... PROFESSIONALS AT THE WORKHOUSE. The annual entertainment given bhr Mr Herbert Sprake, the proprietor of Collins's Music Hall, to the inmates of the Islington Workhouse, St. John'sleroad, Upper Holloway, took place oil W\ednesdav afternoos. The interior ...

... THE MOHAWKS AT THE WORKHOUSE rltho : is 7 - oahe inmlateyf h Isiington Workhouse, Cornwahlis- oead, Holloway, had a merry time oitU afternoonf when they were enter aino ed by tednohawk Mlinstrels from the Agricultural Hall. The entertaing ment took Place ...

... qnestion of Old. age Pensions, many a deserving worker is being comipelled to seek the degrading shelter of the workhouse.j The Workhouse, missus ! Oh, my God! and must we, then, go there And sell our sticka and nick-nacks, wife, to seek for harder fare ...

... through a misdirection given to his coachman he did not arrive at the workhouse in time. The guardians present having assembled on the stage, Mr J. Kerry, the Chairman of the Workhouse Visiting Committee, proposed a hearty vote of thanks to Mr and Mrs Sprake ...

... your eyes, And fill with glee And sweet enrecrise. The place for m The Workhouse The bacon's good, the milk is pure; Th- meat the best You can procure- Give ins for zest The Workhouse I The beer is light, but so's your heartI The bread is sweet- Est in ...

... donor for the little inmates of workhouses and hospitals. AU Londoners will feel the happier for knowing that Santa Claus svill go the round of the siek wards of the infirmary and the hosnital, the dormitories of the workhouse and the orphanage, and that ...

... :AN' EXIBITION OF LEGAL TEETH, A remarkable scene was witnessed at an inquest on Saturday evening, at the Eastbourne Workhouse, held by the Bmst Suiex Coroner (Mr. George Hillian), on the body of John Deadman, a homeless labourer, who bad been sleeping ...

... well-bebaved, and above sixty years of age, are not required to go into the workhouse. The Poor Law authorities have built for their speoial use a row of one-roomed cottages near the workhouse, at Walton-ou-tbe-Hill. These cottages are cheerful, cosy little places ...

... Tom Maltby, the popular proprietor of the Bed- S ferd Music: Hall, Camden-town, brought his company s to the St. Pancras Workhouse on Wednesday after- S uocn, for the purpose of giving an entertainment to the e inmates of that institution. The performance ...

... published, Workhouses and Pauperism, Miss Twining describes how, by dint of speaking, writinp and agitating, she and a little band of zealous workers in the cause have succeeded in reforming some of the most glaring abuses in the old workhouse svstem. It ...

... Islington of Workhouse in St. John's-road, Upper Holloway, is CO regarded with particular favour by those compelledtie: through ill-fortune to seek the shelter for the neces-get sitous provided by the State. It is not the inmates of Ta every workhouse who are ...

... nature of the refractory couduot. Mary iunt, reeeiviug wnrdmwosaau at. the workhouse, said the prisoner refused to have a bath, Mr. Rose: Are there any means in tbe workhouse to punish an inmate for that kind of offence? The Master said there was, and ...