The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-10-14 00:00:00

-IWO anti Wilts.

Motben.tn.law have beau the jest of the Impudent
ever since the imrjamta rioserce of the Latins; but in
Dorcherter, I hoer it whimpered, a fether.in.law is to
be relied oe, in tender matter., even if you have to do
your week upon tkk.

me late shot:Mashie ouusge may well evoke the
amity of those who are content to give moderately,
bet who will not be weary in well-doing. Tbe poor
NUM girl is by DO means recovered from her hart%
lead jedielous, not lavish, assistance will be well
bestowed.

After all the writing of correspondents about Supt.
Cloward's Galaxy, it turn. out that the soperintendent
eely toed to have about MOO a year. not much more
than would have made him liable for income tax under
tho old *Vim, and now he salary I. raised he will
not have enough to make him liable to help the Chan-
cellor of the Krchequer at the new Mk. The Coundi
cannot be said to be extravagant in this instance, con-
sidering what our superintendents have charge of and
whit each officers get in other towns-

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Our Borough Surveyor hit a blot when he pointed
out how desirable it is to have water-fittings of turn.
olest strength. From the frequency with which the
oometeut supply of Dorchester Is mud AI, one would
think the plumbers were in league with the pubs.

"Whirit eid og, wham is my Bonnie Statue gone r
I mentally hummed before that excellent concert on
Thursday night. That bust, too youthful x be
Miser el Victoria Indio Imperstrit , but the charming
counterfeit of a beloved sod popular Queen was not
visible, and wren shortaightionew could not explain
the non-appearance of the white marble carving and
the slabs for which tliti chinney-floss so kindly left
ram at the end of the Town Hall. I fear that royal
sardrhful bee is 'till in the cupboard, a care sods
to the verierstde hall-keeper, who must have
Ide week be:nosed if he keeps the Statue free of
coheres sod dust. "Madame " should ortainly be
gives him to keep Rae Haleity's face clean while the
Isee round her neck 111107191.11 the dere tint, be fashion-
Gbh a old "point."

Waning why the Town Hall gets so much dustier
sow then in old times, I got an Wcling of the reason
an Thursday night. in spite of the plasm. obtained
at the cermet, almost all who had been sitting Diltri
til• wails went out more or lim loollag blue, for some
over-woo:egad colourist seems to hare been too
LartLf the else, and the blue-wash comes away on
clothes. Some sympathiser (he must
hare ban • wag) declared that a former Council tom.
mittea, wishing to odour the waUs, ilwrally west into
Ws highways siter a colourist. Perhaps this WM in
the times when lapis lmafo was used to put on the
roads, before they got from it ultramarine. for then it
might have been easy to use blue road•ectminircer,
smear the walla. If the Connell want the
modesseely clews, the, should give it • coat of paint a
Saw lest up from the door.
When the Hall is ;minted and made at forth. "free
eristocests" of DoscUiSer, I suPpcos the bust will
appear ia the platform niche; but in Ulll 111141“4111111,
in thilell seems • scarcity of heavy weights for testing
weighbridges, could not the °mace rend the lumpy
host and psd.tal to the Impactor, and hare them
verified and stamped as etandard waghte f If I
meember rightly, • couple of stout men bad to bear
the burden when last they wereed in tiss light of
the Council Chamber. Proby they could be made
even owls., and Quo the useful and ornamental coin-
tibia. What more likely to impress tradesmen with
the majesty of the law and impedes*, at full weights
than the sight of Her !Welty 's but la the Kelm?