The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-01-03 00:00:00

PICKINGS FROM "PUNCH."

ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE. —" The revival of the
Monastic System within the English Church, would,"
said the Reverend Vicar of Bray, "bring back evil
times to the Church." " Nay, my friend," quoth
Brother Ignatius, "%would restore not the evil but
the mediceroa/ times." Bo saying, he retired
A CHRISTMAS PRESENT. —The tip of the year.
NO CURE AND HIGH PAT.—Quack medicine not only
does not cure the simpletons who have recourse to it,
but makes them worse. The practice of • quack
doctor is the moat objectionable of all sine-cures.
SEASONABLE SE ,TUIENT. —Let charity reign supreme
from the twenty-fifth of December, and let all party.
feeling be dropped, except a Christmas-party feeling,
very jolly, good-natured, and happy.
QUERIES FOR THE NAVAL SCHOOLS. —When a boat
puts off for fresh meat, does it go on 'a leg of mutton
sail 2" How should you proceed if you were ordered
to rig —the market? Has the 'christening" of a ship
anything to do with its " conversion r
FROM BIRCHIN LANK .--Strange that schoolboys should
chriitmas, seeing that it comes at the fag-end of the
year.
MEDALS FOR MERRY MIN.—OU the entry into Berlin
1 of the guards returning from the pillage of Denmark,
And the slaughter of the Danes? according to one of
Renter's telegrams: —"The King of Prussia made •
speech in which he said that the guards had added a
new leaf to their glorious history. He announced that
medals of commemoration would be granted to them,
and special medale to those regiments who had borne a
part in the assaults upon Dfippel and Alien." The new
led which the heroes, who, as the agents of his Prussian
Majesty, have wrested Schleswig and Holstein from
Denmark, and plundered Jutland, will be generally
tionsidered to have added to the history of Prussia, is
a leaf which we may take leave to call a cabbage-leaf.
The history of Prune's is what • King who glories in
robbery calls glorious, in as far as it consists of similar
leaves. The medal which the King of Prussia intends
to bestow on his merry men should be ramped with
the device of a cabbage leaf, and the special medal
whereby be designs to reward those of them that were
concerned in the bloodshed of Alsen and Diippel, shmld
be emblazoned with • very crimson leaf of the red
o.bbsge.

A correct idea of the high estimation the public have
for Horniman's pure tea, may be formed from the fact,
that twelve thousand feet of warehouse-flooring are in
constant working occupation by their st,.ff of packers,
and that they have the largest stock of duty-paid tea in
London to supply their agents, who number about
two thousand. The advantages their arrangements
afford consumers are great, for tea ordinarily passes
through numerous bands, and has to bear multiplied
profits: from the Chinese grower it passes to the
merchant, next to the tea broker—then to the London
wholesale dealer, afterward& to the provincial trader,
and finally to the retailer ;—but by Horniman k Co's.
mode of supply, all they import is sold direct to the
public by agents, secured in sealed packets with the
' price printed on the label; therefore, upiform good
value is gnamnteed to cnnsumers. As imitstions abound
see all are signed by Hornimsn and Co., original im-
porters of the pure tea. List of local agents in this
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