... abbe was very fond of asparagus also-but liked his dressed with butter. Fonteneile said, that for such a friend there Was no sacrifice of which lie did not feel himself capable-and that he should have half the dish of asparagus which he had just ordered ...

... strawberries have been ga- thered in the neighbourhood of that city, and from Pomerania there has been an arrival of fresh asparagus. A committee has been formed of merchants in Aleppo for the relief of the Christians who suffered there in the events of ...

... have just taken, but I may be permitted to observe, that every vegetable pro- duced in France, with a single exception (asparagus), is at this moment to be seen in profusion in the markets, and of the finest quality; and that also, with a single exception ...

... involved in this particular majority. ASPARAGUS.-If a patient, suffering from excessive action of the heart, eat asparagus, M. Broussais assures us he will experience considerable relief. Syrup of the green ends of asparagus, like the plant itself, he says ...

... consider the propriety of his approval. OFF ! OFs ! You LEaDINGS !-We see a quiet-looking gentleman in plain black cheapening asparagus in Covent-garden market, and are told that he is the Speaker of the House of Commons. Where is his bag-wig, his mace thatl ...

... were awarded for plants and flowers. There was also a small but fine collection of vegetables, consisting of cauliflowers, asparagus, cucumbers, horse-radish, and carrots. An efficient band of wind instruments en- livened the scene by the performance of ...

... warders at the very time when he first wrote to you, and then he was eating spring lamb at eighteen pence a pound, and early asparagus at I don't know how nmuch a bundle. On that very same day, and in that very same hour, my injured gentleman wrote a solemn ...

... they are in great abundance at every table where the price of the dinner is 2s, 6d. per head. We can purchase here as much asparagus, of the finest quality, for 2s. 6d. (enough for six persons) as would cost lBs. in Covent garden; there is also a great abundance ...

... three francs-(half-a-crown) ; and all kinds of fish in abundance, every day; vegetables in abundance., of every description; asparagus lid. a bundle; artichokes Id. a dozen; fine cabbages -d. a piece ; and every other vegetable in abundance; Fruit plenty and ...

... more to do with, the real question than the comparison of Bul- lock and Panketlt-man, those ingenious eaters of chicken and asparagus, in tile Tatler.-Mr. SUTTON giVe,; IIs, we inust coniess, but a small notion of Iris standard of mind, if it be trie, according ...

... Fitzwilliam family permanently, by whom she is greatly esteemed. - Tuesday presented the extraordinary anomaly of persons crying asparagus about the streets during a heavy fall of snow. - It is stated that one of the chief promoters of the massacre of our countryman ...

... Was with child, she must have, like other ?? in the like condition, her longingsto0 ! Accordingly she took a aoneing- to asparagus, when it' was by no means a cheap tartile of food: andso strong was ier longing, that she is said to have eat at one meal ...