... numbers. Probably the entomologists are the happiest people just now. Judging by the myriads of moths which swarm on the blackberry blo some and the thistles, we should expect that insect life was abundant in the midst of this glowing heat Perhaps, as ...

... sheltered situation in soil moderately light and well enriched. Hints on cultivation will be given in due time. The Lawton blackberry is worthy of more extenped culture, giving, as it does, an abundance of fine fruit for tarts or jam in late summer and autumn ...

... tremendous consisting of thirty trucks. Thirteen waggons rogue! were thrown down an embankment, and the con- , Have you any blackberry pies? asked a tents scattered. Rails were tern up for a hundred . hungry traveller of the mistress of a tumblz-down yards ...

... to the minor attraction of still having a little on it. A native ot Paddy-land asked a neighbour i f had ever seen a red blackberry. To be have, said Pat, all backberries are red they are green! A HOPEITL.—A voting man, charged with 1 ness, was asked ...

... at Southampton returned a verdict of accidental death in the case of a little girl eleven years of age, who, being oat blackberrying, called at an acquaintance's. There, a little boy, seeing a gun —unfortunately loaded—co nmenced playing with it. The charge ...

... about a newspaper, he will probably think it is something to eat. But ask him for melons, grapes, plums, apples, pears, or blackberries, and he will overwhelm you with them at about a farthing a pound. Compare this state of things with the vicis- situdes ...

... want of the wherewithal, and we have in its place innumerable attempts at eisteddfodau, where bards are as plentiful as blackberries, and adjudicators as numerous as sparrows on the housa-tops, while com- petitors are like the sand on the sea shore—countless ...

... up my census paper, and even to serve my country as a militia-man, but to vote upon comlpulsion-n10, tsloull votes ?? as blackberries ! And yet some such umea- sure must sooner or lator be the sequel of the ballot. ...

... perceive that he has come into a social atmosphere aa honest and good as the breeze is pure which sweeps over the grass and the blackberry blossoms. By way of a atonic for insular cynics, commend us to such a day as Saturday last on Wimbledon turf. ...

... met ever knew before that alligators were fond of blackberries, and how one can manage to pick the berries is still a mystery. Did he eat a little black boy, and digest him, who heti eaten the blackberries? Se. l'AHTIttlx:E'S DAT IN OCR PARlSH.—Sporting ...

... feathery plumes or pomegranate of intense pink; others have in heavy brocade of the same colour branching ferns, orchids, fans, blackberry-vines and fruit, peonies, or the Greek convolute, floating pendants of convolvulous flowers and large roses. In dress materials ...

... of Preston, died from the feffeets of poison. On Sunday week she, with several other companions, was at Fulwood, picking blackberries. They came across a quantity of bright red berries, and the deceased swallowed some, evidently in mistake for hawthorn ...