... solicited charity in the street. She lived on crusts of bread, the refuse cabbages and other vegetables, and such like garbage that she picked from dirt-heaps. Last week she fell down from weakness while passing the concierge from want food, but she refused ...

... turned out doors shift for himself by gindrinking mother at the ripe age of seven. Four years he managed somehow. lie picked garbage here and there, like a hound; begged, ne called cabs, he gathered cigar ends, stole a whelk off standing occasionally ...

... exist where the most industrious of other men starve: he knows how to make savoury dishes of what is elsewhere held to be garbage; he fattens upon birds’ nests and sharks’ fins, sea-slugs and cuttle-fish, rats, mice, puppy-dogs, and the shoots of the bamboo ...

... two men only being saved out of a crew of 26. Tho two seamen hung on to boat for throe days three nights before they were picked up Dr. Colenso, Bishop of Natal, has just issued the third part of hjs work on the Pentateuch. In Ids preface he alludes in ...

... these come mingled with eggboxes, broken bottles and Jars, refuse meat, and vegetables, sardine-tins, ashes, old bones, and garbage, thrown fromthe saloons : broken barrels, stumps of trees, waggons that have gin out,” pieces of machinery that have foundered ...

... narrow space between the bridge wall and the train, scarcely a foot width, and dragged along for a little distance. On being picked up it was found his right arm was nearly severed from the body, and that he had received compound fracture of the right leg ...