General Intelligence

... watermelon half cut down, and showing the pink heart within, a pile of rosy bloom-cheeked peaches, and a profusion of garden-blackberries, luscious new luxuries to me. When man can eat no more he can still eat fruit—whence the wisdom of our ancestors relegated ...

Published: Thursday 25 April 1878
Newspaper: Falkirk Herald
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
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the BRITISH NAVY: AND AUHUSVJIia CHAPTER LTV. JOB* TOM. It —tomehow to i»m«mb«r titon Sir John Thontoi ..

... captains. Linois had seen for some time that the Eastern Seas were getting too hot for him. British cruisers were thick blackberries ; rich prizes were rare as angels’ visit*. His ships were sadly in need of overhauling ; his crews were home sick, lie ...

Published: Saturday 30 March 1878
Newspaper: Aberdeen People's Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
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Or Irraarar t» Homo:mums. —Oa Tom. day ws were shows • very remarkable pansy of the Russell variety, peva by

... potatoes many vanstree represented. Apples and piers went especially good oonsidming the seems. Currants, both red and white, blackberries, aid strawberries were not so largely represented as usual, but what was shows was —mon particularly so the gooseberries ...

Published: Friday 30 August 1878
Newspaper: Montrose Standard
County: Angus, Scotland
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SECRET CHAINS; OR, WHICH WAS THE TRUE MARRIAGE ?

... with tall waving grasses, which presently, as the lane defended towards the village, gave place to an overgrown hedgerow of blackberry and honeysuckle. Great fronds of fern, spikes of golden rod, and a few short stems of late fox-glove, grew by the wayside ...

Published: Thursday 28 November 1878
Newspaper: Fife Herald
County: Fife, Scotland
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EXTRAORDINARY EXPERIMENTS WITH.THE TELEPHONE

... might well hesitate before ho consented to become Sir Frederick Leighton, considering that Sirs are as plentiful as blackberries in the City, and that so many in- significant nobodies are permitted to strut aboufc with titles. — Echo. Bismaeck's Letters ...

Published: Monday 18 November 1878
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3101 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

TTIE A

... fee 1876-77 It shows I Theraday. Thesgb anon the season of the that the somber of parishes whisk feeds per as Peatifel as blackberries is r im the by is 818. this see is se won and no rates feeds by as whom it was the ray warm the This somber of A. E.g. ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1878
Newspaper: Alloa Journal
County: Clackmannanshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3182 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

CONSTABLE

... these dodging, scheming hot-beds called agency offices are as plentiful in this and all other large towns in Scotland as blackberries; end I believe the day I. not far distant when the authorities will be envier the neceseity of tting them down ; for one ...

Published: Saturday 02 February 1878
Newspaper: North Briton
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3399 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

iUI QAZBTTB, HAT 35, 1878. r SOMETHING HEW

... quietly or you are rained man. We are in daily expectation of having a king or two OU Our .iom &•* dukes are a« plenty as blackberries ; and as for Counts, well, don't reckon them at all. Nothing short of Dey, or a Bey, or a Shah will create sensation now ...

Published: Saturday 25 May 1878
Newspaper: Paisley & Renfrewshire Gazette
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
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A LIFE LESSON

... some to eat with his blackberries. She refused. He appeared resigned, but added gravely, ‘° Yon know, mamma, what happened round the corner? There was a little boy, and his mother would not give him any. sugar on his blackberries, and——¢‘ And ?7’— *“ ...

THE BANFFSHIRE REPORTER

... . ailing • valuable feed for togs. Others 'ark elder e to sell foe making wine, and for • few weeks • trade Is done in blackberries. Chair-menders and basket - makes, frequent the shore of the little mere or lake looking for bulrushes and flags; the old ...

Published: Saturday 16 February 1878
Newspaper: Banffshire Reporter
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4063 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SALE OF MR. DREW'S HORSES

... , while Mr. Waddell had only to exceed the start of 80 p. by 10 gs. to secure Neva, a nice filly, with good action. Blackberry, a strong, lengthy, promising filly, was not very dear at 66 gs. to Mr. Wilkie, Auchnagatt. The four two-year-old fillies ...

Published: Wednesday 10 April 1878
Newspaper: North British Agriculturist
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4136 | Page: 8 | Tags: none