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A PARADISE FOR VEGETARIANS

... cress, tomatoes, mushrooms, ero-piunt, and scores other vegetables arc cultivated and lw-»^ W S b*rrieB, raspberries, blackberries, goosemes, wbortielierries, currants, and other berries flourish, scarcely day in the year when strawberries cannot market ...

Published: Thursday 16 December 1875
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 189 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

AT SHETLAND

... says—‘What a multitude people heard who had turned the corner of ninety years ! and the children are as thick as bees or blackberries. Ingram,* the Free Church minister Unst, the most northerly parish Her Majesty’s British dominions, in whose pulpit I preached ...

Published: Thursday 03 June 1875
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 317 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

DEATH OF A SOMNAMBULIST

... quest. On another occasion, he eluded the vigilance of his parents about midnight, and went a long distance in search of blackberry bushes. His parents, who now reside Rossendal*, afterwards came to live in Shepherd Street, Bury, and there, on one occasion ...

Published: Thursday 20 April 1876
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 355 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

}TlrotTtttALl, APRdE 1874

... with Drown leaves, pale bine trimmed with pink may, almoad faille trimmed with HMesof the valley, pink trimmed with small blackberries and shaded leaves, are all cltarming. The Mack cartes are usually trimmed with black jet leaves mixed with jet oats, and ...

Published: Thursday 09 April 1874
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 464 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE SCOTTISH METROPOLIS

... circumstances, but it may turn out that one such institution in the city w«s enough. As for public balls, these are thick blackberries on the bush. An amount of attraction attaches the very fine hall the Oddfellows, Forrest Hoad, which accommodates concerts ...

Published: Thursday 23 December 1875
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 453 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

FACETIAE

... ridiculous to call them black- Two gentlemen passing a blackberry bush when the fruit berries when they were red. * Don't you know,’ said his green — The World of Wit and Humour. friend, ‘that blackberries are always red when they are A witty clergyman, accosted ...

Published: Thursday 21 December 1871
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1249 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Vitritttell

... a match lately—and the respectability the Penninghame curlers so unquestioned, elders and deacour being an pleotiful as blackberries in August—• lily visitor who saw the curlers returning with their brooms, escleimed, Dear me ! the times must be bad ...

THE AGRICULTURAL POPULATION OF CAITHNESS AND EDUCATION

... else how comes it that these ninety thousand children go to no school, although schools are as plentiful in the land as blackberries? The compulsory clause is one of the good points in the Lord Advocate’s Bill, and with all deference to those who protest ...

Published: Thursday 23 May 1872
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1307 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

A LITTLE GIRL’S EXTRAVAGANCE

... sorry it cannot be—but rose cannot be turned into bud.’ Irishman was once ask si? had ever seen red blackberry. *To he sure I’ hare,’ said Pat; all blackberries are red when they’re graen.’ An Inquisitive priest having asked young lady her name in the confessional ...

Published: Thursday 24 February 1876
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2066 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Con.—What kin —Preserved pairs

... bouses with sheet-lead. Perhaps It was the same man who saw white blackbird sitting on a wooden mile-stone, eating a red blackberry. AN observant but not very rich old lady always bought her tea the quarter a pound, because she thus got what she termed ...

Published: Thursday 03 December 1874
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1244 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

11All MORI TRAP DOIYELK TEE 01111CIILAILTION

... engaged for the conflict, and if the committee find enough of money they will find Parliamentary aspirants as plentiful as blackberries. To such a pass has nineteenth century Toryism come. The chivalrous spirit has disappeared, and the battle of the party ...

Mil ml tfsil

... anything approaching menial ecnploymeiit; what they seek is hymeneal. AM Irishman was once asked he had ever seen a red- Blackberry. *To be sore I have/ said Pat * all block- Berriea are red when they are green A good-hearted but partially deaf old lady ...

Published: Thursday 26 March 1874
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1390 | Page: 7 | Tags: none