... £40,000 had been expended in such contests ; and they all knew that elections costing £5,000 to £10,000 were plenty as blackberries. (Laughter.) Now ho (Mr. Bell) had had the pleasing excitement of a contest, was returned, and enjoyed the luxury of a ...

... bugles. The petticoat was of white silk, trimmed with white tulle and white ribbons. Ihe headdress was a wreath composed of blackberries anu diamonds. In the evening the Queen and the nnce, with Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg, went to tne French Play. ...

... believed that Mr. W. F. Hume will be one of the successful candidates. Waterford City.—Candidates continue to spring up like blackberries in this ancient city. The last . announced is Mr. Martin Burke, proprietor } v Hote1 ' > 011 la,e occasion, was styled ...

... Constitution, Daniel Webster, is a Celt. Mr. R. discussed the naval history of the United States, and found Celts plenty as blackberries in every ship. Turning to the army, it was the same tale. The first general tbat fell in our Revolution was Richard Montgomery ...

... to prove the truth of our assertion. German school-books, grammars, and dictionaries have, of course, been plentiful as blackberries; among these the works of Ahn, Tiarks, and Ollendorf have been perhaps the most popular. Dr. Fischel, of Queen's College ...

... talked of adopting him. But, whether wild Indian of the prairie, Jack pined for the Strained freedom of his native woods-the blackberries and the roasted sloes; or, what is more. likely, feared chastisement for his many after a brief trial, he ran away, and ...

... boy was great favourite. Dumfries Courier. Discovery of a Supposed Suicide.—On Tuesday afternoon, while some boys were blackberrying in Annerley-wood, the property of Mr. Rogers, one of them, a youth named Osborn, got into a close thicket to pluck some ...

... of G to A flat—more especially with the position he has placed the chords in, where fifths and octaves are as plentiful blackberries ? We have no patience with such very ugly harmony, while the needlessly-prolonged phrase at the conclusion throws us almost ...

... Sessions, held on Friday last, a little boy named Trebem was mulcted in the sum of 75., including expenses, for picking four blackberries from the hedge of a neighbouring gardener; and two other youths had to pay 10s. each for gathering huts on the lands in ...

... prisoner did not bury the silver pencil cases, but merely put them behind a tree, and no doubt the people who were picking blackberries found them. The prisoner stated that he had picked ferns and made a bed; and slept in Epping Forest for the last week. ...

... however, prevents our indulging in any vciy sanguine expectations respecting the ensuing Session. Measures were plentilul aa blackberries thb year, but h >w few comparatively survived! The great fault the Government was, the readiness amounting almost to eagerness ...

... and death of the more sanguinary ruffian. The survivor deserts the children the wood, and they wander about, living on blackberries, until they die of hunger and fatigue, and redbreasts of more gigantic proportions than those described in the story-books ...