bank- ing, 4.4% utilities, 3.6% construction, 2.7% mining, 16.7% services and other; 6.3% unemployment (April 1985) Organize... ...ic activity grew by 2-3% in 1986 Natural resources: pampas, lead, zinc, tin, copper, iron, manganese, oil, uranium Agriculture: main products cereals,... ...tors, estimated at $10 million annu- ally, provides for 10% of state budget; companies incorporated in Liechtenstein solely for tax purposes provide a... ...ncorporation rules have induced about 25,000 holding or so-called letter box companies, to establish nominal offices there; economy is tied closely to...

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...t - and so were privatizers in developing countries. What price should state-owned companies have fetched? This question is not as simple and strai... ...sales. New information, macro-economic and micro-economic, determines the value of companies. Greenspan testifies in the Senate, economic figures a... ...nd in the same industry) barely budges. Why not? We say that the stocks of the two companies have different elasticity (their prices move up and do... ...ber 3, 1929 the shares of American Can, General Electric, Westinghouse and Anaconda Copper were still substantially higher than on March 3, 1928. J... ...ce enormous bailout packages for the financial sector (and potentially the auto and mining industries) as well as fiscal stimulus plans, governments... ...y retained by the state in infrastructure projects, utilities, natural monopolies, mining operations, defense contractors, and the space industry. ...

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...tes to every information product, no matter how superior. Web based media companies (such as Salon and Britannica.com) have been experimenting with p... ... Sam Vaknin Are content brokers - publishers, distributors, and record companies - a thing of the past? In one word: disintermediation The... ...similar labour market trends. But distributors, publishers, and record companies are not going to vanish. They are going to metamorphose. This is... ...sers of both find the wealth and breadth of information daunting and data mining is fast becoming an art form. Encarta introduced the Visual (Virtua... ...iches. Users find the wealth and breadth of information daunting and data mining is fast becoming an art form. Encarta introduced the Visual (Virtua... ...s). This is mainly because of the tedious and mind- numbing chores of data mining and composition. Additionally, as knowledge multiplies every 5-10 y... ...fibre optic infrastructure which characterizes cable companies to the old copper coaxial infrastructure which characterizes telephony. Cable users en... ...tworks. Our voice is transmitted back and forth inside a gigantic maze of copper wires and optic fibres. It seeps through any available wire - until...

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...ources and to extend its influence towards the Indian Ocean. Two Saudi Arabian oil companies were also involved. During the same years, the Taliba... ...essing in disguise. Western aid and investment can help resuscitate the Soviet era mining (Copper, Zinc) operations and finally tap Afghanistan's v... ...n disguise. Western aid and investment can help resuscitate the Soviet era mining (Copper, Zinc) operations and finally tap Afghanistan's vast rese... ... denied by President Vladimir Putin in a phone call to Bush - and ridiculed by the companies ostensibly involved. Russia exported c. $5 billion of ... ... would insist on honoring all prewar contracts signed between Iraq and Russian oil companies and worth of billions of dollars - and on the repaymen... ...enrichment facility near the city of Natanz and an Iranian admission that they are mining their own ore, Alexander Rumyantsev, the Russian Atomic E...

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...and read up on the inimitable Aaron Matloch. In short, it read: multi-national mining industrialist, multi-billionaire, and the richest man in Amer... ...e of a video camera that was mounted on top of a ten foot wall. The huge ornate copper gate, emblazoned with a fancy script of A M, split slowly apa... ...t me as I do you." Hawk took a deep breath. "You made your first fortune strip mining for copper in the mid-west until it ran out, and then you mov... ...o you." Hawk took a deep breath. "You made your first fortune strip mining for copper in the mid-west until it ran out, and then you moved to Brazi... ...ted the first major wave of sys­ tematically destroying the rain forest by strip mining any mineral you could find ... You've scarred untold square m... ...d project. We're talking about a very special type of insurance that only a few companies handle, and if they were looking I'd know it" Alana perke... ... he bought up enough shares of the major Uranium Enrichment Plants, and Utility Companies that specialized in Nuclear Power. Thus, I.E. became the m... ...eart waste management contracts with the military and most of the major utility companies does not add up to massive leaks that are about to kill mi...

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... and Outer awareness. Science practices this double standard. So do lumber companies and mining companies, and chemical companies. Their adverti... ...areness. Science practices this double standard. So do lumber companies and mining companies, and chemical companies. Their advertisements try to... ...n population. Stone tools took millions of years to become mostly obsolete. Copper-Bronze Age tools took only a few thousand years to become mostl... ... natural resources cheaply to other countries? Do they allow other country’s companies to come in and take over their own hydroelectric power plants... ...ations… so one company, one corporation can become more successful than other companies. So one person can become richer than another person. By ke... ...trons. This is the insanity that comes from the unspoken assumption that all copper atoms are absolutely identical to each other. The visual illu... ...get it… and only pay a few pennies. Go to any of the Asian or south American mining towns and you can get ‘precious stones’ for almost nothing. Th... ...lthy rich; the masses of driven insane workers in the coal fields and iron and copper mines and the lumber companies… everyone trying to get rich qui... .... Compare the level of human greed historically. Look at the history of gold mining. For ten thousands of years: gold mines were controlled and mi...

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...Adventure of the Engineer?s Thumb, 152 -- The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor, 170 -- The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet, 189 -- The Adventure of the Copper Beeches, 210...

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...e Beryl Coronet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 The Adventure of the Copper Beeches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 A Scandal in Bo... ...fing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by an other loafer, who had rushed up wit... ...he now has two children. He had no oc cupation, but was interested in several companies and went into town as a rule in the morning, returning by the... ... had first chosen, inspiring pity by my ghastly face and filling my pockets with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. He was the keeper of a low den in... ... be the richest man on the Pacific slope.” “And how did he make his money?” “In mining. He had nothing a few years ago. Then he struck gold, invested i... ...twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she ran free in a mining camp and wandered through woods or mountains, so that her educat...

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...d struc- ture, with a towerlike spire adorned with all sorts of gro- tesque images. The inner walls of the church were placarded with large mural tabl... ...as 103 A Tramp Abroad clear as crystal, and is tempered to 28 degrees Re’aumur (about 95 degrees Fahrenheit). Sunk into the floor, by the tub, is a c... ...ew,” and seen them throw themselves down in exhausted attitudes for a rest in that commanding situation. In Nevada I used to see the children play at ... ...y had trusted Baedeker, and waited; consequently some of them got their seats for one or two dollars. Baedeker knows all about hotels, railway and dil... ...tood in front of the theater, and seemed to enjoy the performance heartily. When the play was done, a youth in his shirt-sleeves started around with a...

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...- hind the mosquito-bar on the front porch, reading “David 20 The Octopus Copperfield,” and gorging himself with dried prunes. Annixter—after the two... ...e chances, to hazard every- thing on the hopes of colossal returns. In the mining days at Placerville there was no more redoubtable poker player in th... ...porch, pre- cisely as Presley had found him the day before, reading “David Copperfield” and stuffing himself with dried prunes. When he recognised Mag... ... his hammock, finished the rest of his prunes and read another chapter of “Copperfield.” Then he put the book, open, over his face and went to sleep. ... ...ful. Soon the entire number of Annixter’s guests found them- selves in two companies, the dancers on the floor of the barn, frolicking through the las... ...ommission is a railroad board, and reverses all our figures?” The one-time mining king, the most redoubtable poker player of Calaveras County, permitt... ...- claimed verses of his own composition about the wild life of the Alaskan mining camps. The Japanese youth, in the silk robes of the Samurai two-swor...

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... beheld him with a little beggar-girl in his arms. ‘She has asked me for a copper coin, Richie,’ he said, squeez- ing her fat cheeks to make cherries ... ...ill stick to her choice, and not seek smaller change. “I could not forgive coppers”; that ‘s quoting your dad. I have no wish to see the uxorious obje... ...aid, ‘deserves to be burnt,’ and she was allowed to burn it—money article, mining column as well— on the pretext of an infamous anti-T ory leader, of ... ...silver of rubbing off; and he offered forthwith an impromptu apologue of a copper penny that passed itself off for a crown- piece, and deceived a port... ...he is peeping at somebody else’s. No danger of the dad being mixed up with Companies? Let’s hope not. Julia pledged her word to Janet that I would loo... ... I am her chief agent, that is all.’ Her chief agent, as director of three Companies and chairman of one, was perhaps competent to advise her, he rema... ...d gone down with Alderman Duke Saddlebank to dine at one of the great City Companies’ halls. I could hardly believe it. ‘ Ah! my dear Mr. Harry,’ said...

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...– V olume Two Free Church, is the appalling spirit of Jacobinism which ac- companies their whole conduct, and which latterly has avowed itself in thei... ... his account of a Lybian nation, that the women and girls universally wore copper rings about their ankles. And at an after period, these ornaments we... ..., and had little pendu- lous cylinders of gold, (in the poorer classes, of copper,) so contrived as to make a jingling sound on the least motion of th... ...ut it appears from the Second Book of Moses, xxxviii. 8, that in that age, copper must have been the metal employed throughout the harems of Palestine... ...g, as regarded philosophy, any internal principle of gravitation or deter- mining impulse to draw him in one direction rather than another, was left t...

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... this matter. I travel by railroad. I start from home at seven or eight in the morning, after breakfasting hurriedly. What with skim- ming over the op... ...de wood, are not eminently prepossessing, but are much less objectionable. There is a tramp-fellowship among them. They pick one another up at resting... ...r’s name before him was Chips, and they were all Chipses. And Chips the father had sold himself to the Devil for an iron pot and a bushel of tenpenny ... ...d half a ton of copper and a rat that could speak; and Chips the grandfather had sold him- self to the Devil for an iron pot and a bushel of tenpenny ... ...rik- ing lights. And hanging over one of his arms by the handle was an iron pot, and under that arm was a bushel of tenpenny nails, and under his othe... ...throwing of stones at the windows of railway carriages in motion—an act of wanton wickedness with the very Arch-Fiend’s hand in it—had become a crying...

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... quick- ened his fire by blowing, and his simple tools, pointed first with copper and then with iron, increased and varied and became more elaborate a... ..., he added first one metal to his resources and then another, until he had copper and tin and iron and lead and gold and silver to supplement his ston... ...o- posed to fire shot out of corked iron bottles full of heated water. The mining of coal for fuel, the smelting of iron upon a larger scale than men ... ... mere guess that—perhaps with the lightning. Frogs’ legs must have hung by copper hooks from iron railings and twitched upon count- less occasions bef... ... the Leap into the Air was one of astonishing prosperity. Patent-hold- ing companies were presently paying dividends of five or six hundred per cent. ...

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...e for a country where they come impoverished to seek their for- tunes, the mining population of San Tome, etc… .” and ended with the declaration: “The... ...ith many arguments and entreaties, but without success. He knew nothing of mining; he had no means to put his concession on the European market; the m... ...as a working concern did not exist. The buildings had been burnt down, the mining plant had been destroyed, the mining population had disappeared from... ...by the infinitely graduated shades of reddish-brown, of blackish-brown, of coppery-brown backs, as the two shifts, stripped to linen drawers and leath... ... hilt of the sabre standing upright between his legs. The white plume, the coppery tint of his broad face, the blue-black of the moustaches under the ... ...n hands, the two heads, one dark with bronze glints, the other fair with a coppery ripple, of the two girls by his side. The returning stream of sight... ... long building was surrounded by troops, which were already piling arms by companies and preparing to pass the night lying on the ground in their ponc... ...terprise—in railways, in mines, in sugar estates, in cotton mills, in land companies, in each and every undertaking—as the price of his pro- tection. ... ...ll had an air of life. Below, the troops fell in silently and moved off by companies without drum or trumpet. The old scare- crow major commanded the ...

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...wer of investi- gating estimates on a large scale. Mines were set on foot, companies established, and buildings commenced, and the results were only t... ...hwold baths. The close of the war brought a com- mercial crisis that their companies could not stand; and Mr. Dynevor’s death spared him from the sigh... ...s sums had been sunk with- out tangible return, and the liabilities of the companies far surpassed anything that they had realized. Lord Ormersfield w... ...and then to sleep. They are capital people. Dobbs is superintendent of the copper and tin works—a thoroughly right-minded man, with a nice, lady- 30 ... ... that mines were a tender sub- ject, the eager speaker became certain that copper must exist in the neighbourhood, and what an employment it would aff... ... with a deferential bow, and the conversation was changed by the Earl; but copper was still the subject upper- most with Louis, and no sooner was dinn... ...rsation. Some information had been wanted about the terms of labour in the mining districts, and Louis’s visit to Illershall enabled him to throw ligh... ... Oliver Dynevor reiterated requests for an intelligent man conversant with mining operations, and Oliver had indicated a person whom he remembered at ...

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...oilsome or dangerous land with never a household; there will be regions of mining and smelt- ing, black with the smoke of furnaces and gashed and deso... ...ation, and the rest will pass on to private individuals or to distributing companies at a uni- form fixed rate for private lighting and heating, for m... ...s, of all possible family group- ings, of neighbours and neighbourhood, of companies, as- sociations, unions, secret and public societies, religious g... ...tate. Subject to the rights of free locomotion, land will be leased out to companies or individuals, but—in view of the unknown necessities of the fut... ...sibilities of Utopian labour laws. We should examine our remaining change, copper coins of an appearance orna- mental rather than reassuring, and we s...

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...and shouted out— “Whoo oop! I’m the old original iron jawed, brass mounted, copper bellied corpse maker from the wilds of Arkansaw!—Look at me! I’m t... ...n Irishman lager for a month, and he’s a dead man. An Irishman is lined with copper, and the beer corrodes it. But whiskey polishes the copper and is ... ... believe they can’t. I reckon the safe way, where a man can afford it, is to copper the operation, and at the same time buy enough property in Vicksbu... ...ife I would have. Two miles away, several regi ments were in camp, and two companies of U.S. cavalry. When I learned that Captain Blakely, of Compan... ... teller. Not to seem partial, I made friends and told fortunes among all the companies garrisoned there; but I gave Company C the great bulk of my att... ... case anybody wanted it done. I had a contract to survey a route for a great mining ditch in California, and I was on my way thither, by sea—a three o... ...rm, and an admirable paid fire department, consisting of six hook and ladder companies, four steam fire engines, and thirty churches. Davenport is the...

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...insisting upon high security or high freights. The control of British coal-mining and shipping is in the national interests—for international interest... ...e common action, and has tended rather to the small battery theory. My two companies were playing with the idea that the ideal battery was a battery o... ...ght!—the shells march, are shaped, cut, fitted with 74 War and the Future copper bands, calibrated, polished, varnished…. Then we go on to another sy...

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...pitious for the laying-down of these direct level lines so dear to railway companies. I had no time to get tired of the monotony; for in three hours w... ...ble traveller devoted to perdition the railway directors and the steamboat companies and the governments which allowed such intolerable slowness. I wa... ..., coloured with delicate shades of green, ran in winding course threads of copper and man- ganese, with traces of platinum and gold. I thought, what r... ...n. “This will do it,” I said. “It will,” replied my uncle. By midnight our mining preparations were over; the charge was rammed into the hole, and the...

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...us yellow. The buildings were as ill- assorted, as temporary-looking, as a mining-camp street in the motion-pictures. The railroad station was a one- ... ...ys could function; that boys who were not compounded of the gutter and the mining-camp were mol- lycoddles and unhappy. She had taken this for granted... ...rnished a fender, removed from beneath the back seat the debris of gloves, copper wash- ers, crumpled maps, dust, and greasy rags. Winter noons he wan... ...their pro- totypes. Bjornstam told his scapes: selling horses in a Montana mining-camp, breaking a log-jam, being imper- tinent to a “two-fisted” mill... ...ater in Gopher Prairie. It was known as the “op’ra house.” Once, strolling companies had used it for performances of “The Two Orphans,” and “Nellie th... ...re to be illuminated by a ray from offstage. The high light was a polished copper pot filled with primroses. Less clearly she sketched the Grimm drawi... ...uqua, in New York, there are, all over these States, commercial Chautauqua companies which send out to every smallest town troupes of lecturers and “e... ...riven north to a duck-pass between two lakes, on an autumn day of blue and copper. Kennicott had given her a light twenty-gauge shotgun. She had a fir...

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...ghing. At the close of his third year Sauviat added the hawking of tin and copper ware to that of his pottery. In 1793 he was able to buy a chateau so... ...Auvergnat settled at Limoges, where he married, in 1797, the daughter of a coppersmith, a widower, named Champagnac. When his father-in-law died he bo... ...nctuary lamp was a night-wick placed in an old holy- water basin of plated copper hanging by silken cords, the spoil of some demolished chateau. The b... ...r naval engineering, artillery, or staff duty, or the civil engineering of mining, and ponts et chaussees.* By your advice, I chose the latter. * Depa... ... best plans are often those which offer most to the cupidity of commercial companies or speculators. Another five years and I shall no longer be mysel...

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...t the colonels of regiments received large gratuities from certain railway companies for the regiments passing over their lines. Charges of a similar ... ...on of their coun- try, and have been willing to attach the stain which ac- companies the institution to the individual State which entertains it, and ... ...a, wood (?), glass, pottery wares, leather, paper, iron, steel, lead, tin, copper, zinc, brass, gold and silver, horn, ivory, bone, bristles, wholly o... ...ncertainty of the post increases the habit, to the profit of course of the companies which own the wires, but to the manifest loss of the post-office.... ...n ignorance of religion as is to be found in some of our manufacturing and mining districts, and also, alas! in some of our agri- 334 North America V...

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...o hand out crisp bank-notes from a drawer and dispense sovereigns out of a copper shovel), winked at Mr. Driver, the clerk at the desk on his right. M... ... West Indies and the yellow fever. Stubble and Spooney looked to get their companies without purchase. Before the end of the campaign (which she resol... ... be so glossy and trim, was white at the seams, and the buttons showed the copper. His face had fallen in, and was unshorn; his frill and neckcloth hu... ...The Colonel of the —th regiment, in which Messieurs Dobbin and Osborne had companies, was an old General who had made his first campaign under Wolfe a... ...ide-de-camp to General Tufto had ceased previously. Rebecca laughed in all companies at that officer, at his toupee (which he mounted on coming to Par... ...ants, and lawsuits with them; lawsuits with the lawyers; lawsuits with the Mining and Dock Companies in which he was proprietor; and with every person... ...text for laying his book down. The boy in the shabby livery with the faded copper buttons, who always thrust himself into the tight coat to open the d...

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...he blood royal, should be exempt from serving for a year in one of his two companies of musketeers; and passing afterwards through the ordeal of being... ...e- quence to serve longer. Thereupon the King demanded in which of the two companies he wished to put me; and my 8 Saint-Simon father named that comm... ...King relied much upon the information given him by the captains of the two companies of Muske- teers, as to the young men who served in them. I have r... ...g was obliged to seek for resources as a private person might have done. A mining speculator, named Rodes, having pretended that he had discovered man... ...were very sorry to deprive themselves of; others feared the dirti- ness of copper and earthenware; others again were annoyed at being obliged to imita...

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...nd seeing what a long way down it was, he answered: ‘Gold, and silver, and copper. Guineas, shillings, half-pence. You know what they are?’ ‘Oh yes, I... ...aul. ‘Your invitation,’ returned Mr Feeder. Paul, looking at it, found, in copper-plate print, with the exception of his own name and the date, which ... ...en and making the streets hum, flashing out into the meadows for a moment, mining in through the damp earth, booming on in darkness and heavy air, bur... ...gan to have an interest in the Lord Mayor, and the Sheriffs, and in Public Companies; and felt bound to read the quotations of the Funds every day , t... .... The arrivals quickly became numerous. More directors, chairmen of public companies, elderly ladies carrying bur- 515 Charles Dickens dens on their ... ...olishing the bridge of his nose with his arm until it shone like burnished copper, ‘don’ t you say a word to Ed’ard Cuttle, until such times as you fi... ... furi- ously: burrowing with his head at the bottom, as if he were bent on mining his way out. 670 Dombey & Son ‘Can there be anybody there!’ asked F...

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...-rate fortunes, that are gained by manufacturing enterprises, joint- stock companies, viceroyalties, and principalities, not drawing more than 1,500,0... ...arino, when the Greek government was consolidated, he asked of King Otho a mining grant for that district, which was given him. Hence that immense for... ... from two deep dishes which were covered and placed on a stove, and from a copper pan placed in an old iron pot. In an adjoining room Andrea saw also ... ...f his pistols; but he simply heard the sound of the bolts sliding in their copper rings. It was only a precaution. The nocturnal visitor, ignorant of ...

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...nd seeing what a long way down it was, he answered: ‘Gold, and silver, and copper. Guineas, shillings, half-pence. You know what they are?’ ‘Oh yes, I... ...aul. ‘Your invitation,’ returned Mr Feeder. Paul, looking at it, found, in copper-plate print, with the exception of his own name and the date, which ... ...en and making the streets hum, flashing out into the meadows for a moment, mining in through the damp earth, booming on in darkness and heavy air, bur... ...gan to have an interest in the Lord Mayor, and the Sheriffs, and in Public Companies; and felt bound to read the quotations of the Funds every day , t...

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... him, and the ocks, and the sheep, and the oxen, and the camels, into two companies, 8 Saying: If Esau come to one company, and destroy it, the other... ...servant. With my sta I passed over this Jordan; and now I return with two companies. 11 Deliver me from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am greatly... ...ord brought forth the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their companies. Chapter 13 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 2 Sanctify unto ... ...he Lord God, whose surname is, God of Israel. 20 Thou didst gather gold as copper, and didst multiply silver as lead, 21 And thou didst bow thyself to... ...elp his neighbour, and shall say to his brother: Be of good courage. 7 The coppersmith striking with the hammer encouraged him that forged at that tim... ...sis, and gold from Ophaz: the work of the arti cer, and of the hand of the coppersmith: vi- olet and purple is their clothing: all these things are th... ...ade of one, all mankind, to dwell upon the whole face of the earth, deter- mining appointed times, and the limits of their habitation. 27 That they sh...

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... save waiting; but they had not reckoned on the discourtesies of two rival companies whose lines met at the same station, and the southern train was o... ... repent,’ said her brother. ‘The explosion is better than the subterranean mining.’ ‘It may be,’ said Albinia, ‘and I need not boast of the good I did... ...e! Mr. Dusautoy might as well hope that a Wedgwood cream-jug would guide a copper cauldron and keep verdigris aloof. His attraction for Lucy had alway...

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...se. Iron was the common instrument of commerce among the ancient Spartans, copper among the ancient Romans, and gold and silver among all rich and com... ...Tullius, the Romans had no coined money, but made use of unstamped bars of copper, to purchase whatever they had occa- sion for. These rude bars, ther... ...uds and impositions; and instead of a pound weight of pure silver, or pure copper, might receive, in exchange for their goods, an adulterated composit... ... war, not only private people of the best credit, but some of the greatest companies in London, commonly borrowed at five per cent. who, before that, ... ...ptcy and ruin, and is upon that account shunned and avoided by every body. Mining, it seems, is consid- ered there in the same light as here, as a lot... ... to sell at its former, or not much below its former price. The profits of mining would for some time be very great, and much above their natural rate... ...r thirty years, been performed in Scotland, by the erection of new banking companies in almost every considerable town, and even in some country villa... ...te, and gold still seldomer. But though the conduct of all those different companies has not been unexcep- tionable, and has accordingly required an a... ...n price of a ticket is the whole for- tune of a very rich man. Projects of mining, instead of replacing the capital employed in them, together with th...

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...lad in jupes of coarse woollen, with large girdles of leather studded with copper nails; of gigantic stature, heightened by high wooden-clogs (sabots)... ...f all kinds, for he had written Academic Prize Essays, struggled for India Companies, given dinners to Philosophes, and ‘realised a fortune in twenty ... ... debauchery. Carbuncles stud his face; dark studs on a ground of burnished copper. A most signal failure, this young Prince! The stuff prematurely bur... ...hough in detail it is so cruel! Under all Falsehoods it works, unweariedly mining. No Falsehood, did it rise heaven-high and cover the world, but Bank... ...s Necker al- ready triumphed. The gaping populace gapes over Wood- cuts or Copper-cuts; where, for example, a Rustic is repre- sented convoking the po... ...s; Books on the Prussian Monarchy, on Cagliostro, on Calonne, on the Water Companies of Paris:—each book comparable, we will say, to a bituminous alar... ...ismissed. Worst of all, the Gardes Francaises seem indisposed to act: ‘two Companies of them do not fire when ordered!’ (Histoire Parlementaire, ii. ...

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...ainted with the Academy know that the corps of cadets is divided into four companies for the purpose of military exercises. These companies are office... ...t military post in the country at that time, be- ing garrisoned by sixteen companies of infantry, eight of the 3d regiment, the remainder of the 4th. ... ...her it consisted of seven com- panies of the 2d regiment of dragoons, four companies of light artillery, five regiments of infantry —the 3d, 4th, 5th,... ...th of the City of Mexico; of Toluca, nearly as far west, and of Pachuca, a mining town of great importance, some sixty miles to the north-east. Vera C... ...uit every class and condition of people. In many of the booths tlackos—the copper coin of the country, four of them making six and a quarter cents of ... ... in gambling away their scanty week’s earnings. Their coin was principally copper, and I do not believe there was a man among them who had received as... ... the first. We lost none in the second. From this time forward the work of mining and pushing our position nearer to the enemy was prosecuted with vig... ...RAIL- ROAD—RAID ON THE WELDON RAIL- ROAD—EARLY ‘S MOVEMENT UPON WASHINGTON—MINING THE WORKS BEFORE PETERSBURG—EXPLOSION OF THE MINE BEFORE PETERSBURG—... ...r and lake steamers—regardless of the de- struction of innocent lives. The copperhead disreputable portion of the press magnified rebel successes, and...

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...lad in jupes of coarse woollen, with large girdles of leather studded with copper nails; of gigantic stature, heightened by high wooden-clogs (sab- ot... ...f all kinds, for he had written Academic Prize Essays, struggled for India Companies, given dinners to Philosophes, and ‘realised a fortune in twenty ... ...auch- ery. Carbuncles stud his face; dark studs on a ground of bur- nished copper. A most signal failure, this young Prince! The stuff prematurely bur... ...hough in detail it is so cruel! Under all Falsehoods it works, unweariedly mining. No Falsehood, did it rise heaven-high and cover the world, but Bank... ... its Necker already triumphed. The gaping populace gapes over Wood-cuts or Copper-cuts; where, for example, a Rustic is represented convoking the poul... ...s; Books on the Prussian Monarchy, on Cagliostro, on Calonne, on the Water Companies of Paris:—each book comparable, we will say, to a bituminous alar... ...ismissed. Worst of all, the Gardes Francaises seem indisposed to act: ‘two Companies of them do not fire when ordered!’ (Histoire Parlementaire, ii. 2...

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...s before your time,” Malemute Kid said as he turned to Stanley Prince, a young mining expert who had been in two years. “No white women in the country... ...ing under the flag of the Japanese. And with them I went to the rich beaches of Copper Island, where our salt piles became high with skins. And in that... ...d, it was said, in the matter of bringing men with much money together to form companies. I saw the house An Odyssey of the North 81 they had lived i... ...don or Klondike she gowned herself as befitted the daughter of a million naire mining engineer. Little Dickensen deposited his cigar on an outside win... ...d leave him dancing on the air. “Now for the dog,” said Webster Shaw, sometime mining engi neer. “You’ll have to rope him, Slackwater.” Lecl` ere gri... ...across the Canadian Barrens. This stream in which he stood was a feeder to the Coppermine River, which in turn flowed north and emptied into Coronation... ...him. He had been making north by east, away from the Dease Divide and into the Coppermine Valley. This wide and sluggish river was the Coppermine. Tha... ...Englishmen and Colonials, lean Yankee traders and rotund officials of the great companies, cowboys from the Western ranges, sailors from the sea, hunte...

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...g one way or another, from New York to California, until, at Dutch Flat, a mining camp in the Sierra, I heard a cock crowing with a home voice; and th... ...gamemnon; it surprised me. We hope to get a house at Silverado, a deserted mining-camp eight miles up the mountain, now solely inhabited by a mighty h... ...the Highlands. I. THIRTY YEARS’ INTERV AL (1) Rob Roy. (2) The Independent Companies: the Watches. (3) Story of Lady Grange. (4) The Military Roads, a... ...oodness knows when I shall be able to re-write; I must first get over this copper-headed cold. R. L. S. 169 The Letters of R. L. Stevenson: V ol. 1 L...

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...? It was Christmas Eve, and I had to stir the pudding for next day, with a copper-stick, from seven to eight by the Dutch clock. I tried it with the l... ...59 Charles Dickens in the store-house, no smells of grains and beer in the copper or the vat. All the uses and scents of the brewery might have evapor... ... 112 Great Expectations about town all the evening, he had been in divers companies in several public-houses, and he had come back with myself and Mr... ...urance shares, and cut into the Direction. I shall also do a little in the mining way . None of these things will interfere with my char- tering a few... ...s a blacksmith, and one’s a whitesmith, and one’s a goldsmith, and one’s a coppersmith. Diwisions among such must come, and must be met as they come. ...

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...the seventh time. The Capitol itself was sheathed in scaffolding because the copper and wood “Bulfinch” dome was being replaced with a cast iron dome ... ...protective sys tem and to the consequent development of manufac turing and mining enterprises in the States hitherto wholly given to agriculture as ... .... Is it not quite possible that the farmers and the pro moters of the great mining and manufacturing enter prises which have recently been establish... ...e was deep solicitude because of the long depression in our manu facturing, mining, agricultural, and mercantile indus tries and the consequent dist... ...upervision and restriction to prevent excessive issues of bonds and stock by companies owning and operating interstate commerce railroads. Then, too, ...

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... and had been chiefly his own teacher, he knew more of land, building, and mining than most of the special men in the county. His classification of hu... ...d poor, had nothing to ask of him, and understood all kinds of farming and mining business better than he did. But Mary had felt sure that her 234 Mi... ... to look over it with her, dwelling on the ladies and gentlemen with shiny copper-plate cheeks and copper-plate smiles, and pointing to comic verses a... ...ed that his bias was towards getting the best possible terms from railroad companies). He put up his gig at Y oddrell’s, and in walking with his assis...

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..., and had been chiefly his own teacher, he knew more of land, building, and mining than most of the special men in the county. His classification of hum... ...d poor, had nothing to ask of him, and understood all kinds of farming and mining business better than he did. But Mary had felt sure that her parents... ... to look over it with her, dwelling on the ladies and gentlemen with shiny copper plate cheeks and copper plate smiles, and pointing to comic verses a... ...ed that his bias was towards getting the best possible terms from railroad companies). He put up his gig at Yoddrell’s, and in walking with Middlemar...

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.... The arrivals quickly became numerous. More directors, chairmen of public companies, elderly ladies carrying bur- 105 Charles Dickens dens on their ... ...olishing the bridge of his nose with his arm until it shone like burnished copper, ‘don’ t you say a word to Ed’ard Cuttle, until such times as you fi... ... furi- ously: burrowing with his head at the bottom, as if he were bent on mining his way out. 260 Dombey & Son ‘Can there be anybody there!’ asked F...