The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-07-07 00:00:00

Littrature.

Thu Art Journal (Loodou : Virtue and Co.. 29, Ivy.
lane) for July contaias two splendid steel pinto.—
" Waiting for an an times," an exquisite engeaving of
one of thy French attest Heisionier'. hypnotist produc-
tion., and • pleasing pietore by Marcus Stone, engraved
by 11. Bourne. ol " Witt's ilret esperinient" —that well.
known domestic Incident with which is seenctisted the
lhetinning of the steao3.4l4in'. 'Th. Ht.ights ol the
Middle Age." rewire further illuttraUon and entertain•
ing description by the Rev. E. L. Cutts. Mr. C. G.
Riehsrdsoo, architect, contribute. a second paper on
"Picturesque cottage, garden, sod till. architecture."
A Tudor sills is the basis of the anat.., and it I. amply
Illustrate'. Sketches of a porch to form the entrant*
into a gsr len. and of a garden summer house, are alio
given, and the writer concludes so agreeable paper by
a useful suggestion
It would he. most dealrablis circumstance, il proprietors.
who keep head gardeners, would dmins them to attend to the
muse.. nn %bar oasts -to .upply thrrn •Ith proper seeds
•nd 'dant., to propegste for to • few fruit tree., and
distribute them la {bet, proper places In their ;slots, and to
teach them modes otoulture suitable Lo tbs r circumstance.
Huth good would result from the spirit of this hint
being generally adopted. The ert topiei of thn mouth
are ably treated, and the joerrial gathers up moth useful
sod ioteresting information. Here is the reoord of •
remarkable lest:—

•ItT•ISOCSTIT !—F.erly in the afternoon of the der ulna)
succeeded to that whereon the " Derby" sem contested, we
noticed In the shop-window of, boner, In Flem-street, tense
silk handkerchlefe,on which picture of Use three borne that
rsene in before their enteepeUtors i the met Now It might b.
amumol that the work of pnating thee fabric. was completed
belme the event took place—a met aby no means utleeattlioll
with a ems of illustrated publication., profaning to glen
pi tonal reprimeneatlone of notable occurrenera But In this
Inseams such could not Moe been Use cam, for the Motets of
the eiders of the hones had the coloure each wore ;
moreover, the names id the animals mai their owner. were
printed In large letters under the petun, and In the ads, In
which they remised the •Inning-post the latter fact could
not evidently ha.. been asserteined oil the race eres over. It
I. clear, then, that theme Imodkerchoefs must here been printed,
dried, cidendered, and In the shop of the atoll dealer w.tidn
twir•t)-four boun ; a hat DI art-endiutry +bleb we think will
be pronounced unparalleied.
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Not 'neatly ea ; for there is on record, well-enthen-
Heated, that many years ago • gentlemen in one of the
eastern counties wore • coat on a certain evening made
from wral which wee shorn from • sheep on las Ws
ghst same morning! However, this Manna of lb.
Derby landkorobiers is noteworthy, fur it shows the
ireeseptieutiv of oar manufacturers, end the activity of
oar meal dealers he seal thansaires of opportninties
for pruenotieg trade eral issiebUsbion a renewal...a. This
July pert elso soutane a Nab r instalment of the art
catalogue of the Paris exhibition, sal It. completion is
annotioced in the neat number. For beauty of illustra-
tion and Tidiness of dvsign this will form • work
anearedeled.

The Popular &item &Piny (London: Robert Her 1-
wick*. 192. Pioandillt) is an excellent quarterly issued
by a publisher whose none la associated watt many of
our populer works on 0. 1.01480 subjects. It has a long
Hat of able contribtron, and Dr. Lawson sonde:As it
eissily and w• IL Prolemor Hozly eostribotot the optio-
ing paper la th• present issue "On the animals wi lob
aro plobt nearly intermediate betwisen birds and reptiles."
The learned writer advocates the doesrine of evolution
og applied to the oeganie worl I, and in th's article he
meets the obiessing inquiry, " How is it, If all
anim.la bate pinessmiled ay gradual modification from a
common stoat, thst such treat distinctions ha•• snare
as aoe, coafr•wdly exist betwean thews thd dal. fish and
reptile*, reptiles and animals, and so on. .hiksl,ers is the
manse themes of in termed ia•e form. in the fossil agate,"
pointing out that "careful investiget on has shown that '
thee, obvious differences are of • much more supeifisial
theragiese than might base beim anspeeted, aoà that
reptiles snd birds do really agree much m-re
eleely than birds with mammals or reptiles
with •mphibians," and by giviiig d.tils ot the
eelebrated food bird •echrenprrjes obtained front the
Bolenhoffe slate bd. and now Is tie Briiiah Illesearn.
is being moot reptilian than any hi, 1 now liwieg, arid of
the Comprojelef .se lowcip•• • fossil also tepid in the
Bolenhofen slate. a. furnishing tit. "IDisaina link" ,
between reptiles and bird.. These two isolate d fart. are
eoppoited by some ral evideace and mom dads°. I
ton, gad the whole paper is worthy of careful atnly.
Following this, we have sin sutras on "Th. study of
atonic.' geologe.” by David To, beg, F.H.B. The writer
Is' bates ibis many important geological penbl•ms
whirl nqaire the 'ld of elhoishitty for their iolitrion ;
warn. the atodeot against allying hinso If to any •p•cial
thoory or .43130.1 of geology whi.h might hiss him when
aslitn•tiog tbe value of evidence brought before him;
•rgee the necessity of motion in soributing the fors.
tins of minerals, or of the rook noises in which they
occur, to any one cause, to the rxoltsei,su of °their
agencies ; and gives useful alvice touching tbs. selection
and anslrsis of rocks. It is • valuable paper for the
young dadaist of geology. Genre' Gulliver, F.H.R.,
isontribules a short paper on " Plait, known by title
pollen-grain• and other ce11.," indicating the import .nos
of th• cell-biography of specie.. as a help in the forms-
lion of a natural claasifieation of the vegetal:ilia kingdom.
Thin Is a branith of botany hilhern much neglect. I.
" The great *eines of August 17, 1868." is the subje.t '
of • learned commun'cation by R. A. Prootor, D.A.,
F.R A.R., and the linker Point/ out that if all gO.l
well with the exp. di in. sent out fur observat on, we
may look for raid,' of extreme i Wrest and im-
port-Knee. Information respecting the quality, move-
ment*, and variations of attire of the coloured
prominences around th• solar disc can hardly fail to be
of reit value to the studenta of solar physics. The
rthamisiation of the corona also promises resolte of
interest And it is just possible that in an eats«. of I
this magnitude something may be 'wet of this natant .
and habstu roofl the socliaeal liaht is: the nelsboorhoo4
of the sou's body. There is also an iutereating parer
On the range of tho liaromoth" by W. Boyd [Metre..
ILL, F. 5.8., and •n •rticle conveying instructive
Information on -Caddis-worms and their metannorphooes"
by the Rey. W. Houghton. al A., F.L.U. Ite•tees 01
goi,ptille works, ••11 • comprehrnsiVe " poiecitolle
summary" complete • find-rate number of a valuable
journal. From the last-mentioned deprotossat tot cull
the following eetracta

71111,411:11,AL Hurnate or Buoeire—A number of quedions
recently put by Gr. Gavin Milroy, an aralt• member of the
lipldend..logical &Klett, have been replied to bib. Rev. N. ,
J. Iterk ley. The ansiven are of the uteent Impormnee, both I
to the bsdanla and the modem of hygiene and epidemics, and
ere publithed In recent numbers .4 um Gerriceari Careotiole. I
In reference to the theory of Hefner, via that cholera I.
dated by • species of fungi. grownig on diseawd rice, the Rev.
J. It rite ey remarks I do ma believe in Ilailler's time.
of the connection of chtemeith paraelteson rice. I ant taking
crimt pain to ncertain what are the rice permit". I be leas
Banter • notions to h• eotirely theoretical That limn
cutaneous disorders aria from fungi Is pretty avramt, but
there la nothing to alrn thra goer, or other ,g.cti 4to or co..
birious Hawes arias from Oa same cauw. It sas suppned
that diptherla depended 0111 fungus, but I have examined
diphtbrri.le membraose In •hicn them was no Nora.' In
✓eference to the mod* of entrance .4th. ms4tic
Ilintelley wet es In the bunt the who,.
able ; pr-rem 1. tram-
lb. permit' obtain. admission front without, and the
spawn traverse. the young plant. In plant. Impreemated by
gavel I have man the stem am wan es the grain dented ; but
I neer ea- this In the fields. The potato murrain, again, le
dietlnct.y traceable In affected tubers, the thread sseming to
haw. a power of decomprning the osli wall., to al to gain
@dialed= to the tissu., vary deeply. In some ewes the affect
of the menace of the parasite la to prdune • hypertrophy of
the Urn., in bunt no intandra in the colour of the chloceptl)ll.
or at lase( ouch nu alumno, of eolour, that a practieed eye will
at ono, detem a bunted plant. In many awes, however, I
doubt whether the 11.-Imicroscopes .1;1 always detect fungus
spawn, end such Investigation. require great cannon, lathe
juncture. of the cell wane are very deceptive'
hinge Mccsura.—Mr. Wombats stated, at • recent meeting
of the Alrocantical Sudety, that one of Its members, Mr.
Spencer, had already o,natru ted an apparatus, by the aid of
which he had rained blench from the ground level, sad per-
formed • honzonMl Bight of 100 feet

Amy 0 Witni—ln a recent number of the °Went Medicaid
de Lem, le De Darbierealls attention to the fact that meny
of Um cheap wine., especially dames, ma largely adulterated
ith shim. la one butanes whirls oame under hi. notice, be
had hero treating • whole farm], for .col. gastralgia, but
weenie •Ily &wormed tbet UN affect}, of the et...mach •se
dee te Um eine hie patient* had been lien on ans yds this
trine was found to contain as much as too drachms (4 slum in
the bottle. In enensanting on Utle cam, the Chemical New
(Jane 11) says ; Me have ounehres obtained INlspko. 01 so-
ealled pun claret, which we hone resew to believe coutained •
emasidereble quanUty of alum; It is tt erefsre evidently
meceefary for tha. who are &amities/44 to drink time wise.,
SO bare babe guarantee of their nority."
PlifillOODOe Or las Ilexes in Dew—The old etoek Muer,.
lion at Use lone td fool ht pre hieing peculiarities*/ annual
atrunton, namely that of the production 01 ma in the bee,
by tbe ..w.ty of. • P rtic'slaf form of nourishment, has
received a deathblow in the remarchee of If s.e.o. nt
plpsc vati recently published, be narrek a sumer ce *opal-
s...nu which prove beyond question that the f-od hat nothing
special to do with the prodoetion of me, which. in point of
aid, ea worked oat by Derr Beetian, depends on the supply of
roosperma.

Birthright's Sehrace-Omarp (Landon: 192, Pmeadjily)
Is • amp monthly mycelia, of an enterteining
ohms/ger, for @lndenk awl lovers of nature, and the
fame for July is eqaally exciellvet with those which
bane preceded IL
&WU Pools Marefilf (Loodon Virtue and Co.,
291, litproad) tole mouth sootaies tbe somemniam
moot of • new serial story, entitled "Tim decristsio's
hosawbeld " the sew of which is laid in • little
German principality. The rimesing shepters preminte
nevi nil skilfully -draws sessameters, and • good plot,
pro... Wier to develop • story of great interest. We
*elms the followiug pew's, as an indieeLon of Vie
wntra's kno•ledge of human rattan sad tkill Is pear-
traying It :
Tire awns Too won't take any melon of whit
my oil soma mys about Lisechen, Herr horror "$o
at 111, odd the apothecary ; boot he bad not a my steer idea
al blau,% meaning. "You seamy old woman shell—she% an im•
cello., body. Not • better wlklstb. prlielpality. There ain't
nwor housewives test would hose kind to • stracger's child,
b'""Yht h..' to her. •Ithout 'Ohio your Imre,' ' by your
leave; m t.i Larches. Are More, now r "le—oo,"
sumwered Peters. the misogynist, "I don't Wink womeo moall
Oil hied toother CU. children." "hell. there It I. you
em, Herr Apothoury. ho nwer had DO Mile ODIO of our
own; not to live, that Is. our only babe, .Iw.
di" d" thl. id. •ad It well-nigh broke
11166 b... ImorL b.. • dm; nay with her somatimm, has
M•ops, but, char Moron II you had sown her then. Well,
mesa, you undermine, brought bombe little
iresabeo, and this is the Wild of • d dead
soda of mom, and we mita gim her .ww,. w:d"
wen w,' why, she Just looked at Um hale one suid
buret out a-MILL nod VW OP and sent swim • liAout •
word Imes the mom bob egMe, Me led and tended the
And right motherly , aod she's done sell by he vi r mow.
went to senilee at b:iloki quite
of her own sill, lb•Dr Frain Lchenaluis
grew a shade graver as be
Own sill ? yes. It was biller It her not to etay
/A.*. Ins it for hard country work,
and old woman Ira her been pretty tight u„
Banns said I should epWl the maiden, and make • fool or her.
Idaybap I deist But what I really think," added Um fanner
conliCentially, lowering his yoke, "Is that it fretted my me
women a bit to see me so fop d of Lleeduct.
" Jo, ow; suggested Peters, with • nod. we 1,
Jealous, If you like. but in • queer kind at • way. My now
is, that every Woe I patted the child's head, or took her on
an knee. Hann. thought of our lOUs daughter. and slat Me
might have been If tbe Lord had spared her to us, and felt
eranohow m if I was robbing the IlUis dead babe—poor lamb !
—by—. There, I wit speak It out clear, but I've got It 01l
In my lime Ilka pent•
llean•bile, " Maw Finn" netleggingly resletens
Ite interest, and the graver artioles In the present
numbsr are mulled by the &bitty which has distin•
gumboil this otagasine from its sommencement, now
nearly • pima. ago.
The Sneisereatats's Benno (LenAoe 23, Greet
Wariboren(hsueet, Regent-street, W.) temperately
sod ably disenceee 00100000 affecting the rights sod
wrongs of wows. Teo premier position in the July
number is oesepied by a suggeetiv• sway on the
etteclicio• et wares in bete, meet descriptions of life
I. Wee recently tailed lqi:ellikerssee Many ata"
fusd Ulm Mar 7 follows • payer by
Miss Nal" se slam Mal lbws I I no ma&

distinction Wherein male and female intellect. Varions
sexx•lee and • 111001•4 OP militate conorrning women WO
q•oted, and them la Information glv•ri reepereins tbe
Married Woman's Property Bill, Wonmeg spippyrk
a women ill•trsatment of wives, lady
medieel prectictioosie,
Cher OWS Piraide (London: Hunt and Co., 23,
Bollwiwtmet, Cavendish-equate) pmeents a large store
of wholmonte mediae, in ton.
and entereaiains, calculated to afford pleasure to the
verions membere of a Christian family.
The &Wait Workman ( Loodon : &W. Partridge
and Co.. 9, PatemPisterrow) is one of a Feriae of
excellent illoefrated paper. whieh a,. Mined by Messrs.
partridge. and are deservedly popular. The lest
number contains • splindid engraving of Lord Brougham.