The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1881-11-04 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

EXTENUATING EIRCUMSTANCES.—A culprit recently tried in a German elm% of justice for murder and robbery, when asked according to custom whether he ha I anything to Pay for himself, replied "Only this, your honour—it was net a murder, but a suicide." Judge: How do you make that out I Prisoner t, In this way, your honour. The deceased for years before his death went about every wltere saying that he was determined to put an end to himself ; but he never had the courage to do Co. At last his irresolution moved me to pity ; co, to save dim from disappoint• meta, and more erg:Axially from boing wore than his word, I suicide(' him. Judge: That is all very, well, btlt what made you take his watch I Prisoner: Wlen he woe dead be did not require a watch. I did, and so I very naturally put it in my rocket. Beside., ne was an old friend of mine, and I saute.' something to ramember hint by  The project of funeral reform should indeed receive an impetus if the Duke of Westminster has determined ta ler,d it his patronage in so practical a degree as to place Grosvenor House at the disposal of the Church of England Funeral and Mourning Reform Association for the purpose of holding one of its meetings. Satirists of the stamp of Thackeray, Dickens, and Hood have done their best to discountenance the vulgar mummery of the modern funeral which often makes the stroke of the fell Destroyer doubly grievous from the expense that his unwelceme visit entails. But the brilliancy of their humour has not yet shamed the professional undertaker out of countenance, and it is evident that until the fashion of simplicity in burials is set by those who are the leader obi fashion in most things else, we shall find that very little improvement has been effected. Hitherto the advances in economy have been very much, in the directien of the cheap and nasty.  THE ENJOYMENT OF EATING AND DRINKING AND ITS Pesiavries.—We need not state that volumes have been written upon the above subject 'since the days of the renowned bon vivant, Camaro, down to the latest treatise designed to enable us to it; Ige for ourselves in the appropriateness of our habitual eating and drinking. It is impognible t 3 deny the great utility of such Information: but, unfortunately, mankind in general lends a deaf ear to warnings when the testes and the passions are in question. As the world wage, we fear the people would continue to eat and drink just according to their taste and humour for a long time yet to come, especially when they find that, by a timely reomrne to some such medicine as Holloway's pills, they can easily and readily get rid of all the constitutional disorders ceased by over-feeding and intemperance, a few of these pills sufficing in the majority of instances to set a man "all right" overnight to begin his day of labour, after having yielded to the temptation of what is technically called " • blow out." No doubt ) our sodawater or citrate of magnesia may seem to be equally effective, but, unfortunately, in very many cases much more requires to he done than can be effected by these otherwise very pleasant and saline libations. All overteeding—every act of intemperance—must necessarily contaminate the blood, and the vitiated blood must necessarily impair every organ through which it flows. Now, in order to correct this effect, a radical remedy is required, and such is that invented by Holloway, whose pids, as we have stated, have superseded almost every other "corrective" or **alterative.' of S1)o old sohool. Perhaps this results, not only from the power of their purifying agency, but also from their gentle and almost Imperceptible regenerating action—without any inconvenience in the general routine of life—requiring no extraordinary precautions to prevent "catching cold" or morbia reactions. If report be correct, no medicine stands in higher repute at our faahionable clubs and °fibers' quarters than Holloway's pills, although very few of the valiant," can allow tiei gratitude to admit the fact of return for the beneit...nt Advieer.