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SCENE BEFORE THE SCAFFOLD,

... years of age, whose education has mi sed even the rudim nts of picking pockets—or whose fiithiness, rather, 1s an obstacle to that mode of livelihood, seeing that nobody with a pocket worth pick ing will give ihem the chance of contact for the briefes: space ...

Published: Saturday 25 October 1862
Newspaper: Leeds Evening Express
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 820 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE CLEMENCY OF THE CZAR

... sides the room projected low sloping wooden platforms about feet wide, upon which the convicts slept, side side, in closely picked rows, with their heads the walls and their feet extended towards the middle of the cull. They neither pillows nor blankets ...

Published: Saturday 22 June 1889
Newspaper: Leeds Times
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 780 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

AMUSING EPISODE AT RAMSEY

... female teacher of Berlin, whilst, on Friday last ascending Mount Generoso in the Lepontine Alps, down a precipice, and was picked dead. Sir Andrew Fairbairn, High Sheriff Yorkshire, was at meeting Conn Nil Desperandnm, A.O.F.,Leeds, presented last hon ...

Published: Tuesday 26 July 1892
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1137 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

FUR AND FEATHER

... kennels. All dogs are more or less scavengers by nature, and it is largely owing to this objectionable habit of picking up filthy garbage tbat the trouble first begins, so that we cannot be too strict upon this point. Symptoms. —As a matter of fact, the ...

Published: Saturday 30 January 1892
Newspaper: Leeds Times
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 959 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

ARE WE TO LOSE THE OPPORTUNITY?

... compare it with those poor children who are ill fed and clothed, who wander about to pick up any bit of eatable thing that may have been thrown out of the I shops on the garbage heaps in Vicar's-croft; -there is a t wide difference between the yea and the nay ...

Published: Thursday 24 February 1881
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1277 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE OLD BABY

... were to come, and for ever boasting, m particular, of how she should be able, on account of my distinguished appearance, to pick me out from among a hundred others at a baby-show. Now, this latter assertion uncle George denied ; and in order to prove himself ...

Published: Saturday 10 November 1883
Newspaper: Leeds Times
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2056 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

fiydropathic (gstatrtishraents

... BOROUGH OF LEKDS.—The Markets Committee of the Lee«la Corporation an- prepared to receive TENDERS for REMOVING the REFUSE ana GARBAGE from the KIRKGATE MARKET for one year commencing the Ist January next. Slfcificalicm may *eu the office of the Markets Su ...

RANDOM REMARKS

... was to the point. rt 'S The sanitary conditions of the town were equally important. There were no sewers and t no drains. Garbage was thrown into the streets, and the streets were cleaned by the simple method of letting the heavy rains wash the accumulations ...

Published: Saturday 25 March 1899
Newspaper: Leeds Times
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2790 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

TIIK SEA OF LIVING WAVES

... after fashion which not even the ancient epicures dreamt of; there another dies of starvation yonder a child picks mouldy refuse from the garbage of the gutter. is contrast everywhere— contrast bitten into the plate of life with acids of sharp force. Not ...

Published: Saturday 16 April 1898
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1409 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

AGRICULTURAL NOTES

... of digging for it a short distance beneath the sod with spade, the soil being so devoid that it is not even necessary to use pick. wonder that under the.o circumstances hear croakiu ...

WKEKLY NOTES

... l««t we crept special tliruoih Richmond. Twickenham, and -n, my mind was etill occupied to that direction. its bright spring garbage was lovely. Toe hawthorn, and chestnuts looked splendid ; in fact, from the aland the far side the Park in bright perhaps ...