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NOTES FROM lOWA, U.S.A

... (German), cucumbers, sweet potatoes (South American), &c., &c.; and of fruits, apples, peers, cherries, walnuts, cranberries, blackberries, red currants, &c., &c. Upon the whole, crops have been good for 1882, and there is an abundance for home consumption, ...

FROM OUR PRIVATE CORRESPONDENT

... such like things, are nearly all bad speculations ; and as for lodgings, which were to be so scarce, they are plentiful blackberries in autumn, and cheap enough as yet. The next two months may make a little amends for this, but still it will not repay ...

Published: Friday 06 June 1851
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 755 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

LORD JOHN RUSSELL'S RESIGNATION

... on almost all points is early and correct, writes on Sa- turday :—** Cabinet secrets are now almost as plenti- ful as blackberries. One of these secrets is, that his lordship repestedly resigned, and that his resignation was as often refused by command ...

Published: Friday 20 July 1855
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 845 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

At Bexley Terrace, P

... Master Lucullus Twist. . succeeded in seventeen of rasp four pots of , and two pota of thickness of to the wilduess of the blackberries, part of their sport but they knocked over the brace of bottled cher- when the beaters arrived (in sh»pe' of the nurse- ...

Published: Thursday 19 November 1868
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 391 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Facetiæ

... letters w-r-o-n-g, are invariably pronounced WRONG. — To think of curing a disposition for tel- ling white lies by eating blackberries. A western poet has composed ‘The Song of the Dy- ing Horse It is very affecting. A at people say, ‘ Necessity has no law ...

Published: Friday 07 April 1854
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 838 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

TWO HEARTILY WELCOMED VEHICLES,

... The appearance of snob a sea of faces is strange. It seemed if the elopes of the hills had been ■trewn with countless blackberries, and the eight of thousands of umbrellas running np, when the tain became heavier, is not often given in lifetime, The ...

Published: Friday 29 June 1894
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 910 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Varieties

... interrupted, reproachfully, Yes, and mother', lung comb, too I A LADY wishes to know the best way of marking table linen. Blackberry pie is our choice, although a baby with a gravy dish highly esteemed by many. A DOG is a natural humorist, isn't he? said ...

FACETIÆ

... * LEVELLING down’ ng to bed. Tue Journal has seen some white blackberries, | I¥ you want to be lionised, go into the wilds of Africa, ApaM (who is dead now) ‘laughed from early morn till late at Eve.” * VERY good, but rather too pointed,’ as the codfish ...

Published: Thursday 01 October 1868
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 915 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

A YANKEE COURTSHIP

... by her, and clinched the bargain with a kiss—and such a kiss—talk about your sugar—talk about met lasses——talk about yer blackberry jam ou couldn't have gut me to come nigh ‘em, they wou id sll a tasted sour arter that. Ef Sal's daddy hadn't hollered out ...

Published: Thursday 20 December 1860
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 960 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Vitritttell

... a match lately—and the respectability the Penninghame curlers so unquestioned, elders and deacour being an pleotiful as blackberries in August—• lily visitor who saw the curlers returning with their brooms, escleimed, Dear me ! the times must be bad ...

THE AGRICULTURAL POPULATION OF CAITHNESS AND EDUCATION

... else how comes it that these ninety thousand children go to no school, although schools are as plentiful in the land as blackberries? The compulsory clause is one of the good points in the Lord Advocate’s Bill, and with all deference to those who protest ...

Published: Thursday 23 May 1872
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1307 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE BERRIEDALE EXCURSION

... clinging to beds to catch the their stakes and stretchi ng their long aims out of their grateful drops aud the currants and blackberries were so thick that th to be prematurely jammed. Everything grows in Me ey seemed in a fair way Kidd's garden but weeds ...

Published: Thursday 18 July 1861
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1301 | Page: 2 | Tags: none