Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1869-09-09

In the 1OlmltaOlo udulWI1t1lS VI NIT.
Choate himself, was also exhibited. The
experiments and explanations specially re-
lating to DR.. Groux were given with great
clcarDess by that gentleman, who is regu.
larry graduated physician. It is clearly of
great advantage to science that this rare
malformation occurs in one who is SO we'll
qualified to observe the obscure vital pro-
cesses which it affords an opportunity of
enjoying.
Observations Of Novelist.
We find the following remarks about
s'false hair in All the Year Round, Charles
Dickens paper.
Does any lady ever look at the arrange.
ment of any other lady's hair? Does any
lady ever look into hairdresser's shop? If
SO, how does the chignon, in its present
proportions. hold its ground? If any wo-
mans head grew in such monstrous shapes
as may now be seen in all directions when.
ever women are congregated together, it
would be a cause Of mourning to her fam.
lily, Of consultation among eminent sur
geons, and she would probably spend the
greater part of her time in judicious seclu-
sion. Here shall be woman with small,
delicate features, small head, and Of nat.
ural stature. Instead of making the most
of the natural beauties with which she is
gifted, she frizzles, and cnts, and gums her
front hair into all sorts Of uncouth FORMS
and .surmounts her back hair with an en-
ormous ball OF somebody else's tresses =
The lady appears to have two heads, one
jthe artifciaD considerably larger than the
other. The hat has to be perched on the
nose, and most prepostcrous result is pre-
scented. However, there is one virtue about
the chignon-it is honest. There's no de-
ception, gentlemen. Even if the ladies
we're DESTROYS of trying to lead people to
suppose that the porters' knots on their
heads are composed of their own hair, it
would be useless. For the hairdressers,
anxious to advertise their wares have rem
dered that deception m impossibility.
Their shops are full of chignons. Plain
chignons; frizzed chignons; chignons woven
into pattern similar to the large basket
work used chiefly for waste paper baskets;
chignons with supplementary curls; CHG
mons with straight, himsy tresses pendant
long been familiar to the male observer. As
we look into our fashionable hairdresser's
moreover, we become aware Of long and
thick plaits of hair, of arrangements of
curls, and of similar devices. braids
and bands, to most astonishing
extent. And these hirsute receptions are
evidently not intended solely for elderly
ladies as were the fronts (hideous devicesD
of tho by-gone generation, but for ladies OF
nil ages It would seem as If real female
head Of hair were got to be found in these
times. The ''glory of a woman is her hair
we are told, but nothing is said about the
glory being attainable by the use of some
body else's hair. Men have their faults,
heaven knows, but in matters of this sort
they show little more sense than women.
It is fashionable to wear beard, and most
mems faces are improved by it, yet false
boards, chin-chignons so to speak have not
vet become popular. We are afraid, how
ever, to cry out too loudly against the CHG
non. Female taste is grewsome thing to
NEEDLE with, and it is very possible that
sudden change might be made, and we
might find ladies with their hair, whether
scanty or abundant, plastered tight down to
their heads So it was with crinoline. In
moderation, and in its earlier days, it was
graceful and convenient fashion. The con-
venient and graceful period very quickly
vanished. The era of iron hoops, Of horse
hair substances many inches thick, Of enor-
nous size and utter unmanageableness, set
these will be astonished to be assured, as
1lE NlillhIu OonucI pObAtAScAJ tSSuAcu lAIC
last meeting of the British medical asso-
citation at Leeds, that two Of the most fear
full diseases, cholera and typhoid fever, are
mainly if not exactly propagated by the
drinking OF contaminated water. No in
dividual can take too much care to keep
their drinking water free from impurity,
and it is OF the highest importance that
large communities should be supplied with
water uncontaminated by any refuse or
sewerage. At any rate, where this is not
done, there ought to be III end of the i'm
pertinence of ascribiEg diseases to the
'mysterious dispensation of Providence"
STALE BnEAD.-A curious discovery has
recently been made ut Pompeii. In q
house in course of excavation an oven was
found, closed with an iron door, on OPEN
ing which batch Of eighty one loaves, put
in nearly eighteen hundred years ago, and
now somewhat overdone, was discovered
and even one large iron shovel with which
they had been neatly laid in rows. The
loaves were but slightly overbaked by the
lava heat, having been protected by guam
tity Of ashes covering the door. There is
no bakers marks On the loaves; they are
circular about niue inches in diameter,
rather fiat, and indented (evidently with
the bakers elbow in the center, and are
slightly raised at the sides, and divided by
eight lines radiating from the center into
eight segments. They are now of deep
brown color, and hard, but very light. In
the same shop were found 561 brozen and
So silyen coins. A mill with great guam
tity of corn in excellent preservation, has
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