Weekly News. — 1891-04-02 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

ANGLORS.  Writing in the _Held on the imaginatiop of angbris, a correspondent says: I was sitting the otler night with a friend, smoking over a bb ing fir ‘, v.ith onr sherds sack, in the shape of whisky and water, at our elbows, and this inspired hitt: to tel me a yarn of how he caught that big pike. lie was out trolling on Lake Maggiore one day, and lost his last spoon bait and part of his tackle in a ro-k, which it fouled whilst the boatman was stopping rowing for a moment to take a nip icr luck. They had two miles to row home, and it :id se m such a pity not to trail something behind tic br,4l, so 11V rigged up the tackle as best he co, .1. arid, behig at his wit's end for a bait,made fa& :ds gold shlret ring just above the hook by way o! au e:st.criment. He felt a little bit nervous abott i e..rtainly. as he let it gc, over the side of the L .at; hut it glittered splendidly, and that was all :hat wAs waeted. They might perhaps pick up a jail as they went home. They had not rowed c.ati3 st,okee before there was a tremendous pull at the line which almost stopped the boat. The bigges: pike he had ever seen jumped out of the water :,onic w.:y behind them, and then the brute ripped au. tore at that line until he gave his ring up for lost. ntver expecting on such bad tackle for an im-tarit to land the fish. At last the fish was drawn m, to boat aod pulled in, but to his horror the ring tr,o4 gone; this was the last straw—he was so fond of that ring. Sulkily he turned to break the brute's neck, when he saw something glisteNing between its ugly jaws, and inside its mouth was the rug, alter all, which had somehow got loose and :dipped down over the hook. Observe now the ehArity of the brother angler ! I did not pass him across my card to announce that I was '*a bit. of a liar myself," as I have seen such people do before now. I did not cross-question him as to how, if th • hook was stuck in the pike's mouth, the ring managed to slip right over it. Not a bit of it. I just pulled myself together, congratulated him on the recapture of his ring, which he shewed me on Ilk finger, and then proceeded to cap his story with .nie of my own. Twelve years ago I was salmon fishing on Loch Ern. In those days we did not all fine metal reels, and mine happened to be made of wood. Anyhow, I hooked a big salmon, and was playing it comfortably, when something wont wrong; icy reel came off from the rod, fell let the water, and disappeared instantly. The gii:ie swoie badly—of course I did not—and we mewed back to the house to get anither reel, in a p:oiicr bad temper. Two or three hours after we were pulling about half a mile or so from the scene ofl he catastrophe, when I noticed a queer piece of w aid floating on the top of the water near us. We w,nt to it, and I picked it up, and it was my lost wooden reel. The strangest thing of all was that, on winding it up, I found the salmon still attached; the reel had worked so freely in the water Ora it had played him to perfection, and we reeled in a 25-pounder at his last gasp! Oh, it is a beautiful thing, this child-like confidence between anglers! Tile fact of the matter is, that fishing stories are ii 'ant for fishermen, who know the difference between inventing and imagining; whilst other prisaic people, who cannot imagine anything at all, do not understand how fancies can have the reality of facts, and call them by nasty names when they claim it.  A woman's body, with head severed. has be found on the 6reat Western Railway line, between Stockwo(xl and Melbury Bubb, Dorset. It is supposed to be a case of suicide. The deceased is believed to be a member of a family named Neale, living at Chetnole, about two miles from the place where the body was found.  A well-known Protestant living in Chuchina, a t• ,n in the province of 1;118.4a rah' a, has just been •o,euced to banishment for life to Central Asia, wi,li forfeiture of all civil rights. He was found guilty of spreading Protestant doctrines among his frio.43. He is now in gaol in Kisheneff, whence in a frw days he is to be forwarded as a convict to his place of exile. The coroner's inquest into the deaths of the victims of the Utopia disaster has resulted in the issue of a warrant for the arrest of Captain hirKeague, the commander of the ill-fated vess..l, on a charge of manslaughter, in inglectira4 the or 'Mary rules of the road in onteri•:7, a hat )our. li'Nq Pt ^• • °St Pd. hill • r wag t. ' ha iI.  -A lover is a torment, an-d—a 'nulls:knee to .aid the pretty girl, saucily tossing her head, and the young man who was listening to hor said: "So ',nur father seems to think." Mr. Minter: "I think I'll buy this picture, Anne." Anne: "But, papa, the picture is low in tone and colour." Mr. Minter: "What's the difference P I ain't buying a musical-box." "You should never take anything that doesn't nree with yon." the physician tot' •iin. "If I'd Always followed that rule, Maria," remarked te wife, "where would you be ?