Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1877 — A Fantastic Winter Costume. [ARTICLE]

A Fantastic Winter Costume.

An acquaintance writes to the editor of, Tiik Union from Panama, United States of Colombia, under date of August Ist; 1877: “Our steasior got in here' day beb>re yee'.e;day; and after a' tiresome day in town we ate ntrw looting la cool spots. ‘ AVn ore anchored ; in « lovely basin, with jicaiu min'd hills all round us. It scents as '(tough we bad dropped out Of the lhlU, century*- no news, no politics, ltris ghe wi#"«i" season now, but a look ahihenatives would scHrcefy convince yon ,oT flm tent* round the waist is their diets chiefly,,uqUv their toilet is unusually elaborate, when they add « bead on a,stiitlg round the heck.” ;