The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-07-10 00:00:00

NOTES AND HINTS.

Not every noisy dog is tied up yet, as witness that petty
session case from Ohickerel, where two who ought to be
friends fall out and go to law, because a big dog shakes a
little one. Dogs always have made a noise in the world,
and they are fast getting the rights of citizens. The tax on
canines who have reached puberty provides • means of
their age being looked after and officers of Excise are
often exercised to find out when a certain untaxed yelper
first conic into the world: now one who barks and bites is
to have the advantage of previous good character, and
special consideration is to be shown to a bitch with pups.
Whither are we tending I Have our legislation adopted
the doctrine of metempsychosis, and are we to recognise
In Carlo a dog and a brother I One would have thought
that, as females of the canine persuason are apt to become
unreasonably snappish when they have the parental slava,
it ought to be a rule to restrain all who have increased
their owner's family to the danger of his neighbours pets.
I am glad the Bench ordered the biting bitch to be secured,
even although she had retrieved well, won a good character,
and been the means of setting in motion two gentlemen
Learned in the law,

The Sands are again the subject of special orders in
Council, for we really can't have the level white surface
defaced, except by the swarms of dear little children who
are privileged. Fishermen who dig bait are prevented
from doing so within 150 yards of the &planed° Wall, and
the police have orders to enforce this regulation. The
exercising of horses, except at certain times, is also pro-
perly forbidden, and our municipal authorities are
evidently on the alert to preserve the beauty of our
Sands, and keep them for the "greatest happiness of the
greatest number,"

writer generally guiltleme of a joke adopted • new line
last week, and tried to rally his contemporaries on their
admiration of Upwey. You know, Mr. Editor, that I
Was very reluctant to write that sketch of our "Outing"
which appeared in Tuesday week's Express; yet yonrconi.
mends I tried to obey. But why did our critic include in
his structures our genial " Sepokochitski 1" Gratitude
ought to have stayed his hand, for that gentleman is 'the
Aspirate," whose sketches are the most readable part of
the generally solemn sheet. Don't let our friend drop his
"H.," or I tremble for the interest of hui paper. Perhaps
the funniest thing is that the new )okist was so thoroughly
curious about the 'potent charm 'of Upwey that only on
Friday he too was picnicing in the village of woods and
streams I I hope he saw something better than in his
suggested journey round the Back-water, for although •
man who had eyes to see and • brain to write about the
most pleasant things, might make an attractive sketch of
the Radipole lake, " Rambler " begins oddly on his own
idea. He went as far as • certain rural Terrace, and all
he describes to his delighted readers, in his third "local
note" is that he found and smelt—ugh ! The Kamschat-
dales are said to turn from delicious scents to the odour of
fish—by no means "caller barren' " so we mustn't die-
puts about taste. But I'd rather tell of a "singing
pilgrituage"—hills, views, and flowers.

'Slow and sure" appears to he the motto of the magnates
of the county at Quarter Session,. Boys appear to our
courts from time to time who arc thorough wastrels,"
and evidently "going to the bad," as fast as their wicked
hearts can lead them. But 'who made thee to differ r
is a question we may all ask, and we shall find that •
favourable education was the means of favour. Can't we
give it to these poor little gamine t Industrial S hoofs
are found to answer well, and the Court of Quarter
Sessions hope to have a talk about the matter some three
months' hence.

Lunatics are increasing in the County Aryium, and the
noble chairman thought they might be kept in the unions,
instead of occupying space in the County Asylum whirls
may be more profitably filled by out county patients. Mr.
Floyer's slight but suggestive sketch of the mass of
lunatice highly diseased, and sometimes highly excited,
that nurrotuvis the patients, makes one feel a deep sorrow
and pity for the poor aged folks, body and mind almost
worn out, who must in each a place be shocked as much
as they have power to bear. "The poor ve have ever with
you;" let us hope that our J.P.'a, who are most of them
In comfortable circumstances, will not forget the great
stimuli to lunacy and crime, and tread them down as
sternly as they would stamp out the cattle plague. Ab 1 I
am rushing into enthusiastic over-hopeldness ; the
ameliorating measures must be gentle and well-oonaddered.
But, an Lord Portman lam "la October we may not be
here."
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