The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-07-13 00:00:00

Pluto anb Piano.

(Jul fish il no cheigier if it is caught by the ton, for
oss. fishers go off to &urns, and bring back pot-flowers
lastewl. Facial& seeds, especially three of the green
colourist varieties, are eatable, though one can hardly
nes, they are either fish, flesh, or fowl.
--lybere is fair comrtition promised for the coming
Irak and flower show. The more the merrier. Kiddle
is at his allotment day and night, Ilia prize will go
in credit for matches The coastguard called in him
one night and bade him 'dowse his glim," or he'd lure
& ship ;,able. With a sigh he made reply—"Aw, ess,
there he nar sich luck now.aolays, I 'spoils thee wants
to cat lff my besteat titers, just as thee looked my
"old father and er tubs 1"
Tb,,na. Beat, Esq., an.l • party of 50 wou'A•le
excirsionise were ',telly disappointed on Monday
June 25:h. lbeir loyal hearts longed to take
the trip to Portsmouth in the steamers Carham and
legraPb. but the vessels were too full The captains
Te
did not soquiesce in Mr. BOWS igneous suggestion that
they should heave over • rope and tow him a-tern.
'fosterer, the party afterwards took a trip in the
Pl. rence, attended by the Langton brass band, which
discoursed such sweet sounds that sorrow was more
,tnpletely drowned than Mr. Best would have been.
i
c Wheat i looking up fairly in our neighbourhood.
We have tested wine containing 50 fold.
Kiddie is sully hec oning illustrious; He hgures
now on *.‘fr. Hardy's, the newsagent's, table in Friend/Jr
Gratin:is, evidently being taken in hand by • couple
uf ba4mmen. lids hands are deep in his pockets, how-
ever, so that though "the company on board were
mostly dissolute men," they got nothing out of him.
It is very pleasing to know that " Swanage" will be
down to posterity, not merely in " Hutchins'
retei:lry of Dorset—which is too dear and too tedious
for ordinary purses and patience, and in which the
stone trade doss not certainly put on • look of entice-
ment, specially the paragraphs written of late years—
but in our ordinary -history b•oks, and best of all in
connection with that which is considered our most
neglected ~if accomplialimen.s —education. One of our
rectors, named Bell, was the eon of a Scotch barber, of
St. Andrews, and as head of • Military School at
Madras, he employed youthful monitors and thus laid
claim to the invention of that system. He afterwards
hecame master of Sherborne out and prebentiery of
Hereford and Westminster. He was one of the
founders,
in 1811, of the National Society for promot-
in; education among the poor and of preserviug the
est.-chime. In 1832 be died and left an immense
fortune of 020,000 chiefly to schools of one kind an I
another. The doctor will not be forgotten, and so
Sinai., will he remembered, though few people yet
inns, in what part of the world it vegetates. No doubt
be obtained some awful illustrations of ignoranoe from
siii„s; us, hut we at lewd are better than this. "At
A ril jot taken in the parish 14 Northchurch, Berk'
itswp wad, out of 191 voters, AS_
_placed their marks
1 instead id their names. List November the same
pari.h ~n a poll ile ided against the formation of a
scho.i•board They had wood enough in their own
bait Lucie.