The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-12-31 00:00:00

Literature.

THE WATERLOO STATION of the London tad South.
We.tern Railway, newly erected for the accommodation
of the main lino suburban traffic, was opened fur public
tnelti, on Monday.
MAKEET VICE GAOL—The Oxford Town Council have
decide,' that the City Gaol i. to be totally demolished, and
the whole apace occupying the centre of Gluu,este r ; nen,
aliolt an acre in extent, is to be appropriate.' t.ibe
enlargement and improvement of the Cattle Market--
I re/4feet.

&atm.. g Asobaleuri Guido 60 Korticraturc—Rewing:
Royal Berko Seed Establishinent. A genuine treasure to
the gardener, full of the soundeot advice, presented in
very handy form. Vegetables of the moat excellent kinds;
are here deecrilwri and pictured, and their seeds,
r
tuhee, ec., priced, while the gorgeous coloured platoTt'4
gloxinias, primulas, cyclamens, cinererias, calceolariaa,
and asters, are true works of art, and would be ornaments
anywhere. The advice to carefully written. sound and
term, and invaluable to the inexperienced. You wish, of
couroo, to buy oorue of the good things, and a convenient
order list enables you to do so, and yet to keep the more
handsome book.

The Shade,. always thorough and fresh, givea two
beautiful plates—of Christchurch. Neuilly. France. and
the elaborate interior of the Frauenkirche, Nurembere
if one of the most prettily hill-framed towns we saw ig
the North. Kendal, it says :—" a country like thas
which the pilgrims called ' pleasant and mountainous.' in
the far north-west, Kendal stands, one of the ancient Mat.
of industry in the region where bold hills and senile
valleys are interspersed with long bleak moors between
Lancaster and 4arli.te. A pleasant sight is Kendal, aeon
from the main hue of railway, its higher houses shining
by night and gleaming by day in the WOOCk and on the
banks on which they are built; whilst lower down,
towards where it. river run. its course by factories aed
tanneries, trade centres in the narrow streets and gate,.
and the ruins of its castle rising in grim greyness from the
green mounds. It is true that the anticipations that
might be formed are not fulfilled by the nearer glinspse.
for the narrow and sometimes dirty streete hide away
many of the handsome and even stately buildings the
town has acquired since the days when ' James the Third'
was proclaimed at the Market.cross. and the Earl ef
Derwenterster. his devoted adherent. took his ease at his
inn in sgiekhadgate, whilst Highland clans kept guard
and pibrochs sounded. The ' days so' 13' have gone, and
somethin• has been done to purge Kendal from one of
the ills that old towns are so often heir to,—over-crowded
streets and their accompaniments ; but much yet remains
to he done. With • trade vane I. and in parts extensivu.
with devnte.l and capable citisens, awl with a noble
situation, giving to it the corninand of a primal industry,
Kendal should in the future nourish even more than an
the past."

lyra's JonrowL—London: Gormand, 30 and 40, Bedford.
street, Covent I tarden. As (at as we can judge from tLa
pretty fashion plate, ilreises tlght-litting to the figure are
still in faahion, althoudi there io more work about the
gide., and trains seem, if anything. longer. The model.
include the Baldagiun toilette, Fasipolf parure. Tadema
costume, and Dupl.uis jacket. Large and varied L. era
are the stores for ladies' work.

Messrs. Chatto sad Windmill serial, include the
Gemkneen's Magazine, with abundance of food for thought,
pleasingly dished up. " Nature Myths in Nursery
Rhymes is either sublime or ludicrous, we incline to
think the latter, though the reasoning is very ingeniously
put, it seems like • satire on those who—" professing
themselves wise, became—the opposite " The Old
Phrenology and the New," is a slashing and fatal cut-up
of • quack science; and " Over-stimuletion in Women" to
very hard on women of fashion, bringing charge. which
we fancy we have heard over and over again. Dr.
Frederick Daly says the duty of the Legislature is to
repeal the grocers' licence, and to plias into law the
Habitual Drunkards' Bill. The article should be read,
and if not • tissue of exaggerations, reveal, • fright/ id
date of things among the more lovable sex. Brigre.ie,
of course, ia too awfully charming for ladies who like
fiction.

The Sunday at Hone, Leieurn Mous, Cottager end 4 dint;
Tract Magazine. and Childs Cempeafea, are real trephim
of the Religious Tract Society's good work. The articles
on social pioneering* and Utopias should be studied by
every M. P. who wants to Imow what workmen want ; but
there is something more material—the truth about electric
lighting.
THE TRANSMIS.4IO,I OF ELEETRIC TOWEL—If there he
• loss of 4to per cent, in the transmission of pa, and of
from 31 to fill per cent. in the transmission of water, the
qu.stion of the lees in transmission of electric power is not
yet by any means settled. For the transmission of any
current, yrhich has a dynamo-electric value, the general
rule is that the resistance is directly as the length of the
current, and inversely as the section of the conductor.
Thu., for an increased length of circuit, an increased
weight of wire in requisite. But that is not at all. There
is on doubt that something occurs in the transmission
of the electric current akin to leakage in the transmission
of gas or water through pipes. It would also appear that
this leakage, or resistance. may be represented as • func-
tion of the intensity of the current All tha• we can say,
from the latest communications we have had with the
leaders of the movement, is that no mathematical expres-
sion for this loss has as yet been ever suggested. One
gentlemen, who has attained extraordinary success in
manipulating electrih poser, states that the digerence in
rate of OSA is so great as to impose • very narrow limit
on the length of a circuit that can be practically available,
whether for the production of light, or for any other
dynamo-electric purposes. —Bauder.