The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-05-21

xSACak4 ~ IL OEEN In hEhlCAs-W we IulSut
hayc thought il absurd if DR., Living
stosae had written, khroe years ago, that
he had found in Africa tribe. sthe wo-
men of which dress as follows: .The
DayouB are beautiful women, with ex-
they dress in the most perfect taste.
They wear short dresses, reaching the
ankles. Upon the forehead is perched q
small hat, the front OF which rests upon
the nose. They take large bags of hair
and wool, saturate them with butter and
hang them on the back of the head,
covering the neck. Upon the small of
the back they. tie bunch of cotton
cloth, colored and cut into strips. Thoir
shoes are beauties, coming to q point at
the toe and having the long and sharp
pointed heel placed under the middle of
the foot. This makes the foot very small
in appearance, but the wearer would tin
over forward but for the bags on the
head and back. Each woman, when she
goes out, carries large plantain leaf to
keep off the sun, which she holds by the
stem between the thumb aud fore-fnger,
crooking her elbow up from her body at
an angle of ninety. The effect is more
beautiful than you can imagine. The
gait of the women is particularly ad-
mired. The heavy ones have difficulty
in keeping their balance, but the light
ones pick their way along as prettily as
hens walk over hot ashes. Young girls
go barefooted. For some years after
they are of age to put on their shoes,
they suffer with lameness and sore feet
after that their feet become perma-
nently deformed, and they have no more
pain. Walking is, however, not u favorite
practice with them, and running is i'm
possible. The Government of the Da-
you's is really democratic, the ruler being
chosen annually by vote of all the peo-
pie; yet it is said the women do not want
to vote. All they care for is plenty ol
hair and little shoes The men arc sat.
isfied with this division, and the State is
quito prosperous, though tho society is
rather vulgar and unintollectual.
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Discovery OF THE ORIGINAL DocU.
MENTs FOR THE Books OF GENESIS. Mr..
Charles Wexford, in his last London let.
ter to the Book Buyer, published in New
York, by Scribner, Wexford 6 Co., gives
on account of the remarkable announce
ment just made by Sir Henry Rawlinson
before the Asiatio Society. It is not
merely that this eminent Oriental scholar
claims to have discovered the original
records from which the book of Genesis
was composed, but he illustrates his po
sition by details of the most striking
kind. He himself said:
''The progress now reached in the col
lection and arrangement of the Ninevel
inscribed fragments, made it beyond c
doubt that they would be able to derive
the whole of the history given in the
book of Genesis, from tho time of Abra
ham, from the original documents; anc
it was not too much to expect that almost
the same facts and descriptions would bt
found in the Bible. He hoped very soo1
to have ready n paper Oh the Garden O.
Eden, paradise, in which he would show
that was the natural name of Babylon
The river bore the same name, and thu
Babylonian documents gave an exac
geographical account of the Garden o
Eden. The flood and tho Tower of Ba
bel would be found to be most amply il
lustrated in Babylonian documents"
New SYSTEM OF TE1EGRAn-MoNE,
ORDERS. the Albany Ecenin,
Journal, of the 10Th instant, we get tn,
following:
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pnny has, we notice, inaugurated a sys