The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1885-01-20 00:00:00

GRATIIITOGS MUSIC !
To Ms Mike.

air,—Could any of your readers Inform roe who
gives parabolas 10 itinerant condolaas to play In the
public straits. Periodically we are visited by banda
of Germane, who literally read the air with their
horrible walling.. • lovely specdraen was presorted
yesterday. Three or four of these unhappy artists
weve;breying from their lastnanents at tutors a few
nights am sad the " ta.artony " they prodoood—(it
wee " M 1• Mahone" with varlattam)— was shop:,
All I oaa say is if the Mayor flaw
Oen or the Superisaadest of Polio*. I
than to listen for tea minutes to such
omit as I heard. To be practical, I would suggest
that before leave betas gins foe UN future the per-
formers should be made to give practical proof of their
ability to play • pieta respe*Wy.—Youra to.,
Dorelbssier.

A FOOTBALL Cita has been formed for Weymouth.
Mg john Crickmay Is the seoritary and treasurer, and
Mr. W. B. Reed oaptalla.
' Tag Rile% J. WOOD prowled hie 1122 teralorl 48
psalm at the Garrosetar-street Chapel on Sunday
evenlog to • large congregation, but did not make
an alludon to his departure. tie I. • very eloquent
psimetwo, and Ms leaving is much regretted.
Wwfwons Aso Donn COUNTY ROYAL En(
secrytery begs to acknowledge with
thaoks the receipt of el Ile., being the collection at
Bockhorn Weston, per Rev. W. CI. 11. H. D'Aeth.
Tict Sasataaling.—Mrs. Wadsworth, the matron
of this institunoo, d. eirm to acknowledge with thanke
• hamper of vegetables, • hamper of good things from
Ulm Svmoncia, of Waterloo Howse, sad • large oak*
from Pea, the gift of Mi.. Colonel Cols, for the
liteasfit of the Inmates.
A Tic the property of Kr. Humphries, of the
Bear Hotel, was being driven through the town on
Monday, when It took Into Its head to enter a sweet
shop In St. Thomas-rarest, sod go into the parlour.
It wee soon turned out into other quarter; and takea
Into " custody."
HOTHL ETC Inintaar.—The moth= of this insti-
tution desire. to acknowledge with thanks the gift of
a dozen rabbits from Mr. Merthyr Guest for the use
of the patents. The m Aron also desires to acknow-
ledge the receipt of • hamper of bottle. from Stour
pain. Rectory.
A lecture on Greek Art, illustrated by a cm*
Latent, waa given in connection with the Town Society
In the Birders Hotel Amembly Room, by Mr. Charles
T. Getty, F.& A., on Tuesday evening. The Wand-
awe was small, load whether it was owing 10th. cold
weather, or to the lecture being looked upoo as a
"dry " one. that • larger sadist:toe was not attracted
we know not, but the room was not half Idled.
A large Christmas tree laden with toys, &c., we
participated in on Tuesday evening by the children
attending SA Mary • Mission Room Sonde, &he .1.
The presents were given by friend., sod the tree,
which wa• • large one, looked pretty when lighted up.
The R-otor (the Rev. J. H. doubt,) and his curate
(the Re. J. Konnedy,) and several lady bleeds
looked well after the ohildren,who, with their parent.,
filled the room. All seemed 'really pleased with the
tree.
Ori Monday evening last a very pleseont and
instructive entertainment, consisting of foot",
chortles., and recitations, interreperwed with short
addramee, was given in the Temperance Hall, Park.
street, by the members of lb.' Hope of Weymovth "
Lodge, 1.0.G.T. There was • good attendsoce.
Stirring addreseel were delivered by Bros. Staple.,
White, and Cvawford, and were listened to with much
attention. The members of this lodge deserve praise
for the efforts put forward to advance the temperance
cause. Snob meetings as the above cennot fail to
strengthen the order, and torn, .urage the members
to further the noble ranee of reclaiming the drunkard.
TH2 SOUP Krrcamrs were opened on Tuesday in
three different parte .4 the town, and large quantities
of excellently-made soup were divots' of. It cat
about lit a quart to make, and wee sold slid, •
quart. At Mr. Royal s (North Q toy) 13.. 81. was
takes in money, representing 41 gallons. There was
• great demand at this station, and more 000 l I have
been 'old lilt had been made. At the Tempera-roe
Hotel, Cresoent-strimet, about 93 gallons were die,ort.e I
of, and 12a takers, and at the other station, Mr.
13.rtlett's (Nicholes-etreet), nosily 400 quests were
sold.

--Snireige.—Arrivale : Great Western (s). Blampied,
Cherbourg. general; Gael (4), Haddock, Cherbourg
;plural ; Brighton (s), Painter, Jersey. general
Selling. : Greet Western (a). Blampied, Cherbourg,
general; Gael (a). Haddock. Cherbounr, I
Brighton (s). Painter, Jersey. general; Hansen,
Elsinore, ballast; Leander, Jones, Plymouth, ballad;
Philk and Mary, Redmond, Guernsey, ballast;
Mermaid, Liseenden, Heal -pool, ballast; ‘feleocthon,
Hoagland, Arundel. ballast' Tweed, Browning
Seeking, ballast ; Mary arid Ileenor, Jona, New-
castle, slate.
Ageyrnee capital entertainment, consisting of vocal
and instrumeatal music end readings, was given in
the Trinity Schoolroom on hd mday evening, in aid
of the funds for the restoration of the church. There
was a good audience, and the following programme
was most encoesefully gone through r--Part I.—Septett
(arranged for violin, viola, violonosilo, burp. and
piano), Mr. Stone, Mr. Dayton Smith, Mr. S. Smith,
Mrs. IDade, and Mr. Thorn.; glee, " Maiden of the
That de Lye," Wks and tnembers of the °heir ; read-
ing, The Grandmother," Bev. B. England ; BOW,
"Th. Old Look." Miss Neat; duet, " Excelsior,"
Messrs. &illations and Ridge; song, "The Old
Timepi•or," Mre. Masthead ; song. "King Sol," Mr.
O.hlcy; *sea, Would You Know My Vella'.
1 Charms." Part 11.--Quertett in G minor (violin,
violviolonotello, and piano), Mr. Stone, Mr. B
Smith, Mr. S. Smith, and Mr. Thorn.; glee. " Where
Art Thou, Beam of Light," ladies and members of the
choir ; song, "The Bette. Lent," Mlle Nest; read-
ing, Dr. Dad.; trio, "Ls Spageole,', the Miase•
Penny; rya ling, "Northern Cobbler," Dr. Childs ;
overture (.1011n, viola, violionoello. and piano),
" Soptioniebe," Mr. Stone. Mr. B. Smith, Mr. S.
Smith. Mr. Thorne, and Mise Penny; glee, " All
Among the Bexley," ladles and memben of the choir;
National Anthem.

Ms. W. N. Damn& boo. see. of the Devon and
Exeter Beekeepers' Association, delivered a lecture
on beekeeping at Si. John's Seheosbs on Friday siren
leg last. The RSV. Canon Stopheneon presided, but
the audience was of a very limited character. The
lecturer. who illustrated his subject with diagrams
and modele, dealt with it in • thorough and scientific!
manner. He explained that *very hire cont.insd
three distinct kinds of beee—the queen, the worker,
and the drone. He &seethed the anatomy of the b
remarking that its sight wee roost matvellona, it
having really five eyes, two compound and three
eimple ones. He commented two° its ralsid flight, it.
sii lege, 410,1 its eting, which liset wise different from
that of the wasp. as it could only sting one.. Toe
various remedies for the sting of the bee were
described, including ammonia, b:ue I sg, us garine,
It% Toe bee breathed by means of •plesclee or tubes,
, which ramified through ito body, and were like the
lunge in the higher animals and the gill. in fib.
Speaking of the production of won by bees, Mr.
Griffin said Virgil thought the beee collected the won,
wherea. it was a secretion from their bodies. If•
exhibited specimens of various his, of wax, inclu l-
ing vegetable wax end earth wax, and said bee's wax
req sired a very much higher temperatuse to melt it
then any other kind of wax He trent she dowel ge-
ment of • "queen 'from the egg, stating dist it :o .k
18 day. t h.tch, whilst • worker took IL day. ends
drone 24 days. The important funsrioas pertorrned
by be in the fertillastion of flowers and fruit were
twit explaned. As to the languag• of here,
the lecturer observed that Sir John Lubbo‘sit
held that bees bed 0., limpness, but be thought
everybody, for instince, knew the amp, buss
,I the bee when it was about to sting. Referring
to the age of bees, he said Aristotle thought the hes
lived from nine to ten years; but the worker, in the
height of the seaeon only lived about six weeks, end
If it had sot morn t.s do, wiz mouths; whilst • queen
lived three or four years. Be.. did not, se some
people thought, en Gust like the peach, because it wee
physically impossible for them to break the ri 4, but
If nab fruit nen broken by any meal" the be*
would suck the juices. Am :ng the Teri ,us awe of
bonny, the lecturer mentioned its use in the menus
facture of biecult., awl said Messrs. Huntley end
Palmer used two tons of honey per week In that way.
An interesting sketch of the history of bee-keeping
wee next given. It was pointed oat that some of the
hives we at present pseenesd le, re of • very ancient
kind. The ancient system of musll2 hunting the be..
with sulphur In orer t , get their honey was deeeribel,
largely isy means of a quotation from the poet
Thomson. The developement f bee culture In this
cottaitrdy was tread from 1792, when Mr. Imam
the lint imeolietion for the purples at Exeter,
to a later period when Mr. Wo,xlbury Introduced the
bar•frame hive system, aad down to the present time.
He mentioned an buten* of a pence in Devonshire
who made £lOO • year from his bees, sad said he be
taken from one hive In one year over one hundred.
waikht of honey, which sold for £9. In the course of
the leoton, some valuable Information wee given wi
to the athaegenseet of bees, and at the don I yds of
limbs was paned to Kr. (Mate.