The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-10-22 00:00:00

snobs et Sok wia At easeher signal the shepherd,
stagsdine al the lower pea with Ida collie, gent away Ma
dog attar dam name sham ',Lich were barely visible la
the dodos's.. Away weot the dog guided by whistle or
word if command from his master (who minained at the
lower peal, now galloping straight up the hill, now bear-
ing to the right or the left, as he was directed, until be
himself mw the sheep. This, recalled hy be would
, get above them and drive them dowa the hill, keeping all
the while. if he were clever, mine twenty yards behind
thaw and curling to and fro to prevent them scottering, or
I it on• did break away, leasing the other two to drive back
the Omni. The Welsh sheep ruu like stam awl leap like
Mesta but in most eases the dog will bring them down
unbroken in a straight lino to his master. Then caine the
Vest difficulty of gel'ing them through the narrow
opening into the pen. One assembled uear the gato, the
shepherd would make the dog lay down with • warning
gesture, and then endeavoured to coax the wary aul wily
muttons Into toe fold. Again and again they woul I break
, away, asan and again the dog would start and bring
them back main, until at laat one after be other they
would walk into the enclosure. One dog went away,
brought hack the sheep and winner, them under Ave
minutes, others toek six and eight minutia and moms
failed completely. The agtoniabing feature of the trials
was the wiWnese and .peed of the sheep and the marvel-
lous intelligence of the dogs. Although it was better
than usauy day's hunting of be fog.
The scare about the Eldystone Lighthouse la not by any
means so ridieulous as we are told to believe now that it
I. known not to haws been wished away in the but gJ.
1 vr., in it some years ago. The weather was fine yet
the lighthouse rocked to and fro with the shozk of moil
wave. The lightkeepers told we that with a strong wind
the sea would wash clean over the light, while the light-
house would rock so that it was hard to keep one's feet in
The kesosrs have long believed that the foundations
of the stnictare hare gone wrong.- and me in great need
of over-hauling. It would be well If the matter were
looked. to in time.

Mr. W. E. Gladstone (the Member for Greenwich) iiVel
In Harley Street. He left town in August last. Since
that time one or at most two policemen 'have limn con-
sidered sutlkient to watch over the whole street contain.
Om 150 houses.
lln Thursday, to my great surprise, I observed two
policemen on duty at each corner of the block of houses in
which the right hon., gentleman resides, and three or four
others looting about the remainder of the street. This
morning, through • daily paper. I learned the reason el
this extra vigilance. Mr. Gladstone returned te the town
on Thursday for • few days.
Thus it • that while 151) houses (containing on an
average I very un,tirtinguiabusd people) may be safely
left for two months to the guardianship of • smgle police-
man ; one man, who is supposed to be the idol of his
countrymen, and who, as you will think, might be safely
left to their care, requires to he guarded during a brief
stay by no less than eight policemen in uniform. How
many there are in plain clots I do not know ; but I have
no poubt that the Criminal Investigation Department
supply their quota.