The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-01-28 00:00:00

LITERARY EXTRACTS.

STRONGLY ATTAORZD.—Many kinds of mites are
blind. I would express the fart more correctly by
saying they have no eyes. Fastened upon their food,
they have no need of eyes to guide them when searching
for it. The Hebrew name of these creatures (oinniml
comes from • root signifying to fix or establish, and
these ticks lodge themselves firmly in man and in beast,
gorging themselves with blood and juices. Dr. Adam
Clark says of the oinnim, or Acarus sariguisugus, that it
is the fixed or established insect, permitting itself to be
torn to pieces rather than withdraw its hold, and lite-
rally burying its head and trunk in the flesh of its prey.
—All the Year Round,

MrXED MARRIAGES IN TUREET.—What would be said
in London if one of the attendants of the Turkish Em-
balmy were to arrest a citizen, and, on a policeman inter-
fering in his defence, take both citizen and policeman
into custody, and imprison them in come den of the
Turkish Embassy? Something very like this is stated
on good authority to have taken place in Constanti-
nople. A Mahoinedan, a man of great talents, and
moving in • respectable circle, for very many years
resided in Europe, professing the Christian faith, during
which time he married • Christian women, and lived
with her for Many years. In • late visit he paid to
Loudon be left his wife abroad and contracted a second
marriage with an English woman much younger and
better looking than his first wife. He returned to Con-
stantinople with his second wife, on which the first wife
brought an action against him at the British consnlate
at Pera for maintenance, and obtained • sentence in her
favour. This the husband treated with contempt, as he
returned to the faith of Mahornet. However, the
English judge, on finding his sentence not complied
with, issued an order for his arrest, and gave it to an
Englishman to carry it into effect, who started across
the bridge at Galata into Stamboul, walked into the
residence of the man he sought, and arrested him. In
passing back to the consulate the prisoner appealed to a
Turkish policeman for protection, and he seemed
inclined to give it, on which the Englishmen collared
both, and lodged them safely in the consulate. The
man with two wifes, however, got of on being claimed
by the Turkish authorities as a Mahomedan, and a
Turkish subject. The first wife, therefore, cannot
obtain any subsistence from him, and the second,
t3/4 'ugh& young Englishwoman of goodladnoation, lives in
his 'harem,' and conforms to all the usages of Maho-
medan women. The gentleman who stated this bad
long resided in Constantinople, and speaks the language
fluently, and he states that he has mixed with several
English women living with Turks in precisely the same
manner, but they always studiously avoid being recog-
nised; ani how he mune te know of it was from his
being mistaken for a Turk."

The Rev. Richard Pering Cornish, perpetual curate
of Ivybridge, near Plymouth, has resigned his living
from s conscientious conviction that he cannot accept
the articles and rubrics of the church in the literal and
unqualified sense which is required of her ministers.
It is stated that this conviction has been strengthened
by • perusal of the now famous "Essays and Reviews."

Foa CLIIRING Till WWI AND RILIBVIR 0 THE HURT AND
Lraos, no ,medicins is equal to Dr. Looocrs PUIJIONIC WAWA.
From Mr. Thomas, Druggist, Pansy.— "1 from eerienee
can vouch for their efficacy In clearing the voles and easing
the action of the lungs. Their sedative qualities in diseases
of the heart are also great, Without irritation or the symptoms
incident to the use of opium, and other usual remedies.'

Di. LOCOCVA POLIIORIC Weimar' give instant relief and a
rapid cure of asthma, consumption, coughs, and all disorders
id the breath and lungs. All throat affections are immediately
relieved by allowing one occasionally to dissolve in the mouth.
To singers and public speakers they are Invaluable for clearing
and strengthening the voice. They have. plearant taste.
Price Is. 'did., es. ed., and lls per box. Sold by all medicine
vendors. CAUTION.—Xvory box of the emotes medicine hes
the word. " Da. Lococe's Wassail" in white leers on a red
ground In the Government Stamp, without which words Al,!,
AU catamarans AID AS urrosnloa.