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Globe, Volume III, Issue 216, 17 February 1875, Page 3

In the course of the excavations at present going on for the purpose of draining the Teltow district near Berlin, and constructing a canal, an enormous quantity of amber was lately obtained, consisting of more than eighty separate masses, which have been sent to the Town Museum at Berlin, to be incorporated with the national local collections. A humorous writer has been dwelling on woman's walk. He is obviously a close observer. '' The changes in woman's gait are more mysterious than the transformation in her garments," says he. "One year she walks like a queen, stately and graceful; the next she frisks along painfully, like a spring lamb or a playful kitten. Now she bends forward, lets her limp hands drop from the wrists, and wriggles as if she wished to advertise the fact that her boots are tight—a thing which is totally unnecessary ; anon she throws her shoulders back, and goes bravely forward with long steps. The next change must almost inevitably tend to slow languishing movements. No other style of locomotion will be possible with the narrow skirts which are to be worn." That remains to be seen. Fashion is all-powerful.