It paid large dividends, and its stockholders were duly impressed with the magnificence of its buildings and the grandiose tone of its officials.

THE SOUTH-SEA HOUSE Reader, in thy passage from the Bankwhere thou hast been receiving thy half-yearly dividends (supposing thou art a lean annuitant like myself)to the Flower Pot, to secure a place for Dalston, or Shacklewell, or some other thy suburban retreat northerly,didst thou never observe a melancholy looking, handsome, brick and stone edifice, to the leftwhere Threadneedle-street abuts upon Bishopsgate?

It must, then, be evident to him, that, upon his death, at Ninety, the Company would have received, in all, sufficient funds from him to pay the full amount of his Policy to the lady whom he had always introduced as his wife, and still retain enough to declare a handsome Dividend for itself.

I will help to clip the coupons, And I'll draw the dividends Of my Madeline.

About six months ago I went to Paris to collect the dividends on my Northern stock.

I mean those N.P.'s and N.Y.C.'s and those other letters that are always having flurries and panics and passed dividends.

Then had come a number of lean years when few shipping companies earned a dividend and the line's capital steadily melted.

Ellen had given him his choice; he must promise a larger dividend or buy her shares at something over their market price.

The system of Massachusetts may be regarded as a type of what prevails in the six New England States, except Connecticut, where there is a State fund of upwards of 2,000,000 dollars, yielding an annual dividend of about 120,000 dollars for school purposes.

3. Bad management on the part of some corporations; "watering" or unnecessarily increasing their stock on the part of others, combined with sharp competition, began, especially after the panic of 1873, to cut down dividends.

He never seemed to care a hoot about the working end of the business, so long as it produced dividends.

According to my latest information, however, it is certainly in progress; but the management have never, I believe, secured a dividend.

Some customers are ignorant, and then I touch a dividend on my superior knowledge.

For one thing, I want a proper dividend.

"You're a business man, Mr. Merrick, and can understand that our machineryour business systemis so perfect that it runs smoothly, regardless of who grabs the dividends.

And I'm game for to back him with all my old strength, Which nobody can deny! "Leave your dividends in mysuppose we say hose

I am afraid, my lords, that they will be too deeply engaged in the care of making a dividend of the plunder in just proportions, to find leisure for pursuit of the enemy, and that the sight of vacant posts, large salaries, and extensive power, will revive some passions, which the love of their country has not yet wholly extinguished, and leave in their attention no room for deep reflections, and intricate inquiries.

When the Gates-Dale administration ended, the seven year period from 1609 was on the point of expiry; but the temptation of earnings from tobacco persuaded the authorities to delay the land dividend.

No, the years until Gilbert was able to help, or Nancy old enough to use her talents, or the years before the money invested with Allan would bring dividends, those must be years of self-sacrifice on everybody's part; and more even than that, they must be fruitful years, in which not mere saving and economizing, but earning, would be necessary.

If so, then Appollo has stopt paymentpromising a dividend of one shilling in the poundand all concerned in that house are bankrupts. Tickler.

Salaries and pensions 29.07 Dividends from companies and business 7.22 Interest on securities 4.63 Miscellaneous sources of income 59.08

Small as was the plant, it was a rich property and it was piling up dividends for the Cabells.

Eager to earn each what she can, girls and wives alike rush into factory work, reckless of the fact that their very readiness to work tells against them in the amount of their weekly wages, and only goes to swell the dividends of the capitalist, or perhaps eventually to lower prices.

In reply to Mr. Moody MacTear, Sir Mark Holloway said that he had never been down a coal-mine, but that he had a few shares in a gold-mine, which had cost him five pounds a-piece, but had never borne any dividends and were now quoted at one-and-sixpence.

And of course you mustn't tell them, till the fools have safely paid, Mines were made for sinking money, not for raising dividend.