... and laughs as heartily as ever. At his reception one evening last week in the White House the negroes were as thick as blackberries in Jersey. Among them was a coloured barber named Burke; be was an applicant for an office in the New York custom house ...

... *and headed it, A wretched attempt at wit. A New Orleans papcr of last January boasted gold was as pentiful there as blackberries. The editor forgot to tenl how abandsut bhlacehberies are in Nowv Orleans in midwinter. IsIMPARTIAI.11Y.- This is a vcry ...

... the ap- pearance of tbh applcnt. If decently apparelled they will extract $10 or $20; i a poor person wishes to get a few blackberries to eke out a sub- sistence by selling them about the streets, $1 is the charge. I know a British subject who is now negotiating ...

... thlat 'n Satorlnday afternoon, two Irish lads, aged respectively tvelve and ten years, went into the country | tgather blackberries 'rley wandered as far as Warley Wigomrn, where the prisoner resides, and began gathering hlackierries from a hedge which ...

... which are most unsatisfactory to the country. Rlumours as to I the final constitution of the Cabinet are as plentiful as blackberries, but they are mere I guesswork, and quite undeserving of serious consideration. FOREIGN. According to official telegrams ...

... the maple and poplar trees are very tall and straight and average 10 feet in circumference. i That among the fruits, the blackberry, mulberry, raspberry, strawberry, gooseberry, currant, and high bush cranberry, would require little pains or culture to ...

... occurred on the Cornwall Railway onSatur- day afternoon. Three little boys, about nine years of age, had been out picking blackberries, and returned home across the Camel's Head l viaduct, between Devonport and Saltash. When half-way across it, a train ...

... it-hate it as much as Falstaff, who wouldn't even give a reason upon compulsiorn, if reasons were as plentiful as blackberries. And so it is, more or less, with all of us. We like our own way, and don't believe in even doing a good thing, on compulsion ...

... for the wounded, making drawers and shairts llore lint was produced than was wanted. In the country the children gathered blackberries to make a cordial drink for the parched soldiery. Contributions of clothing and food flowed in at the rate of 200 great ...

... put up will keep in a cool dry pantry for a year, and retain all its original flavour. Peaches, apples, pears, cherries, blackberries, plums, grapes, &c., have been preserved by this simple and economical system. SALUTATIONS AHONG DIFFERENT NATIONS.-The ...

... ; or a few trees may be set comiipactly fifteen feet apart, and the space they would shade be used for raspberries and blackberries. There is the lane, too, lead- ing to the pasture, which might well have a row of apple or pear trees upon each side, *hich ...

... conten-i against a great deal in his district, for. the infamous COpperheads, Syinpathisers with the South, were us thick as blackberries, and he often felt as if he would like thrashing a man to 1ef a Christian virtue, that he might have the privleg. of digging ...