The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-04-22 00:00:00

PEBBLES AND SHELLS.

Weymouth, U it has no other fashionable arrivals
early in the ooming ....on, will hare an " F.mpress,"
whose demeanour is such as to make her highly
popular among all chime of society. She is exceed-
iagly beautiful, and the fair queen of the water. is
expected in the harbour early in May from London.
Her saloons will be the haunts of thousands during
the ammo.

It was a pretty sight! On the beaks of the Thames
lay upon the stocks. c nom Aloes craft, new and
beantUal ! At her stern stood a rotas I tdy, the
daughter of a worthy scion of Weymouth, surroun-
ded.by a representative of the good ship's company,
who, as the fair lady broke the bottle of wine over
the 14.111.1 of the vessel, gave her the name of
"Empress," and forthwith, amidst the cheers of the
assembled throng. the Empress gilded softly upon the
surface of the waters I

Garibaldi, whose name just now is creating such a
profound sensation in Rome, is not at all °unseated
with an individual of the mune mans in Weym mtb,
and who has just returned from • short sojourn from
• large town residence.

The Corporation are doing their utmost In grap-
pling with the various difficulties which at timets
present themselve., one of which has been the money
for the staging. £919.1 which his been paid off, and
by the end of the month the remaining portion of £BO
will also have been cleared olf. All these things show
to the borough that there is good stuff in our local
parliament I

"Th. other side of the wa—tier" is yearly growing in
Importance. Handsome buildings costing some thou-
sands of pounds •re going to be built In Newberry
Gardens, • mission claursh, and • Fres bfethodist
Chapel an also to be added, and numhers of suburban
renose are to be emoted, added to which there
will be • handemn• brido aa a fitting approach to old
and new Weymouth from hieloombe Regis

An old son of the last, thinking to outdo all the
"snob." in the fashionable watering place, the other
night emerged from the fair village of Preston, and
towards eventide found himself in the presence of
certain of the "upper" ton of the council of leather.
Of course, once being there, am is the custom among
the Knights of fit. Crispin, " St Monday" wee kept
In right good style, and, if ter very many • refreshers"
the worthy Prestonian set forth on his homeward
journey! He arrived safely at the first mile-stone,
biter • long sig-mg mode of walking, and unlike the
great Weston, he eat himself down to rest While
counting the stars, which seemed to him in all kinds
of fantastic shapes, be wis suddenly embed of • small
burden he was carrying, which consisted of several
pairs of boots—men's, maidens', and children's I Just
then them was • rusdlin; noise in the ditch, at the
side of the read, but the courageous knight feared
naught, he sig-sagged his way home to the combrt of
the family circle, minus the articles of leather! The
neat morning the sturdy knight heard that the
discovery of • parcel had been made at the hamlet of
Wyks Oliver, upon which • bright piece of silver WM
offered to • certain indivdual to restore that which
wads lost, Meanwhile the son of the 'acetone had
walked back to Weymouth to see if he had not left
his parcel behind him the previous evening ; but here
was the sequel, Fetal bank and 11l give you •
shining I" was the offer, bet no; he had to fetch it
himself, and will from fiat night forward ever
remember coming to the Weymouth council of St.
Crhipin I
. . . . _ .

serial. Town Connell rant to remove a Russian
Inn presented to the town by a considerate Govern-
ment soul* years ago, on tbs plea that it would offend
I Ruesian'a mind. Could tot another oertain T.C. do
with.ut one or more of as pus sometimes, on the plea
that they offend taste and Waring ?

A splendid little hand-miens, minim in It. way,
will soon be on view In the gown. The Town Council
bare entliorteed one of " Telbell patent portable band
are " to be purchmed. May it
wanted put oct fire in out street.; but to keep the
thing in 'Forking order, maid It not be used in our
Load Parliameet Chamber on some occsaion when
- seta over•warm In lie subject?

•
Our gallant local 01e,.1 the W.R.O. ars going
to "pull, poll together, boy.," this year with • will.
Sixty members already, a good sort of fellow for
captain, and a thorough warm-hsarted soul for
treasurer, these—with lb. new toga, new boats, and
now blood infused into tit* ranks, will at once lead
the public, to ere that there will be aquatics of a
super' o. and spirited type in our beautiful bay during
the rummer.

Tools and tools are two different things • so It will
appear in ths coining week at the Theare Royal.
Tools is the grostAnt comedian of the present day, and
the tools he uses are thaw of high inherent inbred
wit. Weynionthisna are going to arpan his tools by
giving him a bumper I