The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-10-05 00:00:00

A CHARMING STORY.

I do not know eery precisely what are the provisions
of the 'denied Women's Property bill, but I have
talked the matter over with women, at odd times, and
I have gatherei a notion of the view which is taken by
some amiable casuists. It seems to be the idea that
they are to have uncontrolled authority over their own
money, and to leave tneir husbands to pay their debts.
They say in tired to the breaddinder—" What Is yours
is mine ; whale mine Is my own." Indeed, the general
feminine idea of what Is called "an allowance" iodinate
the assumption that the person granting it is to pay
just the same for everything for wniehthe said allowance
is ,iiibursed, as if no independent .rrangement existed.
I beard a charming story of husband and wife the other
day, so illustrative of this that I tun teintleil to repeat
It, the wife had said laughingly to the husband—they
I w,re 3 our.g peopl nod sufficiently " 0r.114,-do" —that
he spent much mere pallet money than Ae did, and
that he was altogether an extravagent fellow ; so in the
evening, when he came home, be Lrought a puree
full of sovereigns, and, taking what each had remaining
from their last supply, equalised the two little piles to
a whining, and raid, "Now we'll start fair, darling, and
pee who is a bankrupt first." At the end of a work
they agreed playfully to compare notes and It was
found that the wife had a few shillings more than the
husband, upon which she was rely jubilant and
triumphant, Ad told her husband that she had always
known hint to be an extravagant fellow. "But my
child," ho said, depreeatiogly, "remeinber that when
we have gone out together, I have pied the expenses of
both out of my money. There were the railway farce
to--, and the tip and Abe, sod the little dinner we
bad at Richmond. and the stalk at the Haymarket,
and the Crystal Palace on :•atunlay--all have been paid
for out of my money; and there is that pretty new
bonnet on ',sec head, in which you look so Alarming."
Upon which she lifted up her beside and made • mouth
at him— (it wee • vi-ry pretty one)—and cried out,
" Oh, lam ashamed of you! You, indeed, to talk of
chivalry, and to think for • moment of taking • poor
little woman out with you, and expeating her to pay
her share of the expenses. What will the men of the
perial runic to next?" Of Aurae there was no a,ipeal
against this. lie could only put Lis arms around her
and kis. her, and confess that he was an "extravagant
fellow."—CornAin dfa;exailic.

IMP•ILTO RI OF VOL F117..CU EAPRIBII. The
FAL KIM Eugenie left Paris at hulf.po.t are on Thom:W.
ou her jouroey to the Lust. :Q. will arrive in Egypt
ou the 22.au1 ot October.

A Has CRUCIPTINJ WOrkMall of
Chateau-f hierry, France, azed 40, last wock attoruptud
while labouring under a religious 111011013111/1., to crucify
Ilium-IL He wan found lying in a gerret with his feet
and unii hand nahoil to a maw, which ho bail made with
some nd niftiri. He had alto pierced the other hand,
but wa ,nf course, unable to entirety harry out his in-
tentieu. Ile wits relator...l to on Sna bk.",
_IY
to recover. To, nails which ho hail used word .1,1"."r
to thwo represented in paintings and hushes as haring
been euiployed in the crucifixion of our Seelintrr.

111i0r,.. INivirrr.—An ir.quert has boon held 't
I Isrps:liy, near Clayton, on the !.0.11 of Joshua Smith,
labour, r, ag• il 12 years. lie and his fend', resides in a
&Seethed eottale on the cliff, ocar New Brighton
Sambre% Ilir widow mitred that no Sunday morning.
hm,twe a nine sot ton o'clock, he left home. lie imid to
her am be went out, "That's a good lass—God bless
lot," v.l h • mt,..q,m,1 down and kirmed her cheek. Him
'nil., v mt,1....1 Len sa lot leisurely proceeded il•-iwn the
yor In and ml•mg thm cliff to the *amide, She thought
I•m bed yoms t • he baptime,l, as 1 e 1,3.1 been talking
' about
it for TOIL., time, and w anted her to baptise hint lie
said it did not matter who did it or where it wag done
if Sore wom sett. r enough. Ile had been rer7rtriml"
li, his manner fmr none time. titre be had heard a child
my, it. 4 it iiated that it wax inn..? theirs that hat died
, iv. ii years n,. Ito sou the for it under the bed° "d
in the cloy is dining the nig! t. On Friday morning he
got up early, emrl sail there wm a great ttorm coming.
ile conipcl!e•l all the family to g..t up and get dmilcd.
"Id ,41.1. " Let's run for our liens." lie ran heron the
fields, and mai away from rit t , nihe, and when be
r :tar nti be said there hail been an earthquake. He had
been In DA Ilnitlffil..l .itnlel of mit, I IllsOn religion. lie
l•emi to attend tli, Wmilere.n &tape!, but latterly he was
onable to attend, and th.t ha I hoen a great trouble to
hue. 1,1111,41 he get ,r, on Sunday morning he remained
undreamed, and kept refloating the word. "Depart. e
w"rkrn of 112111titr, deport, depart!" lie wont to the
door, closed it. and then abut it, and fmris.d his wife to
open it. About two o'cleek the same morning, when in
bed, be asked for a Bible, and tinned it on his breast,
end laid a Prayer book over bin head, and remaineabo
atoll slava o'clock talking all the time. He said to
hi, wife, "Go upstairs and fetch three sovereigns and
pot them on the doorstep, and then we alimll have
liberty. ' Ilia wile declined, area ee then tare.] his
I!sae, and sail. .. rale to her. tiosl." Annus no,, o'clock
tI:C nallle morunw John Berton, ol thaw., w,,,,
1
. aktug en SIM beach, and found the estimased with Ms
„..1 in a shallow stream of water. Verdict, Found
. ~..tewut.J.