... yours to make a decent meal ! —American Paper. QUANTUM SUFF. —Heroes—that is, Crimean heroes—are now as plentiful as blackberries. A downy youth, palpitating from his mother's arms, went ta Sebastopol, heard the whizzing of Russian balls, had a brush ...

... hero of, and that those that made me so should at once repent. Much better may easily be had; the crop is as plentiful as blackberries. Crimeans are everything now, are everywhere, and, though wild-looking and hirsute animals, are easily caught. Ido not ...

... —The New York Commercial Advertiser relates that woman, last fall, residing in the vicinity of Worcester, whilst picking blackberries, in a field near her house, placed her only child, a brighteyed little fellow of less than a year old, upon the ground ...

... in political circles ; and, as the time of the opening of Parliament approaches, rumours, we shall find, will plentiful blackberries.” Certain, however, it is that a new-born interest now being taken in political prospects. The Premier knows well as any ...

... alarm which appears to have existed. The Prince of Walt may possibly visit Can a.'a iu the course of rest summer. crop of blackberries this year is one of the greatest ever remembered. firm in this town (says the Briitol Times] closed their works Fast Day ...

... some bread next day. Another, singularly handsome l»oy, also a crossing-sweeper, has lately walked from Bristol, living blackberries and “swedes” by the way. and getting little work now and then at carrot-pulling, mother, the only relative he ever knew ...

... ion. “Which Mr. Cohden you mean, sir?* Here was pretty question to ask“ Which Mr. T* As if Cobdens were as pkniiful as blackberries. We told him which it was; and he didn’t know whether he was home or not, and seemed very much as he didn’t care either ...

... advances since the discovery of the electric telegraph and the establishment of railways. A great demand has lately arisen for blackberry wine. It is shipped great quantities to India, being a most valuable remedy lor chronic dysentery. The census of Canada ...

... ventured to inquire to the other impediment. “My wife,” was the rascal's reply. Coal.—ln Lancashire, coal trucks are as thick blackberries. Coal—coal-coal meets the eye wherever the eye peeps—blazing awav at the pit’s mouth, half-a-ton at time, say ton while ...

... Marriage.—ln by-gone years, before the gold-fields were overrun by the rush of emiLTanU, and when gold-boles were plentiful blackberries, party two or three msu having worked out a good claim, which had yielded, say 500 L man, woulu forward their gold the ...

... by (be fact this era liberty, when locomotion it Amp ud that then are thousands of Aopnten whose masters girls plenty as blackberries, they should not be would dismiss them If they dared to Barry, there ' allowed to pick their spouses, Uaat, among haswen ...

... ly could never cultivate their hedge-sides properly, but were forced to be content with sloes and hips and pignuts sad blackberries, and anything else that came handy and tbs grace of nature; never able to raise grain for harvest time, or to gather their ...