... What a multitude of people we heard of who bad turned the corner of ninety years! and the children are an thick as bees or blackberries. Dr Ingram, the Free Church minister of Unat, the must northly parish of Her Majesty's British dominions, in whose pulpit ...

... his head above the parapet, for the Yankee sharpshooters, armed with rides a range, with telescopic sights, were thick a« blackberries” in the woods to the front, and were excellent shots. “Darn the blue-skins, any how; who's scared the blue-bellies (i. ...

... swarming with fish. 1 have been two or three times becalmed there, and cauglit cod as big as donkeys and plentiful as blackberries.” Upon that information Captain Rhodes acted. He had often thought trying it, but it is a lonely place to alone, St. Kilda ...

... been drinking freely, and were hence unable to manage the boat. Murder. —On Friday week, two childien, who were thering blackberries in a hedge-bottom at Kastbank, about mile and a-half to the south-east Sheffield, discovered the dead body of man almost ...

... press was more limited in range. To-day all this is changed. Newspapers, magazines, and periodicals are as plentiful as blackberries; with compulsory education, there are few now to be found who cannot read, and who do not read a paper of some kind, whether ...

... bread next day. Another, a singularly handsome boy, also a crossing sweeper, has lately walked up from Bristol, living on blackberries and “swedes” by tin; way, and getting a little work now and then at carrot-pulling. His mother, the only relative he ever ...

... most severe, turnips of immense size have been grown on the banks of the Obi, within 100 miles of the Arctic Circle, while blackberries and roses grow in the woods in great luxuriance. The traveller whom we have quoted shove remarks that it is of the greatest ...

... Montrose Royal Infirmary begs to acknowledge, with best thanks, the following donations :—A quantity of strawberries and blackberries from Mr Edward Millar, Ramie Castle ; flowers and berries from Miss More Gordon, Charleton ; a quantity of rasps and s ...

... white taffetas and black velvet, with teblier marquise of fine Brussels lace sgraffed with bouquets of vsnegaled rosea and blackberries; corsage correspond ; train bom the shoulders white and black ray poult ■oie, ornamented in silver and ruches of white ...

... . The Superintendent of Dorward's House of Refuge begs to aeknowledge,with thanks, a basket of strawberri-s and one of blackberries and red currents from Mr Edward Millar, of Rossie. Tux Poouttorsr.. —The Matron of the Poorhouse begs to acknowledge, with ...

... and taxes, upo» them. Again, in parts of Norfolk, Lincolnshire, and Scotland, steam engines are almost as plentiful as blackberries.; whilst in most other counties there are few or none. own, with million of acres, we have less than half-a-dozen. M ell ...

... to the cattle transport service between foreign countries and our own. Inspectors may be appointed, and may number like black-berries ; but inspectors are as powerless and helpless as more experienced men are in detecting the latent seeds of the insidious ...