The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-07-13 00:00:00

Yarietio.

Be cheerful, but not light; solid, but not sad.
There is a man at Brixton so fat that a child was
reoently killed by his shadow falling upon his.
When is an author most like a puppy ?—When be
carries his tale with him.

The man who moved an amendment injured his spine
by the operation.
Lightning rods take the misehief out of the elands—
enlightening rods take it out of bad boys.
Washing shirte wears them out. When they get
dirty, rub them over with Walk. " Boonomy is
wealth."
Whatever may be the reputation of • man while alive,
when dead he is generally allowed to be a Psis/real
gentleman. . _

- A young man suspected of cupboard courting said,
"Inifeed ido love your Patty dearly."—" Yes," said her-
father, but "it is my veal patti."
"How came such a grimy mess in the oven?' said a
fidgetty spinster to her maid-of-all-work. "Why," re-
plied the poor girl, "the candles fell into some water,
and I put them into the oven to dry."
A conscientious person affirms that be ones in his life
beheld people "minding there own business I" This
remarkable occurrence happened at sea, the passengers
being "too sick" to attend to each other's ioneerns.
PRINTERS AND WONLN. —" Good wonting, Mr.
Henpeck," said • Yankee printer, in search of female
compositors, "have you got any daughters that would
make good type-settere r —"No :hot I have got a wife
that would make • very fine ' devil.'"
SUPERLATIVII GOOD—Judge Hoer, of Meseenhusetill,
being told that one who used to be givea to sharp pre..
tic* wee getting more circumspect, replied, "ht hes
reached the superlative of life—he began by seeking to
get on, then he sought to get honour, and now he mobs
to pt hottest"
_ WATIR AS FOOD.—Tell the first men you meet that
water is on the whole more nutritious than roe* beef,
and that common salt, or bone ash, is as much an edible
as the white of eggs, and it is probable that he will threw
anxious gleams across the street to "mum himself yowr
keeper is at hand. Make the same statement to the
first man of science you Meet, and the chances are that
he will think you very ignorant of organic oheinialry, or
that you are playing with a paradox. Nevertheleas,
Is demonstrably true, and never would have worn the
air of a paradox, if men lied steadily conceived the im-
pure of an alimentary substance, that is, an aliment
which nourishes ; whatever we find in the organism, as
a constant and integre' element, either forming part of
its structure or one of the conditione of vital promisee,
that, and that only, deserves the name of aliment If
to nourish the body" mean to sustain its force and
repair its waste—if food entire into the living structure
—and if all the integral constituents of that etrueturs
are derived from food—there can Its nothing improper
in designating as nutritious, sabot/moss 'blab have an
enorinoue prelanderenos among the Integral °earths's".
People who think 10 paradoxical to *all water food will
ague their surprise on learning that water forms two.
thirds of the living body.—Bkokwood.

BANKRUPTS.
(From the London Game of Tneeday.)
Jamas Hume, Greenfield, High-titreet, Hampstead,
shipowner.
William Owen Tooker, Lea Bridge•road, boon, builds*.
Edward Carr, Biruangliain, draper.
Brownlow, New &dorsi, Nolllughasuskire,
groom.
Philip Corm, Plymouth, wheelwright.
Henry Wilson, Footsies* moor.
Joaep-h Wood, Bradford, Yorksblre,
John SelleillY, Liverpool, niaaufeethrer of fang seeps.
(Brow the Lumdon of Friday.)
Alfred Skeen awl Mobilo& Truman, Old BroadAreet
timber broker%
George Job's', A__ ,tot DethY, MC".
Sausedeu aley, Halifue,

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