Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-06-20
Poiats Ind almistry.

b! POlaO nhHalmistry.
IT 6s besz found by experience that
thieves gessfal thing, have thick,
short hands /; while large, long hand
is q sign OF liberal temperament, or
of q shrewd mind associated with .
generous heart. A long hand, which
has thick fingers, is. generally asso-
ciatad with 4 phlegnatic temperament.
The owners of such hands are gener.
ally smart but lazy men who love their
ease. A hand with separated fingers, q
hand in which sthe fingers sprawl, is
generally associated, With !shiftlessness
and laziness. This is the beggar's
fhand. A hand whose fingers, on tho
contrary, stick-together, are compact
aud close, is Indicative Of a fckle and
suspicious disposition. A hand the
fingers of which turn backwards indi-
Gates an unjust disposition. A hand
with very short and. very thick. fingers
is generally associated with cruelty. A
hand with long and struggling fingers
generally marks an impostor or adven-
turer. A hand with fingers which are
smooth ami transparent is often accom-,
panied with indiscreet curiosity IN the
part Of Its owner. While the hands Of
jugglers, like the hands OF tho higher
order Of apes, possess spatnlated fingers
- that is. fingers which, like the ,spat-,
ula used by chemists, are fiat, but
bulge around at the ends.
Hands, as far as their shape and ex-
preston is concerned, are divi led by
those who have studied the subject into
seven more or less distinct classes.
There is the hand with large palm, the
hand with conical fingers, the square
baud, the knOtted hand, the pointed
hand, the hand with spatulsted fingers,
and the hand which partakes of mix
ture of two or more of these character
istics. 49, ' ~
1t has been found that practical men
of science like Faradsy, Arago aud
Stillman, possess knotted hands with
spntuAseed~ 6asess. sWhila. ths hand Of
the great musician apd pianist, Liszt,
for Instance, has large palm, . With
knotty and spatula. shaped fingers.
/ Artists generally have conical hands.
Byron had pointed hand. Longfeliow,
has hands with cOnical fingers. Victor
Hugo shand and fingers are of,the cone
variety. The late George Sand had 4
Lsmartine's hands, had long, conical
fingers. The square-shaped hand is
generally the hard working, the useful
hand The knottsd hand 10 supposed
to be peculiarly the hand Of philosor
pliers. While the pointed hand Is pre-
sumed to bo more particularly the
property Of luxury. Q delicat'. tsmpera-
ment, poets, dreamers, and that iIk.
Swetl+nborg had = pointed hsnd.Gob
Decided, reckless writer's like, Vol.
taire, and decided, varlike monarchs
like Frederick the, Great, had tbig
thumbs: whereas, tickle, irres0lute men
ike the unfortunate Louis XVII. OF
France, and ,doubters' Of Everything
an every body, even themselves Like
No ,tague Vans, had very small thumbs.
The Irish RAGS Is marked by 1.-THE
cone,shsped hand. while the English
nation displays the spatuled or hst and
round-tipped fingers. The predOnni.
mating ~ pc in the universal aud eter-
lnsl Yankee nation 10 the square Or
working hand The Italians and Span
iArds generally possess hands more or
less copical. The Chinese are en-
tphsticaliy asquars.hsnded people. The
minority of Axiatics possess conicM
hands. IN;
Most artists, sculptors and painters
pOssess cone shaped hands. These
oon,oal hands may be Of three varieties.
First, phant, with small thumbs; this
kind cnaracterizes the poetic dreamer.
second, . broa.t, short and thick nand,
with n large thumb this sort signifies
d restless, ambitious temperament. -
Not the size, but the shape Of the
hand il the accompaniment OF good
blood. 49, 80 -'.''-'' '-ia -
Few women have. knotted or philo-
sopnical hands. and still fewer have the
pointed type.
Women with large thumbs are held
by phrsnulugists, physiOgnOmists. ETC.,
to be more than ordinary Intelligent
what are called 3" sensible Women
while women with small thumbs are
regarded AZ romantic"
Women with SO uure hands and small
thumbs are said TO mako good house.
wives and gentle wives. These sort OF
women will make any man happy who
il fortunate enough to win tLems but
they are what 10 bettcr-thuroughly
domestic. Women with very large
thumbs have u :. temper of theirfown
and generally long tongue. ,arf.ao9
"A TOUCHING LOVE SroRY.--I, along
with several others, yesterday, observed
a swallow enter an exhaust pipe In the
roof of one Of the Grand Trunk work.
shops, evidently for the purpose OF
building her nest in it. Unfortunately
for her. she could notge out again, anl;
her partner entered the pipe also and
backed out again with feather in his
fbeak. Three times did he Intellectually
Attempt TO rescue his mate. When
work was resumed at P. NJ, the s"al-
los was blown out of the pipe 10y the
force of steam and lay dead on the ROOT
9f tue building. the survivor standing
ny showing signs Of intense Distress
1lontreal W,tness. = i-.I . 2tJi.
r. TO USE tP C'ID Fown.-Take the
ren.ai"s Of u cold fowl chopped tine;
cYver the bottom. of q pudding dish
1Nwitli ffte" bTeitd thumbs Il put IN the
. chicken ,ixeasensd wlthpeppsr and salt
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