The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-10-18 00:00:00

[From Am.]

Escotaxotp by the soccer which hes attended the
Introduction ofdining-room can on the Great Northern
Railway, the Midland Company intend to do likewise on
all their express Manchester and Liverpool trains. This
will mean extra work for the p/atelayers.
EARLY in October the reading-room of the British
Museum will be opened to the public till 7 o'clock, when
it will be lighted by Siemens electric light. Although
there are WWI to whom this extra two hours will be an
advantage, the majority of habitii4 of the B. M. will not
appreciate the innovation, since they do not go there for
the purpose of indulging in lipA4 literaturs.

POOH [Mill CHAP,
Little Pupkina.—" I suppose you hays a good many
wrecks down here?"

bkes yer, sir, yes; an' many of 'em
comes down looklo' a deal wow'sr than you; an SOW •
few weeks goes back quite 'ardy

[From Funny Polka.]
AX INCIULLIS IX TEI PAWL

There is putt joy in the qty, The deb notabilities,
Gog and Magog, have reosivad an addition to their num-
ber in the pigeon of (Mr. Sheriff) Ogg

11X lIIPORTAXT IMPORT.

Australian refrigerated meat is being brought over In
large quantities, and this importation of frozen food
promises to be anything but • "frost." It will be
warmly welcomed by all. The meat is of worm kept
ice-olated in cold chambers, the exact antipodes of " fur-
awed apartments." They are so cold that mow forme
Inside them, and a spectator who opens his month in
wonderment Is apt to get bronchitis. Not only are these
quarters of beef as cold as the winter quarter Itself, arid
legs of mutton as hard as the legs of any statue in the
Sheepshanks collection; but experiment has proved that
all sorts of fish, flesh, and fowl can be kept through the
hottest voyage, if freezeonable precautions are only
taken. Pigs are frozen as hard as pig-iron; eggs are
found so bard that they have to be boiled soft; milk is
petrified till, like the meat, it can be sold by the stow.
A person who tried to eat such food might well sing,
"Hard, very hard is my fare 1" It is satisfactory to add
that, although [roan stiff, these articles do oot fetch at
all stiff pile..,

[From Amok)
BUDDIES TRANI1101111•17011.
Alderman Ellis, since he became Lord Mayor E,lect, Ii
quite soother man, in fact, be's 'Somebody Ellia,

LIMO/11l IN VACATION.

lit r. Gladstone, who occasionally obliges Um Halyards'
congregation by reading the Lessons on Sunday, will now
find • formidable rival in Sir Stafford Nortncote, who
came out in this line last Sunday west at Dodbrookt
Church Why doesn't Sir Stafford follow the
Rector's example, who bassted that he could =
Curate up to the Second Lemon, and then win in &canter,
by backing himself against the Premier for so much • side
—the winner to hand over the stakes to the offertory? Us
If he would do • real service, why doesn't Sir Stafford
wied a lesson" to young Randolph, the eccentric Jemmy
Lowther, sad a few more of his troublamme bore? Tbia
muse it

Tug We:surtax THANKSGIVING 'ORD.—At the sweetie
of the executors of the Wesleyan Methodist Thankegivin
Fund Jost held, it wee announced that this um tote
pruniserl to the fund amounts to £30161619. Id. Of this
sum £162 76fl 30. haa hem mid into the hands of the
Muni tes suers, leaving on outitanding Wanda of
C 49.738 6.. 11 I.
Tag RIVISED VOISION 111 Tee i/11717.0 STATEL— Vile
Cones* bar adopted the revised version of the New
Tutameet t ) be reed her, Wt.,. instead of the version of
1611 at morning prayers and other devotional services.
In • resolu.lon embodying this alteration, the Theo-
logical faculty unanimously declare that they believe the
new verrion to be better Am any other English version,
because it follows more exactly the Greek text se
originally written, and booms it Jr a more claw tad
corr.-et translation.

THE CHCHIEL TUNNEL Sciturt.—AWlN DEPSE nob'
lishes the folio eing letter received by its London corre-
spondent from Sir Garnet Wolin*, who therebt refers
to previous letter on the same subject : Home
Guards, War-office. Sir—l should be very *arty if any
letter of mine should be published, but I have no objec-
tion to It. belles stalled in every newspaper that I
ear:teeth trust the Channel Tunnel may never he carried
out. as I feel Its construction would be a lasting source of
danger to this country. Very faithfully yours, GAIXBE
WHISZLIT._7

-171:7 'KILLED DT A BULL. —A shocking 00ACITIMOS
has taken place at the residence of Sir Edwerd Scott,
Sunbridge Park Yarns, Bromley. Kent. Os Monday
evening • bull, known to be of • very spirited character,
broke his chain, end attacked • herdsman named Lush.
goring him and tossing bin time sifter time Lush
shouted Ur halo, and is carpenter named Kendal ran to
his ersistsnce. The hell then turned on Kendal. towed
and gored him, and broke his arm, rendering him quite
WPM,. The district postman, named Turner, now came
throusb the yard, and the bull turned on him. He, how.
ever, made his escape and went for help. In the mean.
time the hull kept followieg op Kendal, who was at leorth
revived. While he was ti.ine carried nut of the earl the
animal again attacked Lush, and killed him outright
Kendall. in • very precarious elan.
EXTIAOD.DIDART EIOICIDI —A. somewhat remarkable
suicide we. committed on Monday night, at Gloucester.
• short distmce stove Westgate-bridge is the viaduct
earning the Booth Wales Railway over the eastern branch
of the Severn, and near this is • steam pumping-been,
by which the railway stations are supplied with water.
About eleven o'clock that night the man in charge of the
engine saw • young man run up the beak towards the
engine-house and railway bridge. and thinking this
stream he west out, and soon after heard • splash in
the river. Ile could see no sign of any one in the water,
and therefore cams into the city and gave information to
the police. On his return be wee enabled, by the light
of the moon, to make seereh, and near the bridge he
found • hat .ITIDDI "It. L" on the inside and • walk.
hag cane. Next moraine it was found that •
young insit named Hobert Leif., an attorney's clerk, was
misting, and that the het and stick belonged to him. The
river was drugged, and in the afternoon Lalt's body
wee brought to the land • few yards front where he
/tanned into the water. His watch bed stopped at 1110.
It seems that he had spent part of Monday evening with
• girl to whom he was much attached, and that she had
told him abe wished to pat an end to their ensesement,
and it et believed that it was this which led him to take
his life. An inquest will be held. He was • respectable
young man. He had been four years with Messrs. Smith
and Frenklin, solicitors, and when he left the aloe on
Monday he appeared to be in his usual spirits.
The Central News is informed that Lord Belborne,
who is at his seat at Blackburn, Is roenewhat
indisposed, but is progressing favourably. His lord-
ship did not attend the Cabinet Council on
Wednesday.
Sir Hoary Havelock-Allso remains In mock the
galas condition, little or no change having taken place

THIOAT itarrinom —Soreness and dryne's,. tickling
and irritation. inducing cough and affeetint tho voles'
For these ey mptoma ase reps • Glycerine Jojubsa Olycst
in*, in these saresable coefections, tabu in pro:intik/ to
the glands at the moment they are excited by the act of
sucking. becomes actively beating. Sold only in bozos,
nd. end Is. lid., labelled " JANIS KM CO..
pathic Chemists. Londoe."—A letter received: " Gentle-
meri.—lt may. Perhaps, interest you to know that. alter
an extended trial, I nave forted your Glycerine Joino"•
of considerable benefit (with or without medical
meat) treat-
in aimed an forms of throat dialed. Tbsi_ @dim
and dear the vows —Fours Wilds*. GORDON nfitZ
Senior Pkyleein to the Itualedeal
and Fez InArmery."