The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-03-30 00:00:00

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A reporter sent to the printing-oat°. • notice of an
inquest; and the printer meddling with the verdict,
'amok out • comma after the word " apoplexy," making
It read thus :—" Deceased came to his death by excel.
sive drinking, produoing apoplexy in the minds of the
jug."
The nerve which never relaxes, the eye which never
blenohee, the thought which never wanders—tlieee are
the masters of victory.
He who finds pleasure in vioe, and pain in virtue, is a
novice in both.

See what I am, not what my father was, is an old and
excellent Arab saying.
TEmexit.—Of all qualities, a sweet temper is perhaps
the one least cultivated in the lower ranks of life. The
peculiar disposition is not watched ' • care is not taken
to distinguish between the passionate child, the sulky, the
obstinate, and the timid. The children of the poor are
allowed • latitude of speech unknown among the
higher orders ; and they are free from the salutary re-
etraint imposed by what is termed "company." When
in the enjoyment of full health and strength, the sin.
governed temper of the poor is one of their most strik-
ing faults; while their resignation under affliction,
whether mentally or bodily, is the point, of all others,
in which the rich might with advantage study to imitate
them.

."‘'Ffili MONARCH OF WATIRTALLN. —ln Mariposa
oounty is situated the far famed Yohamite Valley.
This valley in most fertile in its nature, is evergreen,
ornamented with immense trees, and watered by a
beautiful clear stream. It is surrounded by rocks, some
of which rim perpendicularly to a height of 3,000 feet.
At one extremity the river Merced enters the valley
over the rocks, precipitating itself 3,100 feet into the
depths below. This is amomplished by one great plunge
of 2,100, and two other minor ones of respectively WO
and 400 feet. It is by far the most magnificent water-
fall in the world, rolling a volume of water, equal in
the rains, to the Thames at Richmond, and tumbling it,
without more ado, over a precipice of the immense
height above described.—Cahfornia, by E. Seyd.
A young Tennessee clergyman says :—" Oh, my
brethren, the snowiest shirt front may conceal an aching
bosom, and the stiffest of all-rounders encircle a throat
that has many a bitter pill to swallow."
Southey says, in one of his letters —"I: have told you
of the Spaniard who always put on his spectacles when
about to eat cherries, that ti,ey might look bigger and
more tempting. In like manner I make the inset of
my enjoyment ; and though I do not cast my eyes away
from my troubles, I pack them in as little oompass as I
can for myself, and never let them annoy others.'
CHERRFULNESS.—Try for a single day, I beseech you,
to preserve yourself in an easy and cheerful frame of
mind. Be but for one day, instead of a fire-worshipper
of passion and hell, the sun worshipper of clear self-
possession ' • and compare the day in which you have
rooted out the weed of dissatisfaction with that on
which you have allowed it to grow up, and you will
find your heart open to every good motive, your life
strengthened, and your breast armed with a panoply
against every trick of fate; truly you will wonder at your
own improvement—jean Paul Richter.
TRLESCOPEB.—Lord Roese's monster telescope, which
stands on the lawn in front of his lordship's seat, near Bel-
fast, is 58 feet long, and the focal length is 52 feet. The
tube is 7 feet in diameter, and fixed between subetantial
masonry, the two granite walls, which are 24 feet apart,
measuring 72 feet in length, 56 feet high inside, and 48
feet outside. The machinery which works the telescope
is fixed to these walls. There are two speeulte cast for
this monster instrument, one of which weighs four
tons and the other three. They are of brilliantly
polished copper and tin amalgamated. A man of 6 feet
high can wrth ease walk down the tube to the speculum.
His lordship has on the lawn another telescope, the tube
of which is 26 feet in length and the focal length 27,
fixed in wood framework and turning on a pivot. On
the ground close by is a circle 'narking the cardinal
points, for the purpose of regulating this instrument,
and there are also two mirrors belonging to it which
measure 3 feet in diameter. /a his lordship's chorea-
-1 t.,ory is another large telescope, Olt it is ogled the
one.

When reminded of their want of progress in %Tient.
ture and manufacture*, the PP•eis.rds relate a legend.
that Adana, onoe upon • time, sNuested leave to reviujt
this world—onoe his paradise. This leave was &Tented,
and an angel commissioned to sendlice him, on winp
of love the patriarch hastened to his native earth. But
so changed, so strange all seemed to him, that he felt
at home nowhere until he came to Portugal. ph,
here," exclaimed he, " set me doers l&—evarything
here is just as I left it.