The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-09-08 00:00:00

LITERARY EXTRACTS.

How YRLLOW Braun= Rum wire OUT or
FRsllloX.—llrs. Anne Turner, a woman of splendid
beauty but abandoned character, introduced, in the
reign of James L, the fashion of yellow starched ruffs,
and for a time these were all the vogue. But Yrs.
Turner having oompamed, with Sir Robert Carr, and
Frances Howard, Countess of Somerset, the foul murder
of Sir Thomas Overbury, and being sentenced to death
by Lord Chief Justice Coke' he ordered that "as she
was the person who had brought yellow Parched ruffs
Into vogue, she should be hanged in that4iress, that the
same ought end in shame and deastation. The strange
order was carried out, and Yrs. Turner was hung at
Tyburn in yellow ruffs, the hangman being similarly
decorated, The fashion straightway sank into disrepute.
"London Society" for September.
POULTRY FOR FIR linarow.—The marvel and mystery
of our importation of qpp and poultry from the
Continent see pa great as they were ten years ago. We
are always raying, all over the country, that we cannot
conceive why we do not raise fowls enough to supply our
own needs, seeing how cheaply they may be managed
and how little trouble they give. It used to be ruppoeed
that every cottage on any common, or in any law. had
fowls stepping and picking about the gable end; and it
has been considered an evidence of the dulness of the
labouring class in the rural districts that they have not
their poultry-rearing as the demand from the
towns increased. We see fowls swarming in every farm-
yard, and round the malster's and distiller's granaries;
and here and there we bear of an establishment for the
rearing of poultry alone; but the wanta of the popula-
tion are very far indeed from being met. Even if we
raised fowls enough to supply the tables of the gentry
aL:iittisreeent, we should have to ask why other people
not eat poultry as well as the gentry. If there
were poultry enough raised, every cottager in the
country, and every town labourer, might as well hare
a fowl for his dinner as a rasher of bacon. The high
price is altogether artiScial, as any traveller in a variety
of countries can tell. It I. the scarcity which makes
the high prices; and it is the desultory and un -
sire way in which the rearing of fowls is managed which
makes the profite of that department so precarious as
we are assured they are. The experience of foreigners
justifies us in this conclusion—Cure a Week.
Caisouxe terns Owen sum; Bolorirre.—A_tfnel
illustration of the cyclical chancier of fashion its
tendency to repeat itself—is afforded by the expansive
"crinolines" which so excite the horror of Dr.Lankester,
and stimulate the humorous fancy of John Leech.
" There is nothing new tinder the sup;" not even hoops l
Pope speaks of the " the sevenfold fence "--

- ;stir cii. hoes, sod ...sr slur 'use 4
But oar modern fair ones have Improved upon the
devises of their fore-mothers and use light beads of deed,
which sre not only expansive but compressible. The
extaiit amplitede in which the leaders of the mode
indulged some few months ego was net, howrrer, more
offensive than the indecorous scantiness of attire effeeted
by the beauties of the second George's reign, when the
waist was pushed up to the very arm-pits, end tight,
close-fitting habiliments revealed without improving the
female figure. Fancy a damsel thus attired, with an
old Oldenburg bonnet thrusting out its peak a foot or
two before her, half e-dosen patches upon her face, her
hair powdered and frizzled, her aloes red, with
enormously high heel.; and to her, as the old play-
books say, let there enter. "beak* or " macearoni." in
s coat of light green, with sleeves too small for the arms,
and buttons too big for the sleeves, • per of tight Man-
chester .tiff breeches, clouded silk stottMgll, Ml:drawl
back from the forehead, plaetered, powdered, • pen-
dant behind in • long queue, and the whole surmounted
by • hat too small to corer one's head, and too large to
put in one's pocket. You have then an d-/o-erode
,krephon and Chloria, fit to warble the melodies of Della
Cruecen poets and languish over the inanities of the
novels of the Minerva prees.—From "London Society"
for September.
A Pant:Mona CLEROTIttn.—A remarkable Instead*
el the cold and hunrr ',Wend by rau_rialt, Pimps
rather than part with their money la affordod by an
extraordinary miaer, rho had a small curacy in the
dainty of Barka He hails salary of fifty pounds a-year
dad the glebe-haw. the rector being non-resident. And
It is laid by one of his parishioner, well knew him
personall , that for greet number year* be never
one farthing cd ealary, t subsisted err.
tie* en the eurplice fees which averaged half-a crown
• week. Ilia salary and about thirty pounds a-year, the
=rof a small patrimony, he regularly invested
ime to time in the funds. For the first year
Air lib SO taring on the
V curacy, he boarded at the
iteolf=of the farmers, where he partook freely ri
fate; and at this time he wad rather in-
Pit corpulency; but when be took to keeping
house for himself, be soon became asesselvely teen.
Edwqnarterx loaf wits his allowance for • week, and
*fill thin nileeof hewn *is the whole di his:4
thla, he had the briery of tea, of chi& a
spoonful discoloured • large quantity of water. 111
firing (such as it was) was supplied by dry sticks and
amid weeds casually picked up; but he used frequently
to cell on some of him parishioners for the sake of
gettinge • good warming at their fires. As for clothing
had a tolerably decent coat for Sundays, but for
week-days' use, he is said to have worn for thirty yeses
the seine coat with which he came to the parish Of
ammo it often needed patches, which be supplied by
eating elf plena from the 'iris; so that the coat
gredually degenerated into a jaeltht. On one oceuien,
as the narrator confidently asserts, be observed a scare-
crow which had a het better than his own, and there-
fore took the liberty of making an exchange. A. for
his habitation, the rector would not keep the glebe.
house in repair ; •o that the rain cause in, and drove the
curate suocessively from room to room, till at length he
was confined to the kitchen, which for many years was
his sole habitation. The man who was thins SCOUIDU.
biting wealth of which he made no use, warn so far from
enjoying unalkey.4 happiness in err dame, that to, es.
thrown into the deepest distress by the redaction of in-
toren on • portion al the Oossernmeedetock belonging
to him; and fretted exeseallely at hatiog on one
ocarion to pay the postage of • letter. When sha
many years he was dismissed from the curacy, he re-
solved to visit his own country, Wales, and see what
relatives he had surviving. As loon as this became
known, it was surprising what • number of cougars
made their appearance, all vying with each other in
their hospitable attention to the old man. He was
overwhelmed with Invitations to their houses and tables.
But the sudden change of diet proved fatal to him.
Ample and substantial meals after such long abstinence,
in which the digestive organs had ao little to do,
brought his life to an end Within the year.—Bate,
SAreserect, sad Thistle.

MAUI ASTOINITIIeS Hair, during bar Imprisons's'',
became completely colourlesa Such champs of colour
may now be completely restored by Herring's Magnetic
Brushes, ka , of which Dr. Hamill reports, "I regard
them as the most perfect Brushes hitherto made, as
respects their mechanical construction, and their
Magnetic:al action." They are THE remedy for (bey
Hair, Neuralgia, Rheumatism, ka.
11.8.—Amiterfeita temp mask
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Offices, 32, Tisobsiball-•troot, Load On.
A Saw itzrtaertox. —Throe thinp aro needed to
make • oboorful ; happy bon, • joyous bless,
Lod List not least, • brilliant grabs which mdeMe ell
these eats • mirror. This lest never looks so bright as
when polished with the " DIAMOND lliacm Lamt."—
Rookiti k Sou, Lomita Bridge, 8.C., sad Hell.
Retailed by a Oilman, Cbazadlora, Grocers, bow
mongers, kr,.

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lnrkseartwe Eirwatumer.—Placo on the upper
bar of a grate, with the heads projecting about one Melt
inwards, some ordinary Lueilers—ut • few montenta they
ignite. Then in the same position place a few of the
p tent Safety Matches of -Bryant and May, London,
ZNICH ONLT ON Tat DIM,) and it will be found
t they may remain for boon—in fact until the wood
becomes literally charred—without taking Sr.. We look
on this as • singularly interesting oenlr,nahon of the
Safety of the new Match. Care must be taken in both
eases to avoid actrum. contest with leas

A neat Buossixo.—No parent or invalid should fail to
"alien's." One trial vnll rudee to show the correctness
of the,' ury of the late Fabibitionin proclaiming" aizena"
ezmedingly mealiest fer food," and awarding to it the
two sad only prize asseiels given to any article of its kind.
Now that it is becoming more generally known, our first
physicians are recommending it es the bem„ lightest, most
palatable, and most nutrit.ous food for invalids and chil-
dren and prepared according to the directions given, it
may be made into the most &llama custards, puddings,
crews, blancmanges, and • score of exquisite dishes,
skating • wonderful saving in eon, Mintier, 10.