... and their bodies are covered with a wrapper, sprucely and neatly trimmed, and their mouths are muzzled t° prevent them picking garbage that lies the streets. All this precaution is necessary to fit them to take part the handicap. We train our pets with ...

... PICKINGS FROM PUNCH. To Landlords op London Rookeries. — A rose by any other name will smell as sweet.'' Yes; but not some Paradise rows in the back slums. Inopportune. — Newsboy (to irritable old gent wbo has just lost his train) : ?? Boy a comic paper ...

... and insufficieut food, and at times beaten with dreadful severity. The poor boy had often been seen by the neighbours picking up garbage and eating it to satisfy bis hunger, and even going to tbe pigs' trough and devouring eagerly such refuse as the pigs ...

... Allow him to range unchecked in the gntter, and he will throw np in profusion such light and elegant phrases as meanness,” garbage,” loathsome,” (fee., &o. They are his stock-in-trade, which he has drawn upon for many a year. He believes that he is conjuring ...

... haa even tried answer Mr. Grant, either to his Dissenting World, or hia Dissenting Reasons for Joining the Church. The garbage picked up by the congenial taste of a genial contemporary, which conscientiously collect nothing else, is specimen, both of the ...

... dark corners where the amateurs of filth find garbage to their taste; but not, we repeat, from any master's hand. It ia vain to fc_tt na that there are scenes in Shakespeare himself which, if they were picked oat for special attention, would be offensive ...

... them, bewailing the indignity, in broken mush in a garbage barrel. _ He stopped to scrape off his fingers on the edgo of it. “I can’t pick the ashes,” said at last. ‘Yon can pick up the box.” ' . v He picked up the box. Murphy handed him bis snatched sulkily ...

... dits of their own invention, and by back-stairs gosßip picked np the most objectionable manner. The remedy for this sort of nuisance lies with the public themselves. If there is a demand for such garbage, that demand will no doubt be supplied. But it does ...

... port themselves ' by eating green weeds, tha j refuse of sugar cane, and any garbage on which I they could lay their hands. One of tho j Commissioners told mo that ho saw a boy pick- | ing like a sparrow the grains from among thei , dung of animals. Mauy ...

... to in consequence of its complaints. It was also said that the child had been seen to pick food from the streets and eat it, and bad even arone so far pick garbage]out of the swill tub for food. One witness would lie called who would prove that she ...

... oat from fear. He along with the ether children beg for morsels of bread from the neighbours, and have been seen eating garbage picked off the street. He has often gone into a neighbouring brickfield, where he has stopped for a whole day, to wtrm himself ...

... through towu, ought objects of beauty and conserv health, are perverted into /fi and made the receptacle of all the 0 p £l \ garbage of a great and grimy town* one admits the existence and the sei'i 1 'fk the evil. There is no room for do rivers speak ...