... few years ago a pic-nic in Merthyr was a rare thing, and only attended by the fashionable. Now pic-nics are as common as blackberries in No- vember, and not only with secular bodies, but all the chapels and schools celebrate their anniversaries by a pic-nic ...

... Peaches sell at 50 cents a bushel in Baltimore. The crop was never known to be so large as it is this season. There is a blackberry patch in Maine twenty miles square. Ten thousand bushels were picked there last year. The Prussian Government proposes to ...