The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-11-07 00:00:00

DEATH OF CARDINAL ANTONELLT.
Cardinal Antiinelli is dead and Cardinal Latrize is
dYillg.

A (11.11tIOUS FIND IN A FISH.
A few days ago a gentleman re,iding in Ouchan, Isle
of Man, Isnight in the Douglas market-place a large
coslfieh. When his servant was opening it for the
purpose of cleaning it there dropped out of its stomach
amnia bottle, containing a piece ..f paper„ on which
were written these words —" January 1875. The
Hempire (sic), of New York, wrecked on the West
Coast of Africa. From Captain Tegg (?). Firer The
document and • portion of the bottle have been sent
to Lloyd's, so that it may be traced whether any vessel
a the name mentioned was mining at the time stated.

COTTAHM GABDENINI I.
In cottage gardening the °pence are usually con-
sidered chiefly in reference to the man's labour, but
there is much which may be ;lone by the wife and
children at spare times, beneficially both to therruselves
and the garden, and some things also which are so in-
terwoven with what is entirely the womeu's work in
the household that, unless they undertake it, there is
much waste toth of time and means.
The allotment garden has many advantages over the
plet rime! the cottage in being probably selected on
preshictive soil, and free from overhanging trees, and
also not exposed to the raids of the juniors of the
family over the growing crops and on the ripening
fruit, but in many ways tie garden at the cottage
door is a greater source of comfort to the inmates,
especially in the occupation it gives to many spare
mhautes of the wife and family, and the larger returns
from the joint cares than from the labour of one pair
of hands.
The occupation is a great thing; where the garden
is at the dour the wife will step in and out, as time
may serve, and be refreshed in mind and body a
by
turn in the open air, and seeing how things are getting
on; when with no garden, or a more distant one which
requires some preparation to reach, the minutes will
often be totally wasted; and to the children the garden
is 4 the greatest benefit. If too young to be of much
we, they are at least safe in the enclosure, and may
be gaining wine ideas of order and remonable amuse-
ment, instead of running through all the hedges and
ditches at hand.
Beyond the obvious horticultural advantages, tine
cottage garden id of the greatest service as • counter-
attraction to the public-house ,• it is a united interest
to the whole fatuity, young and old, and whatever can
lessen the difficulties; in the wife taking • share in
what she is very well able to do in the matter, would
add much to the happiness of many a cottage home.
The treatment that the garden ground receives at
times, where the wife and children take no interest in
the work of the father I,f the family beyond eharing
in the results, must be thoroughly disheartening, and
a few words of advice, or poseibly still more of
approval and encouragement of what attempta are
made t 'wards useful employment in the garden,
are ofteu all that it needed, and will usually Ito thank-
fully receive I by the c 41.taczere. wives bout the ladies
resident among them, who may have enflicient prac-
tical knowledge of gardening to be able to help them
in their difficulties.
The cottage housewife is often shy ;viola werking in
the garden, and here the example of the lady amateur
does good of it-elf the example is sufficient here
without ads he. but the frequent unsuitableness 44 her
drug is a ;cleat difficulty. The long print dress
.dragOng through the wet plant.. ant over earth and
rubb6h, is as it is phrased, " all in a muddle,- and
equally unsightly and micomfortable, and a few hints
as can best e mie fro', t .e ladies as to the ponebility
of fastening the skirt out ef harm's way by an deem
band, the use .4 a thing called a Ann-bonnet (such as is
worn by the field workers near Ismdon, and the
cottae w. .111C11 in many places in the Weet of En_lan.ll
which shades the MU, and abo protects the ears an
neck front weather, and other *light alterations which
with a little tact could be intneluce4l, well all be 44
great sae vice. If the woman's dress is Riede wet and
uncomfortable e ;eh time she WPCs an 101.4 the plants
she is very nelikely to go on attending to them, and
the will probably have II" itka of adapting it to what
may be needed althea some help.
When once this difficulty can he got over there Is
much that the woman e..i; do ; leaving the heavy work
of digging and preparie; the mound to the man, she
may easily manage meet. of the sowing, weeding,
earthing-up of smile ;mole, and gathering in 14 "then
without any over-fatigue, and msy use the soap-suds
and much that is often waded of a limiter nature
both to the advantage of the garden and the greater
tidiness aid healthiness; of the cottage. It is only too
comnion after washing has been going forward to res
the results sent out of the tub or pan from the cottage
door with a vigorous aim that sends the water flying
In a mars to light on souse vet:aside bed altogether,
funning a puddle first, and lewd clayey hole after-
wards, or (if not so energeticatly diepensed) the suds
geutly tilted out from the doundep clo no good to the
walk beneath, sir to those plowing in and mot,
The matter is hardly mended by setting ceat all the
tube :old pane at the luck of the cottage instead of
dispensing their vontente in front. and without entsming
on what way be called manitary arrangements, a few
hints as to utilising *sue of the ordinary liquid waste
would often lw of ;peat service to the women who
have to look after it.
Without goisr: the length of estvblislaing a cistern 1
(which is toe apt to la, v. mere (user tray.) a moderate
mired tub with a tap and is-rk at the bottom, oaead
where leapaiels. waelting water, ;aid inoffensive liquid
str.uste might be allowed to stami Fr a day or two l
wittiest giving annoyance, and then drawn off as I
seeded, woul.l le: serviceable in many a warden '
shificulty in summer. \Voter it far too valuable in the
cottage house, where it has to be fetched laboriously
In pailfuls, to be :Tidied at once to the gromd
excepting in great euwrgencim ; and the majesuda,
Ac., in summer, if put aside in some place convenient
of Weals (for if not convenient they would never be
put there), would often be the saving, or at least the
great imprvvement, of some thirsty crop, such as
Strawberries, Celery, or /4411111, wiich otherwise would I
be likely to perish. . I
Hints as to the management of the garden
weeld be useful through the year, but in autumn 1
the fruit gatherino is ofteu not as productive es I
it might be for tfie want of a little knowledge, in 1
the fins place, of the proper method of gathering.
The ma, mounts the tree, and a round shaking
till leave* 411111 boughs rustle as if a tempest was 1
passing throuo them sends down a large proportion
of the crop, ripe and unripe, to the family below, who
join, ruse amore, in this part ef the gardening. What
will not tome off with shaking can be made to come
off by beating the tree, and by the time the crop is
" down" each apple is posbably supplied with at least
one large bruise, arid decay is started, where, with
unelerate care, there might have been a winter store,
or is welcome return of money from peel fruit.
The rest of the gathering operations are too often 44
the saute character, and if the simple bit of kuvwlediie
could Its got into the heads concerned that where there
is a brides there in the beginning of decay, it would he
a step towards saving much useful fruit.
The pinchie,t of the fruit to ascertain if it is ripe,
and careless gathering and storing, might be avoided,
sumetiinee by merely drawing attention to the subject,
sometimes by a little teaching how to raise the apple
or pear gently foam the lesigh, to sea if it will part
away, ;sr how to cut a specimen across to see whether
the pips have the dark colour which show it is fit for
gathering ; And a few hints as to the nee of baskets
with a little straw in them, or a bit of old mat or such
like soft material, to keep the crop from being injured
In its move from the gathering to the storing place,
are often 4if great service.
The cottager and his family often kimw practically
how the operation might to be done, though not at all
as a rule but there is greatly a want of care at well
all .4 api:liaimes for the hest arrangement 44 the work,
and the interest diowii by tivoe they look up to in the
progrew 4.f their operations., and in the ,S•11111•SA of
their eel., ii de. 3 resioneling %deli 10 IIi:AM alai In
eaCti : anti a fil, e :111 gentry are I. aAiaill::llY in the
cottage gardens, the missin,g anplimmes cars isten be
helped out isv isumisers of old things. touch :vs leseirots,
heses, bits if sliaft• W. 5141, &C., Of little value to the
giver, len in vide,- all tl e differeeice to ti, o recviver, of
O'StV.lii..ned or dilliculty in his. arrangements. Apples,
for instauee, are ties .4fter, *towed iv the bednon; ; the
arrooileinent is bad enough under any eircumstauces,
but where there is is case of Unmovable cickness, to
have the winter store of fruit under the bed or in a
corner of the room is undeuirable in the extreme.
There, hoo ever. they remain for want of a timely
suggeetion. In such a case a few spare bits of wood,
or is few flat rough boxes that way he sawn acroes
horizontally, and thus, with the lid nailed as a Roof'
to one picas., form a couple of shallow treys, would
with mane hints how to we them, be little ebort of a
blaming to all 4ssiicerned. The apple,t may be Leans.
leered t , KOMI, outhouse or temporary shelter, and the
invalid restered to tolerable air.
At present the fruit and vegetable storing is the
matter !mot requiring attention, but throughout the
year there is no point where sympathy (if nothing
more is regulate) will not be of ,;'rent service to the
cottage family in their gardening, and usually there is
room for endive; help in ouggestiens which will be
taken as kindlyaothey are given.-0 lathe Gardeners'
Chronicle.

The National Apicultural Labourers Union has coin-
nssted the harvesters who struck work at liawdsier.
Suffolk, in August last- Each man who went out receives
12.5. ti. fnon the Union.
There is a want in the colony of Adelaide of nearly all
daseriptions of artisans, and of domestic servants, who
emismand on the average CU per isiumia. Coal miners,
bowessr, are advertised so not wanted, and, as for
the poor clerks —" No employment ; a sin to goad them
salt r
Mr. Thomas Taylor, of Aston Rowant, Oxon, boa scuL
to Wise Mimic a letter contaiuing a chome for I:l„4kni,
which he desires way be bawled to the transitive . ths
wadi., row
.4 Girt,,,n college, so. manurial of his late
daughter Edith. Ile waya that it wail her wish to enter
Girton this term as a student There has howl such an
influx of 7.. la at the commencement of this tarns
at Cambridge Girton Cadge and Nerreham Hall an
linable to aocommodato them. and many are compelled to
*mks lodgings.