Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1857-05-18

train 10 Dublin WAS crowded with EN-.
igrants OF the better. class, bound
for the United States, and ~ the sea
son advances it is feared that the drain
Of population will be further ,ncrcas
ed"
FEaHruLLY ASTOUNDING IEarORM-
ANuE or A FkMALE.-The mos, curl
ous exhibition at the great Paris Cir
Gus is what the progrs,ne calls the"ex-
crcisc of dislocation." The journalists
try to initiate it by twisting the French
language into all sorts Of compliments
ry shapes in describing it.
Imagine, says Que Of them n slcn del
female, p brunette, with flashing eyes
hollow checks, blach tressc. streaked
with blush tints, Of that exotic uglincss
which must be n beauty somewhere,
fu away, under the tent or in the pa
CODA. She III dancing aud floating
in a loose robe with red stripes. She
throws herself down on a carpet spread
out ia the center of the circus, and 10
she begins her chimcrical excrcises.--
She tears hclsclf to picces-unbones
herself she passes her leg like Shout
der belt. over her ncck--shc undoes
like hooks, the collar bones I her sl,ou .
dcrs. and throws behind Der back her
arms, bent backward. The strangcs,
Of all is the hagyard look. inspired, al
most prophetical, with which she &c
composites this iLightful pa"tomine.-
1t is not "a mountcbauk at work it il
the conyulsnc dc,otec Of some cxtray'
igant religion celebrating the rites o!
soIne cruel god. who delights in seeing
his worshipers suffer. Her ewes snd'
picatc, her gestures s,tcs, and her lips
trace "a distressing smile. You are re-
minded of those Indian dancing girls
who with" before IDOLS; of those Al
mas, struck through and through with
%polgnards, that yon see in persian min
i%aturcs, dancing on their heads before
some pcnsivc Shah, squat on piles OF
customs. and caressing his braided beard
with II hand covered with rings.
Nor is This all. A glass is brought for
ward which would scarcely hold a robe
carefully folded. She leaps on the ed
gcs ot the fragile casket. twists, dislo'
Gates herself, recommcnces her gestures
and mysterious appeals; then, suddenly,
YOU -" the a%rticulated apparently sink
like a tissue of which the tie is unioo.
send, and Told itself up in n tumble a,
tue bottom ef the box. 1t is no longer
u body, no longer II form no longer
something organic or articulnted. Il
is a pae kct Of limbs loose, scattered, un.
boned, between which Vegetables tut
of dead hairs like a handful of scawood
OF Tie spongy segments of n mollusk,
tor as DIR. Holmes says, like seawec.l,
round Il clam. y You might pcliev,
that see again that IN, stcrious Golfer 81
the Thousand and one nights, drawn
ont from the depths Of the Tiger by a
fisherman beneath the eyes of i%!aroun-
al-kaclid and in which the Caliph per
!, c.ived with horror the body OF y young
woman, cut tn pieces.
wretch" he exclaimed TO tina Giai
fer. his faithful Wiser. us II thus YOU
watch over the actions Of my people
and that you let my subjects be thrown
to the iigei, in order that they NAV
cry vengcnec against me on the day o
julgmcntt lf you do rot promptly "a
vcage the death Of this woman by N,
death of her murderer, | swear by tn.
holy name of God that I'll have Won
hung, you and forty Of your relatives
Then as quickly as she took hersci
TO pieces, she puts herseIftegether again
re arauges herself, mends herself, and
lifts herself up at M entire like the
puppet of a snutf-box with q secre,
spring. The name of this as undoinp
acrobite is Nine Poulmarche'