The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-05-23 00:00:00

LIVING IN "MANSIONS."

No one can have passed along Birdcage-walk during the
last few years without remarking certain fantastic
erections of zinc and brickwork which have been "radially
covering • Pretty garden near the Wellington Barracks.
Connected with there is a square block of buildings, ten
stories lugh--gallerifie, oboarratories, and so forth. Thees
are the property of Mr. H. A. Mulkey, and are part of •
gigantic scheme for inducing people of good means to en-
joy the advantages and brave the drawbacks of co-
operative houseping. Given an expenditure of
hundreds or thousands • year, Mr. Hankey insists that
you will obtain more solid advantages from the mode of
life he ia prepared to offer than in any form known to
the luxurious classes of England; and he is giving proof
of the faith that is in him by an investment of half •
million of money in the enterprise. Here we have fiats
sub-divided into suite.; servants provided by the ad-
ministration; • "grand coffee room :" • club tariff;
house dinners, breakfasts, and luncheons; first-rate cook.
log and aopointments at their cost, with expenses; the
comforts of home and the independence of an hotel; the
resources of good society and the charms of solitude,—ai
in the heart of fashionable London for a fixed sum per
annum. Everything I. on a gigantic scale. The elevation
looks the most elevated thing in bricks and mortar since
the Tower of Babel But this same space will, under Mr.
Monkey's scheme, furnish residences for from IMO to 250
tenants and their belongings, at an average rental of £lOO
• year per suite, exclusive of taxes and service charges,
which, are at a uniform rate. The central pile erected on
It., now ready for occupation, and the whole of which is
let, consists of ten stories, the height of each floor except
the entresof being 12 feet. The height of the building is
120 feet. Hydraulic lifts are kept at work all day and all
night, and this makes the highest floors the most popular,
even at the same rental—indeed, the latest application,
from • well-known banker was, "for • nineteenth floor,
If you have got one." An Window foi immediately ex.
fire is supplied to each Boor, and the time oo-
=idrimosuding to the top floors, which Mr. Hanker,
has selected for his own occupation, is about • minute
The view from here is magnificent The Surrey Hills
Wimbledon Common, Hampstead, and Highgate frame
in the pacer= of London, to which the venerable Abbey,
I the Houses of Parliament, the Parks, Palaces, and
churches, all at your feet, make a striking foreground.
Each floor on the north wing (the part now furnished and
occupied) consists of three suites, each containing two
rooms and a bath-room. These suitesopen from • specious
vestibule, or salon, to which the tenants of the three
suites have common rights, the whole being enclosed with
• front door. The rent of these suites, all floors being the
same price, is £l2O, .C2O, and MO per annum respectively,
to which is added in each case a fifth of the rent for taxes.
and • uniform charge of £1 per week for servants. In the
west wing, where the suites consist of two bed-rooms,
sitting room, and bath room, the rent is £100;
.C3O ; service, LA or a total of 1332. These annual
amounts may seem high, but they are fixed, and include
everything except light, firing, and food, which are
supplied at cost price. In one or two cases the three
suites comprising a flat have been taken by one person,
who pays MO for rent, £54 for taxes, £156 for service. er
a tout of COI In these Instances the servants supplied
for the three suites are his exclusively; but in no case are
kitchens supplied or facilities provided for cooking in any
of the rooms belonging to tenants. All the temente will
be supplied from the central kitchen at cost price, and
meals may be taken by either in the private sitting-rooms
or in the coffee-room at the same change. There are • ser-
vice-room and a hot plate on each floor. Two tracavrays
run to and from the central kitchen to a service lift. Hot
and cold water laid on at all booms spesthing-tiaben, im-
mediate attention to wants, perfect facilities for communi-
cation. telegraphing, the despatch of letters, and so forth
are supplied as things of course. It is all very novel and,
socially speaking, revolutionary.— World.

KM'S COCOs.-01LATIFUL AND Couroariao.—" By a
thoreughluscorledge of the natural laws which govern the
o cies of &testi= and nutrition, and by a careful w
cation of the Sae properies of well-selected cocoa, Yr,
Plu has provided our breakfast tables with • delicately
flavoured beverage which may save us many heavy
doctors' bills. It is by the judicious use slouch articles of
diet that a constitution may be gradually built up unti
strong enough to resist every tendency to distaste.
Hundreds of entitle maladies are floating around us ready
to attack wherever there is a weak point. We may escape
many • fatal shaft by keeping =naives well (articled with
rieu.blood sad a properly nourished frame."—aril Singed
Tug Gaza (incense that has attended the introduction
of Reckitt's Paris Blue in Squares has induced wine dis-
honest tradesmen, for the sake of extra profit, to substitute
inferior Blue in the same form. As the Paris Blue in
Squares is only genuine when packed in pink wrappers
bearing I. Reckitt I Sons' name and trade-mark, refuse all
Blue which is not so wrapped.
entice Duna.—The samosa Star reports a remarkable
case of sudden lose of speech. A sailor of H.M.S. lierae
th In port at Panama, was engaged on Sunday, e Ind
in poiishi his shoes, preparatory to attending the an
service on He was in apparently perfect health,
laughing and joking with his shipmates in the usual sea-
manlike manner. After an interval, in attempting to
reply to something that wes said, he found that his power
of articulation had gone ; not sword or intelligible sound ,
could be utter. His general health was unimpaired up
to the 21st, and the medical officers of the ship were unable
to account far the sudden conversion of • loquacious
fellow into • mute, uttering only guttural and unmeaning
sounds.
APT= TO MOTltelta I—Are you broken in you, ~.., by
• sick child suffering with the pain of cutting teeth! Go
• once to • chemist sad get a bottle of MIA Wnisiow's
8001e1e0 Sntur. it will relieve the poor sufferer
immediately. It is perfectly has-Were and nlaseaat to
tads, it produces natural, quiet sleep, by elapsing the
child from pain, sod the little cherub wakes "as bright as
a button." It soothes the child, it softens the gums,
allays all pain, relieves wind, regulates the bowels, and is
the best known remedy for dysentery and diarrhces,
whether arising teething or other causes. Mrs.
whaboes Soothing Syrup is sold by Medicine dealers
everywhere at Is Ild per bottle.—Manufactured in New
York, and at 403 Oxford-street, Loudon.
TialtOsT ArIPTCTIONI AND Hakim:Rasa —All suffering
from irritation of the throat and hoaremem will be
..„„„„,bio iurprugd at the almost immediate reliet afforded
17; -ti-,-,, -,.. or Brewn's Bronchial Troches," These
.famous .. kosuges " are now sold by most respectable
In this . country at Is lid per box. People
troubled with • " had 0
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bronchial affections. MAYA sli thine too won, as similar
tree if allowed to louguess. result in serious Pulla
and affection& Sae that the words "Browdn2
Twouslx°4 aril enable to tak• C4ewa bacw". the Bronchial Trochee" at' on the Government Stempereessi
varieties ttuu=sedd are aii" with tlitArch, unds' each bos.—Manulacdured by Joini I. Baows AND=
ofthe plea them soluble; while rear making Hoston,l7nited BMW Nock AG, Oxford- Mallet.
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LA. addition atiwah. CADBURY'S 0000 A Essence is muTpook geneerw,_ for it will pseifissly resters I.
genuine'x.os it is SYS three times the strength of them „.,, uses Grey et Whits hair to its orginal colour,
and • refreshing Beverage like Tea as Coffee. without 'wins the disagreeable smell of most" Restorers.
rmmer= Pm on PALM= BICIMIM. —A certain It tomee the emir charmingly beautiful, as well as
method of cure has been discovered for this distressing 0.0 the growth of the hair on bald spots, where
colupbsisit by a phyacien. who is desirous that all sufferers Eike— glandsare not decayed. Ask your Chemist for the
may benefit from this Providential din:Ovary ;It ie never 0 Mi11e..411 Halt Rviewza." prepared by Henry C.
known to fail, and will cure the most boP018•1 cis° °few 0 ts.ur, 4113 Oxford Street, Loudon, and sold by pummel
all other MOW have been tried. Pull =Baden will be oy:g wawa everywhere at hi. lid, per UAW,
seat by post to_ arty ranee free of charAddrosm—Fr. rusktuks I-I'w' rag Tem am Beiamm—A few
Minims, 10, Miffm4l rennet,. Hyde Par Loudon. drops of the liquid "Might*" sprinkled On a wet Moth-
& DISSIONNIIT Pascrics. —For the ef mere prod- beim yroADOSS a pleasant lather, which therougaly
some unprincipled tradesmen, when asked for limmurr's domes she teeth from all parasittoirdee,
PARIS Bias is Bquaiml, substitute inlezieg kinds in the the r. me prevents tarter, stops yes to the teem
sense farm. MO Mil 'As usu. In ?Dt PRINCE a pse,isr pearty-whiteness, and a dui
,f,w:;
OF WALES' LAUNDRY, -Is ROD so ustiverm,W esteemed the breath. It removes all unpleasant odour flat
for its splendid quality —above all other blues—that it is dewed teeth or tobacco smoke. -rim Fragrant
kap...tent te it is only vales when sold in beau composed in pert of H sag sweet kerbs is
liquarea, wrapped tiP lo Pink Pease I. Heakitt and dew to the taste, sad the tome ay tki,
Base amine and trade mark. Baum Bine which is i.e. pries es fla, of all Chemists sad perfume&
se6 so waned. * HMV C. GALLUP, 114 Ogettl-straat. lathes.