... of middleman, who conveyed the ill-gotten gains from the Lift to the Marker. The property thus acquired was known as the garbage. The Nip and the Foist—the ‘‘ exquisite Foist,”” Greene calls him—were both pickpockets, pure and simple. But whereas Nip ...

... feature to this cat curse New York- There is no such thing successful quarantine while cats walk all over the city, into the garbage pail of some forlorn alley, and then home to the pilloir of adoring mistress. There should bs bounty paid by the city for ...

... a third method whereby the fly spreads disease. The legs and body of the fly are covered with innumerable hairs. These may pick up and hold thousands more of the harmful bacteria as th e fly walks across the manure heap, and these bacteria may be deposited ...

... nests of the defenceless ducks. They are gross feeders, and may be seen any day along the shore feeding on dead Ash of other garbage. BIRDS OF ILL OMEN. THEM The jackdaw is perhaps the next most common bird of the crow family, and though he is as great a ...

... poultry and complaints from the neighbours and serves as an excuse for intervention by the civic authorities. Put the garbage in the garbage can. a here it belongs and go out and pull some tender weeds, grass or clover for the fowl. They will appreciate the ...

... John Bull’s turn to ask for alms yst awhile. His prosperity is like his coal. It won t be exhausted in our time. Straagers pick queer informetien occasionally. A Mr. Albert Corbett, of Wellington, Shropshire, states a letter to a London paper that saw ...

... of the source from which she draws her supplies. Her self esteem demands food, and rather than hungry she will prey upon garbage. Tims she will receive with open arms, regardless bis quality, any masculine biped who evinces a desire to pay her attention ...

... it is to add to municipal order and sweetness. They pick stray papers, hanana and orange peels. and I suppose any derelicts in the tinware line elf the streets and channels and place them in the garbage cans provided for their remittium. In Hotimid the ...

... appolutiag thew all trust, though they are sot of eight solour. Bare ameba of the staffs who boo sour the roma writer will, garbage, yet leave • sourer of the days that ars ger is • allectios of the Wader' Is the merlins the follow's' ray r so iodisation ...

... there traa » very low Nile, and the people in many provmrial towns were—so I was informed—living the rvfu ...

... a /wrap of brightb-coloured paper wrapped round the index finger makes the task very, much easier. The threads eon then be picked up without eyestrain; moreover, the paper prevents a needle•scratobed finger. * * The CVO of NAL The of • porcelain enamel ...

... waiting for David Jeffrey, yet Right was impossible. It was impossible, not because this man, this unsavoury collector of river garbage, barred his way, not because the man might hurry to the authorities with whatever tale he had to tell. For neither reason ...