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... Scotland. Tanning.-A Mr. Patterson, of Dublin, has taken out a pa- tent for tanning from the roots, stems, and branches of the blackberry bush, obtained in the spring; and, after preparation, lie states, quite equal to oak-bark. During the lust three weeks the ...

POETRY

... And left a golden stain. Hedge-rows are fair (Fringing old lanes-round groen and cotted lones) With hip and haw, the blackberry and sloe; Lovely the moon, Vwith nright glowers everywhere. Sweet the new song of redbroast waltbling low. oc''rOlEfl. The ...

THE IRISH SERVANT'S STORY

... sprung over the bridge wall and got away; and what, to betw een living in a lime-kiln for two months, eating re nothing but blackberries and sloes, and other disguos , 5t he never returned to the army, but ever after took to a is civil situation, and dric ...

THEATRE-ROYAL

... of the mind, we are sure that she be does. In these days, when the Wilhiems, Mainzers, and HIllaals are 1 plentiful as blackberries, there is no diffi- - clty of acquiring some lnowlodge of the vocal art. Yesterday evening, As Yott Like It was repeated ...

MR. LINDLEY'S CONCERT

... were brought before Mr. iii Maude at the New Bailey, but were remanded till Thurs- cd day. On Wednesday James Mehan, alias Blackberry, nI another of the offenders was apprehended. On Thurs- d| day the case was very fully gone into, when it appeared he that ...

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... the universal distributian of the slamped letter paper. The O'Connell tribute this year amounted to the sum of £25,000. Blackberry JAlly.-Put the fruit into a Jar, tie paper oer It, and stew In a sauce-pan of boiling! water, or, by putting the jar into ...

SONG OF THE GERMAN WEAVER

... of the most touchung and beautiful of the German popular stories:- FOItM THE MOUNTAINS OF SILESIA. Green grow the budding blackberry hedges; What oyl a violet meets my quest! The blacbird seeks the last year's sedges, The chaffinch also builds her nest ...

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... of mind, capable of discering, and dafing to choose the trtutb.-Belfaptpapar. So mild has beon the weatber lately, ipat blackberries r were sold in Newcaatle,'dtrinf lat woeek attwo-.ppOD per | 'quart. There is no widow so utterly*wiowved Inhoroirueuli ...

The Family Companion

... burning fever all night. sid, Oh, mother! I know the blackberry pudding won't e of hurt me. ing, Stop whining, Laury, interrupted the-father. Do less, give her a bit, my dear; I never heard of blackberry her, pudding huirting, any body. ible. A crin was ...

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... parties; end there is little doubt but that eventually Pines will become, as the common phrase goes, almost as plentiful as blackberries. The Great Gun newspaper has paid its last shot in the Court of Requests, Guildhall, London, where the proprietor was ...

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... Green clusters of the wilding grape, t Climber of Oaks! hang hi gh in air, ai And seedy fruit, of oblong shape, The rough blackberry bushes bear; The rauk cohosh wears snowy plumes, The peppermuint obscurely blooms In hollows dark aiid wet; Red beads the ...

How to Reach tiie North Pole.—Sir J. Ross has written to the Astronomical Society, informing that bodythat he ..

... bullrush; M'Kenzie, deer grass; M'Kinnon, Saint John's wort; M'Lachlan, mountain ash; M'Lean, blackberry heath; M'Leod, red wortle berries; M'Nab, rose blackberries; M'Neil, seaware; M'Pherson, variegated boxwood; M'Kae, fir club moss; M'Quarrie, black tliorn; ...