The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-10-01 00:00:00

LITERARY NOTICES.

THE Queers. S. 0. Beaton, SIC Strand.—Among
the many illustrated periodicals which are issued by
enterprising publishers, we know of none more worthy
to rank in the first list than "Thai Queen," a new serial
especially designed to amuse and instruct the fair sex.
The illustrations are well got up, and the paper and
letter-prees arc unexceptional. The opening article of
the second number, a copy of which lies before us, is
headed "A Sweet Green," and draws the attention of
dill, especially ladies, to the danger arising from wearing
dresses made of Schoele's green tarlatan. A short quo-
tation may suffice to show that this caution is not unne-
cessarily given :—"The leaf-wreath that Boson Beauty's
head being subjected to chemical analysis, is found to
contain as much arsenic as would kill thirty-six men.
The green tarlatan dress which floats so airily about
Beauty's form, is capable, in the hands of a chemist, of
poisoning fifteen hundred people ; and the wreaths and
dresses do poison those who make them, and disorder
the lives of those who wear them." A physician says
that at the preseet day a lady frequently sails into the
ball-room with thirteen ounces of arsenic about her, to
be thrown off in poisonous dust (for Meheele's green is
not fixed), in proportion to her vivacity. This dust is
the fruitful source of teadsche, redness of skin, infiam-
-1 illation of the stomach, consumptive cough, Ice." But
it is not merely the wearer who is injured, as the article
under notice goes on to show, but the maker is the chief
sufferer. "It Wilic to be ascertained that the poor
girls who are lunch occupied in making up green wreathe
sod sprays, are positively poisoned in the process.
' Emerald green' leaves when given out for making itto
bouquets, wreaths, Lc., are thickly covered with the
arsenic dust, which gives them their delightful colour.
When the sprays are separated—at every process of ti,m
the work. indeed—this dust is scattered in little clouds;
and, entering the eyes and nostrils, it gives the work-
women 'a cold,' as florists call it. The malady, how•
ever, does not stop at sneezing. Spite of all precautions
—of handkerchiefs close tied about the head, of oilskin
caps, and other devices—hiemorrhage from the ears and
nostrils speedily follows, unsightly blotches appear upon
the face, sight fails, the ears become dangerously
inflamed, the whole system is poisoned,' The writer
of the article, however, notwithstanding the great
amount of eaffering caused by the use of this clangenius
all to fashion, states his belief that only science will be
able to do battle with the evil, by furnishing • colouring
material as brilliant, but less deadly, to supersede the
use of Scheele's green.—" Hops and Hop Pickers" is •
well-written article, and may tend to banish the delusion
of the reader (if he ever entertained it), that hop
picking is merely a pleasant pastime. The curtain is
east aside by no mean hand at picturing a scone, and
" hop picking" is revealed in its true working colours:
We must not, however, pass over what, by our fair
readers, will be considered the chief attraction of the
publication under notice, viz., " Patterns of Needle-
work," which certainly are extremely handsome and
which, now that the long winter evenings are about to
set in, will give them ample amusement. Altogether,
"The Queen," we doubt not, if carried on in the way it
has been sommenced, will meet with much encourage-
ment.

" FUN,"--sa weekly serial, price Id., publklicil by C.
White, 80, Fleet-street, after " Mr. Punch," claims a
share of our attention, and wRI well wile away a dreary
autumn evening. If our reader' &mat soy time subject
to iuusmi. and consider the price of our old favourite too
numb for their fiIIMICIA, we would advise them to spend
a penny es OW most excellent substitute.

a perfect whale! I pulled out a small weighing
machine, which was narked to the extent of 261 b.
This vas pulled down to the bottom of the index with
• crash, so I did not ascertain, until I returned home
that night and procured a steel)artl, that I had ca-
Weed • 331 b. salmon. lie took me • quarter of a lode
down the river, and wan landed within bait an hour.—
Noriceiriana, ill Sco'sys In.