THE DAIL1 EVENING TELEGRAPII PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1807. Tllti BOOK OF THE JIAND. A LEAF OF NOMADIC LORE. Kodern palmistry, as is well known, owes jsioet of its development to D'Arpentigny. This gentleman was a French captain, and, while serving in the Spanish wars, had his attention accidentally directed to the soienoe of ohirog toniy. One day sauntering along the roads of Andalusia, he was accosted by a gipsy, who asked his hand to draw a horoscope. The girl, Who was of Moorish blood, was rery beautiful, and, beRging him with much importunity, D'Arreutigny smilingly consented to submit kis hand to her investigation, lie listened to her crave recitnl of some wonderful prediction about the generosity of the hentenant; and, ontinning his way, he rellec ed on that form of divination by the lines of the hand, and on certain fantRblio terms which the Bohemian had nse d. Ue said to himself that although chi fomaucy, practised by Bohemians and iguoraut mountebanks, was.only aniunocentBiiperstition to procare a few pence, it waH not the less true that, in displaying their pretended soieuce, those same people repeat words handed down by their fathers, who have alo derived thetn from their ancestors. Amidst such empty Jargon, detailed by those people, the observer may pick up some expressions, apparently de rived from some dead language, whose meta phorical character alone preserves its exi.it nce. In his eager and prolonged research after some written knowledge of the soienoe, he ransacked the works of Avioeuna and Treti ehius, corroborated their opinions with the writings of Antiochus, Tibertus, and Taisiner; ke dived into I'lato and Aristotle, l'tolemy and Averroes; in short, he read everything lie ould get bearing on the subject, until, after completely muddling his brains with the opiuions and counter-opinions of others, lie judged rightly that all sxch theorizing would only be doubt and conjecture until the truth was established by observation, lie theu set Limselt to compare the bauds of every ouo with whom he was acquainted, remarking the most minute details of their conformation, and analyzing various aspects, until at last he built tip asystem based upon these researches. This work has been praised by Lamartine, Jules Janin, J. M. Dargaud, Barthelemy, and Others. The main principles and the data of this work have been translated and embodied in a look enti led "Modern Palmistry," first pub lished in London, and reissued in this country. The volume contains, also, outliues of the sys tem of Desbarrolles, together with a sketch of the science as it existed in aucient times, and as it is now practised among the gipsies. With a good deal that is purely fanciful and Absurd, the book combines a little that is sug gestive and of real scientillc valno. It would x absurd to suppose that a science which has been practised among men for some four thou sand years, is entirely without a foundation in truth. The volume, however, will prove prin ipally desirable as a means of whiling away an idle hour, and as a guide for those who wish to play at hand-reading and fortune telling. The modern science of chiromancy, as esta blished by D'Arpentigny, classifies hands in aeven orders the elementary, with a large palm; the necessary or epatule-shaped; the artistio or conical; the useful or square; the philosophical or knotted; the psychological r pointed; and the mixed hand. BIGKS OF TUB PALM. In the palm of the hand is placed the sign cf the bodily desire3, and, to a certain degree, that of thB intensity of the intellectual apti tudes' whioh these desires determine. Too Blim, narrow, and feeble, it indicates a weak and unsuggestive temperament; an imagina tion without warmth and power; instincts Without capacity. If it is pliant, of a suita ble thickness and surface that is to say, in harmony with the proportions of the lingers and thumb, there will be an aptitude for all the pleasures of life, and the feelings, easily excited, will give scope to the imagination. Should it present developments too marked, without ceasing to be pliant, egotism aui sensuality will be the dominant inclinations. Lastly, if its largeness is altogether out of proportion with the other parts of the haud if it joins to an excessive hardness an ex cessive thickness then it will indicate in stincts approaching to an unthinking ani malism. PIKOERS AKD THEIR SIGNS. Fingers are divided into three general orders: Epatulous, enlarging more or less at the point; square, with phalanges of uniform Size, neither enlarging nor tapering; and coni cal, more or less apexed. iuey are further Subdivided according a3 they are smooth or Lave knotted joints (knots such as the eye may readily and easily perceive, BrATCLODS FINUERS Loth indicate aptitude for bodily activity and manual occupation, useful and material know ledge, the love of horses, dogs, hunting, sail ing, war, agriculture, commerce. The smooth are distinguished fur inspiration rather than reason; fancy and sentiment rather than knowledge; synthesis rather than analysis. Intellectual taste belongs peculiarly to the knotted, and grace to the smooth. The smooth work by inspiration, pa?3ion, instinct, intui tion; the knotted by calculation, readon, deduc tion, and probabilities. t The hand with the smooth fiDgers will espe cially excel in the locomotive arts and the ap plied sciences, In which spontaneous dexterity and genius prevail over combination. The hands epatuled with knots indioate the practical mechanical sciences, as statics, dyna mics, navigation architecture. Thus Vauban, Mouge, Cainot, Cohorn, Arago, etc. THB 6QCABH FINOKKS Indicate, according as they are smooth or trv Li ?CV f0r 8rtttumar, logic, geome losoph?. 6 dI,artlQt of poetry 'and phi- rieaSS doe the theo- aciences, and Borne L.fl 7,nn nt k"6' e name of Aristotle Lsoi on ?Y7 tUe This type dazzles not by "brilliant 1 Tl loves literature for It owi "L'TI bat aooial science, etc. Descartes v, n'7! knotted fingers; Chapelle aad'ctaJiJ In France there are more square hands jpatuled; that is to say, more opleo ton u than of hand more brains organLd for the theory of science than men well suited o apply them. 11(11 10 THB ARTIST HAND, with smooth fingers, of which the nailed pha lwge presents the form of a cone, or a filbert olid ani ",8"P of the beautiful in antipathy j JBUUWOISUI. With. ru vuiuunujiu, fanaticism form, the nvt v.;V" " ou'Ucations 1 n j ,,) ' ir;L """ "as three different and moderately .Uveio, thumb, dutiful in torn.,,, A. arid hort, with a large thumb, It alms at ri hes, greatness, fortune the Napoleon hand; large and firm, it tends to sensual pleasures. All three forms obey inspiration, and are comparatively inapt for the meohanio arts. The first proceeds by enthusiasm, the seoond by stratagem, the last by the prompting of pleasure. A palm moderately large, with smooth lin gers, a feeble thumb, rather oonioal phaUnges that is, strong passions without sufficient moral restraint a mind wanting in pever to subjugate the senses, and based on a ground work of moderately iutcllectual ideas. Such is, in general, the character of the artist. THE' PHILOguPUIO HAND. The other variety of the conical has fingers knotted, with the nail phalanges partly square, partly conical. It indicates a genius turned towards speculative ideas, meditation, deep philosophical science, and close, inductive reasoning, a love of absolute truth, poetry of reason and thought. The two classes into which D'Arpentigny divides philosophers uie the sensualists and idealists. It is the old distinction as to ideas beiug received by the senses from without or within. Locke and ('oiidillao have the pha langed firgers of the sensualists, and Des cartes, Malebrauche, tu.d Leibnitz have the phalanges of the idealists. It is, however, only the haud of the rationalist and sensualist in its natural form that is dealt with, which has a palm moderately large and elastic, with knotty fingers, the end phalange partly square, partly conical, and forming, by leasou of the two knots, a kind ol ovoid spatule; the thumb large, and indicating as much logic as decision that is, formed of two phalanges of equal length, or ueiu ly so. The philosophy of useful and spatulated hands embraces facts, piaotical ideas, thiugs, politics; that of the couiial and pointed hands, creeds, speculative ideas, art; knotted hands, partly square, partly conical, are eclectic, and it is lor this leason that, they have received the name of philosophic hands. Very large, all these hands tend to analysis; verysmill, to synthesis. With a little tllumb, they think with the heart; w ith a large thumb, with tli bead. It is with churchmen as with philoso phers and artists. Thn knowledgo and direction of men belong to the northern types; of souls, to the southern. To the former belong science and learning; to the latter, faith. The one has more love, the other more authority. The ppatules think of the world and the church; the conies, of heaven and God. THE PsyciIICAIi HAND. This last hand has smooth fingers termi nating in a tapering cone. To it belongs con templation, religiousness, ideality, careless ness of mateiial iiiteiehts, poetry of the soul and of the heart, a cb sire after all kinds of beauty in form and in essence. Thus, to the square and epatuled lingers God has given matter and reality that is to say, industry, the necessary and usetul arts, the theory of things, the knowledge of facts, the high sci ences; to the conical and pointed fingers, lie has opened the illimitable field of imagination; to the conical, in giving them an insight into the externally beautitul art; to the pointed fingers, intuition of the true aud the beautiful internally poetry, and idealistic philosophy. This is, of all others, the most beautiful and tho most rare; for rarity is a condition of beauty. It is small and line, relatively to the pefFtm; medium palm, the lingers without knots, or very moderately undulated, the outer phalange long and filberted, the thumb small and elegant; large, and with knots, it ha3 btrength and combination, but it wants simplicity. You have seen the world given up to spa tuled bauds, progress, industry, war, tumult, cultivation ol power an t material interests. You have seen it committed to the artistio hands, producing romantic enterprise, impru dence, brilliant folly, spleudid misery, ami fanaticism of form. You have seen it given up to the square phalanges, fanaticism of me thod, narrow and universal despotism. You have seen it given unto the philosophic hands, tho fanaticism of science, doubt, emotion, aud liberty, w ilhout standing point. Alono hitherto in Europe, tho psychical hands have not been able to arrive at dominion; perhaps have ever disdained, in the high sphere where their genius dwells, the material interests. The psychical hands are immensely nume rous in southern Asia; hence the genius essen tially religious, contemplative, and poetical of the nations that dwell there; hence their re spect for maxims, and their disdain 'for methods; hence the preference they give to virtue, the sourca of repose to science, the source of progress; hence the languishing con dition of the arts, professions, aud agriculture; hence theocratio and despotio governments, foims necessary for a people to whom reason and action are painful. It is in dreamy Asia, the land of immense empires, whence have arisen all great religions; and it is in restless, laborious Europe, couutrjr of small republics, whence have arisen all the philosophers that have looked those religions iu the face, and have told them of their deeds. In Europe the temple rises out of society, in Asia, society rises out of the temple. HAKDS FOR MUSICIANS. If there is any one art more than another, a genius for which might be inferred from the make of the hand, it is evidently that of the musician. A brilliant player must have a hand adapted to his art. A man with short, pudgy fingers, however much he may have the soul of music within him, must forever remain the "mute inglorious." A rigid attention to measure being the necessary condition of musi cal rhythm, it is among the square fingers that are found tho most correct and skilled musiciaus. Instrumentation belongs especially to the epatuled lingers, and song to the pointed. The hand of the eminent pianist, Liszt, being very large, it is by finish; his fingers very knotty, it is by precision; his phalanges very spatuled, it is by power, that he raises the admiration of Lis audience. His hand is not only that of an instru mentalist, it is also that of a mathematician, of a mechanician, and extension that of a metaphysician that is 4o say, of a man more relloctive than inipulciro, more skilful than impassioned, more head than heart. THE THUMB. "In want of other proofs," said Nowton, "the thumb would conv ince me of the exist ence of a God; as without the thumb the hand would be a defective aud incomplete intitiuuient, so without the moral will, logiu, decision, faculties of wl.ioh the thumb iu dif ferent degrees oilers the different sigu3, the niet.t fertile and the mo.-.t brilliant mind would only be a gilt without worth." In common with animals, we have aa instinctive will, au instinctive logic, and an instinctive decision; but the thumb, alone represents the reasoning will, reasoning logic, and reasoning decision. The superior animal is iu the hand, the man is in the thumb. Tho thumb of apes, very little flexible, and, therefore, opposable, is looked upou by some naturalists as a mova ble talon; while, tu the contrary, the human thumb is placed aud organized so as to be able to act alwayB in a senua against the other fingers, it, therefore, syiuboluea, as I have said, the inner or moral eenne tuM we oppose i to our inclinations, and to the aUuremenU of f nr instinct and senses. Proofs of this abound. Horn idiots come into the world without thumbs, or with them powerless and Inert, which is natural, lecause where the substanoe is absent the symbol must fail. Until they arrive at a time when a ray of Intellect comes to their aid, they constantly keep their hands shut wl;h the Jinyers above the thumb, but In firoportion as the mind develops with the iody, the thumb in its turn thuts over the Jingrrs. The epileptio in their fits shut the thumb belore the- lingers, which signifies that that malady,which is experienced before being felt, reacheB the principle by which we think be fore that by which we feel. At the approach of the great darkness, the thumb of the dying, as taken with some vague fear, takes refuge under the fingers, which announces the near end. Man alone, because he has a thumlt that is to say, rea sonknows death. At the root of the thumb sits the sign of the reasoning will, the inten sity of which yon will measure by the length Ktid thickness of that root thn mount of Venus of chiromancy. In the first phalange is the sign of logic that is to say, of percep tion, ot judgment, of reason; and in the seenrd is that of invention, decision, and tho iiiitiative. l'eople with small thumbs are governed by the heart, source of tolerance, and breathe more freely in an atmosphere of sentiment than in that of thought, and see better with the ye of the moment than with that of re flection, l'eople with large thumbs are gov erned by the head, source of exolusiveness; they breathe more freely iu au atmosphere of thought than in that of sentiment; they see better with the eye of reflection than with that of the moment. f-ouvaruff, celebrated for the strength of. his will; Danton, that magnanimous soul, who took upon him the disgrace of a crime to save his country; Galileo, Socrates, .Newton, Leib nitz, Saint Simon, Fourier, Owen those pro found reasoners, those bold innovators had infallibly very small thumbs. 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HELWEG, NO. 539 ARCH STREET, 9 28smwSm One door below Sixth. gOOTS AND SHOES Ar REDUCED PRICES. FALL AND WINTER STYLES OF FIRST-CLASS WORK on hand and made to measure. The best material used lu all our work, BOYS' BOOTS AND SHOES, Of the boat quality, always on hand. DARTLETT, NO. KOUTIi KIXTII KTUKKT, unirp ABOVE CHE3NCT. PAPER HANGINGS, ETC. p A P E R HANGINGS. NEW LKTARLIMIOIEMT. E. CORNER or TENTH AND WALNUT. J. O. FINN & SONS Have opened with an extensive assortment of DECO RATIVE and PLAIN WALL PAPERS, embracing every quality to suit all tastee. gm TDIUVY WELLS OWNERS OK rKOPEHTY X '1 he only place to get Privy Wells cleaned and iolultcted at very low prices, PKYHON Mannffccturer of Pomlrette, O0i OOUJEMITJIi'tl H ' ' ' ""tAMYMts. INSURANCE COMPANIES. 1829-CHAKTKli PEItrETUAfi Franklin Fire Insurance Co. OF PHILADELPHIA. OFFICE: WOS. S5 AMD 47 ClIEMNUT STUKET. ASSETS ON JANUART 1, 187. M,S3s,ite-ia. Tjap I tal ... ......... M.., Accrued burpius.. Premiums , ..........ftnoooo-or) e eeaMsti .&M,41B'UI DNSETTLED CLAIMS, 27,iil 18, 1NCOMK Fob igg. LO.SI PAID SINCE IH OVER 9S.5OO.OV0. Perpetual and Temporary Policies on Liberal Terms. CIREd'ORf. Charlos N. Bancker, George Falee, , i oih w agtier, Suiuiiel (irunt, Heorge W, Richards, a nrt-a mer, Francis W, Iewls, M. D.. Pnter Mc-Cah, l'h,,n,u Mi..i-i. riTAIlt.llH N UAM..LT1.'U . a r -V 'AL1-, VIce-PreHlderiU J. W. McALI.Iw'l H.K K,H!rtnry pro lem. a 1 112 1 3K00KLYN LIFE INSURANCE OF NEW YORK, MUTUAL. ' POLICIES NONFORFEITABLE. Thirty days graco given In payment ot Frenulums. No extra " charge for residence: or travel In any portion of the world. Dividends declared asnually, and paid In caah. Dividend In 1167, 40 per cent. 1COLTOH & S1TELDEN, GENERAL AGENTS, N. E. CORNER SEVENTH AND CIIESNUT. Agents and Solicitors wanted In all the cities and towns In Pennsylvania and southern New Jer sey an PKOVIDEAT LIKE AND TKUST COMPANY. OF PHILADELPHIA, No. Ill H. OUHl H wtreet. INCORPORATED J MONTH '22, 18. CAPITAL, siai.(jO, PA1U IN. Inpurauce on LlveN, by Yearly Premiums: or by 5. Hi, or to year PreniiuniH, Mon-lorleUure. Adi ullin erauted on favorabln prnm. Term PoiicieH, Children's Endowments. Tblb CoUIOallV. WhllA utvlll. tllA inltnrvtl thA.ten.lr. Ot a paid-up Capital, will divide the xmira nroliu. 1,1 the Li'e businmg anioni? Its policy holders. Moneys r. eel veil at Inttreal. aud until on damand. Authorized by charter to execute i'rusM, and to act as Executor or Administrator. AislKnee, or Uuardian. and in other fiduciary capacities, iiuuer appoiutmeut of any Court of ibis Commonwealth, or any person Ot persons or bodies polltlo or corporate. PAMTJEL P. BniPLhY, JJI HKCTORH. HJtNRY nAINE?, T. WISTAK BROVVN, W. C. LONU4TUETH, WILLIAM HACKER, RICH AUD WOOD, RICHARD CADBURY. CHAKLE3 F HAA1UEL It. bUIt'L Y, ' .ur nr.. ROWLAND PARRY, irpNldeiit. AtiiApir WITLIAM C. LONUSTKEriJ, Vice-President. Ih (MA(j WISTAR M D., J. B. TOWNSEND, 7 Medical Examiner. Leijal Adviser. INSURANCE COMPANY or NOltTII AMICItlOA. OFFICE, No. 2o2 WALNUT PUILADELPHIA. INCORPORATED 17M. CHARTER PERPETUAL. CAPITAL, "500,000, ASNIITN JANUARY 8,1S7 .-l,783,a07'8 INSCHKS MARINE, INLAND TRANSPOR. TATION AND FIRE DIREC10RS. Asthnr G. Collin, Ueorge L. Ilarrlson. bauiuel W. Junes, John A Brown, Charles Taylor, Ambrone While, Richard D. Wood, William Welfch, H. Aiorris Walu, fraucls R. (Jonn. Kdward H. Trotter, Edward a Clarke, William Cummlngs, I Cliarium Henry, Allreil D. JeHsup. lohn P. While, juan ju.aaon, ARTHUR O. t:oRH,V. Prl.lunt L.iuh (J. Madeira. CHAnLKS Platt, hecrelury. WILLIAM BUEULER, ilurrlsburg, Pa Centra Airentfor tbehtaieol Penny ivania, 12if QIItAHD FIRE AND MARINE INSUItANOtt COMPANY. (No. 039) N. E. COR. C1IESKDT 2IND BEVEWTH STS. FBILADBLTBXA. CAPITAL AND MI RPLUM OVER ttOOOtl INCOME tOR ISOe, 103,S4. Losses Paid an -1 Accrued In IBM, f 17.000 Of which amount net )oU remain nnpnld at title data (HKi.lMMMj of properly has been successlully IrmnreJ by this Company in thirteen years, and Eight JUoji died Ldsbos by lire promptly paid. DIRECTORS. Thnmaj. Craven. Htias rerkes. Jr., All red H. Uillett, N. B Lawrence, Charles I. Dupont, Henry f . Kennev. Furmau Bheppard. Thomas MucKellar, John bupplee, John W. v laghora, Joseph ailu. M. D. THOMAH CRAVEN'. PrAaldnti A. B. GILLETT, Vlce-PrealdenU I afrnw JAM EM B. ALVORD, Secretary) PIKEMX INSURANCE COMfAHy; OP 'fill. LADELfHIA. I INCORPORATED 18(H-CUARTER PERPETUAL.! a- u, 11 mreei, oppui( lue .XCUailge. In uddltlon to W A KINK aud INLAND 1NUR ANCK, tills Company lnaures from loss or damage bf EIRE for liberal terms on buliulutrs, merchandise lurniture, etc., for limited periods, and uwrmaneutlr on buildlnijH by depoii ol premium. The Company baa been lu active operation for more than 81X1 V YEARS, during which ail 'ossus have been promptly adjusted aud paid, PUiKCTOKH. John L. Ifodfte, 1 Lawrence LewlA, Jr., W. B. Mahooy, David Lewis. j, 11 11 1. i.e ih, William H. tiraut, Robert W. Learning, I. Clark Wharlou, bamuel Wilcox. Benjamin Elilng, l lHiiuiis H. Powers, A. R. McUenry, Kdmuod Casllllon, i.uum y;t noma. joiijn w uctlEREit, i'rejldout. Bam :!. Wn.cox, tSecrelary. "nlRK lNhUKANCE tACLCSlVELY. TH8 JJ PENNSYLVANIA FIRE INSURANCE COM.. PA NY Incorporated 18to Charter Perpetual No. HO WA LN LIT Street, opposlle ludependuce Square, This Company, lavorauly known to the community for over forty years, continues to lnmire atialnst lose or damage by hre on Public or Private Buildings, either permanently or for a limited time. Also, oil ' Furniture, btocltsof Goods, aud Merchandise gene rally, on liberal terms. 1 heir Capital, together with a large Hnrplos Pa net, s Invented lu the mont careful manner, which enable tbemi o otter to the lunured an undoubted Security lu the case of loss. Daniel Smith, Jr.. Joha Devereu, Thomas hmiili. Alexander Benton, Thomas Bobbins, I J. Ullllngliuui PelL Daulol Haddock. Jr. hANIlLtMlTH, Ja President William Q. Crqwki.l. secretary. g, lxaHi-Jiai'.leliUrMi. j 1 1 1 1 y ijewis, COAL. BJIIDI'LFTON & CO., DEALERS IS . HARLEIOH LKUKJH and EauLK VEIN COAL. Kept dry under cover. Prei.are.1 exorexi fi.r family axe. Yard, No. 1226 WAajbuKuTOM Avenue. OfHo. No. M4WALNUT8lr t sl "VI7ILLIAM STILL'S COAL DEPOT. Nog v Y ii JOt MUU 1a,JU W AttllN'lJ'lflKl Aw. The beHI qualities of Coal, for domaaihwli m. Avem,a fuinlBbed to any pait of the ei. v el,tl 0r "" J . 11 A dill tSl GARDNER & FLEMING, OOAOII MAK1SH8. O. 14 SOUTH riFTII BtTUEKT. New and Beoond-hand Carrlagesror sale. Par HculMr attention palU to repairing w
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