The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-08-20 00:00:00

then WU &stir sad elasnour in the room behind the
gifted speaker, and two constables, followed by Ur.
Foster, bustled through till they meshed Mr. Memorial.
"Take thst mon into custody," shouted rosier
furiously, eyeing the yield lewyer. "I say he has
stolen a)arge sum of money, the property of my client,
Mr. Morrison, of the rodsrs. 'Fake him away; the
magistrates are now sitting in the Town Hall."—
Cassell', Magazine..

JEWELL —"Do you like jewels?" "1 daresay I should
if I had r men any," said James. " But then you
know I have not." "They are very nice, these jewels."
said the Princess. "Briley* an old woman when she
says that nothing satisfies the soul like jewels. A
beautiful young man is a glorious thing: a beautiful
YOUQmoinen is still more glorious. But they don't
last. Your beautiful yottng man soma; in time to look
out of a bow window in St. Jame's-street ; and your
beautiful young woman—why, an for her, she may-
become in personal appearance anything which you
Ilk, to put • name to. Do you understand nser I
thank God I don't," replied JUSI4IO. "But with regard
to jewel,: they never change. Look at this sapphire.
This is osse of the finest sapphire* in Europe. None
but • !Coot* would wear it on a battle-field. It is •
frosted sapphire, the very rarest of jewels, scarcely ever
seen. Ten thousand years ago the stone was exactly
the same. Seven hundred years ago a magician in
Thihet engraved them letters on it, which, as you see,
let the eye through the frosted surfs** into the wine.
desk depth of the jewel.—"Silecee of Medea," in
Mannillan'a Magazine.

A BlDouts WNDDICO. - I had the honour of meeting
this morning at the marriage of a Bedouin lady. Strol-
ling • little way into the desert about eight o'clock, I
saw three Bedouin encampments, and from the most
distant there issued a camel, on *whose back was • huge
bower formed of palm-branches and covered with red
cloth. As the camel approached the women left the
nearer encampments and 'aimed shrill cries in welcome
of the bride, the men firing the musket' in proximity
which would have alarmed most European young ladies.
The cradle was lined with Arab carpets, on which
reclined • girl dressed in the height of Arab faabion
hags silver lams on her legs, silver ornaments on her
breast and turban, and over all • hese striped rug of
native manufacture. The lovely Fauna (for such I
learned was her name) deigned to 'lanes at me as I
raised my hat in salutation of the bride; but she
appeared to take far greater pleasure in the musketry of
her Bedouin followers, who fired about her bower as
though it had been • Fren eh fortress. Presently there
issued from the gate of boohooed' • trein of Arab
women dancing, clapping &boor bands, and making shrill
aim as like • human .01011 could be to the whinny of a
more. Then the camel wan stopped, the bride alighted,
embraced • few of the women, joined their procession,
and, followed bj the camel, all proceeded to the mud
hut in which Patna was to share for evermore the
love of an Arab with two other ladies. But reroute the
Bedouins chased about the procession at fell gallop,
firing their guns while at top speed ; and when the
beide,' party had passed into the mud mansion, they
followed, and I could hear the file de joie repeated.
May Patina be happy! Her pries was not high, as she
only wet her lord 60 francs, and there ore some young
ladies of the desert not to be bought for 150 or 200
francs If I must live in the desert, I think I would
rather be • Bedouin than a dweller in oasis. In either
the air is pure and of the driest, which of itself is the
best medicine for the Briton la search of recreation;
though I doubt if the desert is LI yet quite suelciently
civilised to meet the taste of many English travellas.—
" Life loan Oasis," in Belgravia.