... very food of corn, as all farmers know to their cost; but they can subsist without it, on the wild berries, especially black-berries, whea ripe, and neorus. The female lays rom tem 1o filteen eggs, in & nest on the grouml, composed of & few dry vegzetables ...

... assemblage is expected to be one of great magnitude and splendour. A boy aged eleven years, of Plumstead, has died from eating blackberries He was taken ill about twentyfour hours after f a quantity of the fruit, gathered by himself, and which i is thought ...

... Continent from two francs fifty cents upwards, according to their size. ToricaL. — According to a contemporary some ““ white blackberries have been found at Chelmsford. After this, we shall not be_surprised at the adveut of some black red currants. Wonders ...

... passementerie ornament is added at the waist, or towards one shoulder; the greatest novelty in this way, however, is a bunch of blackberries, walnuts, chestnuts, or some other autumn or winter fruit, imitated in plush or velvet. - - . For mere ceremonious toilettes ...

... outbursts about Liszt. Fellow students with wonderful eyes, destined to command Europe by their genius, were as plentiful as blackberries in 1869, It is interesting to turn the leaves and see these exciting and delicious raptures going the way of all the illusions ...

... as a crowning point which closely resembles a * brandy snap” in f%rm. No strings, but kept in place by large-headed jet “blackberry pins. Asa rule, bonaet strings are not worn for full dress. The hair is arranged high, and the ecapote is perched on the ...

... in Queen Anne-street, has some original bonnets composed of wire covered with silk wound round tightly, a silk or straw blackberry, as it were, at each intersection. All these bonnets are of the favourite beige shade, trimmed with brown velvet and lace ...

... NOTES AND NOTIONS. JUBILEE suggestions scem to be as plentiful aimost as blackberries are in autumn. Amongst the latest ideas which have been forwarded to us is the establishment of the half-holiday movement in Horncastle. The young people who are engaged ...

... John Wairter (Thimbleby) thought they might have difficulty, for they must know that medical men were not as plentifual as blackberries. They might find themselves in a very awkward position. y At ¥ £ 3 Major ArustßoNG was of opinion that the medical officers ...

... and fined, inclading damage and costs, the amount at the end of each name, for doing wilful damage to underwood whilst blackberrying, the property of Lord Willoughby D’Broke in the parish of Tothill ; and also to underwood, the property of the Mayor aud ...

... made the statement, had you ever heard the name of the two Dwyers before ?—The name is as plentiful in county Limerick as blackberries in autumn. Suppose they were arrested. Ts it a coincidence that they were arrested and that you gave the names in publication ...

... generosity of his con, Mr, Edward ng Bates, of Gyrn Castle, being thoroughly renovated and repaired. Two men who were blackberrying on Saturday afternoon on the Wren's Nest Hill, which lies between Dudley and Coseley, were surprised by hearing the weak ...