The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-12-10 00:00:00

FACTS AND TANCINA
PrPOPI "Pisan "

Loves of great men all remind no that the average
captain Beyer feels Insulted by bpi us called oolonel.
gemehody mays : 'lim'y failure la a step to 61160010."
This will explain why Um offianer nom men fall the
richer they beroure.

A noted sharper welshing to Ingratiate himself with •
elergyluse, mid : 4 Reversed Sir, I should Ilk. to hear
you preaeh more than I ego tell you." "Well," respouded
the rirrgytrom, "if you ore whore you ought to be neat
fluniyy, you sill hear sie." " Where le that r metal the
eberper, 'luth. comity SO: see the reply.

A little aid, when her fstlsor's table wart honoured with
aa rateesed frioad, beim talklna very earnestly at ttte
ere% pante in Um conservation. R. faller checked bet
rather ebsrply, saying, "Why la that you talk so numb r
..reose It. dot aonsetlii to say.* was Use lawwwwa reply.
If so.. 1,1 our politioisse would only miles the apirliaa-
tlon of this.

The hunting memos hie set In with its usual seseritl•
It Is not yet • month el/, sod yet w• havelhad three or
four serious neddenta Am 'Admiral of the Fleet le half
killed. A Member of P.1•01111Ut has been put hers di
metier. Lady Florence Dixie boa been laid up for the
net of the year with commotion of the brain. Perhaps.
take it all in all, a day with the hounds is not mach more
&marrow gum • walk from Charieg Cron to thtkr=
Xs&ange, if you know howl, ride at all; bat the
Is my mind is that the assidente are not • great deal rams
humorous than they tire for year by year the Rumbas ef
bad riders is lacre•ting. Every mu who tan keep • horse
thinks that • sufficieet qualifloatiou to rids ti lama& If
them persists only broke their own necks I should not
bars the slightest objection to meet them lath. flea; but
In amities their ova neck. they spoil other...'. sport.
The tamer's light did not mmesed in its ttia shine at
Mangiest,. The dealers gladly welcomed beck their old
ash.tail" buraera

The " R..w" has teen unusually faU far the tini• of the
yew, and a Radical sorrepondent pats this deem to tbe
fact that the Cousteau', are le power. "Riding the
high horse he explains. ia a clarecteristie result of the
Tory spirited foreign policy.

coustry squires the ILLY{ mad the oessomptive
members. on both sides 04 the Home, sad mere especially
the Tory side, to which they Liddy belong, have accepted
the Whip's SUMMOIMII t. St. Segplinis with • ..r• bed
gram. And it does mons bard Lot b0a..... deg it
to eneyeat a savage essighhoor, rival magnates
bare to lee,, their pheasants NW their (*zee, fuml eon,
sp to the foggy metropolis to sleep %lust" a weal, ee
two's speeches, more er less, sad Les trot though the
dlstelos lobbies

Sorely this was an °cession when the telephone inlaid
hare been most advantageously pot to work. hely
voting I. abolished, hut why a Tory Squire amid net vote
by telephone, especially In the ease of extraerdiaary
'neatens which interfere with his heating and his shooting,
it is difficult to gay. The WIT he will rote is Ito died and
foregone a conclusion that it mesas a farm to trouble him
to sit out speeches be neither listens to one would under.
stand if he did.
The Afghan war will not be a military parade, but will
cost ottul blood and mosey ; and our gallant tromps will
have ample opportanity to prove their pc:Area Greatly
shall we rejoice if, eentrary to our expectation, the contest
Is soon over, for whilst It huts there is the danger of war
with Russia. Already the Russians are excil..by the
Ides that the war on the Ameer Is an attack their
power ho Central Ala; and, on the other hand. in this
country them Ls angry talk about Russian aid being given
to the AMIDST. We hope that we shall not be
with a lack of patristant because we !Mould deeply
• war with Russia. We do not fear Ronda, and
Indeed. Is on. of our reasons for wishing that pewee may
be maintained between the two Power,