The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-01-16 00:00:00

Obbs anb ens.

Mr. Samuel Whittle, of the White Hosea. has
just been presented by a cow with a calf, which is
certaiolv • hiss: nmLu'—l believe that is the pr-
per design 4tion—youlig Pools woull probably c ill it
.I,joct." It has eye-oicke.s, but o eyes, an it still
further involves the I rarwionto theory in mystery by
c wing int , the worlt with .ut a tail. It hal also
other p-culiaritiss which I need not describe. Sain
tells we he thought of 'starting in Vat oh .w busioes.,
but he is to , msfeet to blow his own trumpet, und he
is doubtful whether it w.,11.,1 pay to bite.

How T 146 NIONIT ti,HA !-A good mt.), Tairli!e
interested in the career of " General" Booth and his
Salvationists are often t be found aaktng his que-tio,i.
The answer invariably iv Ca* I—have impdeit faith in
the " Gonerel ! Some pers.,* hymnale at this. The
L'Eafraelt annual has • apirited ,ketch repreeenting
"the General" grabbing the "pie." as feat as be 'an
lay hie hands upon theui, and it sake him, " Now
then, Mr. Booth, tell us what are you going to do
with all that money.

Richard Bioth, a son oi the Generara—the whole
family live out of the movement—ham unconsciotudY
let just the tip of pusey'e noise to appear beyond the
opening of the bag. Re hill written a later to the
"Converted Clown" (who took up his out role and
made "a fool" of himself by cutting his throat at
Yeovil in a lit of diunkenneve), In which he condoles
with him mid .1411/0. him be Mu "a bright future
before him." lie send. "the deer love.' of himself
and wife and of a Mr. Blackwell." 8 I far so g .00:1!
But where does Mr. Richerd llioth ditto his letter
from? Brighton, }lasting., or Bournemouth where
modevt invslids usually go to pick up their
eualrs-
rice? Not at all. But trio "tic, Grvii.l hotel,
lioutone," the holiday resort 1 royalty.
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Who, in this drizzly, dreary, grimy, dirty waatho:,
would not Us to buys old Ei,gland fr bright
Southern skies', and live at a " grand hotel" at the
expanse of —Tambourine:, please play up.

By the way. I have had-rent me a Saratoga (U.S.),
newipaper, and there I fiat they quote some remarks
of mine anent the "Army;" but brother Jonathan
seems enable to take the thing seriously, for the
quotation to beaded "all for fun." I will freely admit
I don't write these lines in that limit. What seems
to amuse the Ssrato.ca print greatly is" Captsin "
Campion's doggerel couplet—

"Salvation', free,
But not the tea."
The yenka" are evidently to "cute" to be taken
in by imitation "bunkum " imported from the old
country.

A CORRUMPONDEXT Write. complaining that he was
subterciaed to &pilaw iu a pu ice cage the other day,
and aft,r the bearing the magiatratee refused him his
expense.. If ever it should be him mi.dortune to be in
similar circumstanced. the I.st thin./ he can do ie to
decline to acoept the sub, ..11.—uulesa the " needful "
accompanied it. Of couree, oncf iu the witnesabox he
could II 4 refuse to give evidence, or he might find
himself committed for cottempt of court..

Tee POLIO. ACTH hiTlrB, the other day rather
wanted to get up a case having the end in view of the
prosecution of keepers of disorderly houses. The
magistrates wisely declined to entertain the ilea.
Lord Chi f Justice Ctsckburn, in his famous summing-
up In the Tichb .rne trial, remarked nature could not
be restrained. That may or may not he so, but, at
all event., we know the result of the shuttinv up of
the CremorneGariens,and the Argyle rooms—King's-
road, Chelsea, at the one end, and the t I aymarket at
the other, converted into public pandemonium*. Our
streets are tolerably decent at present, but if " the
social evil" is driven r.ut into them, what will they
become? "It is better ti bar the ills we have, than
fly to others that we know not of."

THIC SPIRIT 03 Miscitisr does not yet lieeto to be
laid in Psile. On Sunday evebing Pome mischievous
individual turned off the gas at the Primitive Metho-
dist chapel, and, I am told, the congregation had
literally to "grope" their way out.

THE LION. CAVENDISH BENTINCI, I hear, "threw"
hie home when out with the h.ninals on Tbureday.
The brie returned the compliment, and "threw " the
800. C.vendish-Bentiock. Neither. I am plesuied to
say, and I am sure my reeders, who know the genial
out-spoken -tquil 15. will join in my congratulations,
was very much the worse to the tumble.

"THe CLAIM NT." I am told on good authority, when
he " cornea out," will cot,teet Poole. He has no and
of believers here, and the little question as to the
"grotto" business will not be any bar to his obtaining
the suffrages of such rough-ana.ready cuitomin am
thu bobsrams of Poole.