Identifier: americanaunivers15beac (find matches)
Title: The Americana : a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biograhy, geography, commerce, etc., of the world
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Beach, Frederick Converse, 1848-1918 Rines, George Edwin, 1860- Scientific American, inc
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Scientific American compiling dept.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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, and except for their long legs and necksthese birds resemble fowls. The most familiarspecies is the golden-breasted trumpeter (P.crepitans), which is readily tamed, and becomesa favorite inmate of the house. The head andneck are velvety-black; the breast is glossy-green; the back gray; and the wings, tail, andunder parts black. This species, like the others,lives in the forests in flocks; and feeds uponfruit, seeds, and insects. They run swiftly butseldom fly. The eggs, numbering 10 or 12, arelight-green in color, and are deposited in a merehole scratched in the ground. Only about fiveother species are known, all belonging to thesingle genus and constituting the familyPsophidcc. Trumpets, Feast of, a Jewish feast on thefirst day of the 7th month (Tisri), which wasto be kept as a sabbath, a memorial of blowingof trumpets, an holy convocation. No servilework was to be done in it; but an offeringof fire was to be presented to Jehovah (Lev.xxiii. 23-25). It preceded by 10 days the Great
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TRUNK FISH. TRUNK—TRUST COMPANIES Day of Atonement (27). In Numbers (xxix.1-6), details are added as to the offering offire, which was to include the burnt offering, ameat offering, and a sin offering. The first ofTisri was New Years Day of the civil year. Itis still observed as a Jewish festival. Trunk, an oblong box or bag constitutedof wood, leather, or metal, used by travelers asa receptable for clothmg and other personalbelongings. In the i8th century few trunksor valises were needed as there was little trav-eling. The business of manufacture was thengenerally conducted by those who were sad-dlery and harness makers. In New York in1840 there were 11 makers, and in 1901 therewere five large factories whose sales amountedto 2,000,000. In the United States in igoo therewere 391 establishments engaged in the manu-facture of trunks and valises, employing 7,084persons and paying out $2,834,892 in wages.The cost of materials used represents an outlayof 86.045,387, and the value of pro

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