The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-01-12 00:00:00

Littrature.

Tug AnT.Jonituat lane the year with the fleet
of • reeks
of illustra papers, headed " The
Stately Homes of England (occasionally open to the
people)," by the indefatigable editor, Mr. S. C.
Hill; Mr. Llewellycn Jewitt contributing the
antiquarian notes and details. Alton Towers is the
lint "stately home" treated of. The number is
altogether • very good one, and includes • view, and
some engraved details of the Paris Opera House.
Mr. Jaws Defforne again takes up his valuable
series of papers on "British Artists" and illustrate.
well the worts of Sir Joseph Noel Peen. The line
engravings given this month are MulreadF:e popular
picture "Choosing the wedding.gown ; • pretty
rustic scene, "The cornfield ." by Constable, and
" Love, the Ruler." from • ha-relief, by the groat
German sculptor, E. F. A. ItietscheL
Tun POPULAR &twice Review Is always inter.
estiog end valuable. The present issue contains
ably written articles on " Flying l'lllnbinen," by F.
W. Breary, bun, secretary to the Aeronautical
Society of Great Britain ; "The Compound Eye of
Insects and Crustacni," by Henry Fripp, M.D. ;
"True and False Flint Weapon.," by N. Whitley,
C.E., bon. secretary to the Royal Institution of
Cornwall • " The Planet Mars in February, 1869,"
hj Itictisi4 A. Proctor R.A., F.R.A.S. ; "On the
Nloleular Origin of Infusoria," by John Hughes
Bennett, M.D., F.R.S.E., kn. There is also a
capital scientifio summary, from which we make the
following eatracts, and cordially commend the work
to our felidefl

ECLIPSII OF TIII MOOS. --Tbers will be a 'sift's'
eclipse of the Immo early in the morning of January
54. Ths eclipse begins ore minute before balf.pset
twelve, sod will end at 2 ii. 4701. a.m. The greatest
phaec takes place at 1 li. 3t4 in. a.m., when rather lees
than half the moon's diameter will be obscured. Interest
would stiach to the carets' spectroecoptc analysis of the
m one light during this eclipse, and we trugt our
iihKreers will udt lose the opportunity tbus afforded
them.

LIQUID FUEL ON SHlPSollllo.—Merors. Doreett and
Ill) the, of the Patent Fuel Company's Work., bare
fittal on board the Retriever, a screw steamship of 500
tons burden, an apparatus for the generation of stemn
by the oombustion of creosote and other liquid hydro-
carbons. The ereottote is first evsporated In Iwo smell
vertical boilere, or generators, and the vapour is then
conducted to the furnaces of the ,team boilers, in whieh
it is burnt. At starting, an ordinary fire is kindled In
the gonerstots, and when the presence of the arrsote
vapour rises to shout 20Ibe. per square Inch, a portion
of the vapour is conducted to the firebox of the
generatorr, and supplies all the beat subsequently
needed for the evaporation of the liquid feel. Tbe
Retriever him been tried on the Theme with perfect
success, the aparatus working without a hitch, and the
dombestion being sppatently perfect. It remains to be
ma whether any i tactical difficulties in the applica-
tion of tho system will be found on moto extended
trial, end whether the eeonomioal malts are sueh am to
justify Ito adoption.

LlllBlO.ll EITILLCT Ow BlZAT.—Batell titbit hes
forwarded to us some sample+ of his improved' gainer
prep,red by the Fray•Bentos Company. These we have
not yet aatisfactorily eiamined, bet there is reason to
believe that this extract it in point of flavour • great
Improvement on the previous preparation. We may.
in passing, call attention to the fact that the experi-
ments recently made by ilerr liessmeriab. and held by
some to prove that the °street la in large doses injurious,
have been of so inexact a character, and made In such •
peculiar manner, that they must be regarded as incon-
clusive. The Practitioner was the first journal to will
attention to them in this country, and it by no means
concurred in kemenerich's expressed opinions, but, on
the contrary, stated that they required condrmation.
Journals liko Once a Week and others, which mate.
sort of ill-digested meal of the thoroughly scientifio
periodicals, copied part of the paragraph in the Prat,
iitiontr, but not sll, and owswiooed • good deal of
mimhict, through lesdiug the public to believe that
the extrAct of meat is poison. As the first journal
which dr,w att.:lA:on to the Es•fracturs carsis an this
country, we may be allowed to express our protest
against crude experiments and hasty conclusions like
those of Dr. ICemmerich. For • complete apogee of
Kommerieli's opinions, our rerders should relir ti a
fetter by Rayon Lieblg, which appeared recently in the
Lased (November).
Cava MA,::4IBICII.—A writer In the Builder says:
Thera is now a fair prospect of a reduction in the price
of magne.duni throimli somo recent improvements in
its manufacture, and it is probable that in the course of
next year we shall me the metal retailed at or ander one
thist, shilling per ounce."
11 ARDWIcK6.!* SCI ENC. COMM contain a variety of
entertaining papers, presenting much curious informa-
tion for the man of science, and facts interesting and
important for the general reader. The price is only
fuurpence a month. Hero are extracts from the
notes of correspondents

Fite Lealt---in North York it is a popular saying
that when sworn' sre plentiful there I. alwayarlatge quan.
tityof bad-bacon. Our forefathers fed their swine bagel,
on ...orris end mast. I have rarely seen moro sooner
than there are the year.--Jekn Rontott,Liatow•on-
Oiler, , York.
Bag ODOWW—A friend of mine who keeps several
bale.. .melted t. use positively the other day that hoes
emit • strong smell when Koing to sting any one ; be
described It ea • 'puce. ut" smell. I told him I did
not b.liove that btes did any such thing, end that he
net be mistaken. I now .k your opinion on th
subject.-11. N. Beminyfon, Fargarsc, Bray.
CrLTURS Or IlluITLET01.—I• it in the power a any
of your readers So tell me how to grow the Mistletoe in
Yorkshire? I have planted the berries, but quits with.
stioala•—gdward Word.

lote friend of ours some years sine, exhibited to no
in Lie orchard numerous successful esperiments of 111.
own In cultivating the mistletoe on apple and other
tree% Ile explained at the time that be took a ripe
berry between hls losers, ani crushing it, rubbed It
with the weds into a creek of the bark on the under
side of a branch. Be laid particular ampbaais upon
rubbing In the seeds on the under aide, so that they
would not be embed out by the lain, or be...
expoessl to the birls. Ile had numbers of thriving
plants ia his orchards on different trees all Introduced
by himself in this manner.—ED. S. U.)

A CURIOCS FACT.—Whil.t visiting • remote but
rather considerable town in lAncoln.hire, where I had
not been for nearly twenty years, save on • few flying
visits, I called upon an eld schoolfellow. • chemist, and
whilst talking with bum a raven looked in at the door
and received his accustomed bone. rho bird bad such
a genial exrression that I maid not help asking his
Ma history. He belonged tethe landlody of the principal
betel in the place; in fact, • pet bird. Accustomed to
every luxury in feeding, but still • bird of trey, his
raids, however, were friendliones, and freely responded
to ;be had no need to eater for himself. In the hotel
yard there was. small dog belonging to the ostler, not
too well fed, and out of love for him. this old bird—for
be bed been there twenty yesn—levied oontributions
on his misty:o6'e beat monomers. The ostler married ;
in a fortnight he bad to go through the greatert of
earthly trials : his wife diet!. What could the poor
fellow do? What should any of us do at such a time?
Be went every morning at hie breakfast hour to the
cemetery, some half-mile distant, to look at his wife's
grave. The dog acd raven wallahs° ; but he eould not
bear this long, and consequently obtained • situation
some forty mike distant, but watt not able to take his
dog at first. The dog and raven, after his departure,
as long as the dog was there, weal alone every morning
at the accustomed hour to the esmetery and stood
reverently beside the grave of the poor fellow's wife.
These forts could be attested by many of the towns-
people.— F. R. IL
Oita OwN FIZILSIDI begins a Mir volume capitally.
A story is oommeocad by Mn. Marshall, entitled
" Edward's wife, orlhard judgments," and there are
papers suitable for every individual in the home,
contributed by Dr. Cumming, the Editor, the Rev.
8. W. Christopher, the Rev. J. C. Ryle, the Rev.
W. H. Reversal, Mrs. Harriet Reicher Stowe, Sir
Henry Wottoo, do. lime attractive without being
sensational, and inidruotive without being prosy.
For • family magazine nothing can be better.
"Tax ARCIIITICT" is the title of a new weekly
journal for the building trade. There Le a thoroughly
sensible paper on house-buildiog in the first number.
and the whole of its contents will be intsresting to
the special claws for whom the publisher caters,
though we do not think many of them are likely to
give up the familiar and excellent Builder for this
new venture.

"Ting Loshos."—Tbree monthly 'mullions Imre
been mimed of a maguine with this title. It is
devoted to fiction, and amongst the contributors are
Several well-known writers of that deeoription of
literature. Here Man extract from asketchot 'New
Year's Day in the Emerald ISIS" :
WIDOW (MORSE'S FIDOUT.—II was to • gentleman
lo the neighbourhood of Weatport that we were first
Indebted for an Introduction to the whereabouts and
peculiarities of the Widow o•ltorke, and, as that good
easy woman declares, with • whimsical mixture of
displeasure and mirth, " • mighty on-neighbourly action
It was In him to go for to take ber out le her retitle
exclusion to blazon her abroad before all the world for •
tbritle ; but och I sure the maater's the man for • joke,
anyway, that wad see one not the gist iv a banal •
milt off, and go half the way for to meet it ; but sure
onsignificant thrille—tbank goodness Ws but • thrifts,
and tad. is Ufa bad arrant to the loog-tongned Tinian
that the mischief mot abroad that mornin' to hew IS.
Ye say, SST WST it happened was thi. : it being the
ere before New Year, Pat's wife, little Bridget's moths:
you know, comes niacin' over, kindly enough, God
Mess bar I mid • mother; we she, 'I bare kilt the ould
seem,' sea she • that didnt do well last year, and were
/pin to roast her the moires'', and have • gran' (spit-
think le gAat,' els she, and she laughs as merry as a girl
te sixteen, rich I the *area le life Myer phase urge bar.
and' mother,' six she, aid • frieadly hog, ' Pat and me
wants ye over,' it, she, ' and Biddy, acustils,' DAMAO' am
child, and our dinner 'lll do es no good if yes don't
come.'o may be well not,' 41 i,'fall that we
will, and may me blessin' be about ye, low sad title,'
for le good, IoVD,' thollibtfal girl, as ye at.. pat w.
no fwl—Pist had good lila. "a" all.' And, after
some good other discourse. it was mined that little
Blddins should go back wid her mother that night. 's
the child took on wonderful about wain' the
I Wag to follow Mat niortiln,' after I had seen es=
the bens and the p*, and put them In the way iv Brie.
for the day. " when the mornie' kern.
betting., and asarydrlog done, se I was invited far
breakfast, I este off, brave and Orly, Pet Wt..= the
lights WTI beano it wee day, wiles, as 11l leek would
beam it, jest as I wss oommin' along that loos bit lir
road, wk the Reshot* on wan side and the deep ditch
en the other, add the tries i ' right over to stkdke
terror into me Mart will thlellsoetly appearance, what
do I bear but eourrithlie movie bed roovin,' and 'Wile
wad laborhe tip the deep ditch, and the sound iv a dude.
as I thought, Mackin' aftbee It Dry
.serp. Well, ye
knows, It woe Dodds dam all bat NM Dees Walk