The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-07-19 00:00:00

A BABY SHOW.

A Baby Show was held at Righbury Barn Garden..
London, last week. Festoons of paper ficieers were
sumended from the roof of a large room, in which the
babies competed. The infanta, to each of whom a
mother was attached, were arranged in avenues. They
were remarkably quiet under the circumstances. There
was a stolid baby with a stare as stony and indifferent
as an aristocratic duchess, the baby who chirrupt like
a young sparrow. the suoltingathomb baby, the clutch-
ing infant whose whole mind is bent upon grabbing
and clawing anything or anyone within its roach, the
cradle Solomon with an exprewion of wisdom on his
countenance which would make the fortune of a diplo-
ma•iit. There were lady babies and gentlemen babies,
lodged indiscriminately side by side, but they 100k...]
straight before them when they looked; and even the
twins George and Elizabeth, aged four months, and
weighing 1811/ and 19th, seemed as estranged and pm-
omopied as if they had never met before. The
band had a poor notion of the fitness of things.
The conductor, for instance, by way of an oveotore.
might have led off with an arrangement of biendelseohn's
"Cradle Sone," or of Arthur Sullivan's " Rest nee,
my belly ;" but he played as much be•ide tho riittetsion
sit it was p for him to do. Waltzes and Cats cats
quadrilles sounded quaint and rather eooentrio in con-
nection with the ranges of placid infants and their
maternal guardians, who looked anything but fit for
pranking it 'wording to Offenbach. The exhibition
partook of an international character, initamonh as
babies of colour were not exalnded. There was one
amazingly woolly little nigger, shiniog as if it had been
Day-and.bfartined for the event, with the duskiest of
limbo and eyes burning with an almost tropical are.
We believe this African was a native of St. Pancras.
Another promiaing infant was of a rich coffee complex-
ion, and wore a pair of lustrous opal jewels in his head
to which the celebrated ornament of Shakespere's toad
would appear dim. There were extraordinary varieties
of heads in the show—heads round as oranges, heads
peaked like Sir Walter Booth's, heads maasive sad well
set as those of mature engineers or lawyers. The
mothers were the wives of artisans, plain-featured but
kindly-seeming women, The affair is altogether as
agreeably managed as a disagreeable spectacle could be.
A goodly share of the speclators might have been com-
posed of ladies of the Clamp persuasion.

IT is to be feared that the faculties of one old friend
Mrs. Harris are becoming somewhat impaired, or.to use
her own word', "her hearin: ain't so good as it used to
be;" in proof of which, on hearing • friend say theta.
the late review " Brigh`on mustered very strong," she
said "Ye., I clammy that the Brighton mustard it
very good and very strong, but I likes Coutmen, as Is
sold at the sign of the Bull's Head,"
flou.owarn Plu.s.—Thls cooling medicine bag the
happiest effect when the blood is overhisatel and •
tendeney to inflainmatory action is set UP in the
system ; rise pill Wien shortly before dinner does away
with the indigestion, fulness, ant 11 4talenoy—indies.
tiny of • weak stomach or • disordered liver, A few
pills taken at bedtime siet as alternative, and aperients ;
they not only relieve the bowels but regulate every
organ connected with them,ovemome all acrid humours,
and encourage a free supply of all the secretions
essential to her well-being. Holloway's Pills thoroughly
cleanse and perfectly regulate the circulation, and
beget a feeling of comfort in hot climates and high
temperatures, which is moit desirabie for preservation
of health.

Wu notice the introdnction nf the eninallinelAnnkand
excellent dressing for the hair of persons of every age who take
pleasure in the I.suty id the crowning ornament of our race.
Thi4 article is introduced by Messrs Corky, now Messrs. J. IL
and E. A. Curley and Co., of ICI, Bartholomew Close, London,
E.C. They have previoudy made • very famous preparation
for th- ante purposes, of which they had the ex clusive control
throughout Europe. Cumallne Glom isidentimil in compssition
ith that article, but experie and skill have made it
decidedly superior in quality. It is very cleanly, cooling. and
sgreeside, and it gives such a lir:Blaney and luxuriant
appearance to the hair that gioal seems its most appropriate
name. It in put up in IsAtice at Es. 6d. and ba, • price which,
considering the size of the bottles and the quality 4,f the
. erlal,, will only remanent/the proprietors through a very
catenate demand. Cornelia' Restorer, at the mine prima, for
Grey Hair, Baldness, Ire, which is made by the same firm,
embodies great practical experience and is undoubtedly the
best limovator for UM Heir. The CO.IIIIIIIOI are sold by all
leading Chemist/ and Perfumer. everywhere. See advertisement
n another odium under the heed of Col:main* Glom

THE BRIXTON BABY-FARIIING
A Liverpool young woman sent up to Lo.goi,
for tbe porno's of its being adopted by mr.. mY4thy
Tbe clothes have been found by the pOias at
broker's, but the baby cannot be dins:moo!. *e.
the infants at Lambeth Workhouse oorreepong .`l4
missing child. Mth
Tbe polies have obtained poesemion of the 446.
Icily different babies that were adopted by film wel
but otnnot discover what has become of the
The intent clotting is such a. ii not generally
the children of common people, and the police
poeee.sion of information which will enable
trace the original ownereof the cloth, a. An.on,ato,,,'"'
are two children's shirt'', stamped with the fbi
the Garter and ir.otto, Huai 'mit qui ntoky Feu,
other articles marked with the Order of St. Petrick' a.:
motto, " Quisaeparabil. 1783," and one with a eo
:in the corner, and the ileitis's. J. 5.," are diseerre"'
which will suggest redactions not very fu
coupled as they will be with the evideam of the lid
O'CoLdor that on the 10th of May a gentleman brought
a baby, which Mrs. Walters afterwards maid was
lord's child,' and that she had had 1:20 with it.
more very handsome and cuitly robes are in the ti,,'
A young wou.an living at Limehou-e entrured
Water. with • baby. She gave Mrs. Waters • 'N.,*
of baby clothing. The child is valuing.
It is intended to prefer four indictments stainat
siet-rs, Waters and Ellie. One will be f
murder, another for manslaughter, the third
felonioualy baling baby clothes en tru.ded to th..ir
and the f.mrth for neglecting to provide children
proper food. The charge of murder will [else the luta
of an allegation of wilful poisoning by laudanum.