The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-09-16 00:00:00

Enteral Neb3s.

" WHAT BECOMES OF ALL TEI PINS r —Any of our
male readers sufficiently domesticated to feel interested
in the solution of this mystery may satisfy their
curiosity and become martyrs to discovery by visiting a
sewer which has just been opened for repairs in Rea-
stneet. The sewer is one of the oldest in Birmingham.
At the bottom of it there is a deposit as bard as the
" slag" from a blast furnace; and in this deposit
millions of pins are imbedded. A piece about the size
of a 'man's list, picked up at random, fairly bristled
with them, and this was but a specimen of • great mass
of such matter. In another way, too, the deposit is •
curiosity, for, independently of the pins, it encloses •
heterogeneous collection of old pocket knives, marbles,
buttons, and other articles of the kind, that were pro-
bably wept over as lost when the "oldest inhabitant'
was being whipped at 'shoot. To persons of an investi-
gating turn of mind, not gifted with too acute olfactory
nerves, • pound or two of the deposit will afford an
hour's harmless amusement.

COURAGEOUS CONDUCT OF A OLD LADY. —At
Norton, near Melton, an elderly lady, Miss Marshall,
resides in a semi-detached house in Commercial-street.
The only other occupant of the house was • maid-
servant. About 2 o'clock on Wednesday morning Miss
Marshall was awoke by • man's arm being thrust under
the bed in which she was lying, the intruder on being
questioned saying he wee in much of money. The
fellow at onoo made off, closely pursued by the old
lady. On the way out he seised a poker, and (having
apparently previously prepared for hie escape) suoceeded
in locking the street door from the outside, taking away
the key. Mies Marshall at once opened a window and
leaped into the street, but was so stunned by the fall,
which is &eyelid feet, that she for some time was unable
to give chase or alarm. The burglar got clean away,
and from the finding of the poker on the Scarborough-
road it is presumed he has gone thither. The man is
suppoeed to have been secreted in the house overnight,
as be had made sure of looking the street door after
him. He had lit a candle, which seems to have been
burning an hour. He had ransacked all the house, but
failed to discover the plate and money; but has got
together and carried off about a° value of watches,
brooches, locket., chains, rings, and sundry articles of
jewelry. The East Riding constabulary are hot in
chase, and are stimulated by a reward which has just
been offered for the capture of the burglar.

A NOVEL FLEETING NET. —Speaking of an extraor-
dinary take of small fish in Cork harbour, the Examiner
says:—" So plentiful is the supply that the nets
usually employed appear to be regarded as inadequate,
and • singular meansof capture has been resorted to—
crinoline. With this novel apparatus thousands have
been already taken, the smaller end of the artiele being
closed up, and a pole attached to the other extremity."
A SWEDISH °non STOET. —We Could not quit
Malmo without visiting Torun, said everybody; so last
evening Countess Troill kindly called for us, and we
started along the highway as fast as four horses would
carry us. An hotir's drive brought us to a &Minded
punchbowl, where an aged baron, of years quite
fabulous and spirit young, has his nest, the indent
castle of Torun, a gabled mansion with towers both
round and octagonal, surrounded by a narrow most.
Torap was built in the fifteenth century by the lady
Gjorwell, a spinster of refinement. The old building
stood on the hill side, close by the farmyard, till, sadly
tormented by lowing cattle and squeaking pigs, she re-
moved from their neighbourhood. This castle is noted
in history as the first "ever built with money," for
the Lady Gjoreall paid the workmen shining silver, in
addition to food, the sole payment given in those days
by the lords of the soil. A just and righteous lady,
she *wafted much gold, and took care to hide it, an
folks ware then wont to do. In her last sickness death
came so quickly she could only gasp the word "cellar,"
and no one has yet known her hiding plaoe. The Lady
Gjorwell mourns her secret hoard turned to no good
account, and oft id a winter's night is met in the dark
stone passages. She beckons with imploring gestures,
"Come, come, and I will show the place; but no
one dares to follow her, for Swedish serving men and
maids love not ghosts. As for the aged baron he has
more gold than he knows what to do with, and no one
to inherit it hereafter.

BEARDS IN THE PULPIT.—The following letter has
been addressed to the editor of the Glebe :—Sir,--The
remarks of your alarmed correspondent upon the
appearance of my rev, brother at Christ Church, Forest
Hill, have afforded me no small amusement. Does he
seriously think that our All-wise Creator furaiebed oar
bodies with any one thing that we ought to destroy? I
am sure if he is a serious man (as I am ready to believe
from his presence at church) that he will reply in the
negative— then the argument comes to this. Nothing
with which the Creator has furnished the body was
given to us to destroy. The beard and moustache are
things with which the Creator has furnished the body.
Therefore the beard and moustache were not given to us
to be destroyed. It is contrary to the design of the
Creator, us giving be those appendages, to mutilate
them. Shaving Is, to say the least, • mistake, and my
rev, brother of Forest Hill is a bright example of the
duty of self-preservation in avoiding it. Why should
the clergy be shaven? Were the Jewish priests of the
Old Testament shaven? Were the Apostles shaven?
Did not Lather, Calvin, Knox, Cranuier, Ridley,
Latimer, and all the heroes of the Reformation, wear •
beard and moustache L Nay, who ever heard of a
portrait of the Great Head of the Church Himself, in
which He is represented without a beard and moustache?
I could wish that all my rev, brethren refused to
submit to this daily matntinal mutilation, in obedience,
not to nature, not to the laws of their Creator, but to
the fashion of this world that paineth away. My living
is in a remote part of the country, and so I do not enjoy
the happiness of Mr. Dundreary's aquaintanoe. What,
therefore, his style of hair-dressing may be I cannot
say ; but this I do know, that in the only extant descrip-
tion of the personal appearance of the great Head of the
Church, • description many centuries old, we are
expressly told that "in the midst of his head was a seam
or partition of his hair ;" so that my rev, brother of
Forest Hill appears to have a very high authority for
appearing to perform his sacred functions with hair
parted in the middle. Why should • clergyman wear
a white tie at all? There is not the smallest order for
anything of the hind. The white tie is common
to laymen at soirees, balls, cite., ke., to under-
graduates in the schools, to chief mourners and under-
takers' men at funerals, and to waiters at inns. For
some time past I have preached and read prayers In •
coloured tie, together with • turn down miler with a
coloured stripe on it. 111 copied any one at all it waa
the Puritan divine', who never dreamt of muffling up
their necks with white calico, as if they had sore throats
and required • poultice ; and I feel that with an us-
muffled neck and Nature's own appendages I can do
twice the work without fear of a "clergyman's throat."
I never saw my brother of Forest Hill in my life. I
have had no communication with him. Ido not know
his name. I was never at Forest Hill. I hate puppyisre,
and am oertaialy no dandy, very much the contrary;
but, on common sense grounds, I hold shaving and big
bits of calico round the neek tube • nuisance, part of
the porn pa and vanities of this wicked world. I enclose
my card .—A COUNTRY Tows INCUMBENT.

A LOVIR'S THRIAT.—A young man, whose profes-
sion is "to go down to the sea in ships." had been
courting a young girl at a house not a hundred miles
from the Ulverston canal, when some quarrel ensued
between the lovers, and the gay Letharlo threatened to
drown himself. No sooner said than done, apparently.
lie sprang into the canal to the great terror of the
girl, who at once crested an alarm. The dissatisfied
lover had disappeared beneath the water, and, although
every effort was made to render assistance if practic-
able, or to bring op the body when all hope of rescuing
the victim of disappointed passion had vanished, there
was nothing to show for this expenditure of good feel-
ing. We understand that several members of the
police force, aseisted by sympathising bystanders,
dragged the canal for a considerable time, but without
effect. The truth was that the disconsolate lover was
a capital swimmer and diver, and contrived, through
the darkness of the night, get home unobserved,
where he was found next morning comfortably mioonood
between the blankets. Rumour says that the heart of
the fair Didcines is sottoned, and that the course of
true love is likely to run smooth henceforth.— Cumber-
land Pacquet.

"The ClinoiroOnseff." "Thus ended the race of
1862 between the rival Universities for the 'Blue Mend
of the Thames,' Oxford having won two years in
succession easily. As great disparity exists in the
'time' given by several of our contemporaries, we
have nd hesitation in saying that ours may be
relied on as correct, having been taken by Benson's
Chronograph Watch".-Sporting Life, 16th April, 1862.
"While speaking of Benson's monster clock, it may
not be out of place to remark that adelioate instrument
of hie manufacture, the 'Chronograph,' was brought
Into use at Epsom on the Derby Day, and proved that
the race was run in 2 min. 45100., 5-10ths."—City
Press, 7th June, 1862. "During the day the Exhibi-
tion tent was open to visitors. There were ionic very
beautiful objects exhibited, and amongst the most in-
teresting a Chronograph, invented by Mr. Benson, of
Ludgate Hill It is designed to mark the time of an
occurrence to the tenth part of a second, which can be
done without taking the eye off the object observed.
The instrument indicates the time in the ordinary way,
appearing at first glance as en ordinary seconds watch,
but simultaneously with the pulling of a string, which
muses from the movement of the outside of the case,
a dearly defined dot of ink is desposited on the dial.
without the slightest degree affecting the time-keeping,
and the ink is so prepared as to wipe off readay."—
Meriting Advertiser, 14th June, 1882. (Description of
the Ride Meeting at Wimbledon.) Benson's Watches,
" rierfecsisn of merchaniem," are supplied at prices
varying from 3 to 50 Gaines.; in silver and in gold,
from 5 to 100 Guineas. Benson's " Illustrated
Pamphlet," 21. post free. 33 and, 34, liildgate Hill,
E.C. &id. 1749.

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