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A TERRIBLE ENCOUNTER WITH ANTS

... few miles from Dayton, Ohio, has had a most wonderful experieiice,narrowly escaping being killed by ants. He was picking blackberries a wild baton of undergrowth in a dense wood, when suddenly he disturbed millions upon millions of large black ants. They ...

Published: Saturday 22 August 1885
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 237 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

FASHIONS FOR NOVEMBER

... handsome passe- SSie ornament is added at the waist or to wards the shoulder; the greatest novelty this way, however, a bunch blackberries, walnuts, chestnuts, or . some other autumn or winter fruit, imitated in plush or-velvet.. Fm more ceremonious toilettes ...

Published: Saturday 07 November 1885
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 536 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

GENERAL NEWS

... gathering of blackberries for Liverpool and Manchester markets now provides profitable occupation, for the country people in Cheshire, whence enormous quantities are being sent away. mother and three children will earn 10s and 12s weekly by blackberry-picking ...

Published: Friday 02 October 1885
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1595 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

GLASGOW CHAMBSR OF COMMERCE A ^ D BANK Stoso ^ OLT IS SCOTLASD . —Yesterday an extraoi ^ mary meeting

... they passed Mr Grant ' s proposal for free trade in banian ^ , they irould have all sorta ^ p f banfa started aa thiddy as blackberries grew , and ne 'knew wen that the establishment of new bai&s was a means of producing an enormous amount of speculation ...

Published: Wednesday 09 September 1885
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1405 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

FOR THE LITTLE FOLKS

... seaside we do not notice the change so much. Last year at this time I was staying at Goodwood; we used to go nutting and blackberrying, and a little later, when the fruit was gone, we used to gather and collect all the different kinds of leaves to decorate ...

Published: Saturday 17 October 1885
Newspaper: Leith Herald
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1304 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

EDINBURGH, MARCH 25, 1885. A council ia held Windsor tomorrow. is still believed that the debate in Parliament ..

... and liking for publio work, as indispensable qualifications; and the persons who possess all these are not so plentiful blackberries. The name Renton, who against Mr Waddy, and was within beating him, bus been often mentioned in connection with the coming ...

Published: Wednesday 25 March 1885
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1845 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE CONTINENTAJ- BOURSES

... children , waving all sortsof flags and banners , were in thefields , and friendly mottoes and bunting became as thick as blackberries . In Antrim tlie excitement was evidently increasing , and just outside Belfast Station tho cmployeea of tlio Ulster Spinning ...

Published: Friday 24 April 1885
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3847 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

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... Orleans Exhibition. A little salt (say a spoonful to a bush) scattered under a bush wia be found beneficial to raspberries, blackberries, currants, and gooseberries. A doctor considers tight-lacing a public benefit, inasmuch as it kills off the foolish girls ...

THEY HADN'T CAUGHT ON

... bareback ruling terminate right here! And I rolled.myselt off the starboard side of that horse and struck ou my head in a wild blackberry bitch. I went home with a full of briars, and an acautuulation of raw experience that wou;d have been worth its wegiut in ...

TIIE GARDEN

... ground would be sefficient, by a judicious arrangement, for the supply of an ordinary family with strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, currants, &e. The sanitary advantage is of consequence enough to induce their growth; it is beleved that. there is nothing ...

THE GIPSIES

... betw.en big old-fashioned hedges, under the still shade of the spreading boughs of ivy-clambered trees, among knots of blackberries, honeysuckle, ! and dog-roses in their blossoms of white, and ' gold, and pink! We are all descended from first parents ...