The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-10-15 00:00:00

Coiling from the Comics.

A Matter of Taste.—Tippling.
People that Go to Pot..—lners.
Joking about her pug noee, a young lady said, "I
had nothing to do with shaping it. It was a birthday
present.'
JuvaxiLs TRIPS? POR KAOWLIMOL —"Mamma,"
eaked a precocious juvenile, "how can they tell a swam
among the neurone
A bachelor comic remarks that it is singular how
early in life a child gains the reputation of resembling
the richest and bast-looking of his relative's
A fashionbly-dremed young woman, putting fancy
touches at the music. was beard singing, 'Backward,
pin backward, oh. skirts in your Medi make me look
small again, just for to-night."
When Vermont man found that the medical students
had stolen the body of his newly.buried wife, he re-
marked that it was a had case, but that he had saved
the cost of a tombstone, _

Merit- i.; ge-- Tn-ii;tr--:doced into a breach 01 promise
case--it is an extract from a letter—"Deareet love, I
have swallowed the postage stamp which was on your
letter, because I knew that your lips had touched it."

LATEST.

The Indian Cmvernment has reported to the Home
Anthoritiee that the force of Artillery now employed
in India ix quite insufficient to meet the requirementaat
the present crisis. Field batteries will 'therefore be
increaaed.
A Ilirt.e York !Jerald telegram predicts ilep
attended by gales and rains. about the 11th_ remm.
A knife has I wen found in the garden of the house whets
the live murder,. were committed at I.lansobbY n.'" ~
Newport It is th ob:ht belon,c to the accused
Garcia, and will no doubt he produced in evidence at his
trial this week.
Stafford, the Bank clerk who absconded from liverpool
• week ago with a 15,1100 in notes, was captured in Jersey
on iaatuMay morning. The police had reason to believe
Oat he was cruising about in the Channel ; and on the
gu.lter yacht Surge entering St. Helen's harbour on Sun-
day morning she was hoarded, sind the missing bird was
fon.d. Stolen notes to the value of J;10.0110 were found on
en,l he &vaulted for the absence of the remainder
by saying that he had been defrauded of them by an
accomplice.
Mutual. 111:111.—This greet fair opened on Thursday.
Th, weather wee extremely unpropitiott• The supply of
sheep warn eery sho:t being indeed many titaness& under
Oh. average. The ...wee on offer caudated chiedy of
lambs, but the quality vas not so good am was to be found
at this fait some years ago. There was but • short attend-
ance of Nayarit. Whin the We opened high prices weft
mad, and business went very Siait•if, little being dons at
Oh. figura demanded. After tha weather broks there was
an immediate fall to 14 below Wilton fair. Ewes, of
which there was scarcely a good bawled shown, were
much inquired for, and those on the Aroma were sold at
prices equal to those which ruled at recent fairs. The
pprices
as y of wither sheep was short and the leis very
being much as from 3s. to 4.. lase than at Milton.
Ewe. made from 455. to Ms ; calls, 375. to 40.; whether
sheep, BA& to fffs. ; lambs fit for ttai butcher. tilk to ein ; •
with-, lamb. (C entwine. 3S. to Ma ; /foe winter-
ing. lit to 30.. : ewe lamb.. E. to Si. There warn a poor
showof et....tered tetobe, foe which this fair vie formerly
ilaledirated ; they made from 40.. to Ma At the aloes a .
V4.learsace was effected.—There was • capital show of
consisting principally of Irish colt. and cart colt&
no quality of the latter was very inferior. scsecsly a good
4D. being on the ground. Cart colts were doom as much
as AM from but year's prices, and the reduction in Irish
cola was still greeter. Cart colts made from 4:35 to no ;
Irish colts from 0110 to DO ; cart horses foe town purposes
trough, fro. £5O 13 Ise ; and animals for farm work
bora 125 to Mt —Than was huts small show or slum
waging at SeUeburf market being held on Sim sass
k. Cheddars madefrom 711 e 7kpercwt. ; tracks.,
talk ; sod Wad. So lo dk,