The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-11-09 00:00:00

art anti tarring 3ottlngs.

A WM denoing.place, garden. km been opened
M Paris, bearing the mnueing name of " Tiroh•Wana-
!" usical Standar&

Wit learn that Hellos. Titian, and de Monks have
been received with such enthuoiaam in Dublin, that al
the geeenhonew an 1 gardens in that city have beast
devastated," in rder to aupply houquata for them.
This I. floral " dlivadOMlUooi" with a vengeance.
Musieal Sta luta rd. _ .

Tug su Id-. Among of the Princess's Theatre, Loudon,
was causo4 by the new " Estisped from
Portlsed," having petrel a total failure, notwithstand-
ing that the Pt Moe nod Princess of Wales were present
the Ana night of as representation.
Ile. liorrutrieuito di sign tor the cathedral at
Velaule, south Australia, the creation of which wi'l
cost about P25.111/0, has beau put in hand, with certain
modifications which, as it is reported, • colonial archi-
tectural firm has introduced.

NlO4B has reached us of the death of Professor
Schleicher. His laid contribution to literature was •
remarkable work, • tranelariou of which, by Dr. Bikken,
is nearly nady for publications, under the title of
" Derwinism Tested by the Science of Language."
TH4 Athemomm rweords the publication in Japan of a
Japanese History of the British Parliament, compiled
from kloy, Hallam, and other oonstitulional author-dies.
The work is in tee thin volume*, aid is illustratad by
a capital plan of the Palace at Westminster, •iee• of
the Palace from the river, and another of the interior,
with Mr. Di•r sell aldressing a full house.
MADAME PA RIPA• HUSA'S 11444441 in the Eastern
Stites of America i- add to burps. all precsilent. Her
receipts exceed 80.000 dollars. Whe rrrrr she sings,
notwithstanding the heat of the summer ant the out.
of.coneert.season, the theatres are besieged with
listener,. The critics say her voica sod plwer art finer
than ..wer. _ _ .

A Ukase signed by the Emperor of Russia places the
press of Polaud under the OlUlAtl as th it in the
rest of the en.pire. This me•sure ,pplias not only to
book*, journals, frolics of ert, and plays'of native origin,
but to aimilar publications from abroad.
BRIGHAM YuUlso, ie order to have everything beauti-
ful and civilised in his territory, maintains • poeteas
bearing the chilly name of Eliza Snow. Her rhymes
• ow the faculier style of pronunciation which be-
been revealed to the Seinta Thu. we have "glory"
and " Contorah," "Goaiel" and "people," "merit"
and " nitric" (quasi "sperrit"). Eliza Snow, however,
hes on* good quality. Her "poems" •re in oral« of
the Mormon Bible; mad as that book is sheer nonsense,
.0 1, the metrical commesitary. Shosays of the precious
prodursion
A heavenly treasure, a book full of merit.
It lyeal, Irolu thr dust by the a olee f tbespneft.
We have hoard many kinds of speaking In our day (says
an American contemporary), but this variety of elocu-
tion i• new to us.

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Tug Paris correspondent of the Nets York Herald,
descr.bing the grand rehearsal of "Padre de Perlin,-
rip." st the Chstelet, observes: There is • certain
aefdigs! about costume I will not dwell on. Some come
sw..ryday cloth., some 4s splendid costume.: some,
the ballet dancers, are in vrtite muslin reminiscenees,
bat shuts not much. Then 200 women! For the real
performance 2,000 costumes' On the occasion of the
rehearsals I had witnessed • few little whiffs of passion
about costume, and I wog noxious to see who had gained
A 6 or her point, the manager or the actress. One of
the pretties threatened to throw herself into the Seine
if she ha I to put that "bag" on, in which not a bit of
her arms could be seen; another meant to cot the
tailor's throat if he busted on making her unmention-
ables more than three inches below the knee ; • third
I would twist the tenors neck round if the colour of her
I tights did not harmonise with that of her hair, ant the
manager told me that the whole srmy of men employed
' —gaslighters, choruses, mechanics, decorators, singers,
in all I,2od—were easier to lead than these terrible
wotuen. The "ugly" ones, he sail, are as mild as
larubs—th, y pot on anything ; but it is the pretty ones,
: with line leo and tempers to mulch! Oh!—. The
way he ture..d up the whites of his area at this is still
pr i sent to any memory.