The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-02-16 00:00:00

LUESAItY SELECTIONS.

Ilan was created on the lam day; eyes the gnat has
• more ancient lineage.

A mathematician startina from false data is sure to
arrite st a false result ; but it is far otherwise with
theory, for Ulm theoriee cen, and fonStantly do,
conduct to true facts. Thus Columbus s counternoies
theory of the earth led to the diroorery of Americo,
although that theory was thelesa essentially
falee.—PßOYEArinit ntA AND
SPY 7•REPPECT AND SET.7.llltrEmmorrs.—Be end
continue root% young man, while others around you
WOW rich be freed and dielnyalty ; be without place
en Power, while others heir their way coward, boo.,
.he rein of diaappointed hones, while other, gala
"Yin b• flattery forego the gracious nreeaure of the
hand, for which others °Anus and crawl. Wren your.
self in roar own •irtne, and seek a friend and your
daily b.road. if you have, in each a room, ROWS
gray with unblenChed honour, bleep God and di..

•
TIM* AWDkfretrY.—kfany people take no care of
their mone• till they have oome nearly to the end of
It, and otbere do just the same with their time.
Their beet days they throw away—let them run like
send through their fingers, as long is they think
they still have an almost countless number of thcm
to mend ; but when they find their days flowing
rapidly away, so that at last they have very few left,
then they will at once make a very wise use of them ;
but, unluckily, they hays by that time no notion how
to do it.

CoAt AND SIINBKAafft—A lump of coal, it is often
said, is made op of sunbeams. We could believe this
more readily of the diamond, which ia just • crystal
of coal, fur iii. so bright and sparkling, and makes
brilliant sunshine in a shady place. Rut even the
dull black coal has been formed of the sunshine of long
Forgotten summers. Every sunbeam that fell upon
the club raceme and ferns of the old coal forests ena-
bled them to withdraw the minute unison carborr
from the air, and to form out of it their own solid
tissue. They this caged and imprisoned the floating
light itself, and wrought it, bright threads in their
th
loom into e beautiful patterns of stem and leaf which
they showed. To form one of the little rings of wood
in the trunk of one of the old pinos took tb• sun-
shine of • long summer falling upon all its thousand
leaves; and who can tell how much sunshine has
been worked up is the stores of coal that lie concealed
under our feet P This prisoned sunshine we set free
whenever we kindle • fire of coils. When the run
ceases to shine upon these cold minty, wintry days
we draw upon the sunshine of • million years ago to
drive away the frost and make us confortable. fhe
source of all labour is the sun; and we get the bene-
fit of his labour when we burn the coal, or the wood
in which he has condensed and preserved it. No ra_y
of sunlight has ever been wasted or thrown away. it
is because Nature has been no thrifty in her household
ways that we are enabled to be so prodigal ef our re-
source, to day, spending upwards of one hundred mil-
lion tons of coal every year, and with that rut con-
sumptionof sun labour producing all the varied and ex-
traordinary work that we do under the sun.—The Buy.
Ilu.h.W riiitUut

Tal•te 07 111111 OF GisFtl7ll.—But there are other
trials whish, being Purely extraneous to his position,
and quite accidental. age far snore difficult for him to
bear. Take a man like Thackeray, for instance—a
great genius shed upon • coterie of small witlings-
who happened by • fortuitous combination of rir.
eumstances, rather than by any merit of their own!
to have the public ear. Be. how they worried him
Until he was known, he was shallow • when it was
found that he was deep, he was arnica': It was not
until he was dead that he was found to be (Teat..
Then he was no looser • dangerous coronetitor, and
Praise was cheap. He could even be held up en an
example to the disparagement of tie great content.
pnrary humoriet, whose sole offence was that he an
still living. Here was • man who entered not from
any want of atioretriation on the part of the public but
from the fact that his critics were in the same line of
business with himself, and were net Rifted enough to
hold their own as against him. There was a sort of
huckstering rivalry in this matter that meet bare
been keenly irritating to refined sensibilities like
hi,; yet he dared show no sign of pain, lest he shou'd
unwittingly immortalise the small fry who inflicted
It. And it is not only in life that the great man
I infers. No POOtier has the breath left his body than
his trunks are rifled, his secret drawers pryed into,
every bit of scandal and tittle-tattle about him col-
lected and published, his innermost life, social, moral,
domestic, and religious, laid bens to the gess of •
public which is ever more prone te condemn than to
praise. Plain Yr. Smith, who did anything for
the benefit of his race, beyond paying his way and
totting the people who lived in the same street and
went to the same chapel • tolerably good *rumple,
can go to his last reel without the least fear that the
one small skeleton in his cuoho•rsi will ever be
brought out to his detriment. lones, the tippler, who
beat his wife and starved his family, enjoys 'similar
immunity. Hut let any man booms • greet public
benefactor, and straightway everything he did In
secret is brought to light. The greater he is, the
, less mercy is shown.—" Thoughts ti • Ots Twilight."
CHASED BY • TIOEB--Wisan our fugitive had
Proceeded some six leagues, he thought he heard the
distant roar of the animal, and &shudder ran through
I him. The roar of the tiger reeenibles the screech of
the hog, but is prolonged, sharp, and piercing, and
even when there is no occasion for fear, causes an in-
voluntary tremoar of the nerves, as if the flesh
shuddered consciously at the menace of death. The
roaring was heard clearer and nearer. The tiger was
already upon the trail of the man, who lawns) refuge
but • small carob-tree at • great distance. He had
to quicken his pace, and finally to run, for the roars
behind him began to follow each other more rapidly,
and each was clearer and more ringing than the last.
At lentr.th, flinring his "ding gent"..°!..ti:tiiii.hl7l
' Mcird, spite of the weakness of its trunk,
happily quite • tall one, he inceesded in clambering
to its top and keeping himself half concealed among
its boughs, which oscillated violently. Thence he
could see the swift approach of the tiger, @Milt g the
soil and roaring more frequently in proportion to its
increasing perception of the nearness of its prey.
Passing beyond the spot where our traveller had left
the path, it lost the track, and becoming enraged,
rapidly circled about until it discovered the riding
rpm, which it dashed to fragments by a single blow.
still more furious from this failure, it resumed it,
,earch for the trail, and at last found out the direc-
tion in which it led. It soon discerned its prey,
under whose weight the slight tree was swaying like
• reed neon the summit of which a bird had alighted
he tiger now sprang forward, and in the twii kling
of an ey• its monstrous fore-pawl were resting on the
slender trunk two yards from the ground, and were
imparting to the tree • convalsive trembling colon-
lilted to act upon the nerves of the gaucho, whose Po-
sition was far very from secure. The beast exerted it"
.trength in an ineffectual leap; it circled around the
tree, measuring the elevation with eyes reddened by
the thirst for blood, and at length, roaring with raft*,
it crone be-I down, battier. the ground frantically with
fi
as tail, its eyesed on its prey, its parched month
nal( open. This horrible scene had lasted for nearly
'we mortal hours; the gaucho's constrained attitude,
and thefearfulfsacinttion exercised over him by the
fixed and bloodthirsty stare of the tiger, which ore-
sixtibly attracted and retained his own glances, had
begun to diminish his strength, and he already per
~eived that the moment was at hand when his ex-
hausted body would fall into the capacious mouth oh
his pursuer. But at this moment the distant sound
of the feet of horses on • rapid gallop gave him hop
of rescue. His friends had Indeed seen the tiger's
foot-prints. an-I were hastening on, though without
hope of saving him. The scattered fragments of the
saddle directed them to the scene of action, and it
was the work of a moment for them to reach it, to
uncoil their lassoes, and to fling them over the tiger,
now blinded by rage. The beast, drawn in opposite
directions by the two lassoes, could not evade the
swift stabs by which its destined victim took his re.
rouge for his prolonged torments. "Oa that occa-
sion I knew what it wa• to be afraid." was the ex•
Presoion of Doll Juan Facundo Quiro_ ,ga as he related
this incident to a group of ofiloent-14* UN Argen-
tine &public.
THE RIGHT WAY OF POUFS TAX Ffllll.—We
have often remarked that, however modest and
humble people may be in their pretensions in Terineln
arts and accomplishments, and however willing they
may be to yield the palm of exoellencs to °then' there
is yet One accomplishment in which everybody in-
variably imagines that he excels everybody else—
and that is the art of poking the fire. It is true you
, may i.ot hear people iscprees thin secret conviction,
but if your stnervation is worth • straw you may read
it in their faces whenever one person in • company
ventures to poke the fire in presence of the rest ; and
if your candour is on • par with your observation you
will confess that you rarely—we might almost say
never—aes a fire poked without feeling, however
deftly it has been done, that it still wants just
one finishing touch at your own hands. Various,
iadesd, are the methods of Going the homely instru-
ment whose special function it is to rouse the sleep•
' ins embers in the grate, and canes the cheerful flame
to enliven the domestic hearth with genial liqht and
' warmth. Professors of chirography tell us they can
' evolve the mental portraiture of man or woman from
i an inspection of their handwriting; for our part, we
I feel confident that revelations much nearer the truth
' might be derived from • careful consideration of the
way in which • person handles the poker. Let on
look at a few of the methods most in rogue. First,
. . . . . .

there is the bold, careless, slapdash method, in which
the performer thrnets the instrument between the
bars without a moment's consideration of what he is

abo-ut---th-e-oort-1; Vs is-w-a-y-a-n7l-tiet-iot: a-ciu;r-ie;
of a minute or so, and then throws down the instru-
ment with a bang, and • clang that startle* Pasel
from the hearth-rim and sends her scampering.
Still lees tolerable is the penitent method in which
over-earnest minds are apt to indulge, when the
performer having got poseession of the poker, ie
loth to relinquish It., and goes on digging and picking
at the fuol until his wife gets up from her chair
and takes the instrument out of Isis hand • or the
lady being abeent or failing to do Usat thedre is
finally poked out, and the bell il rung for Betty
to corns and renew it. Allied to these two methods is
• third, still more demonstrative, which may be oalled
the savage method, in which the performer storms
the fireplace as he would an enensny's fortress, deals
furious blows with his weapon upon the ammoniated
upper works of caked lumps, and supplements these
assaults by florae bulges into the very vitals of the
fire, as if resolved to tear its heart out. Such are the
"heroic" methods of poking, in which thou who adopt
them may pride themselves if they Ilk.; but we eon-
's". to • preference for more moderate meaures, es
inhibited in • contrary idyl* of practice. Among the
=Aortae methods we may mention the encouraging
mode, in which the poker, as it were, pato the blink.
leg fir• on the back, just to cheer it up a little, then
is..tii clears away the lower strata of ethos, lets a
:Atte more oxygen into the lungs of the faint.
IV *chiect. and in this way entices it to make an
Oct to recover itself and to show to the domestic
circle, more cheerful face. Analogous to this is the
symtallotia and cautious method, which has to be
pursued when the firsts at its last gasp and would
certainly perish irrecoverably were It roughlYillandled•
In this cese the operator has to us the utmost dex-
terity, and to asersiurot uses prompt aeuen end en.
daring Patience: he cherishes the spark by supplying
fresh fo•I ;IA snake' a otimmtg. for the current of air
to the enact slice where it is treated, and with the
point of his inortrument he mi., the. . a
tool which, bei in•half•beirnt nate, WO readier.
to °stub at VI"Ilre0.1/.• lima% sad spread
utzuminstion.-The /Wiwi Sour.

cumurarr pprite

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0111lAT
Berea end Kent, red 49 to 54
seg. to
. . • ... •••

- Itle,hl . lit to 51
" new, . ter
Al to Ftresiro,
unu,
. . . • ._

F.nglioh m1UM...41 to II
• 41 to 46
Grinding ... to 36

841. 03

Tick.... „. It t 44
Harrow .„ 43 to 47

-ESOLIBH ORA IN.

White el to 44
Bodies4llo4l
Foreign, white ... to

Satlab, feed X to U
potato ... 31 to X
blab, black ... XI 101 l
^ white ps to id
Foreign, tied tO
11.0011.
Tows-made, SU Sm. 4$ to 47

... 48 ter I Matra er m
UOl4ll AVlMAC4ll.—Quantities mold and enrage price
of British ern (isopenal ineassore) as received from the
officers of excise in the week coded Feb. 6 i—We eat,
58,837 qm., 51.; bailey, 40,454 qt.., 47. 104; oats,
5838 qrs., 2.5 d.
TtirinaT.-Baliabw7 : Trade slow, but good condi-
tioned wheat made more money. Other grain ann.
—Liverpool : Moderate trade in wheat, at hat Friday's
pikes. Flour dnlL—Hulli English wbeet quite as
does sa lest week; foieign held for higher rates than
millers would gee. Other articles qui. X
W warp. T.— Mar k-Lane: Notwithstanding that
the receipts of wheat from free and Kent were limited,
the demand was inactive, and prises were barely
nisiotained, With foreign wheat the market imolai:if
supplied ; in eli descriptiona odes pioneered slowly,
at shoot previous quotations. The burley I radii was
steady at full prima Oats, bean.. .and peas oemenanded
Ht4l-- attention. et late rates.— —fit-Spore : Wheat, 48s
to 52., barley (grinding) Ms to Me, barley (malting) 40a
to 44a, oats Am to 30. per qr, floor Ms per sr*.
THUS/W.4Y.— Bristol ; aglieh • heat in lair nniPPIY
dry samples warce and quite as dear; damp and out of
oondition lots sold at ls. per qr. reduction. Bathes mere
inquiry for fort ion wheat, at about last week's prices.
Malting barley firm, without much activity; • faii
trade doing in grinding, at a reinetion of I. to 21. per
qr. Oats in good supply, end 64 per qr. lower, with
a moderate retail inquiry. Indian men mid freely at
a decline of 1. per qr. Brno Is to 2. lower.
d. s. d.
American, red 'rtnz, per 4681 b. ..45 .. 61
Pn11.6 Odama, loofa, d2Uo.. 0 .. 0
!Cut...36a, hard, ditto .. 0 .. 0
Orr a, Term...ix Don, , molt , ditto .. 47 .. 49
Gbirka, 04cc.,Nionlar, art, ditto .. 00 . 62
Berdraiski liertanesp'e, soft, ditto .. 60 .. 62
Engekh, red and • hitt% now, ditto .. 48 .. 60

Enghal, good to liste malting, pa Imp. qr.. 43 0 .. 60 0
ditto, ditto ditto .. 42 0 .. 4% 0
Mat and French, grinding, per 401 b. .. 31 0 .. 27 3
Danube and Mediterranean, ditto .. 26 0 .. 27 0

oerw
Limerick and other, fine white, per 3201 b 27 el r 0
Cork, Dublin, lieht, ditio Di 0 27 0
Cork Waterford, black, per 3046 44 6 2) 0
tit
SWF

Irish lawny,
Primo Edsard Ind, block

Oradell, per 480Ib. .
Ish, per Imperial qr.

ditto
ditto

mod wonnd., pee tilo-11;.- .
United Bt•ta., Canallau, to., ~N. super-
'

en..

IIDiIICOY.

11Ixed America per 48011;:
M0ut,141,. ditto