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GENERAL NEWS

... as compared with 603 in the corresponding period of 1893. A WITH A HISTORY. Centen. Arians now-a-days are as common as blackberries ; but a lady who has just celebrated her hundredth birthday at Turin .stands out conspicuous among the crowd on account ...

MISCELL A K E O U S

... words : —** In this bouse Sir Walter Scott lived from 1798 to 1826.” A Laky. —Centenarians no -a -days are as common as blackberries: but a lady who has just celebrated her hundredth birthday at Turin stands out conspicuous among the croud account of her ...

Published: Tuesday 01 May 1894
Newspaper: Inverness Courier
County: Inverness-shire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1375 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

TO-DAY’S BREVITIES

... Licensing Court in tha J.P. Hall la dtotriot In Greenock—ona of the lowest the town, and where the poblic-hoases are thick blackberries, sixteen being located within radios 200 yards good opportunity occurred, without hardship to any relative of the deceased ...

Our Story

... the rear of the house there was then an orchard well-stocked with fruit-bearing trees, and beyond it a little dell full of blackberry and hawthorn bushes, whose opposite side rose gradually until was fringed on the left the back Packer Street, and topped ...

Published: Thursday 10 May 1894
Newspaper: Arbroath Herald
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3588 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE FREE BOOK QUESTION

... oor lives and broken legs For some wee birdie's nest and eggs, Pu'in' rowans as red as cherries, Mountain slaes, or wild blackberries; Or whiles a turnip sweet to steal Frae some auld, honest farmer's fiel', Then by the river's bank to dine— Oh, happy days ...

Published: Friday 11 May 1894
Newspaper: Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald
County: Ayrshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1364 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

sot sufficient to save us from the mistakes ofths rapid traveller . Bafc what we saw interested us so much

... is a high claim , for saints in ancient tunes were , if it maybe said without irreverence aa common as blackberries and grew where no blackberries have ever grown . They had indeed , a singular preference for desert and distant islands , to escape molestation ...

Published: Saturday 12 May 1894
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2095 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

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... ten v'clock Mr Woods, M.P., to quiet dignity which we always associate with this | In his portrait of Mrs finely-painted blackberries on the ground chair, The first business was the reading lady. how the twain have been occupied, and the girl, | 14, telegrams ...

Published: Wednesday 16 May 1894
Newspaper: North British Daily Mail
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4432 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

A TRAMP'S TALE

... pitch-dark in the barn, but when I struck a match to what sort of quarters I'd chanced on I saw them. As I'd had nothing but blackberries and a few hedge-nuts all day, I need barely tell you I wasn't satisfied with looking at these cheeses nor yet at the bread ...

Published: Thursday 17 May 1894
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3549 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

GENERAL NEWS

... per had never seen cow, some thinking it big their thumb or the picture, liver per cent, had never seen growing corn, blackberries, or joraioc-?; 71 cent, did ( Mot know beans—even in banton.” Betting a Hi**-Hor s*.—At Oldham Police Court Saturday, bookmaker ...

Published: Monday 21 May 1894
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1428 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

NOTES—MAINLY PERSONAL

... appalling fact. Of six-year-old children entering Boston (Ma>s.) schools 60 per cent, have never seen robin, growing corn, blackberries, or potatoes ; 71 per cent, do not know beana (doubtless their fellows soon teach them, metaphorically at any rate) ; and ...

Published: Tuesday 22 May 1894
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1053 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

MORAY AND NAIRN EXPRESS :

... abnormal births, or through what is called throwing back. But the law of nature is like from like, and so we never look fur blackberries on hazel bushes or nuts on brambles. The woman who is herself wise and virtuous will refuse to link her life with any other ...