The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-10-13 00:00:00

Lturaturr.

Trti Airr JotraNAL (London : Virtue and Co., 28,
bry.lane) this mouth amply maintains the high character
for which it has so long been distinguished. The
engravings, whether on steel or wood, are produced with
exquisite skill, and their subjects admirably selected,
while the literary meteor is in keeping with the ex-
cellency of the illuetrittions, whether the articles be
epecially connected with art or upon cognate topics.
The line engravings in the current number are three.
"Whore they etucified Him," by P. It. Norris, engraved
by J. U. Armytage, it a coinpesitiou of wondrous pathos
end power, portraying the evening scene at Golgatha, as
a workmen is removing the cross whereon our Saviour
we, crucifiod. He is depicted reverently rolling up the
Inscription Pilate caused to be placed over the "King
of the Jews," while three children, attracted by curiosity
to the place, have taken up a nail which has been uted
In the great sacrifice, and inspect it with childish
wonderment. The second plate represent.; the arrival
of Otho, Es-King of Greece, at Venice, by E. W. Cook,
K.A. engraved by C. Cousen. "Startled," by Sir E.
londseer, R. A., when oceroely seventeen years of age,
Is • moistly oketch of a horse, which is grazing inn
meadow, startled on coming unconsciously upon • snake.
Containins thaw three engravings, the October pert is
rioienbruely cheap at belfer-elown, wad does infinite
credit to the publishers.
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Tian POPULAR aktgitc• ltiviirw (London: Robert
Hardwick., 02, Piccadilly) is a most valuable quarterly,
affording Information on scientific subjects by tile
ablest writers of the day, illustrated profusely, and con.
taining in interesting and able summary of the chief
copies of scientific intermit during the pre.mdiag quarter.
"The Lobater," 'What is Wino?" "Iron shields and
forty," "Tier, air of &hes," "how to make geologioal
section," "The life of a seed"—theso are the special
subject+ of the part, and sufficiently indicate the charnel-
ter end variety of itsoontente. We cull • few paragraphs
which we feel sure will be real with interest, and we
see holly commend the work t a our readers :
Ernie? or Tama ox Wires—At the cud of from Oro to ten
the wine nay tic considered to have slTeve4 at maturity ;
that I. to •ay, the slow chemicalchanges g.ing lin have reaclic.l
the ...Omuta amount that is still beneficial ; after thi• tho
wine O. longer lowest-ea by kectiimr, except to the taste 44 •
few amid-be connoisseur.. Generally 'taking, the lighor
cited of 111111.• snore ...leer at maturity than stronger and
l,tooier alma. The romps's., sketch raters chiefly to put.
natural rine.; in strongly fortilled viilie•, an chanteyl changes
arc snore or tem modified, and usually take • longer time for
their consummation. Such wines require Siren or More years
to bring them to tierfertion ; such time tieing, in great meuure,
mammary to undo and cormt the coil done in brandy's.; It
originally. The chenstml changes taking idace in the wine go
on, however, untsaaingly in ask er teen in bottle, 'Ming
chiefly t ,the oxygen finding its way by ctsdiemosis through
the shies of the cask, Or even through tlac cork .4 the bottle ;
or through its having hum abourbed by the Wilke In the net .4
trinsferring it fn,n one cask to another, or in the leittling.
tinder the Influence of this oxydesing action the wine gnalual y
deteriorates, more and more alcohol Is eimerted into acetic
acid, colouring nutter le precipitated, and the lib:rent
odoriferous compound., produced at grist by the action id
oxygen, are now gradually destroyed by It, 11114 the eine
pi 'idles slowly but mndy. Some wines pus through all thou
changes in a comparatively abort time; otheramay keep for Iths
year.. of Tore.

Tun Novagna Slicontreemaae are not likely to be
in oumbly scam this yme In Enghind; In fact, we need hardly
expect to me them again until the year 1670. Even 0-en the
dbplay Is not likely to be stay hellbent, as the part of the
system through which the earth will then pasts will be much
ice.ilenaely stresn with meteoric bodies than the part pittesNl
through in 1660. The epoch of maximum display this year is
like!) to occur during midday In England and in twat 'arta of
Euvipe.
A ISLACS ASILIn. VS which pronged to he of some
oiinnierrial value, now hying produced In France. The
follow log Is the mode fif preparation :—ln • litre of alcohol 12
grammes of aniline Moe, 3 grammes I,f fuchsine, and
greenly*. of naphthaline yellow are inanely/XI. The whole is
die...4W by agitation In Isis than 11 hours. One application
renders • white object ebony black; the varnish can he
filtered, and will nes-or depueit afterwards. The three odours
are not destroyed, for each am be separated by istudyds with
the characteristic ',Nicene&
New Catania Pimento Pmenes.—Mr. Will hen Blair, of Perth,
has announced • new carbon process, the remits of which
although It in not yet perfected—give great promise. The
great advantage is; that the troublesome proems of transferring
itwil in other carbon procem Is done away with. The proem.,
briefly hinted, consists In eubetituting • white thane for the
nrelnary hlsek One, and mounting it upon • black instead of •
white surface.

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Has. • Rff IiDWICKL —ZNOZ•001181P, iNned by• the same
publiaher, an its name impact', deals more in the chit-
chat of mien°, than in formal (mays, and, for that
reason, will commend itself to • larger circle of
reader; presenting as it doom much interesting
and useful information touching the habits and
peouliarities of all things in nature. From this
we loam that the "mosquitos' of which we
heard so much during our secoud summer this yea,
are no "mosquitos" at all, but simply the common
British gnat Ceder pipiena, which. it seems, has bitten
harder than uxual, perhaps in consequenos of the long-
continued drought. litre is another curious bit of
now.:—

-1,-M..nts EATOaOI.OOmT.—A few days ago, In South Shields,
In the county iif Durham, • a.mon observed her cat running
along the house pumas with mmathing In Its mouth. On
seeing this she gare • stamp with her foot on the for, and to
her adonialunant the cat dropped out of It. mouth • large
moth, Spains contains/I. This la the only epeelliten known to
have been found in !tooth Shields. It la now in the porewion
of Mr. Thotnaa Oatea, chemist, of that town.
THIC ST. PAULA UAUAIHII (London: Virtue and CO.,
294. Citproad) this month commences • new volume,
and its contents are varied and interesting as usual.
The Rill tor's story " Phineas Finn" I. the great attrac-
t:on, and continues to be as amusing and absorbing as
tear. litre In a clover sketch :
Tilsit-I'MA ETl.X.—That renting Lord Chiltern took Mee
litlingliam out to dinner. Phinsaa told himself that thi• nan
of tore. a ...ranged by lady I ileneora, with tho inpre.. view
if ~r. Co Saukby interest. It was almost nothing to him
at the moment that Madame Max Gooier was Intrusted to
Min. Ile had hit ambition romectlng Madame Max Goarler;
but that for the time IVSJI in abeyance He could hardly keep
ii.n. .g Ilia Effingham. and yet, as he well knew, hIS
observation of her must he quite melon H. knew before-
hand, with abtolute accuracy, the manner in which mho
wouldtruat her lover. She would be kind, genial, friendly,
nay, aisyetionata; and 3 41 her manner would 1110k11
11,4111111 f —would give no clue to her future decision either for
or agatmt Lord Chiltern. It WWI, as Plane:se thought, a
pe,..gignsuy aith Violet Ellingluten, that she could trust her
reject.] lovers as dear familiar friends immediately alter her
rejection of them.
" Mr. Finn," old Madame Man Goeslcr, 'your gym and
your can are tell-Wee 44 your 'radon."
hope not,' said l'hineae, "as I certainly do not wish that
11111 one should guess how string is my regard for you."
' That is prettily tamed—very pretUly turned ; and showe
more maims 44 wit than I gave yon credit for under your
prmant suffenng. But of course 00 .11 know '0 here your heart
In. \len do not undertake perilous Journt7s to Belgium for
notldng."
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.71tat unfortunate Journey to Belgium But, dear Madame
Max, really nobody knows why I went."
You met 1..0rd Chiltern them r
•. Oh ; I met Loni C'hiltern there..
" And there vilm • &WIT'
" Madame Max you must not aek me to criminate
mraelf."
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Of enure° there wee, and of course It wan about MIN
Klen•xham, and of cou.-se the lady think+ herself hound to
nine. both the gentlemen who were es very wicked, and of

Well—what foIIo. r
" Ah !—U you hare not •dt enough to toe, I do not think
It can be ray duty to tall you. But I wished to cattUon you ••
• Mow shut oyes sad your taro should he were node:
your

There Is • further Instalment of "The Sacristan's house.
had.° but, justnow, this story is ementially elter the
German manner—a thought slow. However, it is
enlivened by gleams of humour and some good ".
We have the firit instalment of an aseaycrar:
Disraeli, in which the Premier is rather severely
handled, for history criminate, him. There are also
entertaining mem Os "French players and ploy•
bonnie," "Other habitable worlds," " A boar-hunt in
Burgundy" and "Provincial Journalism," although in
this last we think bat scant justice is done to the pro-
vincial journals 111 a whole. Altogether the number is
au assailant one.
OUn Own FIRS/MA (London: W. Hunt and Co.,
Hollee-street, Oaveadish-upuire) merits its usual mood of
praise for its unpretentious and useful efforts to piovide
wholesome reading for the Christian family.
CASSELL'S ILLUSTRATBD PUBLICATIONS have brought
to the roach of thousands. at a ebeeP rate, much
valuable literature, otherwise inacoessible to the working
classes, and the publishers merit great commendation
and emceess for their enterprise. No have received parts
of their Shakespeare, History of England, and Matthew
Ifenry'e Dampen toy on the Holy Llible. all of which are
worthy of • wide circulation.