... 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 ...

... of Edward Lewis. Had seen some sheep belonging to John Smith, David Miles, and another. Had seen children there picking blackberries. Had seen the sow and pigs belonging to the Duke there. Had seen a person repairing the fence between Sir Benjamin Hall's ...

... there has been proved to be a false alarm, as to blight amongst Paddy's Apples of the Earth—which are becoming as thick as blackberries : -Esculents, lusty and lasting, No turnip nor other weak babe of the ground ; Waxy or mealy, it hinders from fasting ...

... coveys are attacked in full strength. SINGULAR DTSGOVERY OF A SUPPOSED SUICIDE—On Tuesday afternoon, while some boys were blackberrying in Anerley-wood, the property of Mr, Rogers, one of them, a youth named Osborn, got into a close thicket to pluck ,some ...

... yours to make a decent meal ! —American Paper. QUANTUM SUFF. —Heroes—that is, Crimean heroes—are now as plentiful as blackberries. A downy youth, palpitating from his mother's arms, went ta Sebastopol, heard the whizzing of Russian balls, had a brush ...

... The programme of the Imperial procession reads like a chapter from the Arabian N ights, and diamonds seem plentiful as blackberries on the occasion. He who has but to nod his bead, and eighty millions ol subjects obey, was, of course, the observed of ...

... from the East; and nectarines, Deepen'd and glowing as the flush of shame, Or passionate indignation. Hips, and haws, And blackberries, he scatters on the bushes, As an alms—or banquet—for the birds; then bids All creatures welcome to his feast; until The ...

... OYER. Last Thursday, a little boy, eleven years of age, named William Baker, while crossing the road after getting some blackberries from a hedge, near the barracks, was knocked down by a farmer who was driving a cart, and received a severe concussion ...

... dmappearaece of a young man named William Richards, who on the previous evening left home for the purpose of gathering blackberries, and who had tint since been heard of. This excdetnent was increased to • painful ! degree °it Saturday by the discovery ...

... returned home from his work on the morning Thursday week, told his wife that he would go out to the fields to gather some blackberries. for the purpose of making a •• tart t but not returning that nor the next night, raised the suspicions of his wife and ...

... that he would go out to the fields to gather conrs to the pboniferouas y a calamite--one oft a period, standing upr some blackberries, for the purpose of making a tart ; ' but bed. Ile stnted that, when first le not returniug that nor the next night, raised ...