The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-12-28 00:00:00

FACTS AND FANCIES.

A Liar, beim asked bet ma. said—" When I was
married I was elibter., and say Imehead was thirty. His
age has eines dottbls-4, and so deems has mine. That
maims me thirty- And she was astonished at bet owa
frankness
Tots Horst Simon or Beir.-11th meson the royal
baron of beef, intended for the Obristmas diaper of Her I
Majesty, will be provided by Mama Webb end Sous,
the Qu ens butchers. It will be cut from • fine
at the late sale of Her Majesty's cattie,billerdt
Merlaftdrinc• Coesort's Farm, and the begs joint, after it
has been roasted at the kitchen fire ot the Castle, will
be forwarded to Osborne, where, with the game pie and
boar's head, it will grace the Mdsboard of the royal
Clitroool.
1110/Ifllle or one Votes —Dr. Dilatory, in a
paper read recently before the French Academy of
Medicine, gives some details on the history and limits
of the human voice, which he obtained after much
patient research. According to the doctor, the
primitive
en inhabitants of &trope were all tenors; their
ants of the present day are baritones, and
their grandsons will have semi-base voices. Looking
at dilfferent races, he calls attention to the fact
that inferior races, such as the negroes, he., have
higher voices than white men. The voice has also a
tendency to deepen with age—the tenor of sixteen
becoming the baritone at twenty-five and bass at
thirty-five. Fair-complexioned people have higher
yokes than the dark-skinned, the former being usually
sopranos or teams, the latter contraltos or beams.
Tenors, lays the doctor, are slenderly built and thin;
basses are stoutly made and corpulent. This may be
so, es • rule, but one is inclined to think there are
more exceptions to it than are necessary to prove the
role. The same remark applies to the assertion that
thoughtful, intelligent men have always a deep-toned
voice; where's WWI and frivolous persons have soft,
weak yokes. The tones of the voice are perceptibly
higher, before than after a meal, which Le the reason why
tenors dine early, in order that the voice may not
suffer. It was almost superfluous for him to remind
his learned audience that gingers who were prudent
eschewed strong drinks and spirituous liquors,
especially tenors, for the basses can eat and drink
generally with impunity. The South, say. the doctor,
furnishes the tenors, the North the basses; in proof of
which he adds that the majority of French tenors in
vogue come from the month of France, whilst the basses
belong to the northern department.

A VERY SUCCESSFUL FARMER.
Mr. Henry Heeton, now of Brook Farm, lowa, was
born In one of the Derbyshire villages, of • family
whose members had been characterised for many
generations by remarkable energy. He was
apprenticed to • tailor in Manchester, and for some
years pursued that useful calling in the neighbourhood
of his native villiage with some little profit. Finding,
however, that the business was distaste( ul to him, he
conceived the idea of seeking his fortune amongst the
fertile prairies of the Per West. Accordingly, Pun
before the close of the American Civil War, he sailed
from England with his wife and a family of little ones,
landing in New York with £2OO in his pocket. This
sum being doubled in the currency of the country,
because gold was at 100 per cent. premium, he was
enabled to buy a farm of 80 acres in Illinois. Here by
dint of scrupulous care and industry he amaried
sufficient to buy a "half-section," or 320 acres, of
unbroken prairie land in lows. On this property he
built a handsome residence, planted • magnificent
orchard, and turned the surrounding waste of grass
into one of the most productive farms in the State. As
years went by he added considerably to his original
half-section," and can now boast of being the owner
of about 1,000 acres of some of the best corn and
wheat growing land in the Union. Mr. Heaton is an
extensive feeder of stack, too. Every winter he takes
to the Chicago market 100 fat ileitis and 150 fat bogs,
and always gets the best ptioes. Quite recently a
railway hae been constructed, end a town haa been
built 'viscid at the edge of his 'lnd. As a consequence the
farm bee almost trebled In value, and may now be said to
be worth between 50,000 and 80,000 dollars. It would be
difficult to find another instance of individual progress
so rapid in the annals of American farming • but as
Mr. Heaton is still a young man—being Only jut
turned forty—be may yet carper himself.
"THE PRICE OF COAL."

There ere trio of tribuletioa 'mons the named Ms of
WeINN
Death has sositend desolation through the villages ead
vile.;
Hair! the nieknoholy idiom which the widows chant ia
teem
Hark l die sobbing al tke orphans In the eprtaptkie of
their years.
The eilverheaded another stands beside the °Wade door.
But tile bonny boy skis waiting fee shall kiss her &ea
DO ma.;
Forth. father and the brother. and the husband sad tie
son.
Lie dead within lb. hellish Pit—that laree end toils as
dam

Thiess no evil token when the busloads kissed their
wives.
No word et warning spoken ere they Deerfield their lives
Bat the lover loft his sweetbeart with n premiss and a
katlittkisther told his darlings bed be bed little While
nee out into the mountain where the moon made mystic
light.
• hundred holiest miners went to work throughout the
alfbe,
Wit msg. sad nterriment they meads lite kills
monad.
/Lad little dreamed • grays for mob lip nods ender-
I. the dark Denseeber morning Death Paned ihrough lb.
ileteltglislia"the aonitas with his thuadere. end the Sta•iii
tell the tabs
Hew Pway-Gralg was wakened from he yloaesat yosoeful
dream
How the sleeping village started from its slumber with.
woes t
Row • bend of darlag braes braved the dangers ei tie
olt.
Row hopes sad Nam alternately woes the valley att.
Row crowds of waggles groom round the *Vs month
welt in dosed,
Row of allylbs marobeee sought the beam of the
dead.

lett us ponder o'er this story so wit sit sesonad 01If GYM
And reatantbor what wit pay for warmth sad sll nor heart%
Masa.
The coat that burns so brightly oats us besoarsad noble
Hogs.
Rained hots., sad maimed Whim, broken Marta sad
widowed wives.

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MB. GLADSTONE AND Iltiti.
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WriUn to Mr. Montgomery, a p
Mr. Gladstone says he would gisegrt iselb,d
latter's request for some worth of ad.viee t "Itli
his fellow-oountryosen for their o
mu !wan.
unfortunate state of affairs in Indeed, ~
bhao;
he mud Da be quoted for porthole+. outs
pemaiN
however, is the less material as his senti oowik, the operations of Land League may be pokild'illUS
the trials now proceeding,
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