The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-10-12 00:00:00

Art ' ant Litany Jottings.

A nine English paper has been inaugurated at
Panama.
HAOLID YOGIC is now performed by the Town Band
upon the old pier at Brighton, on Sunday afternoons,
Tim band of the Italian opera at Cairo will number
60 performers, the chorus 66, and the corps 4 Calla.
Tan Japsnt as novelist has finished • novel which he
began nearly 40 yearn ago : ft is a hundred and six
volumes !
Tut Prince of Wales has given a prize of £5 for
bagpipe playing, to be competed for at an annual
Highland gathering.
Tun Monday Popular Concert, will recommence
November Stb, with Madame NormotpNeruila as first
vi Mandan!.
Tana is now preparing for publication In England
• work by General Garibaldi. The theme, if not the
title is "Rome in the 10th eentury."
Jannr UND boo become quit° poor. tier husband
bo..limnifried mos, of her wooey. It ir thought
Just alto will open a school for opera singing in Paris.
ONI 11i141P411.D sang the Gregorini chanta
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ii tho resent funeral of D;:" Kiernan (lam Romanist
Eriteato of &II Ireland).—Musi,ul Pandard.
Mimi!ii to b. Russian Crystal Palace (after the
plan and gigantic .limirtetiona of tbe Syletham lattildiug)
id I`•••er,lvirt veNt par.—M.l.a f Sivn.t of.
tU ILicht Hon. the Earl of 11. nbnrotrb has pre.
it tee,' to Um eintpel of Snuthant rgan,
whoa WM °pond neently by Dr. Wealey.—Musroil
Standard.
HER MAJCBTY bee, we umlauts/Id, forwarded pi
handsome donation of £25 to the mon land of Carle-
brook. Chnroh, • pleat of historic lutercut.—.lfitp4,l

SYsireeled.
Tog editor of the Port Huron (Michigan) Times
wrote to Carlyle for his autograph, and received the
fellowieg 'tumor "Hero is my mitograph. Much good
may it do you. T. CAIlL'aiL Cbelses, 2:3rd June,
MB. WOuLSIEIVIS statue of lord Palmerston for
Westmire.ter, will be erected on its proper site ad men
as the return of Mr. Leveed from Italy permit" of the
nocifel arrangement..
Tug Nos. Dr, Stove, h u iban,l of Mrs. H. B. Stew',
being ia Ciumda, ira. ietrodeced to au English gentle-
man, who expressed Linmelf very glad to use him, and
added "I should he much more 01u.e4 to see your
wife." "Yee," mid Dr. Stowe. "nn ehouel 1."
Mr. Ponces, the Atuericae ecelptor, is said to have
received a riot one day from a person who wished to
know Low much a year he made by "sculpting," and
who, obtaining a satbdactory reply, ezplaistined that ha
had been in doubt whether to make bie eon • seulpter
or a carpenter, aiding that be had now determined to
"learn loin to xcalpt."
A CURIOUS INotANCr of lots 1 memory Comes to
ea Irons Paris. M. Barre, the tenor, who plasmc at the
OmOweernique, "Ls Petite Padette," suddenly lost
memory. Tho certaiti wee dropped. And In the
seconi scene, although he IDA'.•• • great effort, neither
a word nor eoto would lone forth. The following day
be uompletely recovered from his strange indisposition
and sang with oesc.----Musiral Mondani.
Sonz-rillec new mini, in the prwpeatim of al
ltsgier fer tie; I,PW lteisan epee* atason at Paris Ho
states that he lois two neer opera., end intends to
present that one to the subecribers which promises the
greets:et chance of being succeeeful This is elontat as
vague as the wining Irish Land Bill, which. "while
recognising all rights, will satisfy everybody and offend
none. No disappointed sobseriber can complain at
the end of the season if neither work is given ; surely
• teenager cannot be expected to produce an opera
which on closer examination he finds ' not likely to be
succemful"—Afesical Stnisdi rd.
Dn. DORAN, F.S.A., says the Art Ammo!, has
succeeded Mr. Hepworth Dixon, as the editor of the
4theeterum.
Mr. B. H. Hirrrox, editor of the Spectator, declared
at the Church Congress on "Xchosilay that his faith has
been more strengthened by the empties than it had by
the theologians.
Ttis Art Aurae/ announces that Sig. Lamarra, of
Naples, ban solved what has so long been • difficulty in
photography, that of bringing oat every colour of the
original iii its distinctive and correct tone of grey.
Tag Aar Jou an AL —The October pert of this splendid
monthly minnow three steel plate ersgrwthir•—" The
return of the runaway," by L Stocks, ii. A., a domostie
some of not infrequent occurrence in our island, where
love of the sea Is alumet Mince ; "In the Highlands,"
by IL Carrick, a striking passage of Scotland's grand
scenery; and "The lost larded," from Mr. Lough's
statue in marble, a very attractive embodiment of a
poetical conception. The Rev. E. L. Batts contribute"
• chapter on "The Knight. of the middle ages," which
gives mash interesting information concerning the
prepares of archery from the 11th to the 15th century.
Tin, picture galleries of Milan and Bologna are deooribed,
and most beautifol illustrations are given of their
chef d'a arm. 'A trip to the Amsterdam exhibition"
reminds us of the spethilly practical character of the
Dutch—• trait they may well exhibit when we remem-
ber the stern conditions under will& Holland subsists
among the waters—for it has brought into prominent
notice the remarkable number of societies existent in
that isometry for the amelioration of the phesietl, moral,
and intellectual condition of the people. The writer
laments their ".11 but total absence of the sense of
beauty," but admires their fitness for the practiced
duties of life. " Alowirm Cathie," the wed of the
Perinea. id described. The spew devoted to "British
Artiste is occupied with the AO° and chermiter of
D, 0. 11111, ILS.A: All the minor papers me carefully
written, end the high reputation of the Editor and the
Publishers is amply maintained.
fIARDWICKC'S SCIIINcIsGoiIisIF popularises natural
history. botany, and the cognate sciences, with remark-
able snows., and presents month by month • variety of
infonostiou in o lohit httractive tone, arid well
illustrated.
doofteer. waxes its find
quarterly appeeraeoe this October. It is an organ of
the National 'Mnemonic* Lwow with the mieeitet "to
detect and oxpose medicel and other fallacies relating to
the ph)siological or niedicel proper tics. of alcohol, to give
so account of the most recent hapor:utentsl investiga-
tions no the subject., and to fin rash reports of the
theueseful treatmeut of dlsease without the aid of etroug
drink." Doubtless the doctors are to blame for much
of toe drinking which prevails, for the majority of them
commonly recommend port wine, wad porter, and bitter
beer, so streugthening agents, and the people argue
what Is good to make strong In sickness Is good to keep
etrone in health. But the perusal of this etagasioe, and
of • reoently.laseed statement of the experience of
large number of medical men as to the efficts of alcohol,
will wealreu the faith of many in the assumed virtues
of those generally-liked beretimes. Tome ego blood
meting was the grand specific for all diseases, now it
menus to be one or dther of the many varieties of
alcoholic stimuleets. And to when illuessonnes loth:nth
expect the doctor will order thew wine or dowelling of
the kjud, and if It be not freely done they doubt the
skill of their medical adviser. If it be true, as
teetotallers assert and demonstrate In a remarkable
manner, that the video of alcohol an .0 medicinal agent is
very Welted, the m.e.otker the public and the doctors re-
'maniac the fact the better, and we cordial, with the
Medioal Temperance Jourmi, 61100V11 in it. ObrOtd.
Tilt ANTl•VrieclNAron.-- Thera is never a fallacy so
greed now mdayie but it mint have its special organ to
give it ephemeral notoriety, so we are not surprised that
the wiseeeree who have Met Muni out that Dr. Tennis
wonderful die:levity ei the value of vaccination as a
preventive of the ravages of email-Ice is all an error,
should have • weekly paper to promote their crusade
eeemet variclnation. We are satisfied they will never
p'rove Dr, .lensier and oar long experience wrong, yet
they may render good 'ernes by showing vaccinators
the importance of eel/ using good healthy lymph.
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