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... forty years. , Two gentlemen passing a blackberry bush when the fruit was unripe, one said it was ridicu- lous to call them black berries when they were red. Don't you know, said his friend, that blackberries are always red when they are green. A ...

THE COMIC PAPERS

... agriculturists is, to go in for cultivating mushrooms aod blackberries. What a prospect for the country children! Fancy every mushroom-meadow tabooed to the early rural rambler, and all the blackberries strictly *preserved,” in the sense of partridges, not ...

Published: Saturday 15 October 1887
Newspaper: Loftus Advertiser
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 802 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

TBAINING NOTES

... urlonga steadily. Osborne- Wild Sherry and Blackberry traversed six tor- longs. Martin's Little Emily and Marmora went a similar distance. The other teams not mentioned did serviceable cantering exercise. Blackberry ia well for Kempton. Fuidos, Thursday.— ...

Published: Friday 06 May 1887
Newspaper: Sheffield Independent
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 732 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

EVENTS OF THE DAY

... Birch's Company in ' Har* vest, at 7.30. Lcnd;-si;oeough Thkathb, Scahbeo. — Mr. Willis Edonin's Comedy Company in Blackberries and *» Turned Up, at 8. Scahbeo* People's Palace and Aquarium. — Now open. Ceookste's G.a.vd Cibccs, St. Thomas-street ...

Published: Tuesday 30 August 1887
Newspaper: York Herald
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 381 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

MR. BRIGHT ON COUNTER ;.SCHEMES TO HOME RULE

... Apple Jelly is free from artificial colouring, the natural tintof the fruit only being preserved. Hartley's New Season's Blackberry Jelly now ready : great delicacy. _a ...

Published: Wednesday 23 November 1887
Newspaper: Sheffield Independent
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 426 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SPORTING

... 8 8 Mr 1 C Starkey's Lucretius. 4 yrs G Barrett 3 7 1 Mr Hudson's Blackberry. 3 yrs „ Dunn 0 85 to 20 on Plantaesnet. 100 to 12 agst Lucretius. 10 to 1 Norwegian, aod 25 to 1 Blackberry. Won by three-quarters of a length ; two lengths between second and ...

Published: Tuesday 12 April 1887
Newspaper: York Herald
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 868 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

FACTS AND FANCIES

... lt's all net profit. The Arab who invented alcohol died nine hun- dred years ago, but his spirit still lives. Why is^ blackberrying a courageous employ- ment ? Because it requires a great deal of pluck. A Limerick banker, remarkable for bia sagacity, ...

RACING INTELLIGENCE

... Lass 3. 5 ran. Aston Plate,— Romany 1, Digitalis 2, Wafer f. 3.—Midland Counties' Handicap.—a iwe«ton» L. Svoier. ton 2, Blackberry ». ...

Published: Saturday 02 July 1887
Newspaper: Leeds Times
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 330 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

LITERARY NOTES

... against the mak- ing of many books, especially jubilee books, but except that works ou the3ubj«*cta,re now as plentiful as blackberries in September, there is no reason why Dr. Kirton should not be congratulated on having successfully narrated the story of ...

Published: Friday 24 June 1887
Newspaper: Sheffield Independent
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 445 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

No. 12,431-ESTABLISHED 1754

... chair wUI be ta«an 3.30 p.m. by the Rev. V. J. JAYNE, aod Vicar of Leeds. t' K K, JU aJ2 !>. ■ _ Mr Bium. TO-NIGHT, 7.30, BLACKBERRIES, « followed by the Screaming Farcical Comedy, TURNED UP. Supported Mr.Willi© Company. MONDAY NEXT, return winit. owing ...

YESTERDAY'S RACING

... yrs „G. Barrett 3 7 8 A. Cooper's Cardinal W'olsey White 0 Hudson's Blackberry, 5 yis '. Dunn 0 5 to Upset, 11 to 4 Mohawk, 3 to 1 Cardinal VYolsey, 5 to 1 Tottenham, and 6 to 1 Blackberry. Upset went off with the lead, which he held throughout and won good ...

Published: Saturday 07 May 1887
Newspaper: Yorkshire Gazette
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1394 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

®rjis Ban's

... Handicap. Pcelei I Breda 2 i Baffaello 3 I Three ran. Latest Arrivals.— Breda, Chips. Daniel, Upset, Mohawk, Tottenham, Blackberry. Great Strike in Pennsylvania. — A general strike has commenced in Connellsville (Pennsylvania; coke region, 13,000 men ...