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RAILWAY AMALGAMATION

... case, all but unavoidable. The art of cheap railway construc- tion had not then been invented-money was as plen- tiful as blackberries, and 'was flung about with lavish profusion; not so much, perhaps, upon the works, as upon the preparations for commencing ...

Published: Sunday 27 February 1853
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 629 | Page: 9 | Tags: News 

SPORTING IN IRELAND

... Dutchmanbeat Mr. James's Whirlwind Mr. M'Kone's Wanota ?? Mr. James's Ned Hannigan Mr. R. S. Lindesay's Lysander ?? Mr. Whyte's Blackberry Mr. Foley's Lampighter ?? Mr. Whyte's Wire Flying Dutchman beat Lysander I Lamplighter beat Wanota lMr. M,'one's Flying ...

Published: Sunday 06 November 1853
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 714 | Page: 5 | Tags: Sports and Games 

DRAMATIC SCHOOLS

... BRA. Sir,-Philosophers for 1853 seem to bh plentiful leipge-they appear in every seience, art, and profession-common as blackberries 'mongst a hedge of briars. Your correspondent Komo is a philosopher of a peculiar order. .ic does not feel regret, ...

Published: Sunday 13 November 1853
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2443 | Page: 11 | Tags: News 

ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES

... seven years old, with his sister, a younger child, and accompanied by two other children, went into the fields to gather blackberries. On their return one of them fell down as if in a fit, and beeame blaek in the face. In a few minutes after- wards another ...

Published: Sunday 18 September 1853
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 4244 | Page: 7 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

THE DRAMATIC SCHOOL

... answered Mr. Howe's letter agreeably to the conse- cstive matter it contains, butreally it is such a jumble of philosophy, blackberries, briars, blindness, deafness, and (sad anti- climax) toothacheI that IFhardly know how to deal with it, and more ...

Published: Sunday 20 November 1853
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 6463 | Page: 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture