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... and their bodies are covered with a wrapper, sprucely and neatly trimmed, and their mouths are muzzled t° prevent them picking garbage that lies the streets. All this precaution is necessary to fit them to take part the handicap. We train our pets with ...

Published: Saturday 17 June 1876
Newspaper: Sheffield Daily Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 632 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

PICKINGS FROM PUNCH

... PICKINGS FROM PUNCH. To Landlords op London Rookeries. — A rose by any other name will smell as sweet.'' Yes; but not some Paradise rows in the back slums. Inopportune. — Newsboy (to irritable old gent wbo has just lost his train) : ?? Boy a comic paper ...

Published: Saturday 20 December 1879
Newspaper: Sheffield Independent
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1712 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

THE REV. BREWIN GRANT AND THE VOLUNTARY PRINCIPLE

... haa even tried answer Mr. Grant, either to his Dissenting World, or hia Dissenting Reasons for Joining the Church. The garbage picked up by the congenial taste of a genial contemporary, which conscientiously collect nothing else, is specimen, both of the ...

Published: Monday 11 April 1870
Newspaper: Sheffield Daily Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 406 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE DOGS OF CONSTANTINOPLE

... your Turkish dog has an independent spirit. He prefers catering for himself; he prowls abont all night and picks npwbailbe can get ontof the garbage which is bud out at every street-door, and performs, as a scavenger, a service far greater benefit to the ...

Published: Saturday 08 January 1876
Newspaper: Bradford Daily Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 574 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

It is a good sign to find our American cousins engaged tlie attentive and appreciative study of the manners and

... dits of their own invention, and by back-stairs gosßip picked np the most objectionable manner. The remedy for this sort of nuisance lies with the public themselves. If there is a demand for such garbage, that demand will no doubt be supplied. But it does ...

Published: Friday 31 January 1879
Newspaper: Sheffield Daily Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 526 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

j _____; FAMINE IN UPPER EGYPT..APPALLING SUETTERING

... port themselves ' by eating green weeds, tha j refuse of sugar cane, and any garbage on which I they could lay their hands. One of tho j Commissioners told mo that ho saw a boy pick- | ing like a sparrow the grains from among thei , dung of animals. Mauy ...

Published: Saturday 12 April 1879
Newspaper: Sheffield Independent
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 515 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

WRECKS AND CASUALTIES. (Ll/3TIVII TELIMAXS.)

... knl Throe ran. Berner° WkLlll flannwer.—Mervythought,l; Suffolk Ind, 2; Cardllalre, S. Five ran. March.-1.1“le Shaver heat Pick of the Basket. ffertarevages.—Perdoe,l; Strathavon,2 ; Cannon Bail, 3. Three run. Exuma Stus.—Eadirtag,l; Essitap, 2; Cfrantint ...

Published: Thursday 05 July 1877
Newspaper: Eastern Morning News
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 498 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

One of the first questions to which members of tbe new Town Council must themselves is that of an Improvement

... through towu, ought objects of beauty and conserv health, are perverted into /fi and made the receptacle of all the 0 p £l \ garbage of a great and grimy town* one admits the existence and the sei'i 1 'fk the evil. There is no room for do rivers speak ...

Published: Friday 03 November 1876
Newspaper: Sheffield Daily Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 838 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

A SCENE IN CONGRESS

... R'man candles ab tut election time, but they do not pave their streets, nor remove their heaps of garbage. They have no objections to • poor devil's picking up a diamond pin or so as alderman or councilman ; but when it comes to member of Conerese -0 dear ...

DR. GRIFFITHS' REPORT ON TEE PORTER.BROOK

... especially so in warm and dry weather. The brook passes under tbe bridge at the Cemetery gate into a dam, extending to Hardy's pick works, and what should here also be a stream is almost entirely dried up. The existence of this dam in dry weather can be de- ...

Published: Friday 27 October 1876
Newspaper: Sheffield Independent
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1548 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE BADGER

... well-hill. While in the pit they were fed with any kind of animal food, rats, guinea pigs, magpies, rabbits’paunches, and other garbage, all of which they readily devoured. Once in the dell they began to make their home comfortable by carrying in a large stock ...

Published: Thursday 08 November 1877
Newspaper: Wetherby News
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 891 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE BADGER

... While in the pit they were fed with any kind of annual food, rats, guinea pigs, magpies, jays, rabbits paunches, and other garbage• all of which titer readily detoured. I iu the dell they began to wage their home fortahle Ly tarrying in a Loge stock of ...