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TRANSATLANTIC NOTES

... creditors. At the preseut moment we are enjoying an era of the most astonishing prosperity, and money is as plentiful as blackberries in the f aU. But inflation is beginning to have the usual effects, and speculation and over- trading are already bearing ...

LONDON NOTES

... Of eourss, in those hotbeds of sedition, gossip, and lying, tbe bazaars of Cairo, reports of evil are as plentiful as blackberries in autumn. Happily, the news agencies now refuse to transmit them. At one time it was the custom to cable through everything ...

THE SPAKE ROOM-

... which must be read and returned to Mudie. Having tea out of doors is often sufficient ex- citment for a whole afternoon, and blackberry- , gathering for another. Wet mornings are spent in looking oat suitable extracts for for the penny readings, or in knitting ...

SEA MOOR COTTAGE

... said Mr Midgecombe, with eyes of fishy interest. Yes. To whom ? A very sensible old woman, who raises cur- rants, blackberries, and other small fruit for market. Mrs Jex her nama is. All the pirates in Captain Kidd's navy might rattle their chains ...

THE BISHOP OF DURHAM ON.THE MERCANTILE MARINE

... grass, trees, and fences ; and 36 offenders were fined principally for trespassing on farms for the purpose of gathering blackberries — a practice which the Magistrates observed ought to be stopped. — Mary Dick (who wept bitterly when in the dock), a domestic ...

SELECTIONS FOR LADIES

... fruit and fiowers are lightly pinned in, and clusters of red enrranta have appeared lately with pretty effect. A trail of blackberries on fair hair would not look amiss, or a claater of little oranges, out of a conservatory, among dark tree sea. A pretty ...

THE.RESCUE OF EMIN PASHA

... between him and the snowy mount proper. He brought, however, a good collection of plants, among which were giant heather, blackberries, and bilberries. The Pasha was in his element among these plants, and has classified them. TOE SNOW-CLAD MOUNTAIN RANGE ...

Local and District News,

... indecent assault on Elizabeth Hunt, a girl about the same age, at Fightingcocks, in a lield where they had been gathering blackberries, and was fined £1 and costs, or a mouth's imprison ment. Darlington Foot-ball and Cricket Club Athletic Sports. — These ...

KILDEE;.08,.THE SPHINX OF THE BED HOUSE

... good smart girl to help her, and she shrugged her plump shoulders, and said girls, both good and smart, were scarce as blackberries in December. I am afraid she will not think I am that rare combination, Kildee said. We'll risk it, the Mayor answered; ...

STANLEY'S RETURN

... tract of pasture land as would make the cowboys out West mad with envy, and right under the burning equator we have fed on blackberries and bilberries, and quenched our thirst with crystal water fresh from the snow beds. We have also been able to add nearly ...

A PLAGUE OF SPABROWS

... the pears, tho plums, the peaches, aud the grape-vme3 of the!, buds. In like manner the strawberries, raspberries, and blackberries fall a prey to hia penetrating aud omnivorous u k Tile tender heros aud grasses when first they begin to sprout are not ...

SOMETHING STARTLING,

... note that some attention is at last being paid to the cultivation of that luscious and nutritious fruit commonly called the blackberry — the fruit of the bramble. Because this has been so common, and runs wild on our heaths and hedge-rows, it has hitherto ...