... during the last fourteen years.” This strange, because can remember political allusions of a satirical description thick as blackberries during the last fourteen years, and they are wonderfully scarce this season. Moreover, there is the letter of Mr. Donne ...

... next licensed victualler’s, or other fireplace or warm room, a small magnet battery got once (they are as plentiful as blackberries In autumn now in chemists’ shops), a medical man, too, sent for, and life, even after six or eight hoars, might be restored ...

... towing-path. But the representative landscape is undoubtedly “Waiting by the Lock,” with the green lane scene of many a blackberrying lying in the evening shadow, giving a vista of a ruddyfaced farmhouse and quaint church tower topping the trees ; in the ...

... establishments, and then escape to repeat the same game elsewhere.” But where are such towns to be found They are plentiful as blackberries, and comprise every one of our great maritime commercial centres. “Except the small southern strip of coast where all the ...

... gives employment to women and children, there are the turf-digging, the willow-stripping, the whortleberry-picking, and the blackberry-picking, which in their several seasons offer facilities to the families of the agricultural labourers for obtaining some ...

... general in the southern counties are greatly Mow a fair average crop. The wild brambles have bloomed well for a crop of blackberries* « , * Daggers op Crab-eating. fatal case of poisoning from eating crab occurred at Birmingham Sunday. On Saturday evening ...

... promising, though the “mares’ tails,” which the weatherwise regard as certain indications of wind and rain, were plentiful as blackberries.” A very strong breeze from the westward prevailed, and up dinner-time rain fell. The South won the toss, and in the absence ...

... North- West Pacific Coast, By R. Byron Johnson. —Sampson Low and Co. Why is it that, next to novels —which are plentiful as blackberries, and almost as cheap after the first month of publication—we find upon the secondhand book-stalls shoals of handsomely ...

... examination the basket was found to contain grapes. When taken into custody the prisoners said that they had been out blackberrying, but had got the grapes instead, thinking that they would fetch more money. It was believed that the grapes had been stolen ...

... that century have long sinee been replaced by an inferior plant, as nowadays vin de Suresnes is synonymous with Dorking blackberry clsrct, or the philsnthropic Gladstone Medoc. Exchange Lunatics.—According to the German Press, the fortune-getting mania ...

... £ the Bayard of public lift, That, was an honest ami a bravo past denial. The Rev. J. G. Wood writes pleasant paper, “A Blackberry Bush in Autumn,” and Mr. Compton Reade has singular little story put into dramatic form—“ Alias.” The Argosy,—-iilra. Wood’s ...