Long before the supper hour some enterprising spirits had discovered that the royalties were to sup in that room, and finding the secretaries quite inaccessible to any suggestions of "people who had a right to come in"presidents of commissions and various other distinctionshad recourse to the servants, and various gold pieces circulated, which, however, did not accomplish their object.

" A gold chain and watch-key, two gold brooches, and a pair of earrings were sent to Mr. Müller, with the following comment: "My wife and I having, through the exceeding riches of God's grace, been brought to the Lord Jesus, wish to lay aside the perishing gold of the world for the unsearchable riches of Christ, and send the enclosed for the support of the orphans".

Gold rings and a quarter-inch marriage band flashed in and out among the litter of small tub-shaped dishes surrounding her, and a pouncing fork of short, sure stab.

A gold medal was presented to him by the emperor.

"She left a gold watch to Chet," Mrs. Bradley told them.

Then came the wonderful multitude of miners into the foot-hill zone, mostly blind with gold-dust, soon followed by "sheepmen," who, with wool over their eyes, chased their flocks through all the forest belts from one end of the range to the other.

"He's got a soul above gold-mines, haven't you?

And, while her eyes were full of tears, the Moorish maid replied: "'Twas I the silver tinsel fixed on garments duly dyed; 'Twas I who with deft fingers with gold lace overlaid

He himself could not attempt, at present, to get out of England, least of all carrying pots of gold coin.

Along the top, and extending a good way down, you see a pale, pearl-gray belt of snow; and below it a belt of blue and dark purple, marking the extension of the forests; and along the base of the range a broad belt of rose-purple and yellow, where lie the minor's gold-fields and the foot-hill gardens.

The first white men who forced a way through its somber depths were, as we have seen, eager gold-seekers.

Within his palm I saw lying a tiny little gold cross, about an inch long, enameled in red, while in the center was a circular miniature of a kneeling saint, an elegant and beautifully executed little trinket which might have adorned a lady's bracelet.

At the landing, Angy halted and so did Abe, for in the center of the sisters stood Blossy with her Sunday bonnet perched on her silver-gold hair and her white India shawl over her shoulders, and beside Blossy stood Captain Samuel Darby with a countenance exceedingly radiant, his hand clasped fast in that of the aged beauty.

His ideas, however, were vague; he knew nothing about gold-mining; he did not know how to take advantage of what he had found.

The table was covered with red and yellow flowers and splendid gold plate, and a very good orchestra of guitars and mandolins played all through dinner, the musicians singing sometimes when they played a popular song.

The small lake in the centre, spanned by a rustic hand-bridge, was still inhabited by a few specimens of the carp familysole survivors of the numerous gold-fish with which the original designer of the garden had stocked the lake.

[Fr.]. gold-backed currency, gold standard, silver standard.

11 A.M.On the strength of a rumor that a gold dollar had been seen in an up-town jewelry store, gold declined 1.105.

It was a type of the gold-rush town.

And these," he added, taking snuff from a gold box, "are perhaps as potent spurs to action as the whims of a busybody or the gains of a house-keeping trader.

The Pike's Peak gold excitement was then at its height, and everybody was rushing to the new gold diggings.

Before the time of the great gold discovery of 1848, the metal had been found in California, but the mines from which it was taken were poor and yielded small returns for years of working.

Behind the tope there has been built a Hall of Buddha, of the utmost magnificence and beauty, the beams, pillars, venetianed doors and windows, being all overlaid with gold-leaf.

A man came along the bridge-deck, and Barbara thought the gold bands on his cap indicated the captain.

In thirty-seven years, from 1434 to 1471, he and his successors expended eight millions of francs (663,755 gold florins) in buildings and charities,a sum which may be represented by as many, or, as some would reckon, twice as many, dollars at the present day.