... juicy hams, or toothsome sausages. He is commonly looked upon as a dirty animal, revelling in filth and mire, and feeding on garbage. Thu is not at all the case. The pig, like many other outcast against whom prejudice is strong, is just what society makes ...

... Roman candles about election time, but they do not pave their streets, nor remove their heaps of garbage. They have no objections to a poor devil’s picking up a diamond pin or so aiderman or councilman ; bat when it comes to member of Congress—O dear, ...

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

... stories of French crime and immorality. The correspondents who are instructed to supply this unwholesome garbage display considerable industry in picking out of the French press every tale of vice and horror to which a sensational aspect can possibly be given ...

... would admit no one. He went about in rags, and was in the habit of soliciting alms from his neighbours, and would pick up and eat garbage in the streets, he was starving, and had no money to buy food. He had not been seen for the past week, and last evening ...

... way. similarly as respects his Lod. Garbage is not the food that the pig selects t! preference. In fact, a pig which has been fed any time upon sweet food will turn away from sour and disgusting food. If left to pick up his laing where he can find it, ...

... priosts have been seen bearing the sacrament through the streets of Homo amid marks respect from the whole populaliou.’* PICKINGS FROM JOSH BILLINGS’ ALLMLNAX. Blessed are they who have no eyo for a keyhole. It is human tew err, but devilish fccw on it ...

... pruning, &e., they should completed so >n pos>ible. Protect any seeds that are sown now with fern, old bark, or dead leaves. Pick over your stores edible roots, taking away such are decaying. Keep plants in pots as dry possible, and sure that half hardy ...

... attending the funeral of the Emperor of the French. Amongst the more mundane offences, which after wading through twelve pages of garbage, at length arrive are the passing of the Land Act, the system of National Education in Ireland, and the recent English Education ...

... Insupportable. He scours the country. into every hovel, assails the la* bourer in the field and the beggar the road side, picks np sort garbage, and sends it off as Gospel Truth to form chapters the current history of Ireland. The first and greatest criminal ...

... he presses few guineas of the plusder on the widow and orphan. Now and again it publicly shown that this sort ot literary garbage hu stimulative effect on the morbid imagination of the youthful reader, and the exploits of Kit Blueskin Bagshot are parodied ...

... inventions was the black sheep of the stock Exchange, a diseased creature altogether beyond the pale, a shunned pariah living on garbage, a needy parasite clinging to respectability's skirts. Not so now ; the inventor of specious fictions and plausible falsehoods ...