Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 29, October 15, 1870 by Various
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"Forehead, large and imposing; that is, it might impose on people who don't know you. "Your intellect may be pronounced massive, dropsical, in fact. You have brilliant talents, but your bump of cash payments is remarkably small. "Locality, 20 to 30. You are always somewhere, or just going there. Eventuality, 18 carat fine; absorption, 99 per cent. This means you will eventually absorb a good deal of borrowed money. "I find here acquisitiveness and secretiveness enough to stock an entire Board of Aldermen and a Congressional Committee." "Ambition, combativeness, and destructiveness are all on a colossal scale. Happily they are balanced by gigantic caution, else you would be in imminent danger of subverting the liberties of your country. "If I owned that sanguine temperament of yours, I should proceed at once to marry into President GRANT'S family, and take some foreign mission. "You're a good feeder. Alimentiveness and order well developed. No man better fitted to order a waiter around. From the immature condition of your organ of benevolence, I shouldn't care, however, to be the waiter. "Self esteem doesn't seem to have been kept back by the drought. "Ideality, I discover from the depression in the S. W. corner, is missing. Nature beautifully compensates this loss by making language very full--more words than ideas. In profane language, I dare say, now, |
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