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GOLDEN WEDDING IN A LINCOLNSHIRE WORKHOUSE

... GOLDEN WEDDING IN A LINCOLNSHIRE WORKHOUSE. Two old people William and Mary Sim peon, aged 72 and 71 respectively, bare just celebrated their golden wedding the workhouse fepilsbv. Tbev wen ad* mitied into the house from the pariah of Stickney, and Lave ...

A PAUPER SHOW

... ingenious ; but glass isexenive. The poor rates, would be awfully a ugmen'ted eand, besides, there are things dole in I workhouses which would hardly bear the light. The idea which Punce now offers to the Poor Law Commiseioners will meets he hopes, the ...

Poetry, Original and Selected

... none a helping thought can gain. But the sot who booses hardest, the pot-house porch before, May mock, Work finds the workhouse, and so sloth can do no more 1 My temper's not the sweetest, and it wasn't from the first, Yet ?? seemed to love me dearer ...

HELL BROTH!!!

... Por Law Corn- nissiners directed that the paupers. . who may now or hereafter be received mud maintained in the workhouse or workhouses of the said Union, shall, dingl the period of their residence therein, be fed, d tlean maintined, with the food, and ...

CHRISTMAS FESTIVITIES AND AMUSEMENTS

... dining- hall at the Hull Workhouse Was tastefully decorated withl evergreens, and nearly 500 children and inmiates sat ,iwvll to an unlimited supply of beef and plum pudding. The Mayor (Aldernan R1loberts), the go. 'esis r of the workhouse (A ldernsau Fountain) ...

Poetry

... in the burning fever On the mud of the cold clay floor, Tpill you parted us all for three months, squire, At the cursed workhouse-door; 4 We quarrelled like brutes, and who wonders? What self-respeeb could we keep, Worse housed than yourhacks and yourpointers ...

Poetry

... lay in the burning fever On the mud of the cold clay floor, Till you parted us all for three months, squire, At the oursed workhouse.door. We quarrelled like brutes, anid who wonders? What self-reepect could we keep,- Worseeboused than your hacksand yourpointers ...

A TOUCHING STORY

... admitted into Leftwich Workhouse on the application of the postmaster, whose name, I believe, was Mr Crosby. I was, after sometime, sent eut to board with an old woman at Middlewich for 12 months, and then taken back to the workhouse. When I was fit for ...

THE PUBLIC HEALTH

... the workhousss and hospitals of the borough, against 15 and iL? ***** theae. 6 occurred m the Leads Workhouse. 2 in the Work hous* 2 the Workhouse, 6 the General Inirmary, the Borough Hospital, and 1 in the Fever Hospital. The deaths included 35 of ...

WORKING-MEN'S INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION

... opened on Wednesday last, lad been visited by 6,000 persons, including the chil. dren from both the orphan homes and the workhouses. The Ragged Sehools had been invited, but were unable to attend. The amount taken was over £60; and after paying expenses ...

PICKINGS FROM THE COMIC PAPERS

... fully in the stubble i OrLD SAWS RtE-SET.-Truth is a stranger, except in fiction. Charity begins with a cold bath in the workhouse. Set a thief to catch-financiers. GARDENING NOTES.-NOW is the time to get out your young horse radish, and break it in for ...

A BOWL OF PUNCH

... in a workhouse, and doubts If. after a weeks residence therein, he I would ever joke again. Your petitioner is in the habit of speaking the truth, and calling a spade a spade; he Is, therefore, clearly unfitted for residence in a union I workhouse. Your ...