The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-06-03 00:00:00

TIM ELICTAIC LIGHT AIIONU TO/ CIVIL itTOIXIMIS.

Toe notion thet the electric light I. ghastly wee com-
pletely dissipated. It was daylight all the time only the
*ono. Oil Orwall•ot tie ti is light aimed. and DOW end thee
!tittered eclipse. And We "sound end fury" teat go on in
" gereiratleg the power" —what coutrast to the quiet
Atewly way in which Neter. dues her work Daylight
that splutters sod wakes a noise wilt not do. gentleutee
amend thet, awl thew peiltapa we'll discuss the price.
Again. at Um let lit extithitien of electricity the name vi
E 1141.1 Woo wither heard nr represented. 13.nitli
ilensiogtm begins to shake its head at the falsities
Yaukte.

A sews of indignant letters from Russia answer
Bishop Posses recent eputle to the Times denying affairs
in S. re.ersburg to Its so sertous as meted. The feet of
to. matter is mat tue Ivor thy &situp during his short
•tay is Use Russian capital heed wholly among his own
count:puss., and to an atmosphere vsry little adrarent to
that at boots. Ha I he been acquainted with Um Russian
iituot •ge, and lived Inside the skin' a Rumba' society,
ho V/0414 have told a diderenc story to th- Times. I have
it from tbe pea of one of tie leading moma iste in St.
Petersburg —the o..orge Augustus Sala to the Goke—that
so km than 6,1,01 persona ars crowded Inside the
Pecropsulovsky Yortroas. and, as be has moms to the
mils, at, tassmony is cartmuly store reliaole than that of
a atramer. Solovieff, he aye, is scarcely Over sober, and
resulariy after his tits of drunken ravings a fresh batch of
nobkin find their way to the fortress. With a refine-
m.itt of cruelty only possible to Rama, Griisral Gourko
has compelled Dr. 13 Akin, who u stupectml at being a
Nittill.t, to eel se SolovietTs medical attendant, and to
hoer tee essassin's allociodUree respecting tabsseG. The
doctor is (oilseed by spies wherever he goes, and his wile's
water is always accompactied by a gendarme.

The riiing.babits which you me now in the Row disclose
SO•OlUeti of what the Auierican ladies call the "limb,"
I hat us all probability we shell soon hear that • meeting
A dowagers has been convokel to discuus the whole
question. Asthma Daisy's report on this weighty topic
may tabd ba solnuou of the difficulty. My fair oorree.
prudent says ladim can choose from three diderent kinds
of drawer. or trousers. Bime have straps, others are
shorter and won inside soft boots, but the roost
.popular
Sr. the Very short breaches, or small clothes, which IWO
fastened just underneath the knee and to which are added
leggings of long gaiters, covering the leg from the knee to
the subtle, and buttoning over the breeches. There and
the gaiters gra made of the rams cloth, or other tissue, as
the rube( habit. Cloth is always the hest, being the most
solid. 8 ime ladies ride . sth high heels to their boots.
Tale is very inconvenient and unsafe. A plain boot with
ordinary heels, and without buttons, I. the only proper
thaussure for • lady rider. Ths hat most in vogue is still
that in the shape of • lunn.l, rather I .w in the crown and
with • small brim. Round it • simple piece of gauze Is
twisted, without ends. Apropos, It, tenet good taste to
bring the gauss round the neck and make a bow with it
on lb. side. Tile venni worn on the face are small. A
diminutive piece of tulle illusion, almost invisible, is now
the fashion. It preserves the sight and complexion ;
nothing but a raise one can be worn.

It may rot be generally known that the Zulu war IS
j[Llit Dow c .istiog the ...until' very nearly hail a million
iderling a weak, and that the surplus wh,gh Sirstagyord
Nertheote calculated would List wine ant ol the war will
I. ewallowed up in the mune of a week or two. More
d in iou. for moitey way therefore be looked for very

Puy Sir Charles Roehout's death has been art lingering
and painful u any that c mid faS to a young man in the
prid •of hr.. H succumbed on the 25tb to g turibig
complication of heart disease (during which be also
suft roil lunn congestion of Hu lung.) and dropsy. For
many month. he was unittils tolls down ; but his patience
and courage never failod him.

Ito not often that a team of Nab cricketer. comae to
London, and I am afraid the untlemen of Ireland
reccived scant attention from the cricke.ting public. 'rm.,
perh op., may ho put down pertly to the weather. hot it
seemed to me that very few people knew anything shoot
the tnatche• until they were over; so the Hibernian§ were
born to blush umoten, whether they made long mcons• or
inieecd catcheo, both of which events happened. The
gentlemen of the KC C. received • terrible hammering
At the hand. of Trotter awl N. Hone, who showed some-
thing more than mere obstructive, with the Cat. and
Exhatn, as a howler, proved himself the maorter of the
beet batsman oppo.uct to him both at Lord's and the Oval.
Next year the !LC C moat provide aomething better to
snags their single innings defeat. It is a pity the
Surrey match was a draw.