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THE CROWN AND THE CONSTITUTION

... and £3,000 for furnishing. Then the . engagement of a professor would naturally l follow, and as professors dont grow on blackberry bushes, that will be an expenditura of about £500 a year alone. Indeed, the proper nam' of the iustitution would seem to ...

Published: Friday 02 September 1892
Newspaper: Northern Echo
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 1751 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

The Newcastle Courant

... per- haps grow a considerable amount on an allot- ment. In summer and autumn the children could pick up acorns and gather blackberries and other hedge-row prod.uce; in the dreary winter they could collect sticks for his lire. Again, if charity is not more ...

Published: Friday 05 April 1872
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1501 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

Chats with Housekeepers

... difficult to get; and probably this is the reason why housekeepers who live in districts where cranberries, bil- berries, and blackberries grow wild never think of bestowing the trouble upon them which housekeepers would gladly give who have to pnrcbase them ...

Published: Friday 09 December 1887
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1671 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

THE COURSE OF A JOKE

... which ooca- sioned the affair, is so worthy of the praise. Working men who have gained high posi- tions are as plentiful as blackberries, and this fact goes to prove that, despite tbe privileges of social caste and wealth and educa- a tional bonotits, brain ...

Published: Friday 28 December 1894
Newspaper: Northern Echo
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 1521 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

FOUR YORKSHIRE WILLS

... along the cliffs until they had fr, reached the bach of the Prison Gardens, where Jo Groom left his companions to gather blackberries. Ii, He had scarcely turned b is back whee lie heard 7th a groan, and on returning found W ise lookin g e x over the cliff ...

Published: Tuesday 17 November 1891
Newspaper: Northern Echo
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 1549 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

MULTUM IN PARVO

... family of the Two Sioilies, this audience cannot fail to be a curious ?? is esti- mated that the crop of dried apples, blackberries, and other fruit, which will be shipped from North Caro- lina during the present season, will amount to more than 1,000 ...

Published: Friday 09 November 1866
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 3446 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

ROYAL DRUNKARDS

... Charles II. and his brother James II. a Stories of the ' Merry Monarcb's excesses are as 3 plentiful as the proverbial blackberry, but withal, b the Kine. who never said a foolish thing, and c never did a wise one, was never cruel in his cups; and ...

Published: Wednesday 22 July 1896
Newspaper: Northern Echo
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 1808 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

HARVEST FESTIVALS

... its flowers, and starwort, spirea, and other flowers aid in filling up the display of apples and pears, hazel nuts, and blackberries among the yellow eara of corn. Seprem- ber has its birds and animals, as busy in their way as the reapers of the harvest ...

Published: Friday 26 September 1884
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1923 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

CHATS WITH HOUSEKEEPERS

... Fruit Jelly as a Pudding.-Take a quart of any kind of juicy fruit, such as black currants, red currants, rasp. berries, blackberries, &c., Me. Sometimes it is an advan- tage to use together two sorts of fruit, the flavours of which combine well. Stew gently ...

Published: Saturday 24 June 1893
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1899 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

SALMON AND SALMON FISHING

... each, and are the smelts of the year bafore. In scme rivers Ehare is a third 1' run of large fish known in Ireland as blackberry; in Scotland as autamn, Or backend fish. The spring fish afford the greatest sport as they are more lively and ...

Published: Saturday 19 August 1893
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1727 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

NOTES FROM FLEET STREET

... crown thee With flowers like a queen. Oh. baste ! hark, the shepherd Bath wakened his pipe, And led out his lambs Where tbh blackberry's ripe: The bsight sun is tasting Thedew on the thyme, Yan glad maiden's lilting An old bridal rhyme, There's joy in the ...

Published: Saturday 06 May 1893
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1754 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT

... Nobody thinks of questioning their titular pretensions, honorific prefixes in some foreiga countries being as common as blackberries. The remarks of your senior member on Egypt have been received here with general acceptance. The feeling is spreading that ...

Published: Friday 28 December 1883
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1844 | Page: 4 | Tags: News