The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-04-08 00:00:00

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7Jo Pinot& —Mood end Bowl Oklioo,.1 Paternoster
boliellogO—Tne atomise. homely tale ' The Maiden's
Lodge" now runs through thorny paths, but it is 04,14.3
Might portion of the large selectioe of good and
reading herein. "The Greet Plague" I. &Wail, in-
teresting. and.. sone the experleoce of that time Ina
•estnat shutting op infected houses. and good obi Dr.
Hodge* advocated instead the removal of the tack to more
open ;11SCIN, cheering up all Wove. and the no. of harts
horn in water. Simple meagerly—that liquid ammonia. of
which the doctors .111 pi...a take • not..
Dog of Davi and U.... Words are wholesome ilttie books
for ohm children, and .111 be studied as well as road.
Bagrovia—Llodon : Matto and Windom,.
W. —Well•erritmen for tale-readers, with • Audi of diketamte
learning, and well printed and got up, this is lust the
neteasine for the inveterate plesaure-sturleot, who may
eolidly attack the to-be colitluild stories " Queen of the
Meadow" or "Donna Quixote, or daily with the Italian
posts (Tame is the one 110.11 written of by P. Z Trollops).
or sp.-Weak guided by Kr. R. A. Proctor, on Oxford end
Carobeidan Rowing. " The Story ole Statue" is emaational
enoomb, mystic, end at last horrible, and • RIM 101 l to the
oaten bsuity of A.. Irish Idyll."
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74 !Wulay id Home and Leftism Hear are tee well
knows to t0..‹1 wuch s.ld about their wbaesosaaasee and
attractive character. Ilaewhere eive specimens of the
gond thliba thus diffosed by the Religious Tract Society.
"Shifts of au Sosigreat I. Canada" we pleasing reading
In combat at home, sad 'Social Ploseeristaa" tells the
awful tale of the Anabaptists of Monster, who It suet
b. remembered were false to the Socialist cause.

Myra —Gonbaud and Sons, 30 and 40, Bedford Street,
Covent Garden Styria Drees end Nerflemark Jou: eel for
April contains & very beautiful coloured fashion plate. I
showing models for looming and promenade toilets for
ladies and hi limn for the coming imam The diagram
sheets contain full nee models for cutting out—let, the
Clemenarau toilette, a very nice mei charming coMume for
the young lady Ind. morning mrure trimmed with lace ;
3rd, another very pretty morning cap ; 4th, the Maintenon
mantle ; fah, the Lucie chemise : 6th, • dressy parure with
waistcoat and cuffs to match The cut-out paper pattern
elongate of the Papillion mantle, needlework designs for an
embroidered Jardiniere, table border in guipure insertions,
and edgings in guipure d' art, the Marie chemise and
embroidered trimmings for the same; band In Berlin wool
work, crochet edging& On the coloured piste for this,
month we see • veer pretty costume for a little girl, which
any
"4 0:?°. rltek pyrrythbeccft:2l7Thianegreltirsipaed fryalhio I
rage
judging riers man, although not as large as before ; but
the
present style oPrerThort they very
rtildooror wear"' are
very dightly in demand. Atpresentlteeem,utf fancy
shoes will be worn, ornamented with hackles; there are also
some very pretty specimens of chapeau shown this month,
for when ladies think of altering their present style of
millinery. N. 70 het • very pretty one called the
Antoinette chapeau, also Gil another called the Trevelyan
Mapeau, which two have a very becoming effect; we are
also very glad to me the hair worn higher on the head.
ks ffsiansiaa's legacies, London Chatto and
Windus, Piccadilly, W —Readable and vet solid,. man's
serial undoubtedly, and yet the Table Talk f arnishes lighter
pieces for those who have not time to sglioller
Majesty's Ministers, or investigate evidence that
our winters now are not any colder than they _ used be
In olden times. Hare is an extract:— Mark Twain
relates an amusing story original of which, as related
to me in Anserine,, is even racier) of • Western rough who
had been wounded nearly to death in a fight with mother
gambler, and who rose from the bed of alcheam • wiser if
not • better man. 'Yea, sir,' he said, '1 have learned •
lesson. and taken it to heart ; and now sir, when I fight
with the man, I don't take one of those dog-gaud
revolvers,—no sir, I go for him with • double-barrelled
shot gum' In • somewhat simile, vein, so far as
repentance and amendment were concerned, wee the
quaint expression of Peace's regret ' I see my mistake,'
be said touchingly, and his humus welted for one of those
profound morel refiections whim he made so frequently,—
'I see my mistake now: I ought to have need blank
cartridge.. I,ot us hope the burglars who are at present
pursuing the same stage 91 their agreeable career will take
this lesson to heart, and plunder under the protection
(m* at once to them and to those wham they plunder) of
blank cartridges only.
' The& —London :1, York-street, Covent Garden. Mr.
Edmund Yates' new mature starts into the world with •
slashing article on the Afghan question by Kr. Archibald
Forbes, who lets nobody off but l.md Salisbury and
Lord Nam The Liberal Government and Lawrence of
the Punthub are almost se contemptible in the article as
Lytton, who was about to make war without as efficient
, army or commissariat Poor Yimroy I "John Bull mks
I advice" is by Sit Julius Voila. • rose well qualified If aoy is,
I seeing he is Agent-General for one of our best colonies.
I The tales are effective end sensational, _
_sad between them
I are sound reed jags like "T 011. in Field and Factory,"
" A 'VW to Professor Eddison," and a scrap of two of
I rhyme. Hare is one of the toilers you meet : I asked
him to formulate his complaint He had his formula
ready, and it sum to thia. That if a man wanted to buy
• bit of lead in Ragland he had to pay nearly as much to
I be allowed to buy it as he had to pay for the land itself.
That if he got the land in that part of the country, either
for his own or by rental, it Incurred a tithe; and if hope
were grown upon it, an extraordinary tithe of eighteen
shillings and teapence an acre That this tithe went to
the support of man who made it the systematic business
of Uteri lives to be hard and oppressive with the poor, and
who, when they held the civil power, as they often did,
exercised it with • cruel rigour. That freedom of speech
was only possible to him at his own personal peril that
be had himself suffered for it heavily ,'and that politically
i
he was • • serf.' That the laws al priameeniturs and
entail, and those relating to the immelier of land,
amounted together to • Maimed appreprketicit of his
birthright as a man. That landlords preserned game ; and
in order to have the pleasure of killing something, kept or
laid bare great theme of Lad, and so crowded poor men out
of their native country. He wound up thlameneral indict-
ment by a quotation front Scripture: Wee unto them
that thin home to house, that lay geld to Seid, till there
be no place, that they may be planed alms la the midst of
the earth.' I made inquiries about hint afterwards. The
farmer who had employed Min until the beginning of the
strike summed up his belief in biza then: 'He's • peony
man to have shout, bendy end sober and tha
rz t,
zdisat a -headed fool al a fellow—Communist,
It's my belief.' o this the farmer added that • live gad
let live' was Ale motto and that these here Bathed' was
mitsgious. Then, in the belief that he had made • n,
the, farmer blushed and chuckled, and le= q •
comfortable sell•gratillatory way, ashamed of
=nbrticular, have slimy, afforded the world
very amusement and their merit in this way
is se great se ever. A recently-appointed one Nand the
clergy la his Moore in • sad state of demoralisation as
unaided the sewed envies on • Sunday; they had the
suppose
modesty to that one sermon wee for their
and in the afternoon 'Let thetni="
aleasirgrunere, without one. In reply to kis
impostalatbee be received many imemes, and the follow-
ing remarkable epistle : • Dear Jack (what heightened the
hapertineme was that the bishop's name was Jecksoal
some over and take luncheon with me to-morrow, and let
es devise mese plan together to_get out of this blessed
second sermon. Yours truly. ' The writer had seined It.
• of count, and also plead the lame and address of
the reverend friend he was writing to at the top of his
note. He had also written a temporking loner to the
b shop. His whole proceeding.keborti ekbiliitel both
nucleate and badness habits, he had put the two
, letters in the wrung
...reelotea What , atm'
relating this anite.w. I never had the wan trouble
afterwards with either ofthoge two patients: "--61eati••
owes legalise.