... PICKINGS FROM FUN. Advice to Riders Bicycles.—Study the modus-upper-hand-i. A Cockney One. —Which of his relatives is a habitual criminal the last to desert?— His haunts. Sighted at the Seaside. —What is the use of blowing brass-band? Why even the fellow ...

... as a cure. WINN a Mg Sisk. Dogs vomit very easily, which is a merciful protection against the garbage and other stomach irritants they are constantly picking up. This is because the vomiting centre in the brain is highly developed and the stomach reacts ...

... literally thrives on garbage. When the weather is very frosty, or the herrings retire into deeper water, the gull will search for food inland, and may be seen mingling with their sable brethren, the rooks, following the plough, and picking up worms and grubs ...

... fed on musty grain will taste musty. Many people have an idea that any old thing is good enough for a hen. and all sorts of garbage, animal and vegetable, finds its way into the fowl runs. In such circumstances it is hardly surprising that badflavoured eggs ...

... statements that the pigs might be of the wild variety, which frequented the streets and lived as scavengers on whatever garbage they might pick up. But the British Consul at Han-kau its siren his as-urance that that was not the care, and that the animals were ...

... swilling ice lay in the gutter. salt powdered the pavement. The ear reeled with the smell of fob and taut. H. poked 00.1 e garbage on the road ea% lws stick. A elirly business. Hr felt thankful for roan and jewels. He walked sicasiy into flautielt Store ...

... flight as if looking for something to pick up, and the other gulls showed no symptom of fear their approach. That they follow fishing-boats to pick up debris seems certain, and doubtless they do not disdaiu garbage ou the strand, but at Foula there is ...

... this is done without the addition of coal to aid consumption. Surely, Mr Martyn concludes, the unhealthful conditions of garbage disposal will soon be relegated to the unscientific past, and there will arise a series of crematories partially selfsupporting ...

... to save the poor chap from ruin. He did not regret it; oh! no, he dial not regret it. It was something to have been able to pick out of his own wreckage enough to save another man from submersion. and if, in the proves, the water had closed over his own ...

... fine weather well coarse, pick worms. The herring-gull eats a good deal oats in spring, while it is being sown, and every winter, when there is frost for few days, few of tlie-*e loiter about our house* in search of garbage, or eat our turnips, digging ...

... It has been, alas ! ton common for some writers and speakers to act the part• of vultures or hyenas, and starch 005 garbage heaps and pick out and offer for public exhibition whatever they could gather—end a great deal of it they imagined—as evidence of ...

... brought about by their manifestations. So she set about her preparations. She had not much to do. The trunks that she had picked and dispatched to the North End railway station three months before at the hour when her journey was arrested by the accident ...