NATURE DAY BY DAY

... (writes C H R.) has a glossy sheen into which the colourings of the birds seem to merge, and it is not by any means easy to pick out the species, even with the aid of glasses. It is, perhaps, surprising that such a variation of types can remain at peace ...

Published: Monday 13 June 1927
Newspaper: Westminster Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 197 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Gold Hidden in a Bed

... lived in a hovel in Paris, has just lost his hoard. He dragged himself about in a wheeled chair, and at nights scoured garbage to pick up broken victuals, on which he lived. Rei would never visit a barber, and his patriarchal beard reached to his knees ...

Published: Thursday 04 November 1920
Newspaper: Ripon Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 175 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SUNDERLAND PUBLIC HOUSE BURGLARY-

... extraordinary alary was told of his doings. Fof some tune past Brookes has haunted the town's refuse depot, and lived on garbage picked up, whilst he slept caves the seashore at night. Many complaints had been received his frightening children, and was also ...

Published: Thursday 29 June 1905
Newspaper: Shields Daily Gazette
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 170 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

CHINESE PORK

... assurance the British Consul at Hankow that the exported pigs, far from being the wild variety living whatever garbage they are abe to pick up, are of the black and white breed, raised between Tungting Lake and Lokow, where only the finest class ore bred ...

Published: Wednesday 25 May 1910
Newspaper: Hull Daily Mail
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 174 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

DOCTORING '• MEAT

... DOCTORING '• MEAT In regard to picking up garbage or food, train him by dropping pieces of meat where he will find them. Directly he approaches, give the cautionary No. and if he ignores your order repeat it more severely, at the same time slapping ...

A CRITIC ANSWERED

... said did not propose to deal with all the tittle tattle which this shareholder was able to pick off the garbage heaps Birkenhead. A man with good nose for garbage can always find scandals of one kind or another, said, which has little or foundation ...

4 NATURE NOTEBOOK

... towns and cities, during the winter months, competing with the sparrows and pigeons in wresting an existence from the garbage tp be picked up, or the food proffered by people who care to feed them. It is at this time that the black head disappears, leaving ...

Published: Friday 30 July 1948
Newspaper: Arbroath Herald
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 285 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

FOUR MILES CHASE

... our moorings in the river. While fishing in the river, I have often tried to pick out the different kinds of gulls that were always near, either fishing or picking up garbage floating on the water, and I found the kittiwake with the herring gull was the ...

Published: Friday 02 October 1936
Newspaper: Montrose Review
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 269 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

BERLIN PLAGUE

... conditions for such an outbreak existed in Berlin today . . He especially warned the population against searching for food in garbage tins in view of the number of disease carrying rats, mice, and flies in the city. No observer of what passes for life in Berlin ...

Published: Monday 09 July 1945
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 199 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE DEADLY COCKROACH. (By Caroiine Coe )

... carrying the organisms on their feet and in their intestinal canals. Cockroaches overrun kitchens. pantries. garbage heaps and decaying matter, picking up particles with their feet, or feelers, and dropping them later in anothor Wax , . When hundreds and thousands ...

Published: Saturday 01 August 1914
Newspaper: Hamilton Daily Times
County: Ontario, Canada
Type: Article | Words: 221 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

Addicts everywhere

... sprawled figures: arms upflung like a restless child's. But what else had Charlie Wong in a place that was a cesspool of garbage? For three rupees, maybe, he could fetch the world. As old man Khayyam has it, wilderness is Paradise snow. Coolies, who ...

Published: Friday 20 June 1947
Newspaper: Fleetwood Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 187 | Page: 6 | Tags: none