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... THE WORKHOUSE. IT appears that the Poor Law Board have not yet de- cided about the plans for the building of a new wing to the Cardiff Union. The delay is doubtless owing to the extraordinary nature of the circumstances of the case—circumstances which ...
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... MEAT IN THE WORKHOUSE. IT must be a matter of regret to gentle and simple alike to hear of the enormous waste of meat in Australia. Hundreds of private letters, which eventually made their way into newspapers, have spoken of the over-abundance of beef ...
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... THE WORKHOUSE CONTRACT. TO THE EDITOR OF THE GUARDIAN. SIR,—I read with much interest and pleasure the able article in your last respecting the Union Work- house Contract; and while endorsing your strictures, by no means too severe, on the parties concerned ...
... THE WORKHOUSE INQUIRY. Partuviurit ruontes nascitur ridiculus. mus. Mountain has been.in labour,—its vast hearings, its terrific cries that rent the valley are hushed, the diminutive mouse, offspring of its throes, has igno- miniously crept forth, to ...
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... AN IRISH WORKHOUSE. On the 20th inst. a poor man of the name of John Tobin committed suicide by cutting his throat in the Kanturk Workhouse hospital, where he was being treated for disease of the heart. The deed was done with a bit of broken glass, with ...
... CARDIFF WORKHOUSE. THE defalcations of the late Master of the Work- house having been ascertained and his dismissal taken place, the Guardians will to-day (Saturday) agree as to the terms upon which a successor of Mr Durke will be engaged. The Cardiff ...
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... TOBACCO IN THE WORKHOUSE. The following ode to a tobacco-pipe was written by one Isaac Hawkins Browne, born in 1705, died 1760, and is now dedicated, without permission, to Mr. R. Cory, who objects to the use of tobacco as savouring too much of luxury ...
... THE CARDIFF WORKHOUSE. THE writer of the letter to Malvolio in Shake- speare's comedy tells him that some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. This is equally true of wisdom some are born wise, some ac- quire ...