The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1867-08-15
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AHu ASSAhCI sicppcu up 8HUWaS
measured wiLh.follerin result.
Height 5 feet 8 inches.
Weight $50 lbs.
Length Nv hand u inches.
Breadth NV hand 81 inches.
Length Nv foot II in, hes.
Brendth NV foot inches
.Projeckshun nv heel IL inches.
Length NV forearm 10 inches
Length nv bone from ankle
to knee 15inches.
Capassity Nv skull ~ cubic
inches.
Pollock wux delited! "Here sed
he, ssit is in a nut shell. Issaker hez
a shorted hand, q more narrer hand
s shorter and narrerer foot, and his
heel projecks less than the nigger's
by two and one half inches! Good
Lord, How / hev bin deserved!
What errers I hcv bin mnssin! How
kin 4 human bein bev intellcck,
whose heels projcckt four inches?
How rejoict am I at last set rite on
these important pints!'
/ smiled bcnignantly onto him.
Bigler riz. 81 too," sed he, "am
satisfied that the niger is wat we,
who wuz disposed to consider him fit
to exercise rites, supposed him to be.
[ held firm when the measurement
nv his handsand arms wuz bein made,
but the heel staggered me. Its clear
thatno one kin hev ihtclleck whose
leg isn't set in his foot better than
that. shell persoo this investiga
ton. Hevin now a startin pint--a
heel, ez | may say, to stand ONT
shell 60 on to prove the infcriority
Nv the niger. With that heel for .
-falerum, I ehci, with tire lover NV
trooth, proceed to upset the fabric
Nv Niger ekality and carry confoo-
shcn into Boston. i shell assoom
that Napoleon issa average specimen
Nv the lower or unintclectooal Afri-
ken type. Is it so?'
1T isl it ISL yelled wo all, dclited
at the happy turn the the thing wuz
takin.
Il shell also assoo.n that Issaker
Gavitt is avcrag nv the higher or
intellectual Caucashen type. lsit ~
e ertinly! certinly!" 49, -
Every web. Now quake, Massa--
choosets. Napoleon kin you read!
Isaw the trap into which he he'd
fallen, and risin hastily protested that
the examinashen he'd bin carried far
cnuff, and so did Deekin Pogram, but
Bigler swore he wuz agoin to kiver
Massachusetts with shame, and got
down paralyzed.
ssKin 700 read, Napoleon
Eyes, sah!" s
"Read this. then. "sed Bigler, hand
in him q noospaper,
The niger read ez pecrt ez q Moo
England skool marin, witch we'll he
miic, ez he learned it from one NV
EN-.
ssKin 700. writer"
.Certinly, !" and takin pencil he
writ half Nv the Declarashen Nv In
dependence.
s.Set down Napoleon. It's q devil
ish pity yoor he Is are solong, other
wise yood % creui.eu Win ievin IN
tellek. NOW, lssaker, my Dolu eau
casnen, KIN oa readf .
= protest, snrlekeo |, ln agony.
"lssaker' don,t answer tne skoHer ~
e'nnologyi u:
nuI lssaKer, g wni,e g sn n
anu- s,smol'ug unaer tne eye Nv pig
icr, Nno KnoWea MN from NANCY
SUFFERED out = !,
Mn yon rite, my gay descendant
~ t rs soorerlQr racer
R;.la.,s ave u nne .anooT've "
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;s,s LII Il, wr;.. parson ~ Iss.i..,. sh as
vote ana ia n;rocr sham Read; All,
and writin never wig I oualificashen
for vnf;n down here anu wav Pos.