The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-12-05 00:00:00

• DANUFALOUS "POINT."

At flutna Station, in India, as a train came by a
pointamiut the other day woo seen to stagger wildly
*boat and fall down clam to the rails. The train
having passed, there he gull lay, k.lled, as everybody
&ought. Us was not dead, however, but there was an
enormoue sabre twined round his legs. Two or three
men beet the snake and his legs promiscuously till the
former was killed, and the latter much bruised. It
N 0 that in getting out of the way of the train he
trod on the snake. In trying to dodge the snake he
estaagled his feet in the wire that worts tho clime:me
elpiel, and reptile and men rolled under the train.
The woks was frightened and clung to tho men for
protection. The man lay quite II it, and the cow.
@etchers passed one Inch above his nowt. When
help OLISO he got his booting u aforesaid. Let the
pointamen of Ragland real this, and oonsider that
there are people in the world worse oil Chan they.

HOW TO LIVE ON SIXPENCE A WEEK
111440 Smalls, of lure wick, new W•kafield, ins letter
to a sontemporary explains how he manages to live on
stapeeos a week Living in the country a• I do,"
he says, " I am unable to obtain what are celled
iguanas, even it my mesas could afford them; but I
have the advantage of Living nests mill, and from the
Main' I bay the refine of nil Sour, for which I pay
herpes** ones a week. This is the staple of my food.
I maks of this my own breed, the salt, yeast, 004 4
lAA next to nothing. I vary this meal with oontaional
=mewling", been ibis to buy *bout • dozen apples
alio) for Id. ;and, is • luxury. whiah I allow
mysitlf on Sundays, I buy • pennyworth of lard now
and am. This amounts to 'Capone. a week. Ido not
laidaderny driak, as being pare eater. I have it for
ether purposes as well. I have livel on this hot for
awl, twenty yesrs, and sin in excellent health, and
esteem myself most fortunate that I sin as badly off
le I am, for I em beyond the reach of temptation."

AIItifKALIAN MEAT.
"A clergyman's wile" states the ramits of her experl.
sues of Australian meal, over a period of nine months.
When • stew is proposed to be made, the vegetables
should be all coooked knit, the meat only added at the
kmt, to be just warmed through before serviag up. I
OM maks live dinners out of .4Th till of beef amply
walisient for two penises, as follows, in sneassion :
First day cold, with pickles and mustard; amend day,
Irish Mew ; third day, minced very tee, awl mixed
with onethlrd of bread orumbe, put in • shallow dean
Ise•g000d, • Wale water or gravy added, and warmed in
si slow oven for half an hour; fourth day, prepare in
WWI way for Gerry, and the powder, warm in a mum.
pan, and serve with rioe round the dish ; fifth day,
1411110iON, mines the meat and add breed crumbs as above,
goo up an egg with it, season and fry in little askes,
with dry crumbs and egg, like veal cutlets, pour brown
gravy over them when placed in the dish for table. lily
...Tangs, of warm, will not tAMIOO it though lit for
myself and

UNITED STAMM FIVI Pll FUSIDID LOLL —We
maderstand thee Messrs Jay Cooke Ye Calash, and
Coi, statism to negotiate Sae bond; of this loan either
!treads or in mahange ter the dit per Coat Eive-T wee-
Sim which been annuli to redeem A. Five per
Gent United iitntee Loan at par mesas, when we comp-
are it with our truism timmnicie, an absolute absurdity,
sad I. osly to be aosounted for by the high price which
geld Ms emunanded In Amence, and which must as
Is olesliers erld to the value of these bonds, which or.
a favourite mode of laveatment with those
ile=g= for absolute security rather then high dirt.
deeds for Weir snowy. The revenue of She United
limier last you, muomated to L 76,600,000, wallet the
=Ltare wee oaly M.66,400,C X/ leaving upwards of
W for the mitigates of the principal of the
liasioaal Debt, which is now more Mee LII .1,000,0C1
Ismthan it wm as the aloes of the Civil War—is bal.
we al— sash as no other tecatry In the weed can
Thefuaried loan. however, possums, the advon•
kg. o• f
being guaranteed until 1881, when 111. :Mem-
oirs In lOW Si par. Moser% Jay Cooks, IleCulluch,
sad Co. heye announced that investors ta this loan
any have Me blush registered in the purchasers'
ammo si their banking-bense, 41, Lombard-street, and
dividead warrants will be mailed quarterly from the
Mailed Mohr Treasury direst, to she heirless.