Arkansas intelligencer., 1843-11-18
VAN BUREN, ARKANSAS MORNING NOVEMBER 49,

"a man vot prints newspapers Oh! yuw
yaw! By choopiter-aye! ayei Datsch it
man what prints newspapers-yaw! yaw! Walk
up, walk up, Mishter Brinter! Cheems, take de
chentleman's pack off: Thohn, pring some junks
to te fire. man vot prints nooshepapers. n
vish may pc tam if didn't tink you COS a tai.
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Statistics Of Muscular Po,oer.-Man has the
power Of initiating every motion but that of flight
To effect these, he has, in maturity and health,
sixty bones in his head, sixty in his thighs and
legs, sixty-two in his arms and hands, sxty-seven
in his trunk. His heart makes sixty -four pulsa.
tions in minute; and therefore 3S4O in an hour;
90, l6O in q day. There are also three complete
circulations of his blood in the short space Of an
hour. In respect to the comparative speed of an.
mated beings and of impeled bodies, it may be
remarked, that size and construction seem to have
little influence; nor has comparative strength, al
though one body giving any quantity Of motion
to another is said to lose so much of its own.-
The sloth is by no means small animal, and yet
it can travel only fifty PAGES in a day; a worm
bird can fly twenty million times its own length
in less than an hour. An elk can run a mile
and half in several minutes. the wild mule of
Tartary has speed even greater than that; and
an eagle can fly eighteen leagues in an hour; and
a canary falcon can even reach two hundred and
fifty leagues nthe short space of sixteen hours
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The Tyranny of Wealh.-The Tyranny of En-.
gland at the present time, is not SO much the ty
ranny of power, as it is of wealth. The profits Of
labor 60 to the employer, not to the aborsr; and
the taxation to support armies, royal households,
&C., falls heavier on the necessaries Of the poor
than on the luxures of the rich. This is the
main and prolific source of poverty in England
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labor not paid for with a comfortable subsistence.
The capitalists grow rich on the sweat, and toll,
and life's blood of the poor-and rear up systems
to oppress those who labor, and keep them in bon.
dage, ignorance and poverty-and with their
wealth, sustain the pomp, and show, and extrava-
gance of nobility and royalty. This is the way the
the foundations of royal pageants-royal journeys,
royal greetings--and royal festivities estab-
lished. They are manufactured from the blood
and sweat of iabor--and cause in their results
the wailings and means of furnishing children,
the tears and agonies of weeping mothers in mis-
cry and starvation--the perishing Of both-and
the curses of hopeless poverty, oppressed and
over powered with burdens and difficulties that can
only terminate with death. These are some of
the tyranny Of wealth.
When governments are constituted 50 rs TO pro.
tect one class and oppress another, as is tho case
in England it is patriotism to oppose il and bring
failed in the very object for which it was insttu.
ted, to wit-to protect and not to oppress. But
whom oppression is the sure result of laws and
measures, then government becomes a fearful en-
gne of power, carrying in It's train misery, crime,
and ruin-overwheiming alike in one common
fate the innocent and the guiIty--making men vi
cious and thcn Furnishing them because they are So
This is the unmitgated curse of the Dy ynasty of
wealth, which holds and possesse, the all prevail.
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Origin of Several Eashions.-Fashions have
frequently originated in eadeavors of the inven-
tors to hide some deformity. Hoops, for instance,
to conceal an illshaped hip; rufies, scar, on the
neck, perhaps; large s!eaves history does not men,
lion, and conjecture nigh, not be acceptabe.-
Patches were invented in the reign of Edward vi.
by lady, to hide in this manner wen on her mock
Charles VII. Of France, introduced long coats to
hide pair Of crooked legs. Peaked shoes, full
two feet long, were invented by the Duke Of njou,
to conceal deformed foot. Francis l. was obliged,
from wound in his head, to wear short hair
Isabella, Of Bavaria, proud of her beauty, and
introduced the custom Of leaving the neck and
shoulders uncovered. Charles ", by severe edics,
banished tight brooches; and during the reign Of
Elizabeth, enormous large breeches came in fash.
ion. The beaux Of that day stuffed their breech-
es with rags feathers, wool, and other light stuff
till they resembed huge bales Of cotton. To como
up with them, the ladies' invented large pettcoats.
1t was said that two lovers could not come within
seven feet of each other! At one time, square
toes ran to such a width that proclamation was
issued that no person should wear shoes more than
six inches at the toes.
The Coo and the Pig,-The law Of Rhode
Island humanely provides that neither a pig nor
a COW shall be taken execution, in cases where
the debtor has but one. When the law was first
proposed, it read, that the attaching officer should
in all cases .'leave one pig and one cow" but
it suggested that if the officer compelled
to leave a pig and a COW with every writ, the
debtor Dould have quite an advantage, people who
had neither cows nor pigs, would get themselves
sued OH speculation. So it was amended that the
constable should only leave the pig and COW where
he found them. The Providence Journal, from
phich paper ,ce learn these facts, relates recent
case ,oherein a wiley creditor "came it over a
green one " in the following style: "A creditor
in the town of Burrivile had often cast q most
longing eye over his neighbor's pig-Pen. whore
fine fat hog, just ready for the butchers knife,
was uxuriating in his daily increasing propensity
The creditor held an execution that tho hog would
Just about satisfy but the law forbade him to take
the only pig. In this dilemma he went to the
debtor, and. with pretended commisseration for
his poverty, offered him one OF litter of fine
pigs, with which his own had lately been replen-
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