... of Columbia, while on a visit in Russia, was accidentally shot by a Mr. Laning. The children of Mr. Laning were picking blackberries, and saw what they supposed was a bear, and fled to their father and told him; he took his gun, and went to the spot pointed ...

... their escape by leaping the walls, amongst these was the person who had reprtiented Rebecca. Horses wire as plentiful as blackberries, every one fertrieg to own nis horse, being apprehensive Grit be would be taken into custody. When the Rebeccaites found ...

... would not or did not give—no, he seemed quite to chime in with the philosophy Falslajf, that, if reasons were as plenty as blackberries, it silly give any man a reason upon compulsion,” —and so, winding through the usual formularies, stepping over the common ...

... the sweepings of Westminster Hall is perfectly aware that for the last ten or a dozen years silk goon.' were a• plenty se blackberries, and that three-sixths of the men why wear them are as fit to be judges as they arc fit to be admirals or field-marshals ...

... grounds for a proceeding thus senseless and absurd, he would give no reason upon compulsion though reasons were as thick ns blackberries;” would rather cover the nakedness and poverty of his imagination under shied lorn from Sir Robert Peel’s ample robe. Mr ...

... WALK FROM NEWPORT TO CARDIFF. [Continued from our last.) About five miles from Cardiff the hawthorns, wild rose bushes, and blackberry brambles, were strewed with ears of pilfered from the heavy-laden harvest wains. The heart ...

... in casks to ferment, are said to produce an excellent wine. The colour of wine is often rendered darker by a mixture of blackberries with the grapes.—Louden's Gardener's Maga- zine. CHANGB OF TIMES.—About the middle of the Seventeenth century, persons ...

... Ivory-buildings. On Saturday morning she went to Patchett] with another girl, named Mary Fuller, for the pow.* of gathering blackberries. In the fields they met with a little boy, named Pentecost, who was very civil, and assisted In gathering the berries. ...

... Saturday last, little girl, four years of see, the daughter of Mr. 'Wm. John, of Cutlet', Haverforwrst, was reaching at some blackberries that hung over the Scotch Welts brook, which at that time was much swollen with the ruin of the preceding night, when she ...

... soldier ! Not in the eves of Spain alone, but of every disinterested power of Europe, may he more than retrieve the past. Blackberries are very abundant this year. The editor of the Lirerpool Times says that the wife and children of a labourer on Lis fern ...

... going out. TANMNG.—A Mr. Patterson, of Dublin, has taken out a patent for tanning from the roots, stems and branches of the blackberry bush, obtained in the spring and, after preparation he states, (iiiite equal to oak-bark. ——Sir F. Bnrdett, who con- tinues ...

... A native of Paddy-land, asked a neighbour if he had ever seen red black- berries ? To be sure I have, said Pat, all blackberries are red when they are green !Laird of Loyan Milton, when asked by a friend to instruct his daughters in the French and ...