... average of last jear. Strawberriea and raspberries although of small site —owing to long drought, are good crop. Pears, blackberries, and currants, are a moderate crop. Gooseberries are a miserable crop. Owing 10 hail showers in spring, apple blossom was ...

... and, if we may believe the last accounts, was already the heroine of the day. Sonnets and serenades were plentiful as blackberries. ...

... Lobby Matting, Footstool, Ac. 8 Beautiful Oleographs Beacon Foster. Scenes—“ Seaside Saving,” “Dead Sea Oull,” ileixjse,” Blackberry Gatherers,” The Convalescent,” “The Cottage Nurse,” “Contrary Winds,” Fern Gatherers.” One Oil Tainting, “Trosaach Scene ...

... lecturer read, with great effect, one or two of Hood's most admired poetic effusions in which puns are thrown about like blackberries in hedges—the Waterloo Ballad” being received with much laughter by the audience, as was likewise the amusing narrative ...

... of these numbers, being annoyed by the fact that so large a crop of halfpennies had been cast into the treasury thick as blackberries.— Dundee Advertiser. Alarming Occurrence. —An occurrence which might have had serious consequences, and which should act ...

... imitate—tho military phenomenon who shot Pmssiana like sparrows, and to whom the helmets of bis enemies were plentiful as blackberries—should now turn out j to have been nothing but a Prussian spy, must far towards exhausting the fund of Parisian credulity ...

... Clackmannan. —On VVednes day Inst, Utile boy, named James Fraser, eight years of age, having a holiday, went to the Forest for blackberries, of which it appears he had taken surfeit. During the night be was taken suddenly ill, and died on Thursday morning, after ...

... stream of life as has been flawing to him through the eyea. There are eyes whicn give no more admission into them than blackberries, others are liquid and deen wells that men might f* * ,n and others are oppressed and devouring, and take too much notice ...

... cutting-out rediogote with Polish sleeve for lady. Likewise is given, with this part, a charming coloured picture of birds blackberries, intended os a design for painting or embroidery. Music, poetry, pastimes, and many useful hints the correspondence columns ...

... says the drat lime she was kissed by • feller,* aha felt like big tub of rose* swimming in honey cologne, nutmeg, and blackberries. Bite also felt if something wss running through her nerves on feet of diamonds, escorted by several little eupids in chariots ...

... Toilet Set 1, Lixxie Fyfe; 2, Sirs Meiklejohn. Soda Scones—Annie Miller. Pot Blaeberry Jam-1, Annie Miller; 2, C. Dunlop. Pot Blackberry Jelly—l, Mrs Alexander Hunter; 2, Mr* Henry Kusaell. Pot Jam Jelly (anv sort) —1. Mrs Thoe. Gibson ; 2, Mrs Henry Russell ...

... turning the laugh anent him, must have taught him lesson by which, doubt, will profit. Trustees, like teachers, may be plenty blackberries in autumn, but little experience will teach this body that neither trustees nor teachers are likely hop like puppets when ...