Weekly News. — 1890-05-15 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

UNCIVIL POST-OFFICE CLERKS.  Com-m- iditing upon the incivility of lady-clerks employed in post-offices, the Worgen's Penny Pap(r impresses on those of its readers concerned, the advantages of being civil and attentive to their customers. Its aim, it says, is nut to please the people, but to prevent the girls themselves continuing the policy of suicide, winch they have, perhaps, unwittingly begun. Women employed in the public service, and especially in the Post Offices, ought to think that they arc in that position simply upon sufferance; and that their conduct is watched with such interest acts suggest the belief that the establishment of women as clerks is still in its experimental stages. This is not the case, but there is no reason why women should COW t adverse criticism. Occasionally they are obliged to take impudent remarks as well as money in exchange for stamps. Some of them resent biung told that they are pretty, and visit their resentment 'alien inioffending customers, while others °llea to an exactly opposite kind of treatment, and ore wiathfuil with men who do not, and wom.:111 who cannot, flirt with them. The chief ditfleulty appears to be that the managers of the offices are chiefly men, and it is suggested that it would be at once overcome by having women to supervise woolen.  Hawks are very plentiful in Orkney. Near Kirk wall, recently, a farm servant was digging a hole for a fence post when a lark sprang into it, end lay panting and shivering. The cause of its distress was a large peregrine right overhead. The poor bird allowed itself to be handle.% and seemed loth to accept its liberty. Not long agoa pigeon, whi!e pursued by one of the marauders, came crashing through a dining-room window. . • - • '  Through children playing with limiters, a fire occurred on Monday afternoon at a house in Arnold'splace, Dockhead. The children of Mr. A. Bottomley, a lodger, set the front room on the ground floor alight, and before she could lie rimmed Bridget Bottonday, 4 years old, V,PB no frightfully burned that she expir,d the same night in the hospital. A beautiful ion cavern has just been discovered in Bosnia. The principal grotto contains stalactitis sft. in diameter, consisting of the purest ice. The cavern also contains some frozen waterfalls and other picturesque ice formations. At the last meeting of the Royal Geographical Society, Mr. G. Curzon, M.P., in the course of a paper on "The Karun River and the Commercial Geography of South-West Persia," expressed the opinion that the opening up of theliseun trade route, the prospects of mercantile return in the shape of traffic, CUltollll., and tolls ought to result in a fourfold development, each pregnant with future wealth. It reeted with British enterprise to make worthy use of an opportunity which we owed to the successful effort* of British diplomacy and to the friendly disposition of an allied Sovereign She "Mamma says she knows that when we are married we shan't live eee like eat and dog as she and papa do." He: "No, indeed, your mamma is right I" "Yea, she says she is sure you'll be easier to manage than papa me.,, " !" A gentleman went to keep a written appointme-nt in Wall-street with a broker whom he did not know by sight. Seeing a forlorn-looking gentleman seated in the office, he said: "1 Leg pardon, sir, are you the broker?" To which the other promptly replied : "No, sir. I'm the feller that gut broke."  -JJL