The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-01-15 00:00:00

" What fonds tell of lloirot mom
Ciotb• (ivory lath, et.me I
What pigmy oaks their foli+ge lees
O'er pigmy •eliela 1.... r

To rotors to January 10ne,., there. the blue pert-
witikle with its altar tortte•tisemoloon.d and
totaled bed.! think I must wnd you ...se lines written
by • lady to this plant), and the common tbiok weed.
Perb po some of my readers bare n••••• noticed tbe
dower of this hatable 14'4 weed; it Is very pretty,
white, and tier-shaped. The bloom of the nettle also
is not to be di-pi-ad;
eall it, dead nettle, that is occasionally focal In Istmen
now. The Jiang of the common nettle Is • curium. look-
ing object seen in • otieroempe ; it looks very like
the f.nx...f the rattlesnake ; set sting ha. a tsbe with
every ens orifice forming at the lower part oft a eort
of chamber, at the bud of which there is • gland, and
this gland secretes • ven-Mone juice: when Its sharp
point of the ming penetratse oar skin, the proemre el
the hollow chamber below forties up the amid fluid
through the tube, and it trill.tnes the part it tosohes.
There is a Nee Yeses cu-tom in Wales, very similar
to what they call " Pent-Sooting" in Scotland. li.
considered a partirololy solo, k omen for female to
be the brat porton to enter the hoses after the new
year has some in. 'Moreton-, as soon as the clock hon
struck twelve, men s.lly forth to sell at amok other's
ocittagoi and eri.ll the iniu.tot • bait/ tow yeis
Smite of the better etameit share In this sup ratition,
for I remember one lady who be retired to bed early
on New Year's eve being exceedingly distromed by her
nt•idasrvant b•vina been the first prl4op tooter her
room the following morning. She told m• with the
grams( poisible woolens.« that she knew misfortune
woold follow her all the year because Mr. , the
seighbour wlio hal fulled, had not been rent up to ber
room 400/ 16 wish her the compliments of the .11.011.
Another Webb custom called carrying the "onlenig"
I. still kept op The largest and rosiest *tittle obtain.
able 1. stack .11 over with holly, but, mind mistletoe, set
upon threw little wooden pro, end carried by a band of
abildren f out door to door. They sing all kinds of
New Year's-day soots, &moo ling in good wi.bea, and
ripe& of a- urea to be rewarded with • few stray eta-
'alma...ad coppers. - -

I refrain from noticing any Baldish endows, far
"Hon.'. Book of Days" lA.. in •11 pobblly. male
them perfectly Ismikar to ali.r.ur re.ders.

W

P.8.--Bitiing on one of the esplanade seats at
Brighton, sone afser Lord Derby's tranalvion of HUTA*,
appeared, my attention eras attracted by too men who
worn evident') taring for th. information of thesr
'waters on 'nob 4.1« of 'brut —" my friend Lord this"
"my cousin La ly that." ke.. ko., met my ras, at laic
one exclaimed in OM extra loud tone, "I dined with
" Lord Derby y.tenlay : son my word It is laughable.
but 1,. constantly talc. Login and thee cornet. hisnself
—•nologiaed to me. He has been so meal engaged
with the language lately. traos'ating Homer from it, yea
know ;"—the young laiy smiled approvingly, and
gently .sot," Oh • yea." and I went ho". to oomsult
"Smith's ieti.seary." my faith in Homer's
ol sito to Greek authorship having received a 000sider-
able shock.

A friend tell. me that be read one of Leieesten
lettere to Q Peen Flea ath a few wreaks ago. It wee
signed " 1,7•14." hrr Idejeety's pet Dame f,ir the
favourite, anti endoraai io her nwo he d riling —the
words " H last letter" being written ou the back of it.
TAtel,imi Vll•re-sion, lied it mime from a more loveable
eharaater.--Load and Water.

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Tits CUTTLI PLeOOll.---Ths retorts for the emelt
••• . ,J istiesish• ore
reported to here co erred in Great Britain, being an
isomer* of one .os tint previous return. No fresh out-
breaks took 'dame.
Tag Dorz or BUT AAAAAA D has caused sotto, to
be given to ilo loosntry on the Trentham deist., North
tiltafrodshire, that sisoii of then as sallsroil lass by the
mule Diagoe bawl the esiwPettlietiiin °looms of the
Cattle Plague tel owns into osseraton will bans the
half of such loom made good at the espenso of his
Grace.

Us Poesy* AND In PAIIABITSIL —IS is stated in
La rAra eh* "toe worosmuse reve•ls Inn. tha exis-
ts** ref • swell black spot of tlee diameter of a lin..
bead, in thee potato,. In this small eeprior Cu. be detected
some WO ferocious animals of • coltrepterie from, whist'
bite and tear each other with coutineed leery. It I.
easy to ocemprehmeel the potato disease when itch an
Intestine warfare is raging.'

DRY EARTH TROD OF DRODORIZATION
ON BARON RO rim HILD'S Ear ATE.

k paper read at the Leamington Sewage Comma,
held at the Pomp. 1.1..00m there on the 25M Oct., 1666.

By M. J.wes, al Halton. Trills.

I hare been reques.ed to tell to this congress the
story of the Balton drainage, and I stud do it as
shoitly no pmeihle, width the arm belief that it will
in .u.e malty of the noblemen mid gentlemen whose
dads* to beoellt their neighbours has brought them
here today to follow !bergamots .4 Baron Rothact ild
—on examek as it seems to ins, so calculated to confer
equal benefits upon the eo.tager and ti e proprietor.
The Milos.- of (Ida country, oboe 'Poste near the
mansion .4 the ir..at propri. tor, genera/1y presents a
Knot pitoureeqoe •pirear nos of 12.4.11.11 sod comfort •
but you cannot holy noticing the 'mall hoillimp dotted
here nod there through the gardens. Thy are the
plague .pota of the •11. ave ; few in eomparison with the
oottegio, for the p.oprietor le sovrildng to multiply
such centres of illness. They stand in situations .4
iodecient publicity, at • distance from the tenements,
for both cottmers and proorimora aeon' encountering
their foul •vhalati na oftener thou niscrioi., obliges.
But nobody has had the faintest idea of the manner by
winch these hotbeds of fever mold be turned in.°
meant plates and soars,. of moat to those who bad
pleasant
etperiensed nothing but annorance from them.
This .S 8 much the condition of Halton six months
ago At this time attention eas callei to the p ammo
of the earth method, through .h writing, of the Hey.
Henry Mule, Vi.., of For.ington. Two moots were
titled not mod with snob perfect games. as to lead at
once to i's seeliaation in twenty 41.• others; still with
such lm'irf•e'ere re-tilta aa to iodate Sir Anthony de
Itotheehild to make potent. for using theei eaten.
eively in the adjMning village of Aston chomp.
Many here are •fr coyly well aequainted with the
I pr odes of this no tied ; bet for the benefit of the 'm-
inden., ed, I lull shortly say that one round end a half
of dry earth is oast op= the soil and urine. thoroughly !
and instantaneously deodolising the no& and perfemly
absorbing the other. At first, whilst the method was
being treated experimentally, the soil and earth were
caught by • metal veseol pushed under the eeat from the
whi. Is was removed every morning, but it soon
become armansiat Cott this wa onnem•sory. Camomile
of brink Sr.' now auto Hated, to be aimed out olio. in
three montlia, or at longer intervals, secording to their
sic or the riontrenionoe of the foment, without he
e
sin-llest offence to any ono It is then toven to the
earth shed sod re-dried, to be again pared thronoh the
closet There is good evidence that this operwion may
be repeatod six, eight, or 'eta times with immolator,
powered fertilisation and obvious immensity of earth and
transport. The earth, whilst re.drying, does not emit
any enplotaant odour, even when subjected to the
Seri:44 summer heat. Iu winter it will be neemotry
to carry on thi• operation by mean. of • small kiln ;
one lage eomagh for to• retiu.rentente at a thousaod
people may bd constructed for irS4 than £lO. The
population to whose w...t. the Halton emeblishotent
will . lend numbers about 800, widely matteranl throu.h
the villages of ilidenn. Buckland. Weston Tamil's. and
Aston Clinton. It is coloolated that the operatioo may
be efficient'y lotion:bed be a man sod shy. with the
amblonee of one bor.* aed oars. The rotted of all the
closets will involve • journey of eight milea. The mom
form employed in a town .0011 probably satisfy the
reouirements of double such • population.
Thos. who wish to see the mirth metbot adopted by
the wattagers without employing • man specially
ettand to it should have se otomittlf leo" at lb* busks
of the closets thmegh seq.:A they may throw a shovel.
fel or two of dry awned earth each day, with the
game practical reso.• as that afforded by the more
r, 6„„„iapp moo.. I can speak to the
feet that the whole operation, from fret to last, is me.
fled through without the kmet unpleasantness ch. 01
It. Melt valnahle results tiviog that the offensive seri
imospieuung ohJeota, to which I kayo jest &Hided, may
now be so arranged se to forin • portion of ih• how..
without Intlietiag the smallest annoyance on the tesont.
The cottager* exponi tlomaelege gratefal for this od-
dities to their health sari comfort, he village h..
now no foul smells, nor are the ditches soy ionger filled
with liquid filth.
This ~it. result of a simile mixture of dry earth
with hunt •n soil, mad • hioh, if &polled .o tons.
not involve. In any ease, the necessity to. b.k•ni
...snit. in • pie dish, as lw. b. n enagesoed by • cobls
eoriv-apondent of the Timm, A,. evgineer has lat. ly
witten to that jouroal to say that earth does not
deodorio human noil ; but a. I copilot disbelieve oho
am' le. cc of my own ...oyes. I must positively affirm (ha'
It doe., hot partiolly, but completely and instantaneously.
There in no reason, however, why any time should ho
consumed in dims...sing that part of the question,
because there is 110 1111111 within the four 11,0•11 o poor 111
to be unable to make the experiment and judge for him
self at any time; beside., you hare the undeniable
tostimony of tlai gre.t lawgiver, Maar, ia his well.
known rule for the mnitary artaagemon. of Jewish
snips. (Desk let)