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... RANDOM REABINGS. The Best Thing Out.-An aching tooth. To put a horse on his ?? him. A sure sign.of an early spring.-A cat watching a hole in the wall with her back up. 'Boiled Eggs' is the name adopted by a cricket club, to signify how impossible it is to beat them. A woman who weighs 380 pounds insists that she is t ' somebody's darling.' I Which is the oldest tree in the world ? -The elder ...

Published: Friday 19 January 1883
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1494 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

THE REFUSE DESTRUCTOR IN HULL

... THE REFUSE DESThUCTOR IN .HULT.. ?? I The Sanitary Committee of the Hull Corporation V made an official inspection of the new refuse destructor and premises connected therewith, in Chapman.street, on Monday afternoon. There were ?? Chairman (Alderman Hodge), Councillors J. H. Gibson, Fewster, Toozes, Cohen, C. Shaw, J. Shaw, and Ansell, the Borough Engineer (Mr J. Fox Sharp) and the Medical ...

Published: Friday 19 January 1883
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1261 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

THE GALE.—GREAT LOSS OF LIFE

... |- THE GALE.-GREAT LOSS OF LIFE. The returns of the loss of life during the recent gale make up a terribly heavy list. On the coast of Glamor. ganshire alone no fewer than N3 lives have been lost during the last twelve days. DEATH FROM HYDROPHOBIA. A child named Keneally has died at Cork from Aydrophob'a, caused by a bite from one of the Barry. raore harriers. Most of the pack were destroyed ...

Published: Friday 16 February 1883
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1109 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

UNVEILING THE STATUES AT THE ROYAL INSTITUTION

... UNVEILITG THE STATUES AT THE ROYAL N L INSTITUTION. -1 On Friday afternoon the ceremony of unveiling the classical group of statuary which now rests on the pedi- ment of the Hull Royal Institution was performed In the presence of a considerable number of people. The work, which, with incidental expenses, will cost about £500, has been executed by Mr Keyworth, ?? and is of the finest Portland ...

Published: Friday 01 June 1883
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 427 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

THE TERRIBLE DISASTERS TO HULL SMACKS

... A Tfl was3 Pnrm 1-r7T, . ?? AID FOR THE WIDOWS AND ORPHANS. A meeting, called by the Hull Stmackowners' Associa. tion was held at the Albert Club, Albert Dock, on Wednesday afternoon, for the purpose of establishing a b6nd for the relief of the widows and orphans of fisher. amen drowned in the late gales. There was a very large attendance of smackowners and other gentlemen, .jcuding Mr E. P. ...

Published: Friday 30 March 1883
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1702 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

A SPECIMEN OF LIBERAL UNITY

... bt¢ wuat iarhkt. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 21,1883. BIRMINGHAM and Manchester are just now furnishing apt illustration of that peculiar type of unity which appertains to the great Liberal party. What L Liberal may mean becomes every day more doubtful. In the former centre of population the name is generally scouted; and in the latter there are indications that those who call themselves by the name ...

Published: Friday 21 September 1883
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 632 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

THE PROPOSED RACE MEETING FOR HULL

... ! ,P.ECIAL MEETING OF THE TOWN COUNCIL. c on Monday afternoan a special meeting of the ~i ?? was held to consider a proposition, w o.1f ?? Atkinson had given notice, against a the est-iblishment of the proposed race meeting near tc IHedon. The gallery reserved for the public was t ?? crowded. ?? A quorum of the Council having assembled, the ex. Mayor (,Atlderman King) was unanimously voted to ...

Published: Friday 24 August 1883
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4248 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

OUR LIBRARY TABLE

... I I HISTORY OF THE CHARTER HOUSE AT HULL. * 'The History of God's House at Hull, com- monly called the Charter House by Capt. John Cook, ?? and a Vice-President of the Hull Literary Club, is a work of which both Mr Cook and his townsmen may justly be proud. The author, as Solicitor to the Charity, has had excep- tional opportunities of prosecuting his researches, and now for the first time ...

Published: Friday 26 January 1883
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1739 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

RANDOM READINGS

... It is said of Sir Isaac Newton's nephew, who was a clergyman, that he always refused a marriage fee. saying in a tone of pleasantry, 'Go your way, poor children, I have done you mischief enough already, without taking your money.' A member of the rhetorical class in a certain college had just finished his declamation, when the professor said ?? Mr-, do you suppose a general would address his ...

Published: Thursday 22 March 1883
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1092 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

District News

... .19ilottict New. .1 An old man, named Irish John, was on Wednesday killed in crossing the railway line near Doncaster. A navvy named John Parisb, while working on cutting of the Scarborough and Whitby Railway, on t 3rd iust., -was fatally injured by a fall of earth, and died on Frday last week. The Venerable Archdeacon Stephen Creyke, rector of ?? Percy, near York, died at the rectory at that ...

Published: Friday 14 December 1883
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 8960 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

THE NEW PUMPING STATION FOR HULL

... AGE NEW PUMPING STATION FOR HULL. I LAYING THE FOUNDATION STONE. Favoured with Queen's weather on the Queen's ,irtbday, the ceremony which inaugurates for Bull an era in sanitary reform was happily consummated yester. dyin the laying of the foundation stone of the new pumping station rt West Docek-avenue. It may be ob. Served as an historical refrence that it is nearly 20 es since the West ...

Published: Friday 25 May 1883
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2375 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

A SHOWMAN'S PROFITS

... I ?? . . - During the hearing of a case in the Sheriffs' Court on Tuesday, some interesting information was given about the profits of showmen. The plaintiff, whose claim in respect of premises required for the extension of the MetroDolitan Railway was disputed, was a Swiss. He said that three years ago, a little before Boxing Day, he bought a talking machine from the Stereoscopic Company for ...

Published: Friday 09 November 1883
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 898 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News