... rarity of true friendship, but this must be a gloomy libel on human nature, for sincere friends, if not as plentiful as blackberries, are at least as numerous as newspapers. We put it to the experience of all readers of the public journals—either daily ...

... table in character—not destitute of talent, adapted for real usefulness and permanent popularity, are now plentiful as blackberries. Under these circum- stances it is amusing to read the report of a meeting recently held in London, under the title of ...

... learned the superiority of cross over direct fire; eight o'clock came. The big wigs assembled, and soldiers were as thick as blackberries everywhere near the place of rendezvous. The Rajah rode up with his gallant band of excessively irregular-looking troops ...

... some excellent. casts of fruit and foliage from nature, prepared as art studies for schools. The list comprises apples, blackberries, hops, sunlowers, and lilies. The colour makers are well represented by a very at- tractive display, in which most of the ...

... from Marseilles, Lucca, and elsewhere, speaking of the infirm state of his health, and medical certificates as plenty as blackberries. A state- ment, signed by Messrs. Linldater, states that the bank- rupt was one of the directors of the London and Eastern ...

... anecdote of the Warrenton Rifle Corps. One day he told us that a countryman had come into camp with a quantity of blackberry pies. Blackberries in America are a much finer fruit than those ripened by our faint English sun, and are quite popular in their ...

... reaped a fair share. Theatrical booths were few in number, but nut, orange, and ginger- bread sellers were as plentiful as blackberries, and the new swindle of selling a penny purse full of money (?) for a shilling-a transaction in which none but the greatest ...

... was 26,621, with 8,520,303 tons. A large Scotch pearl was found the other day Inverury. It- was about the size of a large blackberry, .weighed twenty-three grains, and was ro'und and perfectly pure. It was sold for £34. Scotland, says a contemporary, is ...

... for tres- passing in a wood belonging to the Misses Starkey, of Hatton-hall, and taking therefrom, on the 4th of October, blackberries (wild brambles) of the value of 6d., or there- abouts. The gamekeeper stated he had cautioned the de- fendant more than ...

... peculiar privileges of promotion, the young men who now walk over the heads of grey-headed veterans are as plentiful as blackberries. In military circles, or at least amongst the vast majority-i.e., the men who are without the means to climb the ladder ...

... Leicester Infir- mary, where she died soon after, without having re- covered consciousness. In her pockets were found some blackberries, with two shillings and eightpence, but nothing whatever which would serve to identify her. It has not been discovered ...

... had expended upon her. The evidence of Friday went to show that while on a visit at Barnsley she had i,eaten so freely of blackberry pie as to bring on an attack of diarrhoea; on Monday, the 18th, Dr. Mayne fetched her home, and she died on Wednesday from ...