The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-13
Height of the Human suecies.

NJ. -Silberman shows the average
height of the male and female popula-
tion of France, taken in a certain po-
sition which he names the "geometric"
is 1.6e004O meters, or two meters if in
the same position the hands are COM
fortably extended over the head. Two
individuals laid lengthWise with fingers
touching would thus measure four
meters, and this he terms the base of
the harmonic proportions of the human
race. Thus this harmonic base is four
times one meter, just as the meridian is
four times ten millions, and the rela-
ton of the two integers is as one to
10, ,O00, 900. From these considerations
he draws proof of the equality of the
sexes, as they exhibit woman not as a.
complement to the male portion of the
race, but as constituting normally and
by right half of the human family. NJ.
Silberman arrives at the conclusion, as
the result of his various investigations.
and studies, that the average height OF
the human race has remained unchanged
since the Chaldean epoch A, 000y years ago.
AMONG the recent physical problems
is that suggested by the fact that ball
or bar of solid iron will float upon
molten mass of the saEle metal To
account for this it has been argued that
iron,. like water, expands on solidifying.
and hence that solid iron is specifically
| lighter than when in q molten state,
and that, this being. the case, the iron
| floats just as ice does in water. Unfor-
| tunately for the acceptance of this
theory. it is stated by its opponents
and with good reason, that iron does
not expand as described, and hence is
not subject to the law that governs ice.
The second and apparently just theory
%n for tho nh iE thof
when a ball of solid iron IS brought IL
contact with the molten metal, it does
not sink, owing to a film of air adher
ing to it, which repels the molten iron
and prevents contact. This phenome-
non will be at once recognized as
kindred to that known as the spheroidal
state of liquids.
ABSURD MISUSE OF ENGL1sH.-A
writer to the New York EUeni72g Port
puts the following linguistic query /
should like to ask some one who knows
why the party of Irish gentlemen who
were engaged in shooting rife match
at Creedmoor, l.. l., last week, are
called the " Irish team" Webster
says: "Team-offspring, progeny,
race of descendants, anything following
in a row. order or team derived from
certain words meaning :" to bear, tC
team" I suppose these gentlemen may
possibly stand in a row." and their
shots may "follow in order" but Ger
tainly, for these reasons alone, 6 team 2
is very odd word to select out of ons
} rich language to express body of men
, associated for definite purpose.
MUCH DRINKING. Louis Time S
contains an announcement which reads
like some legend of the Rhine or story
of the Black Forest. At the wedding
of Herr Louis Grunsfelder and Fraulein
Louise Neibert, daughter of John Nei-
bert, the butcher on Chouteau avenue,
there were consumed 700 bottles OF
Forster Kiesbing and champagne. As
there could certainly not well have been
more than 100 guests present, if as
many, there would be, by this count,
seven bottles to each guest. Iago tells
us that '' Your Dane, your German, and
your sway -bellied Hollander-drink, no
ARE nothing to your English" This