... 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 ...

... 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, ...

... 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 ...

... you elect me I shall ~ 0 0. k after the County Councils, and visit the ek.nool Board schools. I also hope to inspect the workhouses. I shall visit the prisons and hmatc asylums. lam not yet acquainted with the interior of these establishments ; at 1,1 ...

... 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 ...

... a child, aged about thre we ks. The infant was very exhausted, and was handed over to the police, who removed it to the workhouse. The child, it is thouz,ht, will recover. There was great excitement on Sunday evening in that po:ular Paris cafe-chatant ...

... 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 ...

... under th , i presidency of Lot(' Basing, to consider the treatment of the many husbandless wives that find their way to the workhouse infirmaries, for the purpose of being confined at the expense of the ratepayers. After the mniling of a paper by Miss Twining ...

... 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 ...

... Jt tsrumoured that a gentleman who once held an honoured position in Peuarth, isnow a pauper ia a workhouse. Wanted, a schoolmaster. who has leisure time after schoolhuurs, to give lessons in spelling, for in the window of a certain house in John Street ...

... Victoria's reign. local administration was then detailed; of the organisation of supy banks, the system of ladies visiting the work-houses, and read- ing the Bible to the inmates; of the clubs for -cuntry excursions, of the labour burean, of the concerts iven ...

... ie a fast. to ony | gow ral fy man to hear, fur with an tir - “for tt ib be. you doing here?” ex ** Mies Pion out to 8 workhouse; I they take mein, I’ve wo where «'se to go, and ite very cold With a muttered exclamation he my in a few minutes we in a ...