The Woodville Republican, and Wilkinson advertiser., 1853-07-19
Flowers.

and Roman luxury flowers were used not only
as personal adonments, and necessary signs
and accompaniments of festivty and merry
making, but they were essential to religion
and decked the altars, crowned the priests, and
filletted the heads of the victims to be sacr-
feed, from the Bacchanalian goat to the milk
white bull that bled in honor Of Jupiter.
They were dedicated to the gods and stat
ues were crowned with them. Hence Venus
is sometimes represented wearing roses, while
Juno holds lily in her hand: and the anti
que Ceres in the gallery of Louvre, has her
hair braided with corn-poppies and bearded
wheat. With the people themselves wreaths
were in daily requsition, and persons made
livelihood by manufacturing them. Every oc-
easion had its characteristic chaplet and every
diner out one of different design. The ex-
quisite could run through each shade of color
that suited his complexion a; the wit flor each
wreath was supposed to impregnate the wear
e'rs brain the qualities of the plant that com
posed it) might quicken his with bays the
scholarly gentleman be content, like the bach
elor Horace, with myrtle ; and the gay bind
fllets on his brow. The bride had her crown,
and the corps its garland neither of which
customs are yet extinct in all the districts Of
those classic regions. In Italy, we read that
mothers still twine chaplets of the blue flowing
periwinke on the foreheads of their dead in
fants and at the wedding ceremony of mod
ern Greeks, the priest is supplied with gar.
land of liIies and another ears of corn, which
he places on the heads of the bride and bride
groom, as emblems ofpurty and abundance
1avernier and other Oriental travellers inform
us that flowers have been, and are still used as
natural ornaments to the dark tresses of Indian
maids and Moore tells us that the appear
ance of the blossoms of the gold colored cam
pac on their black hair has supplied the San
scrit poets with many elegant illusions.
Even the forest children of our country are
not without an instinct of their beauty, and
considerable skill in initiating them: some Of
the most perfect feather flowers are made by
| the savages of South America from the
brilliant pumage Of their Birds the colors Of
which have all the vivacity Of floral dyes; and
as they never fade, they in this particular excel
those manufactured by the nuns in Spain OF
Portugal, who tint the feathers artifcially.
The use Of artificial flowers was introduced
into England during the reign of Edward ii l.,
whose beautiful wife, Phillppa of Hainault,
with the ladies Of her court, courageously
threw off the hideohs head gear Of the period
and, with no other addition that chaplet Of
flowers, allowed their hair to ornament their
faces. This fashion of wearing flowers in the
hair dies not appear, however to have become
general in France till 1867, and then Qdeer
Phillippa was in her grave.
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BEAUTIFUL ExrRAcT.-The annexed beau
tiful lines are taken from Sir Humphrey Davy'i
Salmohia:
81 envy no quality of mind or intellect in
Others be it genitis, power, wit or fancy; but
if could choose what would be most useful
TO me, | should prefer firm religious belle
to every other blessing, for it makes life dis.
cipline Of goodness; creates new hopes when
all earthly hopes vanish; and throws over the
decay, the destruction Of existence, the mos
gorgeous of all lights; awakens life even in
death, and from curruption and decay calls uT
beauty and divinity; makes an instrument
Of fortune and shame the ladder Of ascent tC
! Paradise and far above all combinations o.
earthly hopes, calls up the most delightful
visions Of palms and amarinths, the gardeni
of the bIest, the security Of everlasting joys
where the sensualist and the skeptic view on
w gloom, decay, annihilation and despair"
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Iyp1AE FreHT.-The ST Paul Pioneer, o.
the 2sth ult, says:
About two weeks since a party O
Chippewas killed Sioux Indian, near Six''
Village. Crows band, in retaliation, formed
war party; went up to the St. Croix, and
there killed Chippewa and returned home.
'The Chippewas formed large party, and
followed the Sioux down. About 10 clock
this morning stout number Of the ChipPe
was who were proving about town in quest
Of the Sioux, saw our friend Jim and his two
sisters enter Forbs' store, took their stand II
front Of the store, and fired in through th'
open door, badly wounding one Of the women
Old Jim Immediately gave chase, but unfor
tuneately, only two barrels Of his reTclve
went of. and they without effect.
"A more daring feat has never been Perpe
trated by any people than this attack Of th'
Chippewas, in the city Of St Paul, 10 the mos
bushes part Of town, and in broad day light