... Mother in the Workhouse. At the Penarth Police Court on Wednesday morn- ing, the magistrates being Messrs Batchelor, Thornley, and Trrys, Wm. C)x was ordereg to contribute 2/- towards the upport of his mother, who was in parish receipt of 4/- weekly. ...

... It is rumoured that gentleman who once held an honoured position in IVuarth, is now a pauper in a workhouse. Wantad, a schoolmaster, who has leisure lime after schoolhuurs, to give lessons in sjwlliDg, for in the window of certain house in John Street ...

... dissenters from the Church of England, a meeting house (this use is confined to England). 5. A name given to a printer's work-house, said, to be so designated, because printing was first carried, on by Caxton in a chapel attached to Westminster Abbey. ...

... considering he's off his head already. Union is strength, as the pauper, who was too weak to stand, said when taken to the workhouse. You may talk about your Beethoven's sonatas, your .Bask's fugues, your them , a of Wagner, your melodies of Mendelsohn, ...

... twenty years ago, the attention of the Legislature was drawn to the excessive consumption of stimulants in workhouses, and Cardiff Workhouse was no exception to tho Tole. In the year 1869-70, the year before he took office, 167 gallons of beer, 498 pints ...

... father, startled out of all official dignity by the spectacle. Take the child away this minute, one Of you! Carry it to the workhouse, and request the doctor to attend to it immediately A shrill scream broke from the prisoner as Inspector Sharpe attempted ...

... circumstances, it may be summed, for to become the bride of Mr !tont ohs had to pus from the portals of the Leighton Buzzard workhouse. This was a eurium entrance into the connubial state, but sassy marriage s even more remarkable heve been ed. In 1869 a maa ...

... was the brother of Mr Lovett, senior, who formerly kept the Windsor Hotel. He was taken ill, and had to be taken to the workhouse, where he has been ever since. His brother and sister-in-law sent to his lodgings and got his things, to take care of it ...

... about lour ooloufc in the aflornomi 1 f«lt on faint awl aick with hungar 1 began have Bn wiry thought* of marching to the workhouse, least itoy W;*uld «lru us# out*- tiling la oat, I thought dolefully, tto toare slowly ronning dawn elieaks. „ , . had wamlorail ...

... them to degradation and shame; in our hospitals the cases treated are too frequently the mini+ of drink ; oar prisons and workhouses tell sad tales. It is a dark picture-- not one ray of sunshine to brighten or illumine the scene• How Esst to grapple with ...

... reign. local administration was then detailed ; of the organisation of penny baukt, the system of ladies visiting the work-houses, and reading the Bible to the inmates; the dabs for '•ouutry excursions, of the labour bureau, of the concerts given,—where ...

... is not a happy one when the soup is spilled over his knees. Yet another survivor of Waterloo has died in a Leicestershire workhouse, almost a centurion, as usual. What an aid to longevity a trot battle is ! After a comae of these paragraphs one is inclined ...