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LITERATURE

... comfort. King Frederick the Great one day put his foot on a paper dropped bv an Ambassador who was leaving the ' Royal Cabinet, picked it up, and read it. The action is usually considered a gross aid vulgar breach of the veracities; but in point of morality ...

LITERATURE

... work must be done by the Purifier-General. The prevalence of rats is conclusive evidence of a dirty community-remove the garbage, ?? ?? gullies, get rid of slovenly habits-and the rats will find their occupation gone. At present- end let us be just even ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... perience. These especially point to the direct transference of disease by media charged with the products of decom- posing garbage. Professor Rudolph Virchow, the most eminent living pathologist, an authority whose utterances on all questions of the propagation ...

OUR LITERARY COMPETITION

... olil eroetontarv mooady silence. 1th ar- Doliv, arittaren~tl~y quite used to such treatment Ith .'cr from her strange friend, picked up her basket aod Olt o f trotted contentedly to her iaiher's side. f0 fa - Who've you been vith, Dolly? said Big Ben. I ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... In his last days the brilliant gambler had no one to smooth his pillow but a lorette, whom he saw when he was near death picking from his shelves his choicest specimens of old Sevres china, on which, turning to his doctor, he said with a smile, Qu'elle ...

GREAT PUBLIC ENTERTAINMENT TO DANIEL O'CONNELL, ESQ., M.P

... where your Aldermen of the Ward and Common Council ? T'hey still, it is true, batten on the wretched peculation of ofliciat garbage, but, like rats in a barn, they are in eternal appre- hension lest the terriers should be let in among them. For three years ...

LITERATURE

... above bridges there! Ay, let vessels ground awhileandtrafficof thenight bestayed. Bring cunning men with line and plummet, and pick and spade, and barrow and basket; clear off the miud and filth, tenderly wash white faces, deal gently with the matted splendour ...

LITERATURE

... not get at it; but' he replied that it was 'nothing to do with hun whet theg ate so long as -they kept their bends f.rom picking and stcaling; unithermore . he politely intimated t bat unless I badmiothing better to do there was no call forme to trouble ...

LITERATURE

... brutality. fill I Leonard, suspecting the affection and fidelity f bu his Wie, invites het old lover, Hnisinigh, to his- un house, picks a quarrel withIrim, and shootx him Y dead upon the sand. The deed is hushed up,' S but Christabel' detects it, 'andl vowgi ...

OUR LITERARY COMPETITION

... FELONY. Myv pare!trt 'nero vrealthy, uecuitutred. persons. I wfhokelit a mnarine.store ill cihrireditchf. hrubbiugc smoicgst garbage suite.d tIheN), and tey livei longt and hvanpiy. ?? .1 I al very eultuied; *:eara mcv hair loun; am poe.icccl and all that ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... raw ham and sausages that she had eaten. d Pork is the dangerous meat, the pig gets trichinse by eating dead rats and other garbage, and if the pig's flesh p be not so thoroughly cooked as to kill the worms it may n carry living trichinae into the human ...

NEW BOOKS

... in the cart at onee, thrown in as garbage, nearly all of them naked, a few tied up in old reed baskets, and fewer-never snore than one or two-in cheap board coffins. These carts go about the streets each night, pick up these pitiable remains, some of ...