... colliery. It appears that whUst the defendant was at work he placed his safety lamp so near his pick axe, with which he was working, that striking the coal drove his pick through the lamp, thereby breaking it, and rendering an explosion very imminent The rules ...

... new gown he had promised hia wife at the time Polly got her present, had been duly earned, and Uttle articles of furniture, picked up here and there at secondhand shops at odd times, and with odds half-crowns and shillings, gradually gave the room in which ...

... days, she would pioal about tbe hucksters' stulls in the old truit market, in King street, gathering the cabbage leaves aud garbage which had been thrown away, and which, with a pennyworth of bacon, would form her food for days together. She afterwards bit ...

... (Tuesday) publishes a letter fiom Charles and W. Wells, owners of the steamship Wells, giving the following letter, which was picked up in a bottle washed ashore near Lyb.ter, on the l_th inst.: — Dec. 21. — My dc*r wife and son, — We are laid to in the ...

... Court-house, on Thursday, Wm. Hornby, butcher, was charged by Geo. Savage, nuisance inspector, with having a quantity of filthy garbage in his slaughter-house on the 13th ult. ; also with neglect- ing to have a legible copy of the bye-laws sus- pended in the ...

... the trees, and on looking he saw deceased tailing. fell on to the ground, aud then rolled over the side of the rock. He was picked by a man, hat he never spoke, and after walking two or •hr c yar fell. He was at once carried to the Prince of Wales Hotel ...

... of the extreme danger that Governments incur j by the use of this engine, that after the Austro- Italian war all the picked-up torpedoes were proved to be dummies. For myself I confess I can neither fol- ! low his meaning in this last remark, nor ...

... fiction, highly peppered with the picturesque phraseology the tapi room, and garnished with choice morsels of , verbal garbage picked from the gutter. Mr. 1 Shaw Lkfevrk, in the enjoyment his - political pension of twelve hundred pounds 5 a year, perhaps ...

... tbat he must in some degree Lave subsisted upon such game or vermin as he could catcb ; and be has been observed ealicg the garbage lying in tbe vicinity of farmhouses. He was perfectly inoffensive ; but his singular appearance and his mode of running and ...

... Railway at Water Orton on Friday, when two of t'ne birds were struck by the express train and killed r, a the spot. They were picked np by the station ?? Wreck of a Russian War Steamer.—Loss of Twenty-three Lives.—On Monday morning, intelli- gence was received ...

... personage. The chief reporter had just returned from London and had just given him for his private information a version he had picked from one of the reporters of the Divorce Court. The public journals had been full of hints about a coming cause, and when ...

... against tbe tide, and so before we were twenty yards away from the ship I heard hoarso voice cry in Russian, language bad picked up good bit of from prisoner— Man overboard. Throw bim life buoy ! A bnoy was thrown, for we could hear it splash in the ...