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... their favour. Since Galston carried off the Qualifying fite professional agents have been as pro in the Irvine Valley as blackberries in auto and early this week a gentleman from Ad attester was negotiating for the transfer of t clever left-winger—M`Denald—who ...

Published: Friday 12 January 1900
Newspaper: Scottish Referee
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1461 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

fKE KIRKINTILLOCH HERALD AND LENZIE, KILSYTH, CAMPSIE, AND CUMBERNAULD PRESS, JANUARY 17, 1900

... the thickness of the length of the pins you will not be able stick in the pins as close as you may wish. In the same way blackberries may be made, using, of course, black silk or satin, and black pins. Fair-sized ball pincushions are often acceptable to ...

Published: Wednesday 17 January 1900
Newspaper: Kirkintilloch Herald
County: Dunbartonshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3251 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Electricity Silk and Wool.—lt has long teen known that silk an electric —i.e., that becomes easily charged ..

... means of his possessions, Over the lives of others.—John Ruskin. Men who pose as scientific are plentiful as blackberries, and, like blackberries, most of them are unripe. There is no view, however bizarrp, which could not supported and made to wear an ...

Published: Monday 29 January 1900
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2209 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

CUTTINGS FROM THE COMII3S*

... s ; fur gander—gooseberriea ; for muffsmulberries; for bill discounters—dewberries; for tapers—bayberries; for oiggers—blackberries ; for corudealera—strawberries; for newsboys—whortle (war tell) berries; for girls and buys—holly (day) berries. (From ...

Published: Friday 02 February 1900
Newspaper: Mid-Lothian Journal
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 774 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE MUSSELBURGH NEWS, FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 2, 1900. THE ,OCIETY PAPERS. CUTTINGS FROM THE COMICS' (rrom the World. ..

... for ganilers—gooseberries; for muffsmulberries; for bill iliscouniers—dewberries; for topers—barberries; for niggers —blackberries; for isorndealers—strawberri , •s: for newsboys--whortle (wsr tell) berries; for girls and boys—holly (day) berries. ( ...

Published: Friday 02 February 1900
Newspaper: Musselburgh News
County: East Lothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1285 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

ANOTHER PROFESSION FOR THE UP-TO-DATE WOMAN

... promptly marched out into the fields (the house was in the suburbs, and collected an armful of scarlet berries, some tinted blackberry leaves and feathery grasses. With these and six soup plates, two cnampagne tumblers and some orangecoloured pongee silk ...

Published: Wednesday 07 February 1900
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Post
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 458 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE STANDARD OF HEIGHT

... nevertheless, did all that they were ;n their conflict with China. In France, too, short men in the army are as common blackberries, Th® truth is that abort legs mean very a military tTiaadvantage provided their owner v* proper chest dimeneion-s and otherwise ...

Published: Tuesday 20 February 1900
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 386 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE

... traversed on his way to Sluie. It was Incidentally stated that the subject of the lecture encountered four girls gathering blackberries in the woods and was by them directed to his destination at the rocks, the upper old red sandstone of which the geolo gist ...

BADGES, &C., OP THE CLAN

... that I would like to draw your particular atention to is the badges. Keltie's History of the Highlands gives the badge as blackberry heath, and this has been copied by other writers. I have corresponded w.th the leading families of the Clan, and in no case ...

Published: Saturday 24 February 1900
Newspaper: Highland News
County: Inverness-shire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 707 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

MESSRS GEORGE KLSMIE * SON’S VESSELS

... which hi« enemies are no mean* comfortable, and pointed phrases bit the question under discussion on the head are thick blackberries. When it becomes known that Mr Goschen is up replying to Sir Harcourt, for instance, there rush for the House at once, ...

Published: Tuesday 27 February 1900
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1813 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

OUR LONDON LETTER

... by no mains comfortable, antI pointed phrases. viitch bit the question unCer diaclnsiucl onl v ths head are a' thick vue blackberries. When it becomes known that Mr Gosehen is up re- e plvuwg lo Sir William Harcourt, for instance, s there :s a rush for ...

Published: Tuesday 27 February 1900
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2943 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

PERTH GAELIC SOCIETY. TUN LAIN night Mr John Penton, H.M. G e n e r a l , an interesting

... dealt with cup culture. The r.ospherry family, be said, was • Inge ea, numbering one hundred epecies, of which the common blackberry or bramble was one. Apart from Muse in the making of pm., the raspberry was in pest demand for dessert, for cooking purposes ...

Published: Wednesday 28 February 1900
Newspaper: Perthshire Advertiser
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 1704 | Page: 7 | Tags: none