The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-06-23 00:00:00

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WOOL MARKNLS

Yong Won FAIR, Thunday.—Largest show of wool
In York on record -1,500 sheets. Demand slow, and
preset about 6d. per stone lower,
Dam:wow% Thursday.—The q nantity of wool changing
hands is not great. Steplen find that they have to give
advanced rates in the country, and are consequently
obliged to seek higher quotations in this market. Pur-
chases are made chiedy in lustre wools to supply current
wants, but the higher rates are very reluctantly yielded.
The demand is strictly a consumptive one, and there is
no entire absence of speculation. A large quantity of
wool is now coming to market, and consumers seem less
sager to buy.
Lonnotr, Friday.—The quantity pared sale to present
time is 171,M2 bales. The attendance was rather small,
many foreign buyers having left for the Orman and
French wool fairs, now in progress, which exhibit some
depression in prior. Guerin. imesequently lash anima-
tion, and the late advance in prises is lost, except for
Cape wools, whir, although not quite at the best point,
are still id. per lb. above the previous series. The
present sales will conclude on the 27th.
cuitaan PRlClifi OF F.NOLISH WOOL.
d. Ld.
FlMONfr—Fl^uthdown hograls .. -per lb. Ito 1 I
Hilt-bred Otte .. • 5 —1 1
Rest Meer .. • . 6 I 4
Beetbelown ewe mad weber.
Leicester ditto 6
RORTl—Clolltici 1 II
1— 1 10

Varietins.

A "SIMI FiLl."—.4. bachelor.
A " WAITIAGI" RAC& —Flookeys I
NOITO Mt HAIRDIIIIMIUL— Cat and Comb spin.
CAI/ Or JUDICIAL 811PAIATION.— MlCkbialli r. Cock
burp.

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MADAMS MACHU'S OIDZIMI —The "Bath" and the
"Golden Fleece r _ _

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CAPITAL PUNI&IIIIIIIIT.—Being goldenrod under the
Lu Tenon's for stealing a kin from a pretty girl.
Lariat. QUIBBLZ.—A banister should cultivate 'good
temper U he would Boomed u a mom-examiner:

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RIDDLE MADB "OS THB 31100111D."—Wby are Cricket
matches like beam of cheep chairs ?—Because they're
" Fixed to come off."

Beat:mt.—a ynung illissourien. eulogising his girl's
besuty, mid, " I'll be dossoned it she ain't as party al
I red waggon."
CLZRICAL Communi.—What insect paused by the
divine Williams resembles the prow:herds dull sermon?
",The obard-borne beetle with his drown hum"
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COURTING la an irregular active transitive verb, in-
dicative mood, present tense. third person, singular
number, and agrees with all girl; don't it?
A Slung Q army.— A iist—" You'll grow up. ngly
if you mske fee.,." Little Girl (redeotively)—' Did
you make much fume when you was a
_girl, aunty?'

MAIIIIIID COUTLJ:II resemble• Fair of shears, so joined
can that they not bo separated. o ten moving in opposite
direotioos, yet always punishing any one who comes
bets een therm

A VITIMINART OPINTON.—Footman: How stoat the
Rector do act, to be sure !—Groom ; Ay, be ought to be
blistered, and kept on green food all summer time, to
do him any good
CALL A SPADIR • Ell'ADL—" Very littl. doing" ii.
plumes often to be met with in the sporting intelligence
of the daily prom—might it not be more appropriately
worded "eery few done r-r...
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Comm:ie.—A Denbighshire wen tells of • man who
fell over • precipice at B•thsedse and celnecks "The
fall wee about fifteen yarde, and th• poor man, who
was going boom that way, died instiuttly.*
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A GOOD Iteveon.—By one decisive -argument, Torn
gained Me lovely Hate's convent to 6x the bridal day.
"Why in such Foote, dear Tom, to wed? I shall not
(litany, my mind." she 4J Bat then," said he, "
may. _ _

Suftwisttnia.—Brown *pny, having jest fired):
" Well, the sooner Government gives on breech-loaders
the better r—Jonee "Whit's the matter now r
Brown : "There goes my ramrod eggs I right in th•
direction of my bombe, too r

A PARALIAL CIAIL—A curious resemblaries on 01I•
point may at the present moment be traced between
Abyssinia and England. A considerable portion of the
former country is ruled by Gafint, while the whole. of
England is ruled by the gals.—Fen.

Cam° Batumi —" I'm afraid you don't like babies
when they cry," said matran to a gentleman, as she
tried to soothe the darling in her arms. " Ob, yes," said
he, "I like them best when they cry. bemuse ru, always
observed that then they are invariably carried out of the
room."

A &mono Aanownwr.—" I like you," said a girl to
bet suitor, "but I cannot leave home; I em a widow'.
only darling—no husband can equal my parent In kind.
now" "She may be kind," replied the woatr, "but be
my wife; we will all live together, and mo if I don't
beat your mother."

A BONG FOR SOCIETY.
Blancher Prancey went tn WI:
Blancher Prancer had a great IQ :
Twee all through her weeding a eery long Olga.
Let us hope Blaacbey Framer wOO% seer It wan.
—Pim&

A (aux FOR A LOVIII. -Th. following °harm is
used in Cambridgeshire by young men or women who
are desirous of knowing the name of their future husbands
or wives. "Th. clover of ten" mean' a place of aloes,
with only ten leaves upon it :

'A clown,. clover of ten,
Put It In tour right shoe :
The first young man [woman] you meet,
In field, street, or lane,
'You'll hare hint [her] or one of his [her] name r

FATS DISTBIBCI7IO2I.—When the British ships tinder
Lord Nelson were bearing down to attack the tiombined
Rest off Trafalgar, the drat Lieutenant of the
"Revenge," on going round to see th la al hinds IWO
at quarter% observed one of the men—an Irishman—
devoutly kneeling at the side of his gun. So very
enema an attitude exciting his surprise and curiosity,
he asked the man if he was afraid. "Afraid," answered
the tar, no, your honour; I we. only praying that the
enemy's shot might be distributed In the same pro-
portion as the prim-money—the greatest part among
the officers."

A DOG (says • correspondent) is • good thing to have
In the country. I have one that I railed from • pup.
He is • good stout fellow, and a heavy barker and
feeder. The man of whom I bought Lim said he was •
thoroughbred, but he begins to have • mongrel look
about him. He is • good watchdog, though the
moment he sees any suspicious person about the
premises he goes right into the kitchen and gets right
under the dresser. First we kept him in the house, and
he scratched all night to get out. Then we turned him
out, and he scratched all night to get in. Then we tied
him up in the garden, and be howled so that the
neighbours shot at him ttrioe before daybreak. Fussily
we gave him away, and he csme hack; and now he has
just recovered from • fit, in which he has torn up a patois
that bad been sown for our ggriag radishes.

LOVE AND LIVE.
If Lore were never a restless rover,
If sorrow were not so ..tern nod strong,
If we never awoke when dnanse were over,
the prom of life were turned to song,
AI me,
What world 'twos.ld be
But love's too rapid end Ito too long.
If the magic moment of for would knot,
Moment when heurts together beat.
If we could but ntske the shadowy finz.
On the sun-diare surface more lass
Ah me,
Whet. world %would be!
But met too bitter and love's ton !sweet.
—Bobo* from aut Clubs.

CCTIISO NAIL& —Sir Thomas Brown remarks that to
cut nails on • Friday or Sunday is accounted lucky
amongst the common people in many places. The set
and statutory times of paring nails and cutting hair
is thougl.t by many a point of consideration, which is
perhaps but the continuation of an ancient superstition:—
A man had better neer been born,
Than hare hl. nail. on Sunday Morn.
Cut them no Monday, out them for health:
Cut them on Tuesday, cot Lbana for wealth;
Cut them on Wedneeday, out thorn for news
Cot them on Monday. to. • palr of new sheen;
Cut them on Friday, cut the for sorrow •
Cut them on Saturday, me your esnosebeL•t tomennw.

MARVELLOUS SAGAMI OF • DOO.-A few evening
ago Dome boys were playing about the timbers at Mar-
dyke, Bristol, when one of them accidentally slipped
into the water and suddenly disappeared. For a
moment no signs could be seen of Lis whereabouts, but
It wee quickly ascertained from a movement amongst
some timbers that the unfortunate boy was struggling in
the water beneath them. The timbers wore secured
too clotely together to admit of the youngster being
pulled up between them; but the owner of a dog suc-
ceeded in ettracting the animal's attention to the spot
by throwing a stone underneath the timbers. The dog
immediately plunged beneath the wood, seised the boy
by one of his heels, dragged him from his perilous posi•
tins, and then, catching hold of him by the nape of the
neck, brought him eafely to shore. On previous cox.
sions the dog has saved two or three persons' lives, for
which his owner has rewired medals, and Ills said that
on Sundays the noble animal my be seen with his breast
decorated with the Humane Sordety's medals, which he
be. so richly earned. The dog, we believe, is 'Lothian
wster-stassiel.

THB " DUD MAWS HAND."—An aged Inhabitant of
the little town of Somerton in Somerset, told me that
In her youth, being one day, to eompan7 with several
other women, engaged in gathering stacks in the exten-
sive woods near that place, and having penetrated
further than the rest into their recesses, she TM
startled by hearing the cry of, as she supposed, a woman
In distress. Dasirous of rendering her essistanoe, and
yet afraid to go on alone, she went back for some of ber
companions, and then, with them, hastened towards the
quarter whence the shrieks proceeded. Hot these grew
so piercing and dismal as the women advanced, that the
latter, becoming panic-stricken, retreated hurriedly, and
left the wood in haste and fear. On their return home
they were told by an old women that the screams and
cries they had heard were Mae, of a plant, which she
described as baying "large leaves greying out of the
groaand, with little specks on the beck of them." In
this description I thought I recognised the male fern;
but I have since heard that there is a plant, having
thick speckled leaves, which is *tilled in Hampshire by
the country people "Dead Man's Hand," whams weird
name seems to suit better with the possession of this
dismal vocal gift, only exercised, it Is believed, once.
year.—Naks and @vie&

• WON 0' mEssrsa °auxin%
(a Lemsato. &add.)
" Good law, bow thinly ore altered now.
Aw'm aTown (dna SD
Bu' wheel ow met to follow th' ploush.
A. neer could muster threesome..
Be sounds, did you but me me now
Sit down to dine on Sundoys,
Egad, you'd more like anything
At th moo o'lleastsr Grundy's.
hi to rol, It.
01 nit to stride about clop
As thick ao sides o' boom •
Bo' now rag 'logs. well as Logo
Aw've totally forsakers
An' little Peg I Wet so well,
At.' walk% out upo' Sundays,
Ate,' lett, on' now Its cookmaid If.
An' th' mono' Meister Grundy.,
o Ono day aw met my tombs Ita/ph ;
Says he, • How on to, Willie?
• Begone,' mays aw, • thou clownl.b
Med unno be m silly.'
• Why, dest Inept doom conshont we
To market trudged.' Monday.?
&maw, 'Good law, duel talk to nos
Aleal ate moo Easmalf Ortliady4,
• Egad,' aoys Mph, • who arta flow
Aw thought no harm I oloylthe;
Aw're men the day thou's folino.dtb *wt.
An' glad my hand were shaking';
But now, egad, thoustruts about
So very fine o' Sundays.'
moys ow, ' Thou country clod get out
Aw'm th' mou o' Wooster Grundy...l
o On good rout beef an' butter milk,
Alamein° ow' lived clover,
slo' wished ouch feasting while -ow lived,
It Dever Mitt as OVar ;
sounds, you but ore roc now
Sit down to dine on Sundays,
Egad, you'd more like anpldng
Al tis' mow.' limiter Grundy's.
"Now mem advanced from th' teal o' th' plough,
Like many • pier 0' th' noUon,
A. fled It easy koowing how
r torgig my forams shalom ;
Who knows be' aw nel.= souks,
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Though now content to be no rOore
Than th' mon' o' /hooter Grundrilr

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