Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1881-04-14 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

CIRCUMLOCUTION.—Some time ago an officer found that biz,: favourite chair was in a shaky condition, and required either the tightening of a screw or the application of a little glue. He spoke to the care-taker, who thereupon m kid before him for signature a for of requisition for repairs, addressed to the Board of Trade. The document vas then copied and despatched; and, a. week later, a gentlemanly-looking man arrived, inspected the chair, and departed to report upon it. Ten days passed. One morning two individuals appeared upon the scene, and held a consultation. After a quarter of an hour's eNanaination and conversation, they too departed, promising that the matter should be seen to. Another fortnight elapsed; and finally my friend's chair was satisfactorily mended. He tells me that he estimates that he could have had the operation performed for 2d. Alit. ELI BUXTON, viee-cbairman of the London School Board, was on Friday elected chairman in succession to the late Sir Charles Reed.  JOHN MAY, a soldier stationed at Chatham, has been tent to penal servitude for five years for stealing wearing apparel at Wateringbury. Mli.vurroN, near Leamington, must be a pleasant place to live in. It possesses a Bench of Magistrates Tho recently fined a boy because the pony he was riding ilted and ran away with him, and imposed upon t ziller the highest penalty they could inflict for shooting la dng which had attacked his children and servants as Isell as himself. .)  THERE was a strike of barristers at the Montgomery lire Quarter Sessions on Thursday. The maistrate( ranted an application of the solicitors to be allowed tc 'lead, on the ground that there were so few barristert 'resent, wherenixm the barristers present left the Court. .tibsequently there was a collision betwen the Bench ane (Solicitor. The latter was cross-examining a witness. and was told by the Chairman that he must conduct his rse like a barrister. The solicitor said he would give UI ; case, but ultimately proceeded. 0.4 A PAINFUL case, which has caused great commotion in lfashionable circles' was brought to a close in Paris or lvridaY. M. and Madame Friedman, both well-known ter.sonages, were charged with forgery. Madam( vriedman is the daughter of the late Duke de Persigny celebrated Napoleonic Minister. In a moment of fporary difficulty she and her husband put the name of Princess.de Moakowa to bills to the amount of 0111 tdred and eighty thousand francs to pay their creditors Princess who died a short time ago, was the Hrand• -of Madame Friedman. She was notorious for he] ..nony, and refused to pay the bills. The affair fall into the hands of -the police the young couple wen op the death of Madame de Moskowa,. Has fertne was inherited by the Duchess dt reraigny, who is undattgp, d to have. paid ad the bilis majority of which were dlscounted by tlu ;hschild firm. The jury brought in a verdict of not Aty, A RWANTIC double suicide was committed in the Boil Boulogne, Paris, on Fridays A young lc,dy and gentle. 11,1 took a cab, and, after dining at a restaurant, resumed it; drive. The cabman had got into the middle of the and, hearing no sign of life in the vehicle, ht : from his seat, and, ono pening the door, fount ompants dead. They had poisoned themselves. Loma painted the panels of her, .4pçs.h ots et bow Ca tigaqs of 1!  Oh D in vill I led  ne I I in. loe rea it ) n ; ow ad a lb TO Ir. ou gar cI ' in In eld elt ce• 13'.tf ihn igi lui. au 3 t of ex a ; to( le eta, feel; An 30111 in ay. erec for L GI Add met Lt wn DWII •oud ate aba Held, oft by. eta if co unt hat not nano id I • ;hat id t • toxi. riatm :hur ccasi had :hare °'l bol cur tai inqu ) lunt • cam a, a ormi gan Wi ag g 'pie] aco Nig( cost I Bob; :pe BLIII tun • the batte cr d un • I t Dereonl ..e •rstoc 'll t "6 tin( spoe f • 'no Du 'other ter :hut tir ' .• into ug eatesl vf ,:,tbense ke a I•t1 a• 7 I '4n heir ood, I. wave r