The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-11-12 00:00:00

"WHAT THE WORLD BATS."

Do awls breed f This queetiott I. totalling no small
interest to the wientilic mind M the present moment.
Track Hurkland has had man unchains of hreediag
pearls Nknt to him from B maim, and coarsens himself
fairly puzzled. A.. one able to throw light utile the
subject is rotiontoi to rommunicate with him at 31,
Alhanyntritek Regimes Rat. The pearls resemble the
'amnion seed pearls, and are kept in a glass tube with
Dome grains of ries to feed upon. Three or four months
have now rlapesd dace they were despatched on their
joureey, and the rice ha. all the appearance of heeled
been Partially eaten. A fIIfIOWI speck in the grain of dos
almott musette that the germ—whatever it may be—is
deposited la the rims I heard of breeding pearls twenty.
Ave neon ego from • ledy who had 50...; but I neves
actuelly Saw NV before

Lost week I found myself io a position of sons* ember.
rastantoit sod of laths dignity. I swot staying at • largo
country bouts, and on Sunday morning our rictus bast
marrhs4 all his composty oT to Om church. which his
munificence hat recently restored at • grett expense. All
the guests went, to thsy perceived that it was agreeahlo
to the master of the boom, although sows of them were
B ibemiana who did not appear to know even soprani.
=Moly bow many Similar* bad hoes running silage
Trinity. Suddenly. the choir strnek up " Front Green-
load's icy mountains." and then it 6•4•1 aornes ms that I
bad come oat without any money : and when the host (who
I. churchwarden) brought round the Aright golden Plate—
Iron, ap. looklug iiroe rdaaL a••••
crimson with confusion.

You will my that I might have borrowed from mg
neighbour. Unfortunately. milt the night before. some
ono had been telling a story which rather precluded this
townie. An aristocratic dame, now no more. whom audio-
critninelog mind woosaid to homy occasionally uncertido
over the confines of worm and taros was mated at church
beside the celebrated Lord Alveolar Tim MierniOnnri
sermon seas eloquent and stirring ; and the lair, with
deep emotion. yielding to a charitable impulm which We
had milldam felt, wird Lord Almoley to lend her •
eivoseigo. • request with which he ininiedietely complied.
So soon. however. dose seal grow cold, and so *Timms:sot
tho generous movements of the heart. that We
borrowed coin, as be could not fail to oboerve,nover found
los way into the plate, and of course woe never repaid.
Mr. Orem stated the other day that he molly did not
know what Imperialism we. We are rapidly becoming
In • position to grolighten him. A vigorous howlal
policy seem, to consist In creating mambo sties. which
might ham been avoided. and then ignorolnously retreat-
ing from the position which was boldly asauteed In
Ignorance of the dangers which it involved. Mk has
been coaspicnously the raae in Afghanistan; and now we
see treated to • new and quite unrolled-for Imbroglio with
America The position which England oceupiod in the
matt*, of the fildiery award Ism quit. Impregnable. Tim
million. end • half of dollars wail adjodged in eattip,nen.
OM for Uulted Mateo participation In Brisieb Wirth
American aidseries, which the (toren...vital Washington
could not have refused to pay without incurring an
amount of disgrace in the OTPB of tha world which would
kayo tarnished their reputation for honesty beyood
mdmeptioa On the other band. strong political Port?
In the States—which President Harm could scarcely der*
to ignore—protested violently mislaid tho paymont; and
the position of the Cabinet at Washington was one of
considerable orobarmament. when Lord SMisbury relieves
them from their difficulty, and puts our own Governosont
In lb. gyms& by supporting the local fishing regulations
el Nowfoundland. in cootraventios of the ilalifan 'obi.
tratims. The malt is, either that we shall have to
abandon our position or forfeit the Sr. utiiliona sad a half
of dollars, which, had we sot roisui this question. the
American Goooronbaat could not hay* found any excuse
to rebus paying.

I observe nowadays whenever a Wrist runs over a
an and does hien serious bodily hi jury. the bieycliel
always lan the man is drunk If be s drunk, that is all
gh. more mime thebicyclist should refrain from running
him down. Till a bicyclist or two hays been imPrlsoned.
tiII sores o these "redo on custom" Yaws a severe boron
I are airsid we shall not get rid of these modern pieta ei
the Queen's highway.

It limy be worth while to state. in Mew of the Lord
Mayor's Usenet and es one of the facts not ceserally
koown, that imtle, before reselling this oountry, else
fell leek, as gamy of the turtlwfseders do alter their
wriest In thin case tie careful 000 k, who knows. sick
turtle from a hale one, will throw hits away, and soh.
stltuM ealfs heed, in default of • oulliciency of sound
turtle The usual allowance of turtle for soup le six
pounds' It.. weight per heed; so that, assuming there are
Am hundred guests at the Ouildhell, no lee. than a toe
end a-ball of turtle will hare accompliabed their miseion.
The tarots bill of the Lord Mayor upon this oe-asion Is
sot common property, but It piebald doe, not figure up
like that famous bouquet of Sir William Curtis at the
Almon, which cost Mtersen til) and l 0 • heed Timm
and manners ham changed. What would the minieters
and the noble company think If Lb. Lord Mayor,
invtit,ne the example of his predeomeor, Si, Thomas
Abner, the friend of Dr. Waft., were to leave the
banquetim•tiall withdraw to his own house for the
purpose of family worship. and then return to listen to
Dwd Beaconefield upon the Berlin Treaty and the
Afghanistan muddle.

At the Stafford Arises on Friday, Solomon Havelock
ergo charged with throwing a cl“ 70.111.• fluid on ,Mary Ana
gidagrove. on the And September. From the
',Mese* it transpired that the prieoner, without the
flighted provocation, pulled • bottle out of his pocket
cputulug aouafortia. and deliberately threw the eontente
of It on to tormerutriee nark, fare. and arms. burning her
In a shockl mg manner. After prisoner dui committed the
act he told prosecutriie bushand that if bs received 10
rrkg &be offence he would at the expiration of that
do • elmilar act. The prisoner wee maenad to
emu pease' penal servitude.

Great excitement was caused in the principal thorough.
fares of Dundee on Thursday forenoon liy the serape a a
large Polar hear. brought home by one of the whaling
vessels from Greenland. The animal *es being conveyed
through the streets in a hos with a strong iron meting in
front. noon, the home, of the tux tare way end the hear
il•swpast His rowdier., Red. and the men, women, and
children in the streets at the time speedily weltered
thenuelvas in all direction. One poor woman in her
alarm took refuge in a amuse. shop. Thither she was
followed by the hear. The woman Incest on the counter
and the terrified salesmen gaielely followed her example.
A " duuireg" figure In the centre of the shop for displaying
men's sults was attacked ant knocked down by Brain
who then mad* for the beck premises, whore • lentil
ate-glass mirror engaged his attention for some time The
..0 set down before a fire, but having placed his
own on the top ribs of the grate, he withdrew them
Looting fearfully, and returned to the front *bop, when 111
SOWS derieut spirits had by this time emetubled After
=difficulty • rope vrith a 11006.• was thrown over the
of tint aaimal, which was replaced in • box in •
mirtrangho state. The exciting 110•11.1 laSfila fully LO
arid the greeted alarm prevailed ainongst the
thouraude of rpectatow who had gathered in witness the
peplum of the brute. The only injury mobilised este by a
gag which hat the temerity to attack the boar, for which
be was Privily entseened.
Loan Iffetne's Der.—The Pictorial World of ale week
publishes excellent portraits of Alderman Sir Charles .
eirghnthapi and Sheriffs Burt and Bevan. The recent
fetes at Versailles are pictorially represented by a
humorous sketch of some Natives a Senegal ',vain,
thernerly 5 at the Buffet of the Gill* du Barre, and a
Et
wild illustration a the Hall of Minors Besides
.
we have the Reception of Lord Dufferin at the
heal Terminus. Bet sat, and at the Municipal
dldinga. Several sketches from the Paris Exhibition
udi_Dores Dolomite] Vase and flunked's goldmedai
Wove lngitiltoo and his Datiglitere sod the New Peal at
%Us at lit Peel's Ciathedral The price of the paper Is
Sow Mooed to twopence, sod la artalnly • sooty orloot
opstailles kr thasaisrag•