The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-10-17 00:00:00

and you have also performed in an abundant measure
those acts of charity to the needy and suffering which
have endeared us to you all We regret, indeed, that we
are now to be deprived of the benefit of your presence
amongst us, and we pray that your change of residence
ruay be attended with every advantage which you can de-
sire, and that wherever your lot be cast the blessing of
Almighty God may rest upon you. In conclusion we beg,
together with this address, to give to you an antique
chiming clock, as a faint evidence of our gratitude and
esteem. We subscribe ourselves, your faithful servants,
• ' •. Bare Regis, October 11th, 1876." Prebendary
wan.% in an appropriate speech, thanked them for the
testimonial, and the proceedings ended with a vote of
th.inks to Mr. Scutt for presiding.

STURYINSTEE NEWTON.
Yr. J. Uomyni Leach, mar.. Loud, of this town. has
recently obtain.l the diploma hi State medicine anti
sanitary science at the University of liambridge.

BOVBRIDOR.
A marriage is arranged and will shortly take place
between Kr. Henry Francis Brouncke_,r Borendge,
Dorset, and Letitia Augusta Barth WKerrill, third
daughter el the late Mr. Robert hilterrilL

DEATH FROM THE RITE OF A CAT.
William Richard Long, *child aged five, of a sugar
manufacturer, living in Paul-street, Finsbury Square,
was bitten through the wrist by a favourite cat about
su weeks ago. The wound, after being attended to,
healed. On Tuesday evening, while out with his
mother, he seetued suddenly to go mad, and was taken
to the hospital in a raving state and died from convul-
sions soon after admission.

MR, LOWE AT SHERBROOKE.
niom " CIMIDRITIEN AT BOXY," IN THR World.
With eyes nearly closed under a straw hat of
venerable age, in tones of singular smoothnees, and
language of curious piquancy, theft/ de rinakirt agree-
ably tempering the Al, the ex-Chancellor of the
Exchequer, on his own lawn on the crest of the hill
above Warlingluun, discourses pleasantly of the tree
under whose shadow we stand. Between him and
Mr. Gladstone there is an important difference—as to
the -treatment of trees. Each of the Liberal chiefs
loves flowers awl fruits—conservatories gay with a
thousand hues, and greenhouses purple with vine-
clusters; but as to trees there is a difference—Mr.
Gladstone cuts them down; Mr. Lowe plants them.
And with characteristic contempt for tradition, Ile
loves not to plant the proverbial fig-tree or the
evanescent gourd, but having discovered that the
We/fief/tonne gigaidca, the monster of Calaveras, is the
biggest thing in trees that the world can produce, he
began soon after he bought Sherbrooke to people his
pleasant domain with the tall specimens of -leafy life.
Many of them have already grown to a handsome
size.
On the bright green lawn a pug is disporting herself;
a veritable pug of pugs, with large soft loving eyes,
delicious se: retrousp,, a forehead dimpled with a
thousand priceless wrinkles, and tail curled so tightly
over her glossy back that the mind recoils from the
problem of untwisting it. She is the particular pet of
Mr. Lowe, who declares that she every
quality that a dog should have, antlxrseThe:olutely
1 faultless.
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A curly Maltese—a species of companion to the peer-
less Winnie—leads the way to the stable*, where the
famous grey mare—the pale horse on which the mem-
ber for the University of London figured for so many
seasons in Rotten ROW—id rejoicing in a loose box,
apparently pdte happy, though white with age.
There is another litable at Sherbrooke, the denizens of
which do not eat their heads if. This is a little room
hard by the study, and just affording accomodation for
a pair. They are well matched as to height and con-
struction, but are not f the race of gaunt steede now
so frequently seen on suburban roads. Mr. Lowe'm
bicycles are of only moderate altitude, for it is not SO
ranch speed as exercise that he covets His taste for
the bicycle continues undiminished by disaster. He
maintains that it isa specific against ;pint and many
other Me that flesh inherits with the thirteenth lustre.
He also loves the Plimpton roller, and has acpuired
considerable proficiency in rinking ; but his favourite
exercises are riding on hone or bicycle. From cricket,
and to a slighter extent from billiard., he has been
debarred from childhood by ths extreme sensitiveness
of his eyes, and regrets the lees of cricket rely
sincerely. Occasionally he plays a little on his
miniature billiard-table; but the difficulty .1 securing
a sufficiently large field of vision has prevented him
from acquiring any proficiencly at billiards, as the
dazzling appearance of a chess-board has driven him
from that game. Nevertheless, he sympathises with
all sports and pastimes, which, as he thinks, keep
people out of mischief. His sympathy with Highland
customs —especially on occasions of festivity—is well
known: but it is not true that Mr. Gladstone Is
shortly coming to Sherbrooke to cut down the hand-
Rome youug Wrningigelies, in order that their proprietor
may be enabled to practise tossing the caber.
As a Wykehamist of the good old days of tunding
and roasting and catoikinniqg, Mr. Lowe might be
supposed to have passed thmugh the ordinary achool-
boy amusements of thrashing and being thrashed;
but he vehemently repels the latter accusation. Half
a century ago Winchester, excellent in classics, was
not remarkable for anything els, but the excessive
brutality of its customs, and young Lowe experienced
Koine little difficulty in finding anybody to show him
the way over the pms asinorimi. An Ai. anced spirit
at last undertook to teach him Euclid, but was stopped
by the elements. Having seen his pupil -who had
only to read a &ministration owe to meleretand it
to the end of the feurth book, the pastor and master
came to a stop, anil prf TOSed to F.) over the whole
again. The pupil demurred, alleging that it was all
easy enough, and he wanted to get on. Then thc
melancholy fact came out that the master knew no
more of Luclid than to the end of the fourth hook,
the doctrine of preportions ha,in, effectually barred
his progress to the higher mathematics Owing in
some measure to this interruptiosi, Mr. Lowe, while
subsequently taking at Oxford a tirst-clase in clematis',
obtained only a second-class in mathematics.
His extraordinary facility in learning languages has
tel him to treat as an amusement what to many
peop
le ie the toot a i g.mi.ing of inflictions. When n
want of something to giN e zest to life, he takes uF a
fresh language, and has in this way acquired, if not
absolute proficiency, at least fair scholarship, in more

than a dozen Femmes.
It may be said of Mr. Lowe that he is an almost
incessant reader. Nothing comes amiss to him—
pamphlets. philosophical treatises, essays, and nevi&
Early in the morning or late at night, at every odil
moment, he has a yellow-covered runias in his hand,
novel-reading being the wildest form of dissipation in
which he indulges. He is a subscriber to the Lomb
Library, and sends up a list which ast.inishes the
officials at that institution. What is most extraordinary
is that all this reading, saving for an hour or two in the
evening, when he engages some no to read to him, is
lone by a man who is compelled to follow each and
every line .4 printed matter from end to end, word by
word. This tedious toil is imposed by the peculiar ,
conditions under which only he can read at all with ,
any kind of comfort. The eyes under his white bushy
—almost Thurlovian—eyebrows are so defective that
their possessor can read neither with nor without
spectacles. Observing the fondness of children for
looking through a piece of paper pierced with a couple
of minute holes in order to magnify objects, he was
struck with the bias that a somewhat similar contri-
vance, which
.should magnify without refracting, and
exclude the rays of intolerable day at the same titne,
would serve his purpose exactly. After various
experiments hprodueed the famous "goggles" that he
now wears. They are composed of a couple of the
pieces of metal known to anglers as spoon-bait, con.
meted with a bit of elastic webbing across the nose,
and a longer piece to fit round the back of the head.
The speon-baits—with the convex aide outward, of
course—fit (the writer ham tried them) very comfortably
over the eyes. On first putting them on, the light 111
almost entirely excluded; but as they are more
perfectly adjusted, a small but clear field of vision
appears through a tiny perforation Opposite the pupil
of each eye. The aim ni completely attained; the
object is magnified, and the eye relieved from the
torture occasioned by refraction. There is but one
disadvantage in the use of goggles: the field is im small
that the bead must in reading be kept constantly on
the move.
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Of jokes he is not only a maker, but a joyous appre-
ciator. But he likes them to be new, fresh from the
mint ; for his horror of family or party saws is only
e.lwslled by his contempt for proverbs, the stereotyped
idiotcy of ages. The Whig ladies, whose admiration
for Mr. Lowe is =bounded, are by no means unhappy
that he is out of office ; for his conversation is now
fuller of novelty than in the busy days when a private
wire carried news instantaneously from headsmarters
to his retreat in the hills. When compelled to live in
London he takes long walks about the streets, and may
be seen buying his favourite journals at the little
stationer's shop opposite the French Embassy, clad in
a cape ~f remote antiquity, but of Highland pattern.
At home, among Lis dogs and his books, he enjoys a
mental condition widely differing from that in which
he recommended the Commons, pending the passing of
the Reform Bill, to 'educate their future masters.

The house that the late Napoleon 111 occupied when
he lived in exile, in St. John's Wood London, is about
to be wild at Tokenhouse Yard. The place contains
several interesting relics of its then unfortunate
resident. Some of the trellis-work is said to have been
wade by his own imperial hands.
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1 nova been lately turning over the leaves of • newly
published volume of Martin's Life of the Prince Con-
sort." His Royal Highness's views upon the proposed
memorial to him for the part be took in the nett
Exhibition of itfil, not only do him credit. Ind will prove
exceedingly interesting to those to have seen the hideous
utliz, which gLWes on the visitor to Hyde Park. The
Prince wrote ;--" I can say, with perfect absence' of hum.
bug, that I would much rather not be made the prominent
feature of such a monument. as it would both disturb my
quiet rides in Rotten Row, to see my fare staring at me,
and (as is very likely) if it buCante an artistic monstrosity,
like most of our 11101111111101004 it would upset soy
equanimity to be permanently ridiculed and laughed at in
Willa." In one respect the Prince was a true prophet. I
His statute ii the nest striking artistic incestrusity in '
London. --Lomdon arrrevonoleat.
FITN. FITN OK FALLING SICKNINaI. ---A
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dietreaaim.{ complaint by a physician, who is desirous
that all entlerere may benefit from this ;providential
discovery; it is never known to fail, and will cure
the most hopeless case after all other means have been
wed. Full wtirulary will be sent brport to say
free of awns. —Aikkere :—Mr. WlLtdalfe, 16,
Tensoe, Hide Park, London,