The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1864-10-25 00:00:00

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RINGWOOD.— Thi remains of the late Miss Jane
Carter were on Friday consigoed to their lest raining
pint in the unconsecrated portion of the cemetery
ground. The hearse was followed by two aseurniam
coaches containing the near relatives and friend, a the
deceased lady; and such was the raven shown for her
memory that nearly every shop in the town waapertially
closed throughout the day. A great number of persons
accompanied the mournful enrage am it paned through
the town, and on its arrival at the cemetery several
hundreds of persona had congregated to whiten Me
burial rites of one who was deeply regretted by all
classes. The f I service was read by the Rev. --
Baron, minister of the Independent congregation of
Ripley. After which a feeling addrets on the melancholy
omnion was delivered by the Rev. George Hari* LW
pastor of the Independent chapel of this town. The
funeral arrangement' were under Me superinteademe
of Messrs. Hutton and Son.

INCRIABID DR•111 RATS 1111 &MAMA —lll his roper
for the second quarter of the present year, Um Regis
trar-Oeneral states that, whatever be the sense, One
desth.rate in Scotland is on the increase, especially in
the towts. This Is not confined to the second quarter
of this year, but extends over several years.
A 811110V1.41 WKDDIIIO. —The Telegraf• of Barealoo•
Rays : "In the prison of Vicious is a man recently
onndienned to 18 yeare imprisonment. Oa his betrothed
visiting him In his confinement • abort time beck, hi
asked her if she would have sufficient eonstaney to wait
until the expiration of his puniabineet before marrying.
Bbe not only replied that she would, bet proposed that
the ceremony should take place at one. This was con.
Rented to by the authorities, and the ceremony has Anse
taken place in the prison."
The eye is so accustomed to the sepia:ans. of dry
mineral colour on the exotic leaf, used for making our
national drink, that we have become unmindful of the
absurd Chinese custom of "colonring tea." What
feelings of surprise we should experience, if we were for
the first time shown coloured tea, and informed that,
notwithstanding the Chinese we it pare, they colour it
for English use, Boding that the mineral hides (be
defeats of wintry growths, and enables all common sorts,
when so disguised, to be passed off at higher prices as
fine tea—Note, on Chinese customs. However muck
the Chinese may desire to practice the "tinsel art" on
tea, Horniman and Co. disallow it on their imports;
the black is not made intensely dark; the green is •
dull olive, not the usual bluish colour. Their tees are
selected from spring growths, when the leaf is fall of
virtuous juices. Notice. Horninian and C,o's. signa-
ture is on all genuine packets.
DISTIL/LIMING A CrIDISTIS /11.111 0011110 N el run
MATCHWIL —Accident in connection with the common
ofdap:gerowsuneth
miufsre.qtyPnucia:t.noc::poLos matches now
Bisisrygebecoannte:isniniigu'llmaiyreit
and more valued, and we have no doubt that the new
match-holder and tablet that they have recently intro-
duced for use in nurseries, kitchens, bedrooms, ire.,
will be very generally adopted. It may be obtained a
all parties selling the patent safety matches, ls neat
and not expensive.

The following is an extract from the Second FAition
(page 188) of the Translation of lb. Pharmacopoeia of
the Royal College of Physicians, of London, by Dr. G.
F. C,olher, published by Longman and Co. :—" It is PO
mall defect in this compilation (speaking of tho
Pharmacopenia) that we have no purgative mace lot
what coutains aloes; yet we know that loatuurrhoidsl
nervous cannot bear aloe., except it be in the form of
COCKLE'S PILLS, which chiefly consists of aloes,
sosetuicoey, and colneyntb, which I think are formed
1•11, • sort of compound extract, the solidity of which
is obviated, I suspect, by an &Moline proem. •od •7 •
(mirth inFrodient (unknown to rat) of an aromatic tools
nature. I think no better and no none of it for its
being • patent medicine. I look at it as an article of
emonteres and domestic cowponies's. swd do not h"i"
late to say it is the beet made Fall I. the kingdom; •
mosettler purge, a mucous purge, and a hydroo
Imp combined, and their effects properly OOsirollad by
• dtrigent and oorrizent. That it does not commonly
produce haemorrhoids, like most aloetie pills, I attribute
to its being thoroughly soluble, PO that DD DD6IOOIPe4
artkles adhere to the mucous membrane.

WORKING mENrs CLUB AT BLANDFORD.

The first of the winter eerie of lectures in count ctimt
with Otis club was 4elivcic.l on Friday evetin.:
lad, in the Towithall, before a large and 'dirtily
respectable atplence. Mote aim ordinary inter„,
ws manifested in the Id-weedinge from the f.ict
thut the noble owner of Bryitoston bad kindly
conaented to preside, arid also from the opening during
the day of the WI Down School, in which the I(4:Parer
had taken a prominent part. Soon after eight o'clock
Lord Portman entered the hall, aceontranied by Sir
JORIO. Clarke, pity aician to the Queen, T. If. Recur&
, of Charlton, Dr. Hodtpion and Mr. Illacleilan.
Aiming t hos, ',tercet wt re the lien. J. H. Quirk, W.
Fiocham, D'Oyly snow, E. ti Si oontr,
Esti , Mr. Bennett,llr. Wyatt,
(ire n. Mr. .1. It. (;eon, kc.
bid Pori-KAM having briefly introduced the lecturer,
Dr. 110DUS0N said that the subj...ct on which he wee to
•peak—•• Knowledge of the Structure of the Human
haute, as applicable to the Preservation of Health"—
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wa.s so extensive and inipiirtsot that he would not pre.
Inca it by &DT introductory reniarks, but at once proceed
with his subject. The first querd.co wax—what do we
mean by health ? When we my we are in good health
the only mesolog we attach to it is that we het about
the mine as we usually do. Hut the true meaning of
the word health was wholenem, moondnem and
. . . .

•uppoeed the* e;ery function woU perforuirng
allotted part in the body, and were working hannon•
iously together. If any tingle organ was unduly
excite!, ir was requircd to perform more then its
allotted work, the erhole suffered. Tiro organs of the
human Inerty were like • chain composed of many links.
If Ire were to ask • add in which part of the
chain the .trongest or weakest link did the strength of
the whole depend, the child might probably answer on
the strongest,but if ma of the links were be,ken it would
we
at once that the strength of the chain was not
greater than the strength of the weakest parts. As all
the organ. were clued), connected together, and one
could not suffer without the other, it we plot,'
that there could not be noondneas of the whole
if one pert was defective. The foundation of the
human body consisted of different parte—the bone.,
which gave structure and formation to the
whole; the murder or organs of locomotion; the veins
which conveys the blood over the whole; and the
nervous eyetem, or organs of gen., feeling, and in-
tellect. As the bony struetere might be considered as
that which first claimed attention, he would first con•
eider its we. let , The bones make the shape and
formation of the body: 2nd., They protect the softer
sub-tones. of tinewe and veins; 3rd., They form the
rearioue points of attachment to the whole. The next
in order we. the 1:111/SeiCI, which were often confused
with the tech. They were the instruments of motion,
and their action was seen in the use of the ann, which
erre could, w we willed, contract or lengthen at plower°.
The mu-cles were divided into two clasees—voltuitary
and involuntary. The first of which were thwe put in
one by the action of the will, and the others those
whose operations were carried on independently of it—
• that of the be.tre, action during rest or sleep. The
next in order wee the nervous ...term whirls had its
centre In the brein, and by which the apses of feelicg,
bearing, seeing, taste, and smell, were enjoyed. These
nerves were not only vet in motion by the brain, but
the brain was al,o pet is motion by them. When a
person was defective in either of these tenees, it are,.
I rem an obetroction of the nervous system, and it woe
Important to remark that that which wee of the most
per-amount importune—the tense of tog& or tech:Je—
wes the the last to decay. Many loot their hearing or
sight long before they loot the sense of feeling. It we.
also by the nervous system that man wes able to com-
municate to his fellow-man his thoughts, by tb• use of
words. This power wss confined to man, and
was that which he etrjoyed above the other por-
tions of the animal creation. After making this part
of his subject very plain by means°, diagram. the lecturer
proseeded to show that in using theft facultir 0 a certain
amount of waste, or wearing away of the vital functions
t wit ',lsere, and that in order to repair this waste •
conetasit principle of renewal by the means of food was
necessary. He then described the way in which food
wart taken into the system and convertel into chyle or
blood. There was the converging and the diverving
pronees continually going on. A • soon ss the food was
converted into blood there were certain vessels, called
sheorbents, which took it up and diffused it throughout
the system, and no :lumen:rue and ii Mute wore these
that there was scarcely a part of the body but from
which blood would flow if pricked even with a pins
point. As the blreod paned through the body it hart •
correirlersble portion of it. nutritious properties which
sequined to be renewed; but before considering this he
'would bet notice the machinery by which the blood
was forced through the whole system. The central
propelling power was the heart, from which etc-Win
vein, diverged, carrying the blood to the extremities,
white' others brought it back aura icier it had peered
through the lungs end been pui Hied by contact with the
atmosphere. The heart consisted of four cavities, two
on either side of the lunge. The Imtorer then
primed to • diAvatn, which represent d the for-
mation of the b.rt and its plate in the human
opt •tn. On the left-side, marked blue, was shown the
mewl y through which the vinous or impure hood came
beak to the heart, and on the other the pure or bright
coloured cavity by which the punted blood ag rip
passed through the system and hack to the heart.
TIN lungs are composed of an humerire number
of cells, which infiete or collapse as the lungs
are filled or emptied of sir. When we inspire or take
In air the lung. are filled and the cella become ex-
panded, by which the blood is sent from the right side
of the heort,and spired over the cell., in exposed through
an extremely thin membrane to the air. An important
chenge then takes plaoe, the blood previously of • dark
purple hue changes to a bright scarlet, having taken
up or absorbed all the oxygen and given out carbonic
acid gas, so that the air which we exhale, and by
which we communicate our thoughts one to another by
words is the used-up air. In this we *ea the necessity
of breathing • constant supply of pore atmospheric air.
The yarrow organs of secretion were next alluded to,
the chief of which, the skinove could hardly exaggerate
the importune of. It was computed that the tabu
with veld. h the skin is provided for the purpose of res.
piration would, if expanded, cover 111 miles. The
lectuter then proceeded to show that the bodily rune
-
twos wen) of two kinds—animal and organic. The
first confined to animals, and the other enjoyed by
both. The animal organs required rest, whilst the
organic went on working interruptedly. The higher
organs, as those of the mind, required teaching, and
were only brought to perfection by constant applica-
tion. Separated and distinguished as were these organs
they were blended together in one great economy, and
were a striking proof of the wisdom and goodness of
Cod. The lecturer then proceeded to point out emu of
the condition, on which health depended. These he
had divided into inward and outward conditions, printed
on boards and bong up so that all might read them.
These were as follows

Inwerd Conditions of Health. Moderation, Sof.
fciency, Mastication, Digestion, Circulation Cleanliner,
Gond Cooking, Society at Meals, Rest before and after
Meals, Abstinence front Physic.
Outward conditions of Health.—Good Food, Clothing,
Fuel, Shelter, Pare Air, Pere Water, Exercise, Sleep.
Geed food wad good digestion must go together,
and pars air and • healthy state of the lungs ;
and in order that the blood should notulah the
hely it must be formed with good food, and
the air by which it is purified mast also be pare. In
the preeent day R great deal was said about the
necessity of breathing pure air but it was • great
i question if many understood why t was seeential. An
eminent physiologlst was once asked if he thought
that the teaching of the structure of the human bndy
would cause a drunkard to give op drinking,to which Its
replied he did not suppose it would, but their object
was net to convince drunkards, whose lungs were de-
stroyed, but to teach others who were not intemperate,
and especially the young, so that they might be made
aware of the mischief alcohol did to the stomach. The
lecturer then expressed his very great pleasure in being
presei t in Blandford on such an occasion as the opening
of • school where would be taught • knowledge of the
human frame, what emtributed to its healthy state,
and also three things which would injure it. The
subject was one of great importance, but it wite one
which had been sadly neglected in all former modes of
instruction. Many depreciated snob instruction
because only • few were so taught, bet their
desire was to have such instruction weds universal ;
and he considered it • great thing that in a small
town like !Handfeed such a work was begun. All
kinds of knoeledge were both useful and instruc-
tive, but some much more than others It might be
very instructive that • boy or girl should know some-
thing of Kimischatk• or New Zealaad : built was far
more useful for hint to know the geography and produc-
tions of his own country and °sped/idly of he own
county. The nearer the knowledge some home to our-
selves, and was a past of our every-day life, the more use-
ful it became, and that system of edueatioa ought to be
considered as the best which taught us that which we
most required to know. No work of the Divine hand
was more instructive than that shown in the laws which
regulated the human body. Every step we take in this
research reveals traces of the wisdom of the Divine
Being. The lecturer then showed, by reference to the
plan adopted by Dr. Beettiejthat the best way to instruct
• child was to gain its attention throngh its undeertand.
log, and that to repeat words not understood was an
injurieue plan to the youthful mind We were con-
tinually repeating there word,—"! ant fearfully and
wonderfully made," yet how much stronger would that
conviction be fort-el upon us by • knowledge of bow we
were made and supported in life. The lecturer con-
cluded his remarks by compering the physical to the
social body. If • person left his native place for some
years, though all might go on according to the general
course of human affairs, how great would be the change
which be would behold on his return. Formerly it was
ainsidered that the human frame underwent • complete,
though 1111•800, renewal every maven years, but it had
been lately preyed teat such change took place, in some
canes, in • much shorter spoon of ten*
W. C. FINCHAM, Req., said he coeidered that they
were ender very great obligstions to Mr. Hodgson for
the very plain and easily-understood way in which he
had treated his subject. He fully coincided with him
that the subject had not received that share of public
attention which it ought. He was sure he expressed
the feelings of all present when he proposed • vote of
thanks to Mr. Hodgson. (Loud cheers.)
The nobles CIIIAIRMAX said be was sure all would con-
cur in the motion. For himself, he must say, that
though it had been his privilege to listen to • very
great many lecture*, Its had never heard • subject FO
eleinly, simply, and lnterestput before an
andienee. He frosted that this 5 inauguration
of the winter course of lectures would encourage these
who were desirous of seeing • farther intension of the
bent fits eoulernd by snob an Institution, to persevere.
His lordship then noticed some of the advantages which
the study of the structure of the human trains was
capable of imparting. The able lecture they had just
listened to showed what might be ecoomOisbed by
training. Bat there was a still higher training to
which we were called, and that was the training of Lb.
soul. It was his corsvietion, after a somewhat Greg ex.
penance, that it was to the mothers of England they
must look to sow the seeds cif those religious impressions
which bore fruit in after-life, and on which the welters
of the nation so malib &glided. The first training of the
Noel for heaven most erestesences at the s Imes.
At his time of life he meld hardly expect to see the
fruit, of that *hangs I. the sebiesie chosen for instrise-
lion which his friend, Mr. Bastard, had began, bet when
ho liieked beck epee the past 60 jean be weld not but
be streak with the vast changes which had been made,
especially in ednestioe. Sixty year. ego it would have
bean almost impossible to have got even five or all men

together to listen to snch a lecture as they bid heard
th.t ...venin.t. They would not have understood it ; but
new t yen t e youngebt child prts ot, by tie ((location
it lia.l reed, at, toil &en able t., un 'er.tantl. Ibis Ira!-
43p, modal,' his remark, by urrng the tnemhtirs of
the two eocieties heartily to join tegetber in promoting
r h.. formation of nee tncietv, ant procuring a suitable
building for their accommodation. (Loud cheers.)
Mr. K. O.4IPOONZI propo-ed a vote of thank, to the
chairman, and referred to the ninny seta of kindnevs
which his Inriship bad shown to the town of Illendford.
Tic Rey. J. K. QUIRK cm ralmaily seconded the 'twain,
and bore testimony to the kindnest which be bail
pt-r.nally received from hit lordship. lie elo remarked
that the clarrnvin had shown lima thep intermit in the
cau-e of education.

lioncirog, alt.r retaining thiinks, expreined
pleasure ho ihould feel in again • Idre.ring • alandford
audience, and called for an hi arty expr talon of thanks
to the chairm e, which wa• resronded to by loud
cheering, which his lordship acknowledged, and the
meeting thou penarated.