The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-11-16 00:00:00

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THE Japanese, in exporting Ming plants, wrap the
roots in is mixture of earth and carrots ground together.
trAILING r-ORoWN ToBACOu FOR FORMA-
11110.—Gather the full-grown leaves on a fine day, lay
them on each other in adry, sunny pines, about one foot
thick, constantly turning them every day, as they get
dry, keep putting them a little thicker until quite dry ;
then put them in • ba.icet or box. preload quite tight,
pick off the best leaves and hang up the stalkos. Let
them gradually dry, and then chop them up and make
use of them. In drying, pick out the leaves as they
get brown, and nut them by themselves, i.e., after in.
sap is exhausted, keening them packed away.
MODRL CuTFAURa FOR FARM LABOURIRS. —There
have been recently erected by Lord Vernon, at Sudbury,
near Derby, several model cottages for farm labourers.
Each 04calte contains • living room, three bedrooms,
intranoe perch, scullery, pantry, fuel shore, pinery,
privy, cesspit, and aslipit. Each cottage is provided
with • washing copper, sink, ani • Brenta, baking oven
.fitted up In the scullery. The living rooms have
cottage ranges, and are fitted with dwarf cupboards on
each side of the fireplace, and the bedroom fireplaces
have an-all entity's stoves. The rainwater from the
roofs is conveyed to tanks for domestic use, isechoottiqje
having a pump fixed over the sink in the scullery. The
cottages have been built with local bricks made on the
estate, the external walls being hollow, for dryneu,
relieved with bands of dark blue Staffordshire bricks.
The roofs &recovered with blue azd brindle tiles, having
ornamental ridge cresting. The entrance porches have
projecting eaves, and gables with bergs hoary and
brackets. The works have been carried oat by Mr. S. de
Ville, of liurton-on-Trent, from the designs and under
the direction of Mr. John Birch, of London, who gained
the Society of Arts' premium and medal for such designs,
—Baader.

HOW TO HILOW GOOOKBZHIUMB TOR COORINO.—
Hwy years ago my father planted • hedge of goose-
berry bushes to prevent • oeighbour from enerosehing,
and be plain • lot of snare bush.. and • great many
cuttings of full length. jest as they were pruned from
the gooseberry bashes, and • matted thicket was the
isonsequenee, very prolilio indeed of spine.; but a very
unlooked-for result was obtained, for after all other
gooseberries had got large and sweet, these were small
and sour, and made excellent tarts. Any quantity of
gooseberry cuttings can he got in winter, and, if they
are carefully pat in the ground they will all strike
root, and make good pleats in the course of a short
time. If any one possessed of • stook of plants will
keep the pruning knife away from them, and get thorn
Into hedgerow fashion, he will soon get a weight of
small fruit off them, for the plant is • sure cropper,
and its forte lies in the multitude of spines and small
sour berries that it eon produce. It seems quite at home
at thia kind of work, and can sot unaided by high culti-
vation. The price of green gooseberries is extravagantly
high, yet it ii quite astonishing to see the quantities
suld, and the large sine they are. A tart
should not be larger that • hasel nut, but these
allude to ate as big as walnuts, and need to be shoed
like cucumbers before going into the pie-dish. As
the fruit is only grown to half its natural sirs for tarts,
and only occupies about half the time upon the bush
that the ripe fruit does, it does not exhaust the plant ;
and if the caterpillar can be kept down the pleats will
go on fruiting for a great many years, for the gooseberry
plant Is long-lived, and remains • stunted shrub,
although never pruned. It is less than the currant in
size, and considerably longer lived. It seems as if it
could not aspire like the smooth-barked currants.
laving to guard itself with pointed armour, which it
has to manufacture es it goes on. The subject only
wants to be named, and the line of distinction drawn
between the culture for ripe fruit ant the culture for
green, and the work will get forward in due time. Ibis
sound practical advice, and no one will be disappointed
that gives the thing stair and honest trial. —A. Forsyth.
in " Fh,ri,t avid Pontoloyise

A BACHELORS' club at Topeka, Kuisait offered a
premium of 10 dolt to the prettiest unmarried girl at
the fair in that city, and selected the editors as the
jukes.
IT is sato that the ex-Queen of Spain is on very bad
terms with the French Court. The Einpresa, en
leaving for the Eat, did not call to bid her royal friend
good•byo.
A Barron paper is "In favour of women voting if
they want to. A western paper " would like to see
the man who could make them vote if they didn't
want ti'." '
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THE New York Worhi says. the reason why the
plotsloon notkrni of Boston base struck is because the
NVouisn's Waits MOVCIOCIA there as omitted such A
demand for thoeuartioles..

A Liverpool bill.poster has been fined 54. and amt.;
by the local bench for following his regular calling on
the Sunday. The statute he was held to have contra-
vend was the 29th of Charles If.

MtAMOR OF • F• 11111111. —Samuel (heave, • former,
of Iturton-wood, near Warringt.m. was shot dead in Lis
milk-cart on Thursday Morning. The murder is supposed
to have been committed by poachers.
A LADY advertises for sale one baboon, three tabby
cats, aml a parrot. She states that, now being married
she has no further use for them for the reason that their
aimiable qualities aro all combined in her husband.
A lISITING STUNK Our. A crowded meeting
held at Newcastle on Wednesday to oonsider the right
of freemen to moor sail lease, was brok. n up by coma
person, burning 1101110 ingredient, the fumes of which
nearly suffocated the people. The burning stuff was
thrown out, but tilt: room continued filled with tutees.

AN inquisitive urchin, the other day, while reciting
• lesson from the sermon on the Mount, broke out ,•
" Ma, did Jesus get 2,0001.6. • year for preaching?
" No, my child, he did not get anything."—" Why
didn't they pay lam " Because be refused to preach
politic.. The devil offered him • big salary to do it,
but he would not incept the calL"—anericais Paper.
GENERAL BUTLER WAS " interviewed " by a Milk
waukee reporter with the following result : " I don't
know anything. The papers have told more about me
than I knr.w myself. —the papers anyway, and ,
doubly these interviewing reporters. I have not • '
word to say about politics, the state of the country or '
finances now. I dot not come out here for any each
porocre."—Ang/o-Aateriron Popo.
MUM!. Lucy H —told us that the sublime refeurs
are giving themselves terrible airs just now, and dictat-
ing to the miliiners, because they possesses nearly all
authority over the female head. One of the great
artists told us. "I will not attempt to dress a lady's
head for • ball unless I have I,ooof. worth of hair on
the toilette table to answer to my conception."—Parts
Paper.
COLLIIIRT EXPLOSION. —Another terribly colliery
explosion has taken plasm in South Wales. Early on
Thursday morning thirteen men its wiended the Rendre-
(organ pit, situate in the Swansea Valley, and had only
resumed their employment shout an hour when •
fearful explosion of gas took place. A searching party
brought seven to the eneface in • very exhausted oon•
dition. The remaining mix were found to be deed.
lltertuctiot or Tunis,' liocsce Br Firm —Whit-
stable was the scene of • terribly destructive fire on
Wednesday night. The conflagration broke out in a
house in Harbour.street, and the dwellings and store.
houses adjoining being composed of very inflammable
materials the flames spread with startling rapidity, and
before they were subdued some thirty honing wore

destroyed.
A CHILD BIN? BY RAILWAY TN A HAMPER.—A child
about six weeks old, was found in the Great Western
train, which arrives at Chester at 12.30. It was in •
hamper jest suited to its size, well clothed, and lied •
supply of milk in a bottle, with sucking apparatus. The
contents of the hamper were not discovered till 2.30,
when the train was about to leave for Birkenhead, when
the cries of the infant were heard by • passenger. It
was handed over to the police, and two persons—a
Lsbouring man and a fuldoeably-dressed woman—are in
custody at Wrexham on suspicion of baring some con-
I flexion with it.
A Nice Orritt.—The Chicago Tribewe contains an
advertisement from an Indian chief, named Ka-both-co-
de-way, who wishes to form • matrimonial contract
with • white lady. The chief hu three Indian wives,
but as " Ks.beshme-ds.-wsy'a heart Is big." he seeks a
fourth wife, and would prefer that she should be white.
He would treat a white wife very kindly and con-
siderately. He and his other wives would give her the
sery nices and best of everything that ociuU be got to
eat, and do everything in th-ir power to make her
contended and happy. If any of our fair readers are
disposed to close with Ka-besh-co•da•way's handsome
Invitation, a letter addressed to him to be left at toe
C7iiengo Tribune office till called for, will apprise the
chief that his proposal is accepted.
1117RDIII BY A BAKIL—The Court of Anuses of the
Dordogne has just tried a master baker named Souriand
for the murder at Piirigueax of &young woman, formerly
• servant in his employ. Although married, he had
beets for more than six pen on terms of intimacy with
the deceased, named Marie Talon. He, however, fre-
quently quarrelled with her respecting • sum of money
which he pretended that she had eztorted from him,
and which he bedeved was to serve heron a manage
portion. She was found in a field in November, 1568,
with her brains beaten out, and Souriand, who had been
seen with her shortly before, escaped, after confessing
the crime to his own wife, and was only captured
recently in Paris. He was now condemned to hard
labour for life.
(Jammu. PHYSIOLOGY.—DeIbaTORCIL In his "Chico-
mancie Illustrie," gives the following description of
Trsupmann, the perpetrator of the massacre at Pantie.
He had • common head, resolute, but idiot's rather than
intelligent. He possesses the type of all criminals, and
which I intend one of these days to explain. His hands
are exactly similar to those of Dumollud, whom he
resembled in his method of crime and secretiveness;
his hands are precisely the same, with toothy joints,
and crooked fingers, ill made, ugly, with fist extremities
and short nails; avidity, cunning, and swirl*, are
axesouneed by the excessive development of the knuckles
and cold-blooded but joyous audacity by the spatula-
shaped tips. His thumbs., like thou of I lumollard, are
of extraordinary length, which circumstance indicates
reserve and an invincible will.
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AT an inquest held by it. Lankester, • few days
since. n the lealk4 11 two children who died tent the egeets
.4 pokoning through .ucking 1.011111 Inciter match., the eonnier
*aid. " Ilad the matches lawn 1112 ant and May', Om: children
would not hate Lawn pokonnell. It tantiot he t. generally
known that Bryant and May'. Patent Safety Eatrhu.are not
1111 l and that they li,htonl) on the hot. lid.
Gazrri, May ith
ADVICE To SIOTEEEE.— Are you broken of your red
by a pia child, suffering with the pain of cutting heath;
Go at once to a chemist, and get • bottle of Mrs.
Winslow's Soothing Syrup. It will relieve the poor
sufferer immediately ; it is perfectly harming' ; it
produces natural quiet Bleep, by relieving the (Mild from
pain, and the little cherub awakes "as bright as a
button." It has been long in use in America, and is
highly recommended by niedical men; it is very pleasant
to tube; it soothes the child; it softens the gums,
allays all pain, relieves wind, regulates the bowels, and
Ii the best known remedy for ilysentry and diarrhosa,
whether arising from teething or other causes. Be sure
and ask for Mrs. Winslow'. Soothing Syrup, and Bee
that "Curtis and Perkins, New York and London," is
on the outside wrapper. No mother should be without
It, Said by all medicine dealers at Is. lid. per bottle,
London Depot, 2C05, High Holborn.
'A good article ensnres reeonammidation." The
uniform good quality, perfect purity, and cheapness of
Horniman's Tea, hes for 30 years secured an immense
sale, and corstant recommendation from familv to
, family. It is obtainable in most towns, but as there
I are numerous imitations, it is needful, to prevent
disappointment, to see that each packet bears the
1 signature of "NY H & FJ Noruiman and Co., London,
I Original Importen of the Pure Tea.