... seem an instrument convenient enough when inserted into a saucer or syrup, or applied to the biokcn surface of over-ripe blackberry, but we often see our sipper of sweets quite as busy a solid lump of sugar, which wc shall find on close inspection growing ...

... health, bonny Scotland, to thee.” At the sixty-third in-go they were 43 each, when sage opinions became as plentiful as black-berries, but the prophetic wisdom stopped there. Hutton once more led, scoring 46 to 43. So close a shave was the sixtyseventh ...

... of profligate and ruffianly characters the course presented ; gamblers, pickpockets, and cyprians were as abundant as blackberries. Several robberies were committed, and there were some disgraceful rows. Disgusted with the whole affair, several subscribers ...

... husband returned home from his daUy labour, and, while getting into bed, their son, aged 14 years, who had been out all day blackberrying, came in bearing on his shoulder a gun, which he said he had found, and which deceased wanted to see, but she insisted ...

... or some of the Bloomer lecturers, is to visit Gainsboro’ shortly Tha female lecturers are becoming as plentiful »s blackberries. the greater portion of them are well known to have been on tbe stage and assume American names for the occasion of their ...

... coronets, to William and Mary Howitt, ornati of sect to whom coronets are an abomination. ~ authors have been plentiful blackberries, but married poets have been rare indeed Mitford's B*coti*ctxont, ...

... years since the passengers of a Dutch emigrant vessel landed and laid the foundation of New York. A novelty, called white blackberry, of excellent quality, has been met with a wild waste the United States. The very rare signature William Harvey, the discoverer ...

... To become an able man profession what- ever, three things are necessary—nature, study, and practice. Life is afield of blackberry bushes. Mean peo- ple squat down and pick up the fruit, no matter how they black their fingers; while genius, proud and ...

... leading men tried the cold ■w»\.er cure, amongst the rest the enthusiastic Lord Cardial n. OffeTS of aid were as plentiful blackberries in October, and, as the Netherby baronet has it, they know the reason why. Four years ago, in jumping the Welland, the ...

... ' millions who travel will not suffer themselves upon. From Retford to Hull, second and third gers were as plentiful as blackberries until ' at e \ ' O tb o( ° our townsmen turn out in morning, walk to »t and then take the packet to Hull at one-third the ...

... cut rates, tithes, and taxes upon them. Again, Norfolk, Lincolnshire, Scotland, steam-engines are almost as plentiful as blackberries, whilst most other counties they have few or none. my own, with m llion ol acres we have less than half-a-dozen. Well, ...

... presuming each to be equally well drained. Thrashing Machines.— Steam thrashing machines are becoming as plentiful as blackberries in the Isle : too numerous, we guess, to pay the owners for the outlay. In passing along the other day, we heard one of ...