The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-12-14 00:00:00

LITER.

Ly SET lONS

gEMPOSatianoN.—Pracerve aldf-Pome.lo4ead de
not be talked out ot conviction.

GOOD auvICE.-11 YOU WOUid MCCAW! in lib, rims
early, and be an economist of time.
I am no more surprised that moms revealed troths
should amaze my undervtanding, than that the blazing
Inn should ~azzle my eyea--Htroey. •

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Ri-PlNTANcr..—Repentno.e is not, like the rammer
Ira its, fit to be taken a little, and in their own time;
tit ii like the bread, the provisions, and supporta( life,
the entertainment of every clsy ; but it is the bread
iof Ali lion to some, the bread of carefulness to all.
—Taylor.

A RoVAL PicNle.--Scarcely bad we left the rein,
when tolerably heavy rain Came on. The queen put
up. her umbrella, the horse" were stared off at •
quick trot, and we went hastily to • neighbouring
belonging to one of the royal bailie', which
stood at the edge of a small stream. We were de-
lighted to observe some fruit.trees and fields of clover
near it. We left our horses in the court of the Glee-
man-built house. Tbe queen showed us with some
pti lea magnificent low shed, which provide" cream
for those who drink coffee in the (terinan fashion.
the Court also we had nothing to complain of in Ui.
milk, which generally in southern lands is so obnox-
ious to the northerners. The broad, luxurious foilaget
of a few plants of vine before the bailiff's room pro-
tected us from the rain. The queen, who had gained
an excellent appetite from the quick ride, asked the
'woman of the house to bake tOttle pancakes, which
we consumed in a little dark room. Meanwhile, car.
raiages came from Athens, and we got home dry. Our
tiolettes were made to haste, and we went to dinner,
at which Captain o—was presented to the queen by
our resident consul, Count As the lively queen
found we had had to little exercise that day, we played
at "a in guerre" The whole of the company
;endeavoured to display their talents for the game,
hrhich many did in • very comical manner, so that it
was easy for the practised billiard-player, Dr. F—
to win. With this triumph of Viennese skill, the daj,
ended.—On the Wing. Ey Mosimaiers.
PIiANTOM-PHOTOORAPHIL—A photographer, tak.
big a photograph with • particular lens, detected in
it not only the usual portrait of the sitter, but at •
little diatanos a copy, phantom, ghost, or doubfit of it
—producing what w as certainly a startling effoot, and
one not likely to be very pleasant to the sitter, espe-
cially if of • superstitions turn of mind. Fortunately
science came in, and left no room forth, creation' of
marvel mongers. At • meeting of the Photographi-
cal Society, it was shown that these phantoms (if we
may so call them) present two different varieties, and
spring from two different oanses Ist. A photo-
graphic' image is aometigies so very deeply impress.
el in the glass of the negative by the action of light,
that the subsequent cleaning of the glass plate, even
with strong acids, will not completely remove the
picture. When such • plate is need for receiving an.
Alec picture, the original image faintly makes its re.
appearance. this case the phantom is not the
?:or "finch" of the sitter in the second pie-
Aare ; it is • very faint pho ()graph of one person on
the same plate which contains • fully developed pho-
tograph of *owe other person ; and the juxta-pori-
tion may, perchance or designedly, produce "tending
Popper-like ghost effects. 2. When • lens has in-
equalities in its aubstace, due to an imperfect proms
of annealing, or when it is subjected to an unequal
pressers in different parts, it acquires the property
called double refraction—two images of the same ob-
ject being produced by it at the same instant. Thin
explains the production of the double or fetch phan-
tom.—Charriters's Journal.
TUX CHAIR OF PRoCliASKA.—Prochaska, the very
eminent physiologist, used to mention in one of his
lecture how, traveling in Bavaria, he put up at a
small inn at Tetechen Bred, where, being weather-
bound, he passed his days in writing. Not liking the
meagre accommodation of a little village inn, he
begged that at least they would provide him with a
control table ar. in-chair. After some delay a large,
highdricked, old leathern throne was placed in his
room, with many injunctions to treat it carefully. lie
welcomed the social ion with delight, and at ouoil pro-
ceeded to avail himself of i a comfort. Scarcely, how.
ever, bail lie beou seated in it half an hour, when he
was seized with a violent pain in the back of the neck,
which extend( d gradually .lown the spine. These pains
left him after he went to and relented when he
resumed his place in the chair the next morning.
Sommimes they came erstrolically, and foreed him
to cry out; sometimes they began s:ightly, and in.
creased in severity, gradually engaging one oar.
cotta centre after rinothing, and causing intense suf-
fering. Bet nll the symroms would slowly subside
an removal from the chair, iustantaneusly returning
when hew' nt back to it. There was scarcely • form
of neuralgia 1.8.11,1110 t esperietice. The facial nerves
were eonstantly the seat of suffering, and his sciatic
aironim were teriible. Ile examined the chair care-
fully and thoroughly. lie ripped open the leather
ooverieg, and carefully investigated all the hair
stuffing beneath. Be then tested the varnish on the
wood, awl, in fact, left 'tenting at all undone that
might throw light on the curious influence of evil this
antique nice of furniture possessed, but to no pur.
pose. Nothing came of all his perqueition, and he
was driven to seek if the history of the chair could
Orford any explanation of hese phenomena. To
his amasoment he learnt that his landlady had bor-
rowed the chair from • doctor in the village. Ile
had .used it for years in Is study,und in it some bun.

dreds of patient's had undergono-. the various opera-
tions of surgery. The well-worn arms, showing where
rzonised hands had grospe I rot vulsively the patched
leather, attested the violence which had attended
these cruggles. "1 bought the vicious old seat, and
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had it hacked up before my eye*, and the fragments
thrown into the Eibi•," aaid the Profeeeor ; "but the
pvit,,n it taught me I bare never forgotten."—Saint
Pouts.

MENTAL SIXTIR.—}t ii undeniable that there are

even in our homes of learning--even amongst th—ose
who must be described, by Court. ay at least, am echo.
Inn and students —a vast number of unoc tipied
minds. There are men who take no interest (to use
ConveDtional, though far too respectful, phrase)
in the medics of the place. It is difficult to see how
isio'isexennieCy i it isa tradition of
f snob it
ever
ron was, can
raattliss thanible
w. lire
a g present. It comes down to us
when there was in this University but
,b,ozu g
a time,seurecesogtilokinsed line of wady, but one system of in-
struction, and one possibility of reward, and when it
might happen that there was such a natural inapti.
tilde, so absolute an incapacity, for tie cultivation of
that one as drove • man altogether out of the only
ronrse Marked out for intellectual effort. Who can
say this now P Who, that is not born incapable of
thought, can be at a loss, in then, dayeto find in this
place a career and • goal? I would most earnestly
charge it upon my younger and youngest hearers to-
day, that they allow themselves no such plea for
sloth. The man who can find no interest in the stu-
dies of this place, has himse f only to blame for it.
let each one, whose line of study is not yet definitely
chosen, choose his fine instantly. Let him also take
remise' upon it—with himself at least, always the
best of counsellors if there first be an honest mind
—and let this week witness the desired obedienoe,
in him, to the Apostolical charge, that, in mind at
least, we be not slothful, But there is &sluggishness
of mind, often-times, even in those who are not ab•
Whitey standing idle. For example, there is, in al•
stoat all of us,a proneness to inattention. The eye pea.
sea over the line, reaches the foot of the page, arrives
in due course at the end of chapter and volume—
and nothing then remains of it. Of all the reproaches
which arise against a man in his chamber of study,
there is none more bitter than these two—the eight
el hie own books unread, and the sight of his own
books read. The one accuses him of waste—the other
accuses him of inattention. We are slothful in not
reuding—we are slothful also in reading. I would
beg you to grapple with the demon of indolence be.
times, in this form of inattention. Examine youself
in your reading. Make each book, each page, each
sentence, give an account of itself to you. This which
your University does for you iii WIZ place, do also—
you can better do it—for youtelf. Again, there is
in meet men • habit of desultoriness. We see it in
the day, and we ace it in the life. Some have spent
see year, or two years, in this place, and they have
nut yet resolved upon their Ins of study. They know
tot in which, or whether in any, of the recognised
branches, they will seek honours. Thus they miss
all in asking which. Aud 50th details. AVM book
to book, from subject to eubjeot, from one Andy and
from one accompiishment to another, we still are
passing and repulsing, and there is nothing done and
nothing gained to any. "Unstable as water, thou
shalt not excel." Once more, still speaking of mind
there is a general dreaminess, and listlessness, and
vagueness, yet more common perhaps than either of
the former. Sometimes health has to do with it ;
and yet even health is more under a man's control
than we like to believe it • a little wilfulness in ha.
bits and hours, in such smlll things as diet,sleep, and
exeroise,will make a man an invalid whom God never
made so, and whom God most reprove and visit and
judge for being so. And even excess in study will act-
couut for this; a man cannot fix his thought, cannot
eoucentrate his effort, from mere extravagance of la.
boor Or from mere 'ripest! y of ithithtl—in other
words, from want of wisdom oe want of faith--and
so he is "slothful in business s just from creerhusi•
ems—just because he ham not been (in the Christian
sense) "fervent also in spirit, serving the loyrd."—
kers 1/4/ leitA, by Dr. Vasaliaa.

Mr. Southern's first novelty at Lim lisymarket will
be a two act, comoly by Mr. 11. T. Craven.
The eystem of appointing navigating Winces to
ships in the btoaua renervo is to be dineoutiaaed.

A yonnotjady of Sedalia, Missouri, roeently killed
betted beee her lover took her 640 r to s party.

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Attempt. are being made in Italy to raise a sub-
irription for a atatuo of Raphael, to be ereotal
Urbino.

The railway from Wapping and filhadwell, through
the Meows tunnel, to New Craw, wee formally opened
on Monday.

The death of Mr. W. T. Starkenbargh, of Mader,
?ft° of the proprietors of we Mara, Atioissrse,
is announced.
Id. Gotland has abandoned his intention of fatting
" Franeeera cla Rimini" in favour of another bubjoet.
" Pub eucte."
A new comedy by Kr. Andrew Elallidny, entitled
" "liege," will bis prodoesd at the St. Janiere•
Theatre early in 1870.
The King of Sweden and ?Tommy has conferred an
odir r.leirol:;tllloo7..in a
tLii.Kriiiirht CommninierAin an
At tiaukow, in Chinn, the Koglih linre no A irut-cr
Dramatic, Company. which anuOlcucer. four Nrfor-
Jobooa• for ills wiatost.