Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1857-05-20

Glasses and all countries The devil is walk /
ing abroad in open daylight, withoutthe pre-
canton TO dress himself! And if the pre-
sent generation Of men could see themselves |
in the Gospel Glass, they are as black as
HeIle'
Yroas spor.srs Spirit
The Dreadful Tale Of q Skirt.
ny ONE OF Us
Dearly and devo.ediy did the learned and
popular Doctor Fliegenblade, of Dresden,
love his wife In his eyes, no step 30 light,
no cheek so pure, no eyes 30 radiant as hers
In the eyes Of al the habitues of the promen-
ade OF Dresden, no carriage so graceful, no
taste SO exquisite, no skirt 50 ample.
Broad, however, as was the expanded
hounce Of Madame Fiegenblade, the fond
husband determined to appeal to his art in
chemistry, to make her the subject ola hope
less and una.tainabie envy. Directing her,
one day, before going out, to e1pel from her
skirts the air with which her faithful maid
had Just been filing them, he infused within
them subtle vapor, which not only spread
them twenty-five per cent beyond their ordin
airy circle, but which, by their upward pres
sure upon the whalebone rods that united at
her waist, lifted her gently from the pave
nent, and, but for loaded satchel which he
obliged her to carry in her hand, and heavy
metal belt, would have raised her light
brown CATERS, and the little feet inside of
them, entirely from the ground. Madame
Fliegcnblade was, indeed, the envy Of all the
fair damsels and danes Of Dresden, and ma
ny Il beauty went psevishly to bed, after vain
endeayors to rival the smooth amplitude of
her silken fence. Despite Of all this envy,
however, placidly Madame Flegenblade went
daily forth, relying trustfully upon her load
ed belt, and holding faithfully upon her heavy
bag But, alas! alas who can foresee eve
ry danger. In an unlucky moment, Madame
Fliegenblade was seized with a sudden faint
ness while walking along fayorite promen-
ade, in the environs of the town. She was
borne into store, her satchel was placed
upon the counter, and the kind ladies who
surrounded her, made haste to relieve her Of
her belt Still, she remained inanimate,
whereupon they bore her in the open air,
and, sitting her upon a chair, stood wide
apart to give her an opportunity to respire.
When, 10! lifting itself from the chair, the
mass of silk gradually arose, and, before the
spectators could recover from their surprise
it was beyond their reach. Slowly it pur-
sued its way upward, the i'll fated lady reposing
in the centre of the rising cloud of lawn, as
peacefully as Elijah submitted to his trans
laton The distracted chemist arrived upon
the ground Just in time to see her disappear
entirely from sight
There may now be seen, daily, on that
spot, in Dresden, exactly at the hour of Eve
in the afternoon, a strange moody looking
man. who, with rapt look, and vacant stare
gazes at the heavens for an hour, as though
he expected hi5 lost darling to return; and
then, folding his arms with a heavy sigh, he
stalks sorrowfully home 1t is useless, for
us, to speculate upon the probable fate of
Madame Fiegenblads Her husband is ex-
peeting her every day to drop from the clouds
into His arms, where he lost her, but we learn
that Leverrcr, the great astronomer ofParis,
has computed her descent to be due in 27l
days, 6 hours and % minutes; and that in
stead ofdescending at Dresden, she will drop
in the Canary Islands
Washington County-Statistics. &c.
We have gathered some statistics from the
abstract of the census for 1856, which will
be of interest to our readers.
The total population Of the county was l.
lI3-6029 males, and 1854 females; excess
of males over females, 935. (This last fact
may possibly account for the unwarrantable
number of old bachelors to be found in GER
tain localities. Unmarried ladies will please
take noticc)
The population was divided into 1904 fam
allies, living in 1859 dwelling houses; leav
ing AS families living in houses with 9TH
ers The total number of voters was 1896,
of which 224l were native born Americans,
and l55 naturaized
The total number Of acres of land in the
county is 1878, of which $3.50 acres are
improved, and 1854 are unimproved.-
There were lI6 owners of land residing
within the county.
OF the improved land, 1862 acres were
sown to meadow, producing 1904 tons ofhay
and 543 bushels of grass seed. There were
l00Ol acres sown to spring wheat produc-
ing l2l3l4 bushels, or little over = BUSH
els per acre The number of acres of winter
wheat was 5S7-yield, 6762 bushels, or about
II - bushels to the acre. Acres oats, 5S4l
yield, 20546I bushels--35 bushels per
acre. Acres potatoes 356-yield 43445 bu.,
or over l20 bushels per acre.
The number ofhogs sold from this county
last year was 1922, valued at $ll3,993.-
The number of cattle sold was 211S-valuc,
$67 ,0S2 Pounds butter, 1897; pounds
of domestic manufactures, $50, $50.
These are the figures as given us by the
census returns of last year Let US make
few reflections and deductions The fact that
strikes us most forcibly in the above exhibit,
thousands who are now seeking homes in the
west is that we have, within the limits of
this county, 1854 acres of unimproved land,
n Ill, h,,,1- nf. &ho% 70, low
expect to have to 90 away back towards sun
set before you can find any unoccupied land,
here, within fifty miles of the Mississippi riv-
err, with Railroad to be completed within
the next nine months, that will run within
twenty miles fevery acre Of it, are one hun
dred and thirty thousand acres of unimprov-
ed land Land, too, us beautifulas ever laid
out of DOORS and of q fabulous fertility never
dreamed of by the dwellcrs on the granite
hills of New England, or the clay knobs of
Ohio Only think of these broad fertile
acres, and the untold bushels of corn and
OATS and potatoes, and we had almost said
butter too, and tons of hay, that they con-
tain only awaiting the hand Of intelligent
industry to develop them. And these things
now are hardly to be had for love or money.
Let us look for a moment. OF the 10000
acres of unimproved lands, doubtless at least
100000 are fit for cultivation. According to
the above census figures of the improved
lands within the county, about 80 per cent
are put to corn, 90 per cent. to wheat, 10 per
cent. to oats, and 5 per cent to grass. Now,
this 100000 acres brought into
cultivation, and the same proportions and
yield to obtain we should have instead fthe
figures of last year, $4,000 acres and 2756OOO
bushels of corn; 10000 acres and 100000 bu
of wheat; $500 acres and $4,000 bushels of
oats, 1900 acres and $4,000 tons OF hay, as
the products of Washington County for one
year, besides the pork and beef, butter and
cheese, wool and manufactures, the proper
tomato increase of which cannot be so easily
computed. And this is no fabulous compu-
tation. We have the natural resources for
all this immense production, All it wants is
the labor, the energy and skill to develop it.
And with all this productive capacity of our
county fully developed, and a good market for
it always at our doors, can it fail to furnish
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