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A LAND OF PEACHES

... tbe neighbourhood of Sydney fruits the peach nectarine, apricot, plum, fig. grape, cherry, aad orange ere plentiful as blackberries. The orangeries and orchards of New South Wales are among its sights; and in the neighbourhood of Sydney and round Port ...

Published: Saturday 03 March 1883
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 208 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

HINTS FOR THE HOUSEHOLD

... for the purpose ; when done, split and butter slightly, put on each layer a generous supply of strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, chopped pineapple, sliced oranges or peaches; do not mash the berries; sprinkle the fruit with powdered sugar, and pour ...

Published: Saturday 15 September 1883
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 272 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

A PLAGUE OF SNAKES

... which were racew, horn-tail adders, gray adders, and pdots, an. old, worked-out. flag-stone quarry, while he was picking blackberries. They were ali coiled in together, and when he disturbed them they made a terrible hissing. He and Irish boy named Andrew ...

Published: Saturday 28 August 1880
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 588 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Miscellaneous Intelligence

... a boat voraciously. Superstition about Blackberries.—Once more the blackberry is not without its folk-lore, and there is a popular superstition that the Devil always puts his cloven foot upon the blackberries on Michaelmas Day, and on this account it ...

Published: Saturday 24 September 1881
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 5557 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE VALUE OF EXERCISE

... then he goes on his way rejoicing, and able to note the pleasant things around him—the honeysuckle in the hedgerow, the blackberries the bush, the trout leaping in the stream, the dragonflies darting among the reeds, the wind sweeping over the corn, or ...

Published: Saturday 25 September 1880
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 799 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE TRANSVAAL QUESTION

... The sou of minor, writing was with him instinct; he scribbled on odds and ends, and even used ink made from the juice blackberries when he was young and poor. In 1864 lie wrote the best poem on the tercentenary of Shakspeare, the prize thus obtained ...

Published: Saturday 19 January 1884
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 915 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

GOSSIP ON DRESS

... passementerie ornament is added at the waist, or towards one shoulder; the greatest novelty in this way, however, is a bunch of blackberries, walnuts, chestnuts, or some other autumn or winter fruit, imitated in plush or velvet. • * * For more ceremonious toilettes ...

Published: Saturday 28 November 1885
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1173 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

NEWS NOTES

... to have been overtaken in their meandering by nightfall. Whether the birds fed them, or whether they fed themselves upon blackberries and such other luxuries is a mystery. They wore missed in the evening at Gilfach, and great was the commotion. The inhabitants ...

Published: Saturday 13 September 1884
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1741 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

EPITOME OF NEWS

... The attendance waa not large, and business in wheat was dull in consequence of the high nrices demanded. * At Odenwald the blackberry is much valued, and a large quantity of claret is manufactured from ita juice The yield this season in some districts is ...

Published: Saturday 03 September 1881
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 2835 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

EPITOME OF NEWS

... cover 51,500 metres superficial. This site is close to the railway station Zurich, and commands splendid view of the lake. Blackberries, tomatoes, red and yellow, greengages, dark red plums, hazel nuts, elderberries, Scottish thistles, acorns, caterpillars ...

Published: Saturday 08 October 1881
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 3153 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

LOCAL PATENTS

... jury returned open verdict. I knew that two or three men had been arrested. The name of Dwyer in Limerick was as plentiful blackberries autumn. (Laughter ) I knew that the names of the men who were supposed to have committed the murder would published in ...

Published: Saturday 16 March 1889
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 2456 | Page: 2 | Tags: none