The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-06-11 00:00:00

ARTS AND NI ANUFACIIIRED3.

The principal space in the Art. sod itanufacturee'
depaiithild appears to be tat osouplei by Mr.
Haab, at the sod of the building, Oar spirited
towage's& had a most attrative display, Maladies a
hareem gaits in pollard ask and purpiewoorl, one
remarkable het about width was that It WM manu-
factured of wood grown in the °minty, and worked up
by Kr. Haanah's workers° ow his owe praetor, so that
it is al or • Donate/sire asthma, and is fitted for
the maseic. of any noblemen or giatimean desirous of
preying Ms love for home. The bedstead I. ornameutsi
with hangings of Mao rep, adorned with =trona and
gold fringe. The war ire!), has ample door, filled with
plebe glass in the ornate pane, mai °ram setod me saite.
The washstand has four turned loge, Kehl, inleid from
Yr. Haanah's own design, and so is the modkoni
bookers, the upper part of which Ii enolosed with
two beautifully Wield panelled doors, with drawers in
the friths. Tee upper part as glad tine shelve",
with bine salaam, and richly carved and
Mused maletnes by the aides, with arida to match.
Another most rionvalent and well-arreaged article le an
oak lasagna pedestal, with panelled doors, sad trays
fee dessetam, tomblars, sad wine [lases, demon
drawees biscuit try, and trap for • dome of wise,
" all reedy for 0.10, si a lady admiringly asiedethd.
Next there dal= our attsation a bedroom mite of
polished pineond e drawing mite in gold and (shoddiest
two quarks panel; matalning the Tea Command-
meets, 1.1.14 in black letters ow white grouad, and
with headsets* Gothlo border. Also, for pulpits, three
margaterie tablets, with representatioca in the
madioval style, of Our Saviour, Kora, and Elias.
These are most carioaly inlaid la cachou coloured
woods, and their ezeellende obtained • prise from the
Seelety of Aria, In 1870. The eollestion la yet far from
being exhissaseed; but we have oely spear to
steaks some ver Witham) diulig room
skein, and la d
arelosie, sad farther on, veryptuda— 7E. anTeeigns
for dram febrile from natural leaves and dowses. Mr. 1
Humors deploy was altogether very deb in style, and
meth thavealeat and sarvirmaide for nes. A/a100( the
garkohles that pleased the children was • pretty model
of two meals, In front of • view of Osborne Hoase.
These by lateral machinery were roamed to heave ami
km ess, re if Ins gentleswell. Bet after MI,
the alleles most lined to attract the mature pureberer
wen the plass of familiars akibued by Mr. Hannah
la suit • way ag to sho• the beet taste.
ler. James Gillingham, of Ohard, flornerset, has •
great variety of usslll.l halo, bands aad arms, lege,
ta feet army part injured or missing to the humeri
trainer His patent Gambled universal couch allows
thep.tieutto reeline in say position with tha most
perfect ease. Whatever the natare of his affection,
presence 1. 01 mare removed from that pearkand changing
the plasm he morals keeps the pain. The artifloal
La& mode by Yr. Gillingham have all the eppearaums
of the most boarthilally shaped limbs, and I. fat when
Gamed with • glove, the and masa be Sktiagasited
from the liviag one. The moth is also most delioious
rest fee those le heath, and in it the dolor for *irate
is. Is the utmost seriatim, he enjoyed.
Mrs. Isabel Saes, 153, llpper.street, Islington, Lon-
don. showed the wonderful performing baby, and that
few toy the "Dancing Nigger. worked by steam.
Here wee also • pat mast for young people. "Th.
Oars for Love,' and quite • bazaar fell of dolls and
other toys.
Maim Grover and baker showed the fawns Grover
sad Baker asidas mashines, which work the deeds
stitch with two threads direct from the reek., which
both sew and embroider perfectly without attachment.
They showed beautiful spselothe of embroidery in
wool, silk, floe muslin, in rontram with which
ire of stitching in eve thisknieses of mole.
skim Yr. W. Permiter le role sant for Dombester.
The Maw Manufaturing Company showed their
ezesilist machthee, of wmhogich, we nun speak from
our own . es, doing exeell t work, The
dialda which outs and works its own
betheadteles, as is perfeetly automatic In its workleg,
teralag ems round the eye by its owe 'Potion, and will
work a has in lees than • minute. The embroidery
inaeldae weaves its owa braid with Miler ethics, sill,
or wool, so that the braid is created and Wished on
at the some time. Their hemmer is so simple and
dime be Its edition that we saw a blind lady work
the most beautiful stitch, the mathine folding Its own
hem.
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—Zorn. Newton "ad WlWon showed their new
nueilae for working the atm bertimbem ditch used
Is llama work, also m =Mohler, trimming, and in
fast me of the somlties of the show • it also doss
inify.=.ot Wally woollies; as plitia stashing,
ever heamiag, quiltiag. bindle',
braiding, tie. It regairtes ao slag to the table, the
tioad lights solid, so as to steady the bead mufti.
TM dissuades tress pleb stasittag to barring booing is
siasews~ by simply Ism* a tbasab snow, sad
without allowiag tiso tondos differing kinds o/ work
sre_deas.

-111Arits. Hawks@ sad liwrian, Wand= showed
their imbibe billiard .n 4 dialog bible sees ',Web
is lowered from lb. Weld of • billiard WAS I. that of
• dialog Wile.rsalatag pariselly sesslir. BY mew of
belessesis Aire ebb debts daps, the sire aIIM bade sea
oblersed, so time it may be Made Mt Wt. O(
as • dibble Salo* the biNierd table of three
quarter In. The Arm also 'bowed boo*
of served weed work boo Switerriesd, the Met. sod
Mr. W. lliallord showed • 'alien sees co°6 to Ire.
me egfelsabras carnal from Ills, sad 1,000 hatbera
are Illstlasay
Mr. Gump Mb% Brisied, showed a 'amber of
bromelmkediag Pah ales *is Boma Wirt lama.
loam &ad Mb, Malaga fella MAW

Mr. Reboil Gamy, allath, showed productions from
Minton. Copelink and 00., pair of ancient Oriental
ars, v..ry singul ir in design, and roo or 600 yeers old,
and priced at 1000 &atom A plate of the Q leen',
dessert envies. umde it the Royal Woraester works,
sod which servile oast 400/ guinees. Two lovely
platures—"Unale Toby and the Widow Wadrusn"—
'I protest. Modern. I see oothinz In year eye,' and
" Floilz.l ancLFerdite.. from the "Winter's Tale" A
lovely display of porcelain planted with scenes frees
Nature, was set off by wonderful statuary. and elegant
Lissy.

FINE ARTS.
WATNICCOLOWIS AND LOAN COLLECTION.

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01 the water odour", we cannot. with &few eerier
Mona, say much. Then are the uses' quantum of 'stag
hallos with complexions brought to an extraorilloary
perfection of pinkness, fans. above such • simple aoa-
Wer4ill2 no perspective, and eyes gazing into vacancy
is.reistoney that make, one wish ts know what
the% c4l be looking at. There or.' also oontributed by
laly oth, stlii of low,-r', som,. of which are credit.
able —to wit, the " basket " by Moll Emma Waltmi. of
Kilhnrii, whieli, to our thinkiag. it the best. Ruins
end sketches of exteriors and interior., which barring
the figure*, are perhaps, the Sou in which the eon.
tributsrs to thotxhibiton appear to the moat advantage.
Tee landsospes vary IA [Midi in quality as they do In
airs. In this latter class Mr. Lloyd Jone" drswiaf•
of Wirnborne Minster, shsws his brush to be outselle to
to examtion upon paper, as upon canvas. No. 91,
liolywell, by Mr. Rieardson, will be regarded with
interest as a faithful memento of a notorious lovably
happily swept away by the improving march of time.
67. is satitki a come lake, Ireland. by Holly Harris,
a Bristol artist. It I. moody, if not quite, the most
artistically and carefully finished little drawing in the
n11"1.n, and we do not wonder that at the modest
priori the artist has put upon It, a gullies, it soon found
• purchaser. 63, a gale by Franks is true to nature.
144. the moots round Lincoln. be Miss Marian theft,
of Loudon, its good spit men of the painting of Wimp.
212, lean average specimen of the autumnal sanest,
which dot the walls bore and there—the heavens seem
to be the Bosse of an immense confiagnition. 233, by
11. Carter, " near Tinge!, Cornwall," is • oseital sea
piece the sorry sea and darkening aloud' rolling around
the ;lent rocks are admirably drawn.
A collection hag also, as usual, boon wet down from
the South Kensington school of Art, including fac.
eimiles of ancient vues, plates of Revile porcelain,
bottles, and "plaudit works in silver-gilt and saleotro-
type. consisting of elaborately carved fire dogs, ewers,
aLs like, itms.4,l lass:— and e50..1--.
the I muddy have also eentributed to the loon cones-
thin. Among them are H. Williams. Esq., of :Ideate's,.
who sends • number of ancient relsse, siml Mrs.
William*. who baa forwarded a quantity of old Heel-
ton and Flinders point lace. The Rev. Dr. dodges, of
Lyme, antique coins, spoons, and snot boxes. Captain
Brown, a blisle, dated 1641, presented te an antator
on his taking up an address to C./leen Anne on it joke's
victory, and aFlorentine map of the 16th century. Miss
Campbell, • number of foreign curiosities. Co:oael
Hingham, an inoense burner from the lonian Islands,
and specimens of the work of the North-West A oitriesn
India's. Mr.. Pleydell, the Inc. of Cardinal Mot in.
Montague Williams, Esq., of Woolland, a set of ancient
chessmen, to.,
HORTICULTURE.

One of the most pleasant plum in the whole show
was tho iuterier of Vie immense marquee devoted to
displaying hnit cultural specimens. It was throughout
pervadtd with • soft diffesed light, and the temperature
was moderately warm and equable, while deßsioa. per
fames floated around. Oo the left of estrum) on the
ground Wee • wonderful row of fuchsias, in Immense
pot., and oovered with bloom of the most varied hues,
some the deepest purple set off with outlet, others pure
white, and varying in every shade through crime to
dark indigo, the foliage of the fleshed green; Moue
were seat by the Marquis of Bath. Oa the right hand
wee a ancession of stages, displaying tropical plant. of
rare and beau:lint forms sod tint.. Peres hung in
graceful festoon, from rustic bathetic, oranges
grew on touted trees, caladium. spread their
extraordinary foliage, and rhoilodendrons, asthma,
ho., blued out in scarlet, maiden blush, and
crimson. It. G. Stare E.g. of Crichel. had cent
large number of foliage and dowering plants, and Big F.
Bathurst, of Clarendon Park, and Mr. William., of
Holloway, the drop ennui agave, and many other
moat graceful palm., who's faulike I eve hung ef,oo-
- on eaoh side. Sir W. Marriott, of the Down
House, among ethers, vent • oulleetion of orohidere,
whose singular dowers attracted attention. E. W.
Williams, lieq. of ilarringstoos, sent • banana, whose
broad oval dark green leaves were among the suet
striking, if we exoept slooastia inetallioa, whose leaves
are veined with deep grata alcariA inclining to bleak.
Captain Foster, of Warmwell, (contributed a fine plant
of Groton longifolium, and an exceedingly well-grown
aspieniom nidus; the latter is • fern whose leaves
droller to the ordinary adder's tongue fern, ere four or
ive times the else, surrounding • °Imola: growth very
mutt receembling a bud's nest, hence It. name. Among
the bog Latin names, whisk we are informed are
changed so f -.greatly an to puule some, 'twee refresh-
ing to come across the Englistornamed "Stag horo's
fern," the loaves of which are remerkabb like those
asides appendagee, only their hue is dark green. W.
Webster. Req., of Charmiaster, contributed some Geni-
tally grown ferns of most beautifal forms. But near
here again we some ascots • terribly long name. What
do you think of " seesolabinnt guttatom glganteum."
Indulgent reader? The plant wee Uranus enough for
Its mane for it bore a preluded of long cylinders of
light rose cud white flowers, each about Ivies at big
as—well, pardon the simile—a sausage lAn entlisrium
crops up so constantly that is may be deseribed. It
his • scarlet dower somewhat like an arum in shape,
but from the end curls al appendage like • small red
make. Mears. iluns and Son, of The Nurseries,
Dorolietter, ethibitad a large she- of well-grown
geraniums, of a variety and quality sufficient to Wiese
any fancier of this well.known and favourite dower.
Nearly all the ornamental foliaged. plants, Including
several sperdmens of drama', mucus Batted varie-
gate, and odious ferns, among them a fine royalties
prinoeps, some magnificent palms, and rare flowers,
aerostat from the wall-known local nurseries of Messrs.
Harris sad Son. The Horticultural lent Is • delightful
Plus, and with s suffieleney of seats would make a
fashionable sag

Tau aaDAT.

Tbe flint of the popular days was • great—Lap;oint-
meat. Steady heavy rain for several hours. end
abandeace of mud, threatened the attendant's to
be mna wino we hoped for the 3,stetye sake and the
oredltelDocáeebst weather to have sue t& day that the
turnstiles at the stow-yard would have cltek-olieked
the estrange of mety thousand,. Nevertheless there
era an hatnemes Dunbar of onsbrell ea and overeaats
In the streets gebg eastward, and the Mark Tapleyan
humour Wielded lesereel • fine afternoon.

-7.1-Lie-Tourne7- down-it req- Th-e-uTmost of good
temper to 'May the time, nerertheler there wee no
Lek of happy fence among the many that dreamed
along, under the ddp cud pear of the eared aad the
trees.

Everybody condoled with the ladles who had lett
their ailing to this usfavearable day, bat the dear sex
looked the brightest after all, and many • soar-looking
fellow who grumbled at the weather"cos trodden It for
women," had to be mimed along by his better half to
get him se far as Grey's Bridge. The footpaths were
simply rivers of mad, and the treed were only so many
sieves. Umbrellas were thick enough to rumble an
ancient phalanx, end greatest 001141 of the long Ulster
pattern were in strong form with • sprinkling of
neseintooltea Bo the sterner ear had little to complain
of ; but the idles were in sad plight, especialty tl.ose
who bed brought their small families. low shockingly
miserable mast the der be for the poor woman with •
quarter of a down, me in arm; who dared not leave
her husband lest he should soak in • worse way than
Malan roused ! litany mob happy families turned into
the drinking booths, and the emke and outitedls on the
way, and we believe. dArnt go at all. Voir all that tee.
MON 11C1111b141 poured through the entractes, aad the
show-yard looked fuller them ever, although every now
end then a terrible storm would drive away ivory one
uader the shedding, where they mule themselves at
home. _ _ _

Mews. Batton and Sops had endued their seed
display with canvas, tad • large number poured in
there end wondered at the monstroas turnips end
mangold shown. "Om of them root." said • country-
" would be • hipe to heave to • pig." The Arta
Department sad Arti Manufactures' building were
crowded to excess. It wet hard to get in, harder still to
see anything, and harden of ail to get out. The
Poaltr; teat was, of course, thronged, sod there was
a certain flavour in the sir not quite so fresh all on the
first day. Bat the stock shedding WIIJ most unfavour-
ably situated, the ground all round was trodden
damn into quagmires, and those showed the best taste
who made impromptu picnic wane In the sheds or
perhaps those who left the place altogether, and sought
the implernests, around whieh wee uses, e happy
party. The weather grew finer in the afternoon, and
the orowde austinued to isurreens. In it,. evening after
the show, UN 3rd D.LIT. band played ill High-street,
entraining • great tionesarse of people.
The Mayor (11. Dame*, Req.), entertained the Council
of the society, the members of the Dorchester Corpora-
tion, and other gentlemea at dianer, at the King's
Arms Hotel, oa Thursday mooing. About 50 guests
were present. his Worship prodding, and the vienrobair
being occupied by the Town Clerk (Mr. Giles Symoode),
who is deo secretary of the Loot! Committee, The
dinner was of a newtons and &handset chemise'.
After the removal of the cloth, the customary toasts,
loyal sad oomplinentary, were proposed, and duly
honoured. The brilliant success of the Dorchester
meeting of the satiety wee • theme of general comment
and congratulation, rod the reception given to the
noddy by the town was mentioned in terms of the
highest earemium, one of the spe•kers remarking, in
the course of • complimentary speech, to the Mayor
and Town Council, that the magnificent welcome ex-
periensed by the society in the comity town would be
long • subject% of pleasurable recollection.