Piscatorial Reminiscences and Gleanings: To which is Added A Catalogue of Books on AnglingWilliam Pickering, 1835 - 255 pages |
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... killed in Pensacola Bay , O 2 : 5 Seibold , C. E. , killed in Pensacola Bay , O 9 , 2 : 5 Statistics - 4 % of fatalities at U. S. flying fields charged to defects of machines ; table of causes , number and percentage which each class ...
... killed in Pensacola Bay , O 2 : 5 Seibold , C. E. , killed in Pensacola Bay , O 9 , 2 : 5 Statistics - 4 % of fatalities at U. S. flying fields charged to defects of machines ; table of causes , number and percentage which each class ...
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... killed at the Imperial Oil Company's plant by falling from a lad- der and breaking his neck . J. P. Morgan was killed at the Britannia Mine by a fall from a trestle . John Fanning was fatally injured by being crushed between two cars he ...
... killed at the Imperial Oil Company's plant by falling from a lad- der and breaking his neck . J. P. Morgan was killed at the Britannia Mine by a fall from a trestle . John Fanning was fatally injured by being crushed between two cars he ...
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... killed per 1000 employees inside . Number killed per 1000 days worked inside . Number injured non - fatally inside ... Number injured per 1000 employees inside .. Number injured per 1000 days worked inside . Number inside employees per ...
... killed per 1000 employees inside . Number killed per 1000 days worked inside . Number injured non - fatally inside ... Number injured per 1000 employees inside .. Number injured per 1000 days worked inside . Number inside employees per ...
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... Killed Diseased Ovary 4-20-27 Septicemic Sal . pullorum Diseased Ovary , liver , heart 2-8-27 Killed Normal 6-26-28 Killed Diseased Ovary 6-26-28 Killed Badly diseased Ovary 6-26-28 Killed 6-26-28 Killed Badly diseased Badly diseased ...
... Killed Diseased Ovary 4-20-27 Septicemic Sal . pullorum Diseased Ovary , liver , heart 2-8-27 Killed Normal 6-26-28 Killed Diseased Ovary 6-26-28 Killed Badly diseased Ovary 6-26-28 Killed 6-26-28 Killed Badly diseased Badly diseased ...
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... killed as a result of railway accidents during the year was 7,123 and the number in- jured was 44,620 . Of railway employes 2,210 were killed and 34,923 were injured during the year covered by this report . With respect to the three ...
... killed as a result of railway accidents during the year was 7,123 and the number in- jured was 44,620 . Of railway employes 2,210 were killed and 34,923 were injured during the year covered by this report . With respect to the three ...
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Page 8 - ... and put it under a sitting fowl. At the expiration of a certain number of days, they break the shell in water warmed by the sun. The young fry are presently hatched, and are kept in pure fresh water till they are large enough to be thrown into a pond with the old fish.
Page 19 - No life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler; for when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us.
Page 20 - Fishing is a kind of hunting by water, be it with nets, weeles, baites, angling, or otherwise, and yields all out as much pleasure to some men as dogs or hawkes. When they draw the fish upon the banke, saith Nic.
Page 44 - Some years since a herdsman, on a very sultry day in July, while looking for a missing sheep, observed an Eagle posted on a bank that overhung a pool. Presently the bird stooped and seized a salmon, and a violent struggle ensued : when the...
Page 182 - Indians, gain the banks, and, overcome by fatigue, and benumbed by the shocks, stretch themselves at their length on the ground. There could not, says Humboldt, be a finer subject for the painter : groups of Indians surrounding the bason; the horses with their hair on end, and terror and agony in their eyes ; the eels, yellowish and livid, looking like great aquatic serpents, swimming on the surface of the water in pursuit of their enemy.