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POOR JOHN KAY, THE INVENTOR of the Spinning Jenny

... unpitied and uncared for! The Hero of a Hundred Fights, it is true, has lived to see statues arourd him plentiful as blackberries, but this is an ex- ception to the rule; for how many years did old Time roll on before justice was done to the Immortal ...

Published: Sunday 29 December 1850
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 576 | Page: 10 | Tags: News 

COUNTRY NOTES

... complain of the protective colouration of the artful golf-ball, has had many pleasant days to be thankful for. A fine crop of blackberries--stuall but of the best quality-has cheered the more humble wanderer on moor and woodland, In England a dry autumn, though ...

Published: Saturday 01 October 1898
Newspaper: Pall Mall Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 582 | Page: 1 | Tags: News 

THE COURT

... was of white silk, tritimed with white tulle and white tibliots. Her Majesty scoie roitiil her head a wreath composed of blackberries and dia- tnonds. THE ORDER OF THE BATH.-The Queen held at investiture of the .Most Honourable Order of the Bath, at three ...

Published: Sunday 25 April 1852
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 502 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

A BABE IN THE WOOD

... manage it myself. I went on, but could not see the way out, and as I began to get very hungry indeed, I picked a lot of blackberries, and other little things to eat. rhen it began to get dark again, and as I was getting again very tired, I lay down to ...

Published: Tuesday 14 September 1886
Newspaper: Pall Mall Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1236 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

The French Shore in Newfoundland

... has not the gift of getting confidences out of other people, nor are interesting specimens such as this one as common as blackberries in September. But the book is so shrewd and alive, it gives so admirably the outlook of the Hooligan, and shows you how ...

Published: Saturday 09 September 1899
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 661 | Page: 25 | Tags: News 

Rural Notes

... down the ripe fruit. The new blackberry-raspberry which was to startle the markets under the somewhat obsolescent title of The Mahdi has not made its expected splash, but mulberries, which would be bad to beat by any blackberry, however improved, are in ...

Published: Saturday 22 September 1900
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1792 | Page: 39 | Tags: News 

APPROACHING CRISIS IN FRANCE

... French Press, scarcely one of the'wortby officiials -iav6. ~ ?? 'huslightest.s'catacity Codjdctis are. as plentiful as blackberries as to how the game will -come off between thie Pe'sident and 1the Chamber.,. The''nine, pins he has set up, the' Pr ...

Published: Sunday 02 November 1851
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 440 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

Place aux Dames

... and are geaerally bad losers. It appears that gardeners have invented a new fruit, a cross between the blackberry and some other berry. The blackberry has been too much neglected except by street urchins ; it can be culti- vated in the garden and will repay ...

Published: Saturday 18 August 1900
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1586 | Page: 30 | Tags: News 

THE POOR MAN'S HOME QUESTION

... at the Mansion Houwe, where nobody spoke under the weight of official responsibility, the nostrums were as plentiful as blackberries in October. We are not disposed to quarrel with those who mean well ; but we must take leave to remark that there appeared ...

Published: Sunday 23 December 1883
Newspaper: Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 635 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

PORTRAIT OF JOSEPH HUME

... and then was the untaxed Corn Champion, Richard Cobden, some eight or nine years old, haply in- tent on birds'-nests and blackberries. At the request of Mrs. and Mr. Hume, the portrait is to be enshrined in the London Uni- versity; a most fitting place ...

Published: Sunday 13 August 1854
Newspaper: Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 655 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

THE OFFICERS OF THE ENGLISH ARMY

... Lord'Vm, is hrit a type of hi trktbcratc ilitai brethien, At . the presemohent igheroel'a a:ns n pentifula in Lonl doe as blackberrie, ainstumi.4 : ar lyevery' oficerolf the Guardes yourtheet- healthy, b-oom it , and ?? .though he'bbe-as fa t'&8 his colonel ...

Published: Sunday 16 December 1855
Newspaper: Reynolds's Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 492 | Page: 9 | Tags: News 

Rural Notes

... delicate. OCTOBER Irish folklore of the seventeenth century tells us that on Michael- mas Day the devil puts his foot on the blackberries. Let us hope that the brambles do their duty ! The date is clearly old style, as the iith of our present October and the ...

Published: Saturday 06 October 1900
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 748 | Page: 38 | Tags: News