Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1894 — HISTORICAL. [ARTICLE]

HISTORICAL.

Ambition is the mind’s immodesty. Lay figures for fitting on ladies’ dresses were invented in France about 1390. Greek ladies had steel and brass mirt-ors, parasols, fans and smelling bottles Corsets have been found on the mummies of Egpytian princesses of the royal family. In 1516 Francis I. gave to his queen the equivalent of $16,000 in our money to buy a hat. Wire hairpins wore invented in En gland in 1545. Before that time the female coiffures were held in place byline wooden skewers. The postage stamp is nqt much more than a half a century old. On the tith i of May, 1894, it celebrated its fiftyfourth anniversary. The longest train on record was that of Catherine de Medici on the occasion of her marriage. It was forty-eight yards and borne by ten pai -s of pages. It is now well known that, flounders and other flat fishes, whose eyes are on the left side of the head, and which swim on one side, are, when young, perfectly symmetrical, like other fishes.