The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-02-11 00:00:00

WINTIMBOANS 411.2/11111.

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Taxematioa BISTIZTaIeMarr. —A. most pleasing '
end encoseeful everthur was spent on Friday, Fab.
ma,' 7th, whom the choir of the Dorchester Total
Abstinence Society gave an entertainment in . the
Baptist Chapel. There warn a very geed &Madinat,
aotweltbetang tie inclemency of the weather. Miss
A. Potincy ably amompassiect tit. Ming On lb.lb.
harmonium, aod Mr. Itiduirds son..tbs various
pieces, c immenting and giving good advice between
them. The choir sang capital selections from their
melody biok, sad were greeted with load applause.
Misses Edwards and Harman mil Wawa Kerslake
and Curtiss rendered valuelde amsiatasace in singing
three quartettes. A tsio by Meters. Allen, Sottish*,
and etirth van well received, and Mesera Wescott
and Kerslake plumed the mastic* very much with
maim& Appropriate recitations were given by Miss
Lewes, G. If smbnry, and F Hardy. Perhaps the
dialogues were the most important feature of the
entertainment, the various parts being taken by
Mimes Lewes and Witheymen, Messrs. Ostler,
Wescott. Richards, Clark, Allen, Kerslake, and
Hmeybun. They brought forth roan of laughter
from the audience by the humorous way in which the
psrts ware taken. Mr. W. Pommy (Dorcholesal
spoke a few words on temperance, sad the u
votes
was busuprbt to a close by singing a verse of the
National Anthem.
of thanks being Paused, a moat enjoyable evening

ISOAD WAY.
A LAWS Boa —A parisblower living near the aura
bas the past week taken front tbe nest of his fowls.
Zan egg whkk weighed fool ounoes,six inches rotutd and
Moine round oblong way. The bird ere nod to
be crowed between Hondas' and Brahma.

Ws are pluered to hear that not only have the
Great Western Railway placed upon the Weymouth
and Portland line • euperi•rr clam of carriages, the
third class being cushioned, but have great liacreseed
their popnl.ritv in the eyes of the subtle the way
they have intioduce I the continuous brake, known
&modem's patent on the "vacuum" principle, which,
owing to the peculiar oonstruction of the line at
certsin points, will greatly tewl to the prevention of
accidents, as • train going at full speed can be almost
instantly brought to • stustaill, the engine-driver as
well as the guard having perfect control over the
brake, which acts upon every wheel of the train. The
engine is • powerful one, is w.vrkel by • trusty driver
of the company. Dan Hardy, who In onijunation
with our old and favourite guard, Mr.
Tomlinson, is working the trains and the heakl::.‘Treila
wonderful regularity. We wish the Great Western
every WOMB.

Ti 17ene on • Brugmaon. —Providence ic ever
kind to Prank Bockland and no wonder, whoa he is
such an ardent believer in His ways, and turns his
broad back upon all these seodern, heterodox, evobs-
=doctrine• ra He has provided for Pnk's
Aelight a gigantic sturgeon, which was netted
In the North flea off Heligoland last wedueeday, and
deposited on view at Chartres, Buckingham Palace-
road. It is the lergset known in our time, and is
the brood-n wed sturgeon (Acipmeer hum/. 'sighs
5 cwt. 2 qrs. TMs., and is eleven and a half feet long.
There is joy and work in store for Prank during the
casting, which is to be dons Oh weak at Mr. Charles's
expense. If we ere to take the great etiologist's word
for it, the mission of the sturgeon does net end with
the casting; but after the bones (which tuna out like
the purest ivory after boiling) are sect to the Museum
of the Collage of Surinam a good cook can serve
up fish, Anis, and fowl out of the remaion— Work&

KVAITIMIT has noCced in the lids of winning num-
bers in the gra Ids in du Paris Lot' ery that the
eleventh maim has been exceptionally favoured. There
were 1277 prises and twelve eerie.. The chants., of
each aeries being supposed equal. the average rigild of
each series to winning numbers was 1271 divided by
12, or 106. Al UN drawing took place by daily instal-
ments of SOO prises, the average daily right of mob
WIN WM 25. Now the fact is that the eleventh series
woo 31 privi on the first day. 3900 the aecond n on
the third, 25 oe the fourth ; in all DO prizes, or about
one-third more than the average. I have hailed the
circumstance with patriotic glee, as it happens that
nearly all the tickets sold in London belonged to the
eleventh and twelfth series ; and I most consequently
infer that the British backer has been especially
stomeasful. It is worthy of notice that, with charm>
teristic discretion, none of say countrymen has, as yet,
given the outsides to understand that be is the fortu-
nate winner of • single 0111100,11111/iMP or • hundredweight
of soda. It ought not In be supposed, on the other
hand, that the fact was wholly due to chance. Ch&ncse
It has often been add,is only th• natural consequence of
unforeseen causes. Li the present cam it irk motet
than probable that the dodm gond whitel of fortune,
which was used to draw the winning series, bad •
tendency, from some imperfection in Its Wanes to
stopping on number IL No such thing as aTraect
wheel of (attune has ever been eonstructed. • idea
Itself is in contradiction with the most elementary
laws of statics. Moreover, it is obvious th 4 giTell a
oertain wheel, starting from a certain point, and sent
rolling with • ce-tain form. It would always stop on
the same number. The Mensal of startlarpoint
and motive-power la the only remedy, and it proves
generally an effective on• Still, it has been noticed
that with • certain wheel there is always a prevalence
of • given number. In the present Instance the pre-
valent number was 11.