The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-03-07 00:00:00

SIAMESS "JUMBO."

according to the /Adios Herald the whole Siamese
oration has uem plungsd into mourning throu,li toe
un.nuely los. of one of the Lupo white ele,,h-nts,
whose o boll dongoation, it appears, we. " itis sub-
ii oe g,atioeur the Curt and tio y Elephant of toe
King. ' We regrst (says the stub oar) LO learn 01 Lt
GLIO animal departed Luis life in a high.y-esmastioioil
unmoor, Laugut with irreparabie oima.sr to the staff
f his household. One moruiug, after • hearty break-
set, he went mad quite unespec.sdly, and trampled
five of his atteudanta to death. To shout him w0u.,1
have been sacrilege. An a tempt to tranquilise I, ,
psrturbed spirit by encircling him with a hu,e no.;
holy bamboo? spec ally b.eiseed by the High Pact
his own peg LlCKliat taillpiLl, proved worse thou melt.-.-
teal; for he broke through the ring and ail but
tern/loafed the High PflOOL'll career upon the ap.t.
He was then with great difficulty driven into a dupe
oourt of the palate, where, after several furious en-
&favours to batter down the walls with his tusks, he
sod lenly toppled over on his side, and uttered a
last cry of rage. Naturally enough this homy
calamity was attributed ti orb:Mail carelessness on
the part of one or other of the attendant* ectrusted
with the sacred itlephsnis feeding. The King there-
fore interrugated the memoirs of his dmolium
Graudeur's Household in person trial reepett to their
treatment of the illustrious deceased, and, failing to
elicit soy individual confession of delinquency, &creed
that they should one and All be punished. Haviog
thus vindicated propriety his fifhjesty assumed toe
gsro of woe, and tri understood to be still inowisoloole
for his loss."

MR. OSCAR WILDE IN AMEBA:A.
Ameiicans have succeeded in extracting a larze
amount of amusement from Oscar Wilde's vislt. There
CU • slight divosition at first to take him ..eriously,
but his pretence, observations, and personal aspect
speedily dispelled it. It was impoedble to consider
seri .u.ly • min who boldly expressed himself di.
apponted eith the Atlantic Omen. The literai7
classes protested at the outset snakes receiving him or
con.id ring him MI a literary man, and some of them
were moved to mach indignation on the subject. This
feeling continued for a time even after his arrival, but
I think it may safely be said to have disappeared now,
for it I ,ng since became apparent that the p
were viewinditiat in ire as an interestingicuriosity then
as either an author or an apostle of art, His test
lecture dispelled all chance of his being cousidered in
any other light. Ooe heard a great deal about his hair
and his knee-breeehes, and very little about his lecture.
The best thing I heard said &Dant it was the remark of
a bi Wit young lady that it was " Ru.kin and water.'
Sods ly, Mr. Wide'. MOMSs was not great. lie wits
given receptions by the Mrs. Leo Hunters, but f.er
other people noticed him. There was at al, these places
chorus of rapturous maidens about him, and .me of
them was heard te remark: "Oh, Mr. Wilde, yoo
have been adored in New York, biotin Boston you will
las worshipped !" "But I do not wish to be a.l-
- I." was the modest r .ply. The nearest &him; to
a snub which Mr. Wilde received here was at the Cen-
tury Club, which is composed of our met eminent lite-
rary men—writers, preschers, and others. Mr. Wilde
attended the club's monthly meeting at the inrit &on
of a tingly member, whose wife had been one of the
ladies in et conspicuous In the lionising attentions
showered upon his. Many members of the club re-
fused to be presented to hint at all, and the wh.lo
a-mo•phere of the place during his visit was very chilly.
Orie veteran member, who took affairs more jovially
awl, I am bound to say, more sensibly, west sb ut
saying, "Where is she f Have you seen her? Well,
why not asy 'she'? I understand she's • Cher-
i the-Ann!" Outside New York the liberties taken
with the dignity of the distiuguithed visitor have been
much greater. What the Harvard students did in
13 ,ston, you know. h Rochester they were even mores
boist-rous. They dressed up a viewable negro in foil
ledbetic costume, knee-breeches, white wsietcoat, and
swalloweall coat, with an immense snuff wer in his
bath mho's, and sent him mincing down the 'entre aisle
in the middle of the lecture. The negro enjoyed the
larku,,.skiibl
and carried
uproar edourot the part
and
rtwthso muchth lecture
wthat
en
rtickl with only a few people left to hear it. la
Chicago, where Mr. Wilde is at present, the trades-
looil ere getting their share of fun ~at of him. An
ent-Trisleg clothing dealer published • striking ad'
vert:seotent in the Downpipes, which b,re at its bead
a full length cut of Air. Wilde, sunioeer, ko•s*
breech.., and other aocompeudmente, with this inscrip-
tion under It: " Ouster. 'he seseehete, buys his seethes
of us." It is net surprising that after • 'sceptic* like
this, Mr. Wilde should thy to the inevitable Chicago'
interrieWera "Our city looks positively too droori to
Inc"

i• • r
$