... 12th instant tells the following thrilling tale:- Last fali, a woman residing in the vicinity of Worcester, was picking blackberries in a field near her house, having with her her only child, a bright-eyed little I fellow of less than a year old. The babe ...

... perhaps, say oar mierepresentatives-voted millions of the public money as though it grew on the briars and hedgerows like blackberries in a country lane. What is the result? Our action has caused 'alarm all over the conntry, and every European Power is now ...

... , or beaten, or sabred, for nothing at all, in these barbarous regions. Such intelligence will soon be as plentiful as blackberries, or as reports of mur. ders from Ireland. Now, the consideration that will enforce itself upon Mr. John Bull is, whether ...

... that the one thing needfrl to lice omfortably and happily was to have a wife, and sarriages rere soon almost as plenty as blackberries; indeed, some of hem were contracted with extraordinary facility, and no amily was sure of keeping a decent female servsnt ...

... the newspaper reports would lead us to believe. The sales of advowsons and next presentations are as com- mon as blackberries, and go on day by day; only, like other sales of freehold property, they rarely come into the light of publicity. In those ...

... appropriated the petty cash, would find a great difficulty in getting a bookmaker to bet with them. Bookmakers are not like blackberries in autumn, nor are they to be met with at every street corner; and, so far as betting is concerned, I think that the office ...

... another view of yonder landscape. A scone so fair is not so soon forgot. I saw some children with a basket filled with blackberries, and I, having a great liking for that fruit, went off to gather soue, and forgot all about my suicidal tendencies. As ...

... and reads the betting, lie will see that bets of teos thousand, eight thousand, five thousand, and so on are as common as blackberries in autunln. But that is not all the expense attendant on a journey to Epsom. On the downs one sees hundreds of coaches ...

... Paris many of the new models have fruit as trimmingsa. Prettiest of tliese ni-a rod or white currants, raspberries, andi blackberries. Feather honse and dog collars of pearls are indispensable to the wardrobe of dile very smart woman just now. Both fashions ...

... pale flower has served a party pur- pose end is now a market-able commodity. Will he go to thle extetut of grabbing the blackberries on the hedgerows and the bil- berriee on the heatlher? Such meanness is irritating and pitiful. But of such is the kingdom ...

... the reported dieappearanoe of a prince somewhere or other. For our part we shall not go into mourning. Pefincs are like blackberries in the autumn, there are so many of them. It is not the disappearance, but the per- petnal swarming of princes (everyone ...

... purchasers. S thl the snake business may be overdone, and the market glutted. The lot above quoted was sent in by a South Jersey blackberry picker, and realized highr prices than a similar lot last year- probably owing to the style in which they were pat up more ...