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THE MILITIA

... highest order with greater zest and a thousand fold groater profit to themselves, than they would ever batten on the wretched garbage offered by penny-a-liners and sensational novelists. If, for instance, 1 could succeed in making one who joins my English ...

Published: Saturday 11 March 1871
Newspaper: The Star
County: Guernsey, Guernsey
Type: Article | Words: 2586 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE DOGS OF CONSTANTINOPLE

... Turkish dog has an in- drpecdent spirit. He prefers catering for himself ; be prowls about all night ; he picks up what he can get out of the garbage whiob is laid out at every street door, and performs, as a scavenger, a service of far greater benefit to ...

Published: Tuesday 11 January 1876
Newspaper: The Star
County: Guernsey, Guernsey
Type: Article | Words: 2813 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

A GHOSTLY MEETING

... Meurs to learn Latin. He stuffed me with his Glossarium Grseco-barbarum till I was wild, and he beat me unmercifully. But I picked up Latin from him. When I had escaped from his rule and found myself safe at Basle, I wrote the book in question out of pure ...

Published: Thursday 16 July 1885
Newspaper: The Star
County: Guernsey, Guernsey
Type: Article | Words: 1904 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BIRD LIFE IN INDOCHINA

... for this ill-looking knave is one of the scavengers of the neighbourhood, a gobbler-up of the thousand and one scraps of garbage with which the Indo-Chinese people strew the ground. So is that much more energetic and happy-looking creature the brown crow ...

Published: Thursday 08 April 1886
Newspaper: The Star
County: Guernsey, Guernsey
Type: Article | Words: 1781 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE SOCIAL PEST IN AMERICA

... republican eagle to spread its pinions and gaze at the sun ; but now it seems to be the province of that immortal bird to pick garbage and pry into the domestic affairs of the community. A Hungarian writer, who has achieved the distinction of having his ...

Published: Tuesday 17 April 1888
Newspaper: The Star
County: Guernsey, Guernsey
Type: Article | Words: 1259 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

The Lord Chancellor speaking at the annual meeting of the Oxford Auxiliary of the British and Foreign Bible ..

... called upon to exert the best of their powers, both of mind and body, to fight the good fight? They knew that the sort of garbage described by Mr. Smith, would not find entrance into any decent family, but books attacking the institution of mar- riage ...

Published: Thursday 25 October 1888
Newspaper: The Star
County: Guernsey, Guernsey
Type: Article | Words: 1019 | Page: 2 | Tags: none