The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-08-17 00:00:00

wJ atau men. A partY,o
nremen attended with several lengths of hose, and brane'd
with nozzles of various diameters. A flat piece of tinee,
a purse containing iron plate was placed obliquely just before the nozz a
sister. The girl against which the rounded stream of water impinged eitikr
ig at a house in was spread into a flattened sheet. It was found that we ,t
nd money in her flowing directly from the mains could be laid on with rjjo_
ease and regularity, and that a surface of about 14.,°n0t
ames Clark, a square yards could be very sufficiently watered in it,
notorious thief was charged with an assault. Police-con- minutes. The jet was then directed against the paveniek $
stable 523 stated that he was in Byrom-street at a late so as to wash the dirt fairly off, when it was found thn'tif
hour on the preceding night, when he saw the prisoner at surface of about 240 square yards was very efficieliloti
an oyster stand, and knowing him to be a " queer cus- washed in three minutes. This washing experiment the
tomer," asked him if it were not time for him to be at not so satisfactory as the watering ; first, because off
The fellow, in reply, got hold of the man's hand street was in a cleP- -te from having been well sweiroe
rain ; and, secondly, heee_eo
c-om between the stotliy
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that all the girl's clothes had been taken away, and c
quantity of her mistress's, as well a
£l. ls., the property of Mrs. Case:
was taken early on the following mo.

ssession.
THE TH

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6 SCREW

comm

atted tor trio
On Friday,

and thrust his thum

) into a circular ring of wood, about and from the previous day'
and provided with a screw, which acted the jet washed away the gr
ie inner sides. The man's thumb had rather injuriously. On
. .

.u.s macume than Jemmy washing Would be destructive ; and our present impres;ol •
" put the screw on," an operation which was attended is, that the jet will not be found a convenient and ec43.11 Will
with considerable pain to the officer, who extricated his ical substitute for the sweeping machine, but that it
thumb only at the expense of a portion of its extremity. be a most useful and important adjunct. As a nie9l:oo
In Ms defence Jemmy said he had invited the officer to laying on a considerable quantity of water, first to lo od
have a pennyworth of oysters, when he produced the the mud and render it easily removeable by sweeping-wolf
-den vice, which he described as a crow's nest, and next to wash away that which the broom cannot cowl' It
put his fin- remove, the jet will be found exceedingly
footpathvaluableg,
• • vrill be useful, also, as a means for washing the
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warned the officer that it would bite

is defer.

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no inennvenipn,e will he exPer''',. or

and perhaps the windo

aaJL .1.121,1 W W, VolpGaiGl. till Al/ 4aS, •-• V CLIIGLIt,G YV 11l ..”-0
summons, to answer the complaint of the chief and se- Nor will there be an unpleasant dam ness of the al the
coed mates, steward, and eight of the crew, of the ship casioned by this free use of water in the streets ; °
frd
Formosa, for objecting to pay the wages due to them. It contrary, the air will be drier than it now is, since tiled afro
appeared from the evidence that the men shipped, on the I which retains moisture, will be effectually rereeveulto
ith April last, for Maranham, and that on their passage the mere film of water left upon the stories will very q
I home great dissatisfaction was manifested by the crew, in evaporate.---Manchester Guardian.