Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1851-08-13

il lit is almost
needfU Nat the humorous
yarn wa Lever, the facetious
author d aries O'Mally The
Boomers IL take hint at it, and
partly on their account we give the
extract a place:
i believe woman would do a
great deal for a Dance said DR..
Growing; they are immensely fond
of statutory motion. / remember
once in my life | used to firt with one
who was a great favorite in a provin-
cial town where lived, ard conf
ded to me she had no stockings to
appear in, and without them her
presence at the ball was out Of the
question.
That was a hint for you to buy
the stockings said Dick.
No, you're out said Growing. She
knew-that was as poor as herself;
but .hough she could not rely on my
purse, she had every confidence in
my taste and judgment, and consul
me on a plan she formed for going
to the bali in proper twig. Now,
what do you think it wasp
To go in cotton, suppose return
ed Dick.
'Out again, sir you'd never guess
it; and only woman could have hit
upon the expedient twas the fash
ion in those days for ladies in full
dress, to wear pink stockings, and
she proposed painting her legsp
Painting her legs! they all ex-
claimed.
Fact, sir, said the doctor, land she
relied upon me for telling her if the
was successful
And was itY asked Durfy.
Don't bei1 hurry, Tom. Icom-
piled on one Condition, namely, that
| should be the painter
ooh, you old rascal! said Dick.
"A capital bargain said Durfy.
But not safe convent added the
attorney.
Don't interrupt me, gentlemen
said the doctor. i gotsome rose pink,
accordingly, and | defy all the no.
siers in Nottingham to make tighter
fit than | did on little Jenny, and
prettier pair of stockings | never saw.
and she went to the ball?' said
Dick.
She did,
'And the trick succeeded?' inquired
Durfy.
so completely said the doctor,
that several ladies asked her to rec
ommend her dyer to them. So you
see what a woman will do to go to a
dance. Poor little Jenny! she was a
merry minx-by-the bye she boxed
my ears that night for joke | made
about the stockings. Jenny said |,
for fear your stockings should fall
down when you're dancing had'nt you
better let me pant pair Of carriers on
them.
MAGNIFICENT DEA-The San Fran
cisco Courier, in speaking of the
necessity and feasibility of the
steamship communication between
that point and China, remarks that
such aline would complete the chain
of steam communication around the
world, except small break in eros
sing the lsthmus of Suez, connecting
Asia with a lea. The paper then
says:
The LIN eted, the traveller,
leavipz kcan proceed to
o. H,thence to
Cairo - ma, to Southamp-
ton via Ma Gibralter, and from
thence by 81 again to New York.
The only Bro in steam navigation
will be in CROSSING the Ithmus Of
Suez. Thus he would be able to
circumnavigate the world, visiting
many points Of Interest, making the
in lao days! The commercial advan-
tages which must flow to the United
States from this and kindred sources
are too greet for enumeration here, and
to well known to require it.
UDr. Reid, a traveller through
the highlands of Peru, found lately in
the deseret of Atacama the dried re-
mains of an assemblage Of human
beings, 5 or6OO in number, men, wo-
men and children, seated in semi
racle when a live, and staring into
the burning waste before them. They
had not been buried; life had not de-
parted before they thus sat around;
but hope was gone; the Spanish in
vader was at hand, and, no escape
being left, they had come hither to
die. They still sit immovable in that
dreary desert; dried like mumies by
the effect of the hot air, they still keep
their position sitting up as In solemn
council, while over that dread Areo-
pagus silence broods eyerlastingly.