The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-09-17 00:00:00

LITERARY EXTRACT'S.

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How rag Cinemas gage DRAB? Teegs.—We have
all known from childlimel how the Cmneee crimp their
women's feet, and so nonage to mote them " keepers
at loons," but how they contrive to grow miniature
pines and oaks in fi mar pot for half a century lion
always been mach of a meet. It hi the product chiefly
of skilful. long ointinned root pruning. They ai ~,,
Salt awl last, at the omit of vigorous growth, endea.
enuring to weaken it as fey as may consist with the
emeervation of life. They begin at the beginning.
Taking • young plant (5.7 • seedling or cutting of a
cede:), when only two or three inches high, they cut off
its tep-root as soon as it has other rootlet.' enough to
live upon, and replant it in • shallow earthen pot or
p.n. The end of the tap-rout is generally made to rest
on the tedfma of the pan, or on a flat stone within it.
Aldine' clay is then pet into ilia pot. much of it in bin
tbe see of Deana, and just nom& to kind mei quantity
to famish • ocanty nourishment to the plant. Water
*sough is given to keep it in growth, but red enough to
genie • vigorous haiiit. Su, likewise, an the applies'.
lion of light and heat. As the Chinese pride thennsives
al.° on the shape of their suiniateie trees, they ime
strings. wires, mad peg., and various other inechealcal
contrivances. to promote symmetry of habit, or to
fashion their peta into odd fancy figures. Thus, by the
use of very shallow pots, the growth of the tap-roes is
out of the question; by the Use of poor soil, and little
of it, and little water. strong growth is prevented.
Then, ton, the top and side-rens being within the reach
of the genleoer. are ahorteued by his pruning knife, or
neared with his hot iron. So tee little tree. finding
itself beaded on every aide, gives up the ides of dr ng
growth. asking only for life, and just growth enough to
live and look well. Accordingly, each new set of leaves
bowfin,s wore and more stetted, the hale and rootlet.
are alianionliel so porpotion, and at length a halanee is
established between every part of the tree. making it a
dwarf in all respects. In mine kind.. of trees this end
is reached in three or four years; in others ten or
fifteen years are necessary. Such is fancy horticultute
moong the Celestiels.
Jame Kin-i's DZATH-DeD.—littep into this morn
where the greatest Scotsman lies dying, sod see an
example mono strikior. werning. alarming still. Prom
the iron roils 01 kings and prince.. Kuoe had wrung
the rights of Scotland. Ready to contend even unto
death, lie had bearded proud nobles and prowler
churclimm ; be hot stood ender the fire of battle ; he
had h-en chsinel to the galley's war :he haul occupied
the peluit with a carbine levelled at hio feotiess head ;
.n,l to plant God's troth, and that tree of civil and
religious liberty which ha-i struck its route so deep in
our soil, and under whore olied.ow we ere this dan
sitting. be had fought many a hard bottle; but his
hardest was fought in the solitude of the nigl.t, and
asni-1 the quietness of • dying chosnher. One morning
his friends enter his epartineilt. They find him faint
and pallid, wearing the look of one who heal pained a
troulded night. So he bad ; Lv hail been fighting, not
deeping ; wrestling, not resting; and it required all
Gml's grace to brier him off conqueror. Till daybreak
Jacob *rental eith the Angel of the Co . and
thA long night Koos had pored wreathes with the
prince of dorkneee. Like Ilenyan's interim. be net
Amallyon in the valley. and their swot Is struck fire in
the shadow of heath. The lion is said to he boldest in
the storm. Hi. roar is so loud as in pauaes of
the then ler • and when the lightning Seabee. brightest
are the fl odes of his cruel eye ; and so he who, as •
roaring lion. goeth &bunt, seeking whom he may devour.
often se sea the hour of nature's thereto to assault
no
with his fiercest temptations. Satan tempted J. It when
he was bowed down with grief. Swan tempted Jess.
wheo he Wes faint with hunger. Satan tempted Peter
when he was weary with wate.Wnit, and heart-broken with
sorrow ; iv streing, perhaps, hie grand Moult on us for
tones that offer hot • ercut advantage. it was when
Knox was worn out, left alone, his head laid lo on •
dying pillow, that Sans, like a roaring hon, leaped
upon hie bed. Into the rown the enemy bad erne. ;he
stands by his bed; lie rensiude h in that he had been a
sten.lard-hearer of the truth--a reformer - a buid con-
(es-sir —a distinguished sufferer—the very foremost man
of his time and country ; he attempts to pennede him
that ...suety ouch rare merits deserve the crown. The
chrietian conquered—but bawd put to it—only am-
quered through Him that loved him.—Dr. Gestkries
•%Tropet its Rzfkiel."
Wit ir is linerinte Ton ?—What is Unary for but
to recover forgotten listnet that 'ought not to be for.
cotton, to make rich our memories, to connect the life
of the 'anent, through on avenue of inermaingly strong
recollections, with the life of the past? And snore and
more it will he found that in history, as in other
things. anierficiality will not do—that there must be
quarrying and deep d4noog. and turning over and
over of beam. of buried material, and marshalling of
coatire orders of forte that have been lost sight of, but
are still recoverable; that the preamtation again and
again, AS in lai.Mit Of our ooOilar narrative., of • few
Inge historical names and incidents already
with repetition of the old comments respecting them,
and a dash of twopenny philosophy about the laws of
progress. is a method of sheer indolence. which is beg-
garing our laineriord literature before our very eyes.
sad driving us farther and farther from all hots of
ever knowing whet the feel laws of human programa
may have been ; that, in short, while the largest slums
and events will alwaya have the preference, it is the
veg.,/ We of history to ehastire our ignorance and mum
....r corkaitv over and over again, by revealing to as
what a multiplicity of things, behind these names and
events. and yet in vital connection with them, remains
to be knoern.—Profeseor /flown'.
TDB New Butreisemeoe Pliocene.—" Stephan.
tinon pmone." " What can that mean ris the cry of
many, both in the profession sad out of it. Learned
men know that it is Greek fur ivory, an I old book-
wor.ns know that up to the time of Dryden it was
English for ivory too. In that great poet's trend tea
of Virgil he speaks of being ornamented with "ele-
phant and gold." So we find that this inysteriotta pro-
cess. connected with the Daman .4 Kolaine Una Howard
end Kr. Henry Squire, of 52, King Willeau-street, in
neither more nor less than making photographs look
jest like ivory, though GOtoe of the specimens seem to
have a certain flush which ivory has not, and this lush
or glom we take it dmerees another Greek word as
well as Elephantinon. Seriously, this will make •
great clump in the colouring of photographs. All the
world. elemelly the female part of it, likes a little gloss
in the flesh tints. Ivory be itself, though sweetly
smooth. Is somewhat dull. lf nut only the colours
themselves which the artist places upon it are rich sad
warm. hut aloo the very paper on which they are
pointed. doubtlem • very mat desideretuin has been
aoromplishal. No Wonaer it it petentesi. Every pho-
tographer would Ulm to colour with it if he could—hut
the law says he must not, and unties be be a very good
artiot we tell him be canuot. This proem appears tO
le to require as much delicate handling as painting
itself, sod is a mast beautiful invention, dowering the
first prime at the Society of Art*, and • handsome re-
cegnition st the forthcoming Great Eghibition.—Phote-
greplic Nnrs.
Tay BISDINSTOIII DOVID.—The masonry el
whish it is eumpored is of herd reddish coocrete Sink
Kentioli nag, and Roman fluted tiles, it was laid upon
• pletforan of eintwork of the same date, sal. to judge
fmni its site awl from other point, it most have formed
the lower portion .4 a semod Roman Pharos. or light-
house, corresponding to the wall-known Pharos still
*nodule within the walls of the castle ue the opposite
hill, whisk is measly coeval with the Christiou era.
Such. at all events, ic the opinion of a well.kaown
local antiquary, Mr. Knocker, the present worthy town-
clerk of Dover, who tells es, is a lecture which be
delivered souse three years ago, that there is • tradition
that • third Pharos of • anti'sr shape and materiel
'ohm stood on the height' above Boulogne. At all
events, it is an authentic fed fact that this Brederaotone
for mony eenturhs was the spot at whir& the Lords
Warden.' were installed into their ollice—the last
instance of its use on record, we believe, being just
ninety-six years ago. In the year 1808. when the
present lhop Redoubt we formed, the general in com-
mand of the engineers. being more of a soldier than a
scholar, and there probably being at hand DO local
ontiquary to neons it from destruction, the military '
outhoritim, noabie to pick it to pieces wi.h axes,
tumbled it over on the ground rod buried it in sits,
where it was found a few weeks eines. It now forms a
portionof the trine* wan, and we hope Moat ere long a
wilt be let into the soli 1 in.sonry, to tell of
s pad history and of its preesut and future see—OnesWeak.

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Bet few ioeideista bees ever transpired that will tend
more to &aspen both Bilk and Tea than the opening of
the new port of Hankon in the heart of China, for it
sabots, without any trans-shipment, a direct eoulinu•
niceties Dow the best tea producing districts. to the
Docks in London, entirely obviating the old difficulty
and cost of long porterage", and separate transit over
800 milea inked to Shatisbut. fforeintan é Co. have
not been stow in taking advantage of this Privilege. at
their Tea Inspectors now not only select the payees
which have undergone no w.pAisticafion. hut also see
the tea on ship lwrird clone to the place of production.
Ho niman's Pure Tees are of the choicest growths.
awl the Caine description lei the Black and Green aorta
uaually sell, but without the nasal hinia or intensely
Week facing. Their Green ia of • natural olive hue, not
bluish. Bold in Packets, and by Aathorised Agents
I only, as ativerthed in this paper.

ii.I.IOOWAT'S 011,TNIXT MID Piun.—Areputedes Abolished. I
t. eontriere too reedy with the knife, which ran
esiluertVranewer7 /rept In severe accident& For ell masa-
unions! diverse aeries any portion of the human body
I Holloway's Ointment and Mils ere Infallible reclllev, which
I supers& the re alibi knife. In =say desperate arse them
births'his prepiretions bar warted wooden bath In bar nal
end private pruners In ell tumours. arcs s, droner of the
bore. ulcers, end bed hr. lair Via win prove their were ;
which primate have acknowledged with undelgoolue=
th
The MB reighe Wood rid enprillie the dr%
with is while emus ease and
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