The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-10-27

Shaking carpet is feature Of
house cleaning which thoroughly
enlists the attention of the man OF
the house. It Is done after dinner.
The reason the woman selects this
g time is because he is dressed, and
has to go back to business again
without a chance to change his
clothes. He cirries the carpet ont
doors. It is not rolled up; it is in
a wad shape, and he gathers it up
in his arms and starts for the door,
with one end of the carpet drag
ging between his feet. He scorns
to stop and roll it up. He has got
his arms full. It presses into his
bosom and leaves riffs of sand and
grit on his shirt front; it bulges
into his face-hot and dusty-and
fills his mouth, and nose, and eyes;
then the long end gets under one
foot as he is going down the back
stoop, and the other foot mounts up
the breadth, and he stunbles but
catches himself, and prevents fall
ing to the ground on his face by
deliberately yet blindly jumping off
the stoop. He finally gets the car
pet on the line. IT is very warn,.
There is breeze from the west
He steps on the west side of the
carpet and hits it Lick with stick.
Instantly the wind turns sharp
around to the east side and he hits
it another lick. The wind wears
around to the west simultaneously,
and he is plunged into q saeezing
fit which seriously threatens to dis
locate his neck. Then he pauses
and looks around uneasily. He
sees that carpet has the same eff
feet on the wind Is a sieve full of
coal ashes, and he doesn't under
stand is He gets clothes pole
amt stands aroand it at the north
end, and hits the carpet o terrible
rap The wind promptly sails
ABOUND to the southwark and catch
es him full in the face with a, pint
OF dust before she pole has fairly
left she carpet He doesn stop to
reason now. He would be jacks
ass if he did He grasps the pole
with al his might and madly smash
es it against the carpet, and dances
around the Line, and coughs, and
sneezes, and swears After that it
is pulled down, and The hired girl,
with the strength Of an or, takes
hold of an end nth him, and they
proceed to shake it. His hands are
in blisters across the palms, and his
fingers, aching with the grasp on
the pole, can seem TO fad no hold
on the wool and warp. At every
other shake shey glide of, starting
the nails and causing ms arms to
Jingle clear to the elbows. And
every time he picks up that carpet
he does, il with renewed energy and
a weaker backbone. The most we
can hope for man in this position
is sl,at Ire is not a deacon of
church, and hired girl member
of it.
A Paris correspondent of The
London Daily Telegraph writes to
that iuornal: 'A[. Edouard La
president of she Franco
Union, requests the press
to notify that he will receive sub
scriptions for q statue in bronze re
pousse, about sixty five feet high.
which shall represents Liberty en-
the World" This
statue is to be placed upon an
island in the harbor of New York,
itself upon space, framed
on the horizon by the great Ameri-
can cities of New York, Jersey, and
Ga the Threshold of
this vast continent, full of new life,
where come all the ships of the
universe, it viii arise from the bo-
som of the waves. At night, a
aureole, emanating from
its brow, Will spresd far over the
immense ocean, There rs 3 great
deal more of this sort. It is very
seriously believed by French PEG
pie that they made the United
Statas;' that onr American broth
ers accept this as an eternal truth,
and are as grateful now as ever.
The affair of the statue at New York
is somehow mixed up with the Ex-
hibition at Philadelphia don't
In what way, but that
problem will doubtless unfold it.
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