... to be an origiual i.ea, whereas, not to mention our own admirable exhibition of barmaids, it is as common in tho Fast as blackberries or black women, only tbe ladies do not contend for a mere honorarinm. bat for a husband : not even a wink passes between ...

... if in a fresh and dry state. Otherwise game should be enclosed in a bos. Tin boxes should always be up. d for damsons, blackberries, & ...

... the reporter, but it waa a legiti- mate one. A new rural industry ia being opened up in Kent— namely, the cultivation of blackberries for profit. Enormoua quantities of this fruit are grown on the hedges in the lanes and other parte of tbat county, and ...

... CHIPS. ! . *t*— — The death is announced of Mr Gilmore, the telebrated American bandmaster. Blackberries are fine and ripe, and so ahond.nt this year that they ought to be very che.*i. Sir Joseph Barnby has incidentally referred to the Leeds chorus, which ...

... aquatics. Thk High Level, the Redheugh, and the Chain Bridges were clad in every part with humanity clustered thick as blackberries And all along the banks o:i either side for milei were dark with human forms. Nowhere in Tyneside annals can mire patient ...

... duke, to prevent even the little urchins obtain ing the wherewithal to catcli a few sprats in the docks. The bramble, or blackberry, or in botanical parlance Rubus frutieosvs, ia too well knowu to need any introduction. Thy fruit full well the schoolboy ...

... Another evidence of the mildness of tbe season. A correspondent, writing from Hastings, says he has on his table a spray of blackberries which was gathered last week in the immediate vicinity of Hastings. There are upwards of 30 berries, 13 of them being quite ...

... respect to the Ashantee war, he was • far mistaen if the sailors and the 42nd High landers had not made ere this some good blackberry jam in that quarter.— The Chairman next pro- posed the toast of the evening, The Memory of Robert Burn*. This was the ...

... have had a deal of work to accom- plish, but have notwithstanding performed it to the satisfaction of all. To-morrow is Blackberry Friday. The school children of Northumberland claim it as a holiday, and the teachers do not very strongly resist the claim ...

... United States. A Roman Catholic priest has this summer made £100 by employing hia Irish parishioners' children to gather blackberries for the English market. An American mechanic has a ghostly sort of flower-pot hanging by his window in Paris, Ind. It ia ...

... in tbe Isle of Man. *£Erd.y . fanner -sasaWe to gather abrendi i large bramble bosh, having quite a number S^j^eveloped blackberries upon it. It has been announced from a Swansea Valley lit that the Galatians and the Welsh are of The same family, and ...

... omelet for Julius Augustus. But she never did. or rather, wben she got home the omelet was made with a liberal admixture cf blackberries, and tbe front cf ber restketie dres3 was ruined, added to this was an odour which sent Julius into spasms and frightened ...