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First-ciass Journalists.- is say that first-class journali ts, in whatever party look for them, are not as ..

... First-ciass Journalists.- is say that first-class journali ts, in whatever party look for them, are not as plentiful as blackberries. If consider what such a man ought to be, we shall overwhelmed with the multiplicity its requirments. He must be good scholar ...

Published: Saturday 02 May 1874
Newspaper: Burnley Gazette
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 826 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SO-CALLED AMERICANISMS

... Sir Walter S ott, by Thomas Hsghes, in Tom Brown, and *y a great many other British writers of recognisec position. ' * Blackberry, to which Mr. Bartlett says that this term universally used in the United 8 ates for the English brambleberry, has been ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1878
Newspaper: Burnley Advertiser
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 699 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE JUDICIAL DOZEN

... completed in the granting of Commission of the Peace for the borough. We are waiting the men, and here they are as thick as blackberries. We can put our hands upon an embryo Justice of the Peace anywhere when wanted. The difficulty in selection. We are to ...

Published: Saturday 27 January 1872
Newspaper: Burnley Advertiser
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 836 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE REV. P. MACKENZIE'S LECTURE

... skin is off but one side. There was no fear of their becoming bilious, for they had to ask a blessing and then attack the blackberries —(laughter);—vegetarians by compulsion laughter.) Cornwall .was very different to-day, for he had been there recently, ...

Published: Saturday 15 February 1873
Newspaper: Burnley Gazette
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 928 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

LONDON GOSSIP

... Peerages were conferred in batches of four or five, half year by half year, and the Baronetages bestowed were as plentiful as blackberries. Alas ! those good old days can never be expected again. That was the age of Saturn in politics the age of gold at the ...

Published: Saturday 01 November 1879
Newspaper: Burnley Express
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1139 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

AN OPEN SECRET

... was none Lawyers so sometimes, but there was no need to do it in this ease, where mysteries of a sort are as plentiful blackberries. Here, then, is mystery the first. Who is this unknown, unnamed, but not unimportant, gentleman . A friend of Mr. Fish's ...

Published: Saturday 14 June 1879
Newspaper: Burnley Gazette
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1671 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

AMERICAN HUMOUR

... sided with her, and others against her, and amid the Babel that followed could be heard such exclaimations as Dry ! Nice blackberry you are ! Wipe off your chin ! Hire a hall!'etc., when a motion to adjourn was carried by a large majority. Chicago ...

Published: Saturday 08 February 1879
Newspaper: Burnley Express
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1873 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

COCK-FIGHTING

... supposed to be so scarce that one carried round the country in a glass case would quite a show—turn out to be as plenty as blackberries, we can be sure of nothing. For anything we know to the contrary, there may be a silent change taking place on questions ...

Published: Saturday 26 June 1875
Newspaper: Burnley Gazette
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1905 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

GLADSTONE VERSUS CLOWN AND PANTALOON

... Great things were sttempted, but little or nothing was done. Promises of great achievement were rife ai plentiful as blackberries in autumn, whilst corresponding performances were few and scant as grapes on gooseberry bushes ! How such a bad, even wretched ...

Published: Saturday 30 December 1871
Newspaper: Burnley Advertiser
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2052 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE BURNLEY GAZETTE October 27, 1877

... Tory Chairman; he has a good precedent for declining to give reasons upon compulsion, and, if they were as plenty as blackberries, he would need them all to justify such course as the gentlemen on the Conservative side have unwillingly, t,o doubt ...

Published: Saturday 27 October 1877
Newspaper: Burnley Gazette
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2343 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

TO READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS. %* We open this column for the expression of all opinions, holding responsible ..

... Advertiser. Sir, —In his last letter Mr. Stroyan makes up in volubility what he lacks in argument. Words have plentiful blackberries, but look in vain for a tittle of evidence to justify the claim set by the Liberationists of the right to seize and conliscate ...

Published: Saturday 31 August 1872
Newspaper: Burnley Advertiser
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2491 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

LITERARY EXTRACTS

... Journalists. —It is needless to sa that first-class journalists, in whatever party wo look for them, are not as plentiful as blackberries. If we consider what such man ought to be, we shall be overwhelmed with the multiplicity of his requirements. He must be ...

Published: Saturday 20 June 1874
Newspaper: Burnley Advertiser
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2560 | Page: 4 | Tags: none