The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-02-07 00:00:00

17ariettes.

WATILB IX PARlN.—There if One 1111-11116eillIt 1111116011
why the French use as little water in their Imam es
they can avoid. It is paid for by the bucket. The
system of fyoura, or drains, for supplying vtatee ha
Cleanse the streets, to 611 lire-engines. and to carry of
the rain-water is complete ; but every drop of water for
household purposes is brought to the deer in betta, and
retailed by the water-carriers, who are a powerful
ration, numbering 10,000, with whom privileges :°.T
verniuent, since waterworks were invented, has been
strong enough to interfere. The Emperor h strong, end
is called absolute: but he has many waiter', set the
least of whom is the water-carrier of Paris. Nothing
could be easier than to supply Paris with water to the
very attics, for the Seine has a greater fall than the
Thames at Richmond-bridge ; but every attempt to in-
troduce waterworks is opposed by the water-carriers
who will not allow water to he taken at the fountain:
in greater quantities than bucketfuls, except by them-
seiveo, end it is • hazardous thing for a teeeli-end-go
dynasty to throw 10,000 able-bodied men out of employ-
nieut.—Once a Went.

113.1:4111SU BA IPA 11l riM. —A painful ruinourhasbeen
the topic of conversation in literary circles dulling UN
past week. It appears tluit three large chests full of
manuscripu, left by the celebrated Dr. George Hickes,
the deprived Dean of Worcester, were consigned to the
custody of his bankers after his decease. Owing to the
dissolution of the firm the premises have been lately
cleared out, and the whole of these valuable documents
committed to the blues in one of the fur-mess at the
New River Head! Here is a loss, not only to the
ecclesiastical student who wishes to form an impartial
judgment on the history of the English Church at the
eventful period of the Revolution, but of papers illustra-
tive of the biographical and literary history of the close
of the 17th century ; for it is well known that Dr.
Riches was • person of such political. 000lcoiaatical, and
literary eminence in his time that he was in daily cor-
respondence with the most learned men at home and
abroad. It is melancholy to contemplate the loss litera-
ture ha, sivitained when we consider that Dugdale,
Gite.ou, Nicholson, Natoli, Robert Harley, Earl of
Oxford. WanleY, Pepys, Kettlewell, Jeremy Collier,
Dodwell, and his bosom friend the pious Robert Nelson
were among his correspondents. 1)r. Mates died on
December 15, 1715. Mr. Thomas Rowdier was his
executor, and Mr. Annesley the overseer of his will.—
From Notes toed queries._ . . _

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RURAL MATH I MON T. —Ol2 the subject of marriage we
have also our little superatitions. Not a maiden in our
pariah will Attend church on the three Sundays on which
her banns are proclaimed. And this, not from bash.
fulness or mock modesty, but because they deem such a
proceeding to be eminently unlucky. When Mr.
Ililkinsop once asked one of those damsels what was the
particular kind of ill•lua that she expeeted would have
naulted from her attendance at church on those three
particular Sundays, she informed the reverend testis-
n an that the offspring of suclz marriages would be born
deaf and dumb. And to clench this state's) t, and
prove its truth by forcible example, she addusid the
instance of a young IWOUI/11 of her aoquainre who
would persist in going to shwa to beer heaps
"asked out," and whose six children wore In aineer
open°e all born deaf said dumb. No wonder, then,
that our village maidens stay away from church ea those
three interesting Sundays, when such sad results are
known to follow a deviation from our oonnky pariah
superatition.—Oure a Week.

'A
FACT FOR Natunstisrit.—Mr, James MaeiWi-
Tray, sun of Bugle-Major Maegillivr•y, of the Perma-
nent Staff of the Inverness, Sic.. Highland Light
Infantry, in • letter dated Victoria, lielhorne, lffth
November, 1869, enclosed fur the mike of curiosity, a
mosquito alive. The letter reached Inverness in due
course, and was opened by • daughter of Mr. MlL's.
who had not read much of the letter when he felt a
sharp sting on her wrist. Elbe looked to the pan
affected and espied • bright and gold-coloured lased
duck on her arm. Feeling the sting rather keen, she
hastily brushed it off, and thought nu nsore of the sea-
ter until she had read the letter through and knew of
the insect being enclosed. A search of two boon fol-
lowed for the Insect, but was fruitless, t the
that the mosquito came home alive, noted
the different post-offices gone through, and maid the
pressure, he., of so many letters together, can be proved,
and affords • subject to the naturalist.

It Is more wholesome, more economical, and more
to use the Tees it liich are not covered with admit, a=
and mislead by mere appearance. The leave. 'ethereal la the
early spring contain the valuable Jules, of the pint la hal
perfection, the autumn crop is flavourless, and aisle ;
iite the great temptation to substitute th• 0200111$00 for the
beet, • hheb is done by colouring the withered autumn
log and the costly veiny growth silk.; the mamma CA=
easily peered uff as good, to the profit of the Chimes prone..,
but to the Imo and disappolittment of the British comeumme.
klorniman's Pure Teat are " always good elite:" they soadet
of the spring growth, and have no need to be cowered with
pondered coheir ; the Blacks are not intensely dart; the
Greene are of • dull olive hue. quite fres from the usual
" blueish facing," and are therefore of a delleicsee Savour.
Always secured in packets, sad obtainable only frost armee
See local list advertised in our columns.
Holloway's Ointment and Pills unequalled for the OM of
scrofula and consutaption.—lt has been contended that this
disease Is incurable, but that those are remedies which might
mitigate its severity for • time. Such argument. were very
true until the discovery of Holloway's ointment and Ma.
It has slime been itionitentably proved that they have effected
thousands of curet with ease, the Pills bete g coEseed of
vegetable substances, and the Ointment coutsit power-
ful landing properties, that thoy act in unison tpo •
and the dbasse is quickly enolleated. Consumption but
another (ono in whirl, sendula displays its painful effect. 051
the system. In that dreaded disorder them remedies aseklumisly
wad will frequently ward off the threatened doom.
In the Royal Laundry the OLNIFIILD PAM? STAMM Is the
old) Starch used, and In held in such high estimation by the
genera! ;adobe that the demand for It has increased, amid is
continuing to lawman, with unprecedented rapidity. Il&at1-
I.44CLUICA .4 Inferior ankles, alter making abortive
to introduce their manufactures on their own meritalt=
recently cesuesenoed to imitate the GLIINFIIILD PATIO? ferasen,
the tune of Package and colour of paper and label. the Pro-
priet..r. of that celebrated article, tensidee it esoesse=en
lit nil all purchasers that every imsthapi ft/L.6'gam
hoe a view al Ma oripidesi ma, and the seals" R. Winsaa-
scoot" printed upon IL The Ougerusso Perim Sums
pies.u'o all who use It, and will please all who may yet use It,
better than any other, and when you sok for It, see that you
Kt!. a!: .. - - - " •

Smtai arms best of everything nay be
had In London, but It nevertheless requires some
and know ledge to obtain it: and than. who are netja,to
explore the soutce. of supply are frequently conlant
m„daraf,er erode • better might be had tor tial
',Manx remarks are addressed in partienbir to the
pun:timers of Whisk). and their appileation Is requested by
than. eho are satisfied with Irish Whisky at t, end have
not tried D. D. Scotch Whisky. The paetiheiuis which re-
enutusend this Spirit are Its creamy and t flavour, grail
strength, undeniable elese,aufaum.
parbon with other Whiskies hitherto known In Zodoi. D.D.
Whisky hes not been long introdueed into r,in, IbeUSti it.
face is well established in Scotiend ; yet It is largely
sold in the Metropolis, and bee sutureuhd Irish WbNk he
numerous privets families. A eampie le supplied be prime the
maudlin.. of them remarisa, ler tweleisellempik •
twee, owiteining twelve bottle.. or • el the DM.
Whisky, fonvardod for PM. The WYt
Balmoral. • tory fine rull4 mad oulanw sPhills7Vbistat and the Prince's Thiq
. ueb, • mli
spirit, at ib per palm Terroedi
of the about mot to raty pert.
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moat natal& • Pnehellin egir" nab he
Duman, 5, Burleigh-sirest, weird, Leaks. A.

barley ...-
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wheat, ..
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