The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-11-20 00:00:00

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EsnlAsit MANNERS PAISTED BT A FRYNCIDIAN.—
rut nog the leaves of U is veracious vohsine in a eleepv,
id lent kind of manner, I am n suddenly aroused by
finding that I never take off my hat to a bely, but only
to a horse, the reason being that a WOIIIAII causes me to
spend nioney, and a horse causes me to gain it: where-
ion, 1 love. pat, caress my home, hut in nowise love,
pat, or caress my wile; nor do I salute any lady what-
soever, but only my favourite racer. I Aso find that
my wife and sisters put trousers on the legs of their
pianos, chairs, and tables; that they never talk of the
leg of • fowl, or ask for • slice of leg of mutton, but
Prefer o nuttiest request for the "limb" of *chicken,
opl desire a liter alive of that " limb" of mutton.
Anything else would but " very shocking." and would
put English prudery quite out of countenance. Again,
find that I have no fruit worth eating, either in my
garden or my greenhouse ; that, with the exception of
apples, gooseberries, and coarse black cherries. nothing
ripens or comes to maturity; that my hothouse pro-
buces nothing but inodurous and tastelese monstrosities;
and that the only thoroughly ripened fruit which I can
offer to my friends is a baked apple. I grow nothing
in perfection but grebe, and tett',i are the only really
well fed nil co:dented animala in my island. 'flue
people are notoriously illfe,l, and I owe my existence to
French bleas in stews stud sauces. Whoa I give a rout
I send out from five to six thousan I letters of invita-
tion ; I illuminate the fautele of my hotel stud turn
every bedroom into a reception room. My five or six
thousand guests arrive with a remarkable punctuality ;
but, notwitioutandinz the care which I take in sending
out my invitations I never fail to rtoeive among those
guests a certain 'mintier of thieves and pickpockets,
who steal the laulime cloaks and ornaments, end wMuse
, exploits are vaunted in the neat day's journal atith
Mfissite complaisance. In these routs I rind my greatest
phemure in intoxicating lily guests—M. Larcher has
-ern use do it--and I close the debauch *Mu tea an'
„uroge of brandy, gill, and runi ; also with tea " I:unid"
with --which, I am told, has been always a favou-
rite heveiage of mine. If I give a dinner the ladies
retire LI Nnoll as the bottle appears; one of my guests
cries " oh-or-nob." which is a kind of table toads to
warn the rest to prepare for toasts; and then we fall to
drinking in earnest. M. Larcher magnanimously con•
fesses that we do nut ,frink so much as formerly, though
we still only drink alcohol slightly flavoured witli grape
juice, as our nearest approach to wine, and still. reject
the o m pureet and best groths as iteless and in4l,id.--
Diekens's All the Y.,. Roused.
Mr. SA $l.B A TIQL LT iES AND ROOK& —This cob-
-I'-thin lu*s just been dispersed by auction by Messrs.
Puttick Simpson, of [At:ester. inure. The late
owner, • member of the Society of Friends, who at
AI iuus periods of his If. haul been a achooikeeper and
Ise,kaeller, was a person of considerable abilities, and
not les4 ceeentricity. A loge part of his iife was
it in travel, through various cumuli-ice of Eurp,
il a.: East, in secrch of objects of curiosity and I
interest. lie was fortunate beyond most travellers in 1
their acquisition, and his importations front time to '
time embraced articles of the highest curiosity. A few '
years since he sold the bulk of hie collections of Egyp-
tian untiquities to Mr. Mayer, of Liverpool, and also
inutile wine Unportant public sales of printed books and
manuscripts. The collection just dispersed consisted,
therefore, of but the remnant of his antiquarian glean-
ings. but it still comprise.' some important objects. The
following were among the most remarkable :—ln the
Catalogue of Anti.mities, lot 51, three silver coins of
Istree, efi Mb. Lot GO, Daniastrium in Epeirus, with
laurelled head to the right,a rare coin, silver. £2l. Isut
51, -Etolia, with youthful male head to the right, also a
scarce coin. silver, al 10s. Lot 85. a coin id Argos,
with head of Juno, silver, EG 10s. Lot 1:10, Evippe in
Odin, with bust of Diana, a small bronze coin oh great
scarcity. 1:16 fis. Several lots of Skaptiati gold orna-
ments, but of a lste period, sal at good r-ites. Lot
:NI. a cuttonmooration talikt, with an iti,rint•titi,
partly hi la,sed letters, relatiti4 to a native iii Alia/M-
-ao. £4 4s. Lot 291, a mummy, but 'lot quite perfect,
ES. In the Catalogue of limuks may be noted. lot 804,
tor ditoLueeine, braves of a tract, otherwise unknowii,
printed by Richard Lint, £4 Ga. Lot 1,244, Mionnet.
%%lades Autioues. Tss. Lot 1,377, Isuthsrii Liter
Miserne Condition. HUIIIaIIC, 1472, £3 10s. Lot
1,438, Lath u 'buries Expositio in ThrenosJeremite, 1482,
inc of the few booko printed et Oxford in the 15th
rentitry. this Le py having sMn leaf, £l7 eq. LOt
2,016, Sastitisrols, Leetione, 1437. A curious sermon,
with a note at (be end *tatting that at its conclusiou both
preacher and *mikes* wet together. n IGs. Lot
2.1011, Liter Intrationum, printed by Prnson. 1510,
ES. Lot 2,151, aMS upon peeyrus. Ell ss. Lot 2,110,
five small papyri, unopened, £l2 fie. Lot 2.214, time
curious early maps. of about
the Year 1374, £lO 104.
Lot 2,295, Libor aluitionis Terre dencue, • RS. of
the 14th ecatury, 10s. US 2,110, " Underhill's