The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-03-19
ACCOMMODATIONS.


observation-disclosures.
An animated controversy, not a little
must ny, has been going ON, for some
weeks, In London and Paris, involving
delectable exposures Of the present
,rticle of female odorHmsnt called the water
fall or chignon and It's peculiar inhabitants.
seems on several high authorities, to be
"a lire institution IT,
one chemist writes
"During our last season | was applied to
live different occasions, by high-Dofn
ladies, TO prepare lotions for-heads. My
a~stonishment was only exceeded by their
agony. To the O~it-repeated question:
Where could the creatures have come
fromg' They were in the chignoaS!'
a Family Man relates
.sMv sister, wishing to follow the fashion,
cut her long black hair of and boughta
thick plait To wear as a chigRon. A few
weeks aterward she complained of sort
irritating sensation In her head, which
continued for some time, when IL was at
last discovered that her head was literally
swarming with the disgusting and horrid
creatures Of a very small size.
"a Medical Man writes as follows clos
ing with a s%atirical remark
.oWbat YOU have so well said l. really
lint too true, as my wife found out a year
ago. Last summer she bought a chignon Of
n most respectable ~hair-dresser. AFTER u
months wear It swarmed, and, like the fly
in amber, there they were.
"a Manageable Man asks;
would. the ladies dress themselves
deliberately II there were only women In
the world2 | rather fancy they would not
Do they know what men generally think
of chigaons and similar false adornmehts !
Here, again, | think they do not.
Ugh. This is an ugly subject, and prob
ably we shall be hooted at by some of the
fair wearers of these lireiy little II big
freaks OF fashion, for disturbing It at all,
as being none of our business. We must
not express our wonder, however, the
comb is coming again into use. Pertinent
right now. might be what Sheridan we
believe, once said
o. A lady once told me. and in her own house,
She did not regard me three sklps or iLsit
| forgage the dear creature what ever she sad,
For women will talk OF what runs IN their hedd.'
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A FLOATING PALACE.-The Great RepuG-
Tic. a monster steamboat. just completed at
Pittsburgh, is to be at Cincinnati to-day,
on her way to New Orleans. She is mag
ni6cant and huge. The boilers are seven
i'm number, each "A inches in diameter, Is
feet long. and containing four tlues each.
She has also A doctor boiler for running the
freight elevator and fire engine while in
port length ON deck, 1886 feet; BEAM oil
feet depth of hold, 9ls feet; width over all,
% feet two cylinders, % inches in diane
ter with 10 feet stroke, and two cylinders
So inches in diameter, with same stroke,
working two water-wheels 40 feet in diane
ter. with buckets Is feet IN length and 30
inches wide. The cabin is 2G7 feet long,
by Is feet , inches wide, and contains Of
state-rooms, each 8 feet square, which are
most elegantly fitted up, with wardrobe
wash-staud, in every room, and is also fur
nished with an elegant set ofcurtains. The
texas contains 10 oom for passengers,
besides having accommodations fOrthe en-
tire crew. 1t is 1866 feet long, andhas a guard
six feet wide all around. The nursery con-
taius Is rooms Tor passengers, besides the
wash-rooms, ironing-room, bathrooms,
&c.
C8~The South is to become Il military
depeuseancy to. Radical rule. In other words
we are about to go back to where we wer'
two years ago, at the close of the wal
This fact is an admirable comment upol
the craftsmanship of the dominant party
Republicanism has wrangled and Tough
; for two years, and now the country find
itself where it was when JOHNSTON surren
dered to SHERMAN.
sS~The PlantatatiOn Of Col BRECK, four
teen miles above Canton, Miss, was yisitet
by Il party of horse thieves, o 1--WE
weeks ago, and the next morning lively
horses and two mules were missing. Onl.
two of them were recovered. Five or ST.
horses were also taken from the stable o
Mr.. ATKINSON, IN the same vicinity.
J cB-Since the Senate has required Presi
2 dent JOHNSON to appoint none except Rad
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