... cleanliness, no London or Liverpool dock can compete with this formerly-abused little port. Boats are constantly employed picking up tbe garbage from such an immense number of ships, taking it outside, and committing it to tbe deep. To give some idea of the purity ...

... money. I would not havo minded tho swindle if I bad got their money. I first told a policeman in Woolwich who said I had been picked up by a set of skittlo sharps. — Alderman Phillips said thero was no occasion for Mr. Lewis to address him, as there was no ...

... suggest. They indignantly repudiate the charge to which their conduct certainly lays them open, of having come to Parliament to pick up a policy. But if they have not done that they have at least failed in that which is clearly their duty — of guiding the ...

... several hundred persons, set upon them and used them most shamefully, tearing their clothes off their back with stones and garbage, and kicki ry pelting them At length Mrs. Glover, in an almost striking them. frantic state, esca into a house, and ved protec: ...

... solicited charity in the street. She lived on crusts of bread, the refuse of cabbages and other vegetables, and such like garbage that she picked up from dirt-heaps. Last week she fell down from weakness while passing the door of the concierge from want of food ...

... treat as such. The reorganisation of the French army is no more an indication of the intention of the French Government to pick a quarrel with Prussia or any other power than the complete or partial army reorganisations which are announced at the same ...

... forming immense ridges; these were compressed by the traffic and hardened by the frost, receiving additions each day from the garbage-boxes and ash- barrels. The thaw | has stripped the side-walks, but has made little im- the street. pression on the hard hills ...

... things is plain. Either the Vatican is very foolish indeed, or astoundingly astute. Either it lives from hand to mouth, and will pick np any weapon for an immediate purpose; or it lives for a further future, when it thinks Democracy and Roman Catholicism will ...

... high windows, through giddiness or defective recautions; of casualties from slipping over 10 rotten rind of fruit and the garbage of the vegetable markets; of obstructions and annoyances ca by the Arabs of the kerbstone tumbling, chat- im tering for halfpence ...

... curious, or, indeed, to use General Cialdini's word, more farcical, than the fresh light which the quarrel that La- marmora has picked with him throws upon the political and martial events of 1 866 it would not bo easy to concoive. The battle of Custoza was ...

... the transaction of the little business called a murder appears to bo one of the easiest and simplest things in tho world. To pick a man's pocket, or to •knock him down in the street is a highly dangerous •pastime; the policeman will take you into custody ...

... d them, and a salute of 21 guns was fired. Honolulu is a fine place for amusement. Fruit grows in abundance, and yoa might pick and cat as much as you like on the plantation. Tbey are all in a confusion now (Friday, 30th July) on deck, getting in sheep ...