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... favourite haunt is the mouth of a large river, especially where this is in a calm or landlocked harbour, and lie greedily picks up all the garbage brought down by the stream. In such a neighbourhood the black triangular fin which betrays his presence is frequently ...

Published: Friday 29 April 1898
Newspaper: Cotton Factory Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 466 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Pitiful Stay of a Street

... of doors to shift for himself by a gindrinking mother at the ripe age of seven. For four years he managed somehow. He picked up garbage here and there like a hound; he begged, he called cabs, he gathered cigar ends; he stole a whelk off a stand occasionally ...

Published: Friday 16 September 1892
Newspaper: Cotton Factory Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 397 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

HYDROPHOBIA AND THE MUZZLE

... wo do them a great service by muzzling them. When they are muzzled they cannot fight, and they cannot pick up all sorts of vile and poisonous garbage. The worst enemies our British dogs have are those foolish and inconsequent persons who object to the ...

Published: Saturday 24 October 1891
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 498 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

FLOTSAM AND JETSAM OF THE GUTTER

... individuals, who crept along beside the gutter, only pausing w and then to fumble among heaps of garbage. Curiosity was pricked. I watched one, and at length saw him pick out of the refuse a gentleman glove, thrust it furtively into a bag, and go on again. Then ...

Published: Saturday 07 July 1894
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 477 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

HORRIBLE DISCLOS (RES

... especially women and children, to be seen wandering about begging or searching for any garbage to stay their hunger, is greater than ever, and dead and dying people are picked up in the streets in , daily increasing numbers. Extra hands have been engaged as ...

Published: Saturday 01 September 1877
Newspaper: Southport Visiter
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 653 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

FLOTSAM AND JETSAM OF THE GUTTER

... , who crept along beside the gutter, only pausing now and then to fumble among heaps of garbage. Curiosity was pricked. I watched one, and at length saw him pick out of the refuse a gentleman's glove,thrust it furtively into a bag, and go on again. Then ...

Published: Saturday 23 June 1894
Newspaper: Widnes Examiner
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 528 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

HORRIBLE CRUELTY TO A CHILD

... effects of the cold. She hardly ever got anything to eat, and used to pick up cabbage, orange peels, onions, or any other garbage in the street and devour these with avidity. She used to pick up also, cold potatoes, crumbs of bread and other things thrown to ...

Published: Tuesday 19 June 1855
Newspaper: Northern Daily Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 872 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

REPORT OF RII■ KILDICAL OTIPICeIt

... articles in the street. Perha l a the multitude of dogs is an advantage, for in this case they acted as scavengers by picking up the garbage. 'The town-beck near :o Low Mill requires immediate attention. The sluices ought so be opened and the water-course ...

THE FAMINE IN INDIA

... and berries from trees; and that every night hundreds of poor 'wretches skulk about the streets of Caroor, picking up what wretched garbage they can collect; that the coolies are so weak that, when they first come to the Public Works Department for ...

Published: Tuesday 18 September 1866
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 745 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

THE VOYAGE OF THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH

... them, and a salute of 21 guns was fired. Honolulu is a fine place for amusements. Fruit grows in abundance, and you might pick and eat as much as you like on the plantation. They are ael in a con- fusion now (Friday, July 30) on deck, getting in sheep ...

Published: Saturday 18 September 1869
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 665 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

Zetterc.', to Mt Obitor

... his verses literary garbage ! Cadmus is a second Daniel come to judgment, and deserves the proverbial putty medal! It is simply—may I say 2 throwing pearls to swine (even at the risk of having that called literary garbage, too) to argue with ...

Published: Saturday 21 April 1888
Newspaper: Warrington Examiner
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1248 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

NELSON'S REFUSE. DESTRUCTOR

... quantities sad pay a good price for, but which to-day they will not accept even as • free gift. Next there are three classes of garbage,— first, that from greengrocers and fish dealers; wood, liquid and semi-liquid refuse resulting from household operations; ...