The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1859-01-22

iyA night or two ago countryman step
ped into the National Saloon, on Sycamore
street, where full sized statue Of Senator
Duaylas, r.oaidcd in Plaster of paris over
looks the bar. He had ne7er seen the ori-
gnal, and Of course did not recognize tho
copy, but admired the latter hugely, and
finally ventured to inquire who the statue
might be intended to represent. A wag
standing by replied;
sThat is the statue Of Dr.. Webster, who
killed DR.. Parkman, in Boston,
'You don't say - said the couhtryman;
and forthwith Ire proceeded to examine with
scrutinizing gaze the head before him.
After contemplating it ,ntently for some
time. he turned to the by-standers and an
rounced to them that he was san' ametaur
phrenologist,' as soon as he put his eye
upon the Developments of the figure. hei
had set the original down among that class
in community who
Never felt the halter d-aw.
With good opinion Of the law.
| The countryman grew eloquent us crowd
OF listeners gathered about him. 'iou see
| that gradual swell over the ears from the
temple backwards,' said he; shat is Great
cd by an excessive acquisitesess, secretive-
ness and destructiveness. 1t is the never
failing sign of a predisposition to roguery.
Acquisitvcnoss demands, secretiveness with
the reasoning faculties, plan the mode, and
destructivcness does its bloody work. He
evidently had strong intellect as you will
see by that massy forehead, but the moral
sentiments are lanentabiy deficient, and
the man was naturally what his acts proved
him to be-a very great rogue. That head
gentlemen IS one Of the finest illustrations
of the infallibie truths of the science OF
Phrcnology that have met with, and have
examined the Cabinet of Fowler, and the
extensive catalogue of works of Gaul, Spur
zhcim and Combe. He was a man of mind,
but governed by that instinct of cummings
sclfshness and destructlseness peculiar to-
! animals who make prey of others
'Then he had soufe mint:' suggested
bystandcr, as the amateur phrenologiss
paused to take breath.
, Certainly he knd,' responded the man Of
science, 'but his secre:ireness and cunning
, enabled him to keep his Interior plans and
designs far in the back ground, until sons'
unforeseen accident developcs them to thu
public gaze. That man, gentlemen, had in
tellect, but he fell, as such men must fail
through his own depravi,y"
. How much farther the amateur would
have enlightened his hearers upon the sub
| ject, it is difficult to say; but the crowd,
| now numbering half hundred, could hold
their mirth no longer, and laugh burst
! forth that might have startled the counter
felt Senator from hrs position befors the
mirror, without exciting any alarnr. Tho
phrenologist discovered he had been Sold
? but could not exactly appreciate tho point
5 Of the Joke nor determine where the laugh
e came in, so he strolled into the boxes OF the
theatre, to witness the 'Sinbad' spectacle,
\ and seek illustrations Of his favorte science
' amongst the hundreds Of uncovered heads
/ around him. Gin. G0S.
80 A woman with no friends cant be
expected to sit down and enjoy a comfort
able smoke, for she hasn't got any TO back
lher.
G eY. The Etnburg Review asks what
r European nation will first burst into flame.
d We expect the Dutch will they arc aways
n smoking.
@ 1t is certainly true that Zone swal-
low does not make u summer but with
. some persons half a dozen swallows, when
the liquor is good, are very summary
thing indeed. -.
s Cy A gallant wag was lately sitting he
e 81 le his beloved, and being unable to think
n Of anything to say, asked her why she was
( like a tailor? Il don't know said she
d with pouting lip, 'unlsss it's because
II am sitting beside goose"