The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-04-26 00:00:00

Yarictics.

Cos.—" Oh, tell we where is fancy bred"? Surly
Utilitarian replica: "In the baker's shop."
A gentleman carved • joint at a dinner party, and did
the work very awkwardly, " You Aunt be my joint els-
cutor," said his nest neighbour.

A little bright and thoughtful fellow of four summer
-
awoke the other morning, and turning to his grands
mother, said, " Grandma, I dreamed I had a carriage last
night " Did you!" said she ; " well, what did youtio
with it r "Oh, ' said he, in his thoughtful banner,' I
left it in the dream-house."

A BuIiPER OM MOUNT LSBANON.—Sbortly after 'newt
we were summoned to the supper-room, and there we
found the Patriarch with about 50 guests of the higher
rank waiting fur on before they took their seats. The
Patriarch's place was on a slight dais at the head of the
table; and, by his aide, was his vicar, a bishop of the
31arunite Church, who has no bishopric. As strangers
and Europeans we received the place of honour on the
right hand of our host, while all the way down the table
e Mrs, priests, and sheiks were arranged according to
their rank. At our end of the table plates, spoons,
knives and forks were laid in European fashion, and
the hishe, brought to us were cooked and men ed in the
French manner. The Patriarch, the bishop-vicar, and
one priest of rank were the only persona at table who
ate in our way and of our dishes. For the rest of the
company, there was Arabic cookery, and they it with
their hands, after the manlier of the country. One
bottle of Lebanon wine—the celebrated vino d'oro—was
put ilowit for us ; but of this, only myself and nip tom'
pianion drank. For all the rest there was no other
beverage than water. The meal did not last long.
Each person, when lie had eaten enough, rose from bit
seat, which was then immediately taken by some
bystander of lower rank. Thus, before the Patriarch
and others at our end of the table had quite finished
the place of an emir, who had risen from his seat, was
takeu by my groom, an Arab lad, not too clean in Ms
person or too neat in hie drum. Thinking that the wan
had presumed upon his association with we OA my
servant to sit down before his time, and in the presence
of the Patriarch, I reproved hint and bade him rune;
but I was, in my turn, reproved by the dignitanes
present. "What was thin! Had not the poor man a
right to hie dinner? Ought he not to sit down when-
ever he found a vacant place r I could tot help mind-
ing as I thought to myself of the sensation there would
be in England if the groom of one of his visitors were
to sit down at table with his Grace the Archbishop of
Canterbury. Yet the Ilaronite Patriarch ins fargrester
man in Syria than the Archbishop of Canterbury is in
our country. Indeed be is, within the limits of the
keerouan district of Lebanon, a greater man, and has
far more influence and power than the Pop* in Rains
lowselt.—Dickesais liuwelaold Wurds.

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