The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1885-06-02 00:00:00

A RXMARKABLS ASMC.

A French cornepondent write.: VIM present on
Whit•Nlonday at a n.ligioun ceremony of a very
nmiarkable kind, which In celebrated every year in
the wink church of .truenteuil, a onall town 111.11
the lank* of the Seine, pint mantle Pane, For ten
day. every year, (non .tncerwion limy Whit• Mon•
day, a caaket, containing one of the supposed
fragmenta of the robe or tunic worn by our Lord Pint
before His crucifixion, in carried in pnwismion along
the sinks of the church, and the congregation are
afterwards admitted to view it in the vestry. Many
of your readers will, doubtless, be aware that what in
said to be the exterior rob worn by our Lord in
preserved in the Church of Tri.ven in Germany, but
that if Argenteuil is alleged to be the inner garment
which the Baviour wore, and for which the Homan
soldier.' bat lots. he holy tunic in enthused within
double *bine, and in only exhibited in its entirety
at ran. interval., an it i. planed under meala by the
bishop the dimee.n. i‘'enutillivi), who 111,410 1111,1
authority, under the Pope. to break therri. Thirty
ago the wain were broken by the then
11:
11:ip, As the late Pope had expressed • winh to
have a fragment if the wend garment, and at the
name tine. twu other frag iiiii iits were cut out of it
and placed in two entail Joints, which the faithfu:
arc qiilsVort t.. hi... hurtling at the altar, The Milli
&th %MI in Kra began to crumble away about Ginn.
years ago, and they were renewed by the Bishop of
Versailles Just before the iyhitaun festival, among
those present being the parish prient of Argenteuil,
who tell. me that the holy tunic in made of ismer.
hair, being dark brown in colour, and very much like
the garment which the Ands, of the present day wear
next the 'kin. 11,. adds that it was examined through
a miciesoope, and that all who were prevent unani-
mously agreed that they could detect not !gaica but
traces which they are convinced are of blood. Beyond
remarking that then. in no inherent inipossibility in a
camel'. hair garment being preserved for eighteen
centuries, I do not feel called upon to express ..r
opinion an to the authenticity of thin relic, which,
however, in venerated an mach by all Cetledico, and
believed bythenl to have been slie Dram, ilecting
many liniment... cur.*, among "then, three of the
eldest eon of Lord Clifford, the larul.iia d'Hartourt,
and the Comte de Dania., who was for many year* a
companion of the Comte de Chaantx,rd.

Lord WoMolex'. intended departure from EA' 014
ban' been 'indefinitely ianitisoned.
Sir Peter Lumaden arrived at Constantinople on
Sunday, and he will atart for London tomorrow
(u y).
A wire once kissed her hushand, and said she
" My own sweet Will, how dearly I lose the.
Who ever knew a lady, good or ill,
Who did not dearly love her own sweet will
. . . . . . . .

There has just been discoverod a Swiss girl who is
positemed of two tongues. It is apparent that in this
CINe nature tuade an effort to compolusite for the
sI ortness of human lifs as oompartid with the amount
of talking then. is yet to be done.
Maid ,horpus to his friend the other day —" I
pjam,„l • 11...tat...is in my g&rdon, and what do you
e think cam up !' "Parblieu! &lumens' the friend.
"what a line question ! Why potato.% mane up, of
" N. d at all ;sonic pip came LI Is Mkt Mc them
Thon. resided in Ayrshire a man who proposed, like
Bailey, to write an etymological dictionary of the
Knglish language. Being asked what he undonit.sst
the word ',ethology to mean, he answered with
leadenly* and confidence, "Why, the art of road.
making, to be sure."
Lawyer "Viii say you made an examination of
thejiremisea. What did you find?" Witness "Oh,
nothing of consequence ; a beggady account of empty
boxes, as Shakespeare says." Lawyer : "Never mind
what Shakespeare says. He will be summoned, and
can %notify fur himself if he knows anything about the
case."

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Mrs. M..tay Nltuta, 8, High West iitreet, Dorchester.
Printed and published by EDWARD NRWMAN, at the
Olficea, High Wass street, Duedies,aari an tbe
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