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MAN NOT DEcENERATlNc!

There never was delusion with less evi
dencc for it. except n permanent impression
among mankind, which is often the result,
not Of accumulated experience, but Of an
eyer-renewng discomfort with the actual
state of things. Their. is not the slightest
evidence anywhere that man was ever big
ger, stronger, swiffer, or more enduring,
under the same conditions Of climate than he
is now.
As,o bigness, the evidence is positive.
Modern Egyptians are as big as the mum
mics who were conquerors in their day.
and modern Englishmen are bigger. There
are not in existence thousand coats of ar
NOR which an English regiment could put
on. Very few moderns can use ancient
sw ords, because the hits are too small for
their hands. Endless. wealth and skill
were expended in picking glaiiasors, and
there is no evidence that q man among them
was ~ big or as strong as Shaw. No skele-
ton, no statue, no picture, indicates that
men in general, we're ever bigger. The
Jews Of to-day are IS large as they were IN
Egypt, or larger. The people Of the Ro-
magma hare all The bearing and more than
the size Of the Roman soldiery. No feat il
RECORDED rs usual with Greek athlets which
1 English acrobats codld not perform now.
There is no naked savage tribe which
naked Corniehmen or Yorkshiremen could
mot sirangle. No race exists Of which Z
thousand men. similarly armed. would de-
feat an English, or German, or Russian reg
iment of equal numbers. Nothing il rec
orded Of our forefaihers here in Ehglans
which Eeglishmen could not do, unless it b
some feats Of archery which were the re
suit Of long training Of the eye continued
for generations. The most civilized an
luxurious family that existed the Europeal
royal este, is physically as big, - healthy
and ~ powerful rs any people Of whom v
have any account that science can accept
Theirs, Freedman is c2sar's Gaul in =
! bodily conditions, and with m increase
power Of keeping alive, which may be pari
ily owing TO improved conditions Of living
but is probably owing still more TO devel
oped vitality There i 10 evidence TIL
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-10-11
AN ERA IN cLAsS-MAKINc.

NJ, de In Bastie's invention marks q dis
tinct era in the history of one of our most
important industries. Never during the
history Of glass manufacture, which ex-
tends over some $500 years; has any radi-
cal change been effected in its character.
The glass blowers of Egypt, who practised
their art before the exoous of the children
OF Isreal, and representations of whom
have been found on monuments as ancient
as that EVENT. produced a similar glass TO
that Of our. Aown times. This ha, been
proved byan examination of glass orna-
ments which have been discovered in tombs
as ancient ds the days Of Moses. 1t has
been proved, too, by large bead of glass,
found at hehes, upon which was inscribed
the name of monarch who lived 1900
years B. c., and which glass was of the
sauhe specific gravity as our own crown
glass 1t is true Pliny mentions that n
Combination was devised in the reign Of
|1iberius, which produced flexible glass;
but both the inventor and apparatus were
destroyed, in order, il is said, TO prevent
the value Of copper. silver, and gold. from
becoming deprecated. There is. however.
no evidence whatever that this was the
ioughening process Of De la Bastie, nor
does the record in any way detract from
The merits Of that gentleman rs the inven
tor Of an important economic process
1.-THE fact remains that the world has now
given o il for the first time, in practical
| form, an invention by which..the briitlcness
Of glass is. superseded by an attribute Of
the most valuable naiure-,oughncss. 1t il
By no means improbable that the old adage
..as brittle as glass; will soon be super
seeded by new one-'.as tough as glass. =
p. F. NURSERY, in Popular Scienee Month,
for September.
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oNE.s,DED pEvELoPMEMT.

In an article entitled ..Lop- sided Gener-
ations.s' published in the J3uSnai Of i Ina
tony and Psychology. DR.. Hollis points ont
the existence of the habit Of using the
right hand in preference 10 the left among
those peoples whose monuments date from
the rcmotest antiquity. What is the rea-
son of this almost universal fact. The au-
thor turns TO the anatomical mechanism Of
the human body for an answer i y
known that the right lung. iver-lobe. and
limbs, exceed IN size those Of the left side,
Involving. Of course, : greater amount o.
tissue structure. and larger supply Of
nerves and blood-vessels for their nutrition
A person walking in ; dense fog fgares
with his feet the segment Of circle: and
il be is right-handed, he takes : direction
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-10-11
POETRY.
THE HERITAGE.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.

The rich mans son inherits lands,
And piles of brick, and stone, and gold,
And he inllerits soft white hands, -
And tender flesh that fears the cold,. i.
Nor dares to wear a garment old;
A heritage, it seems to me,
One scarce would wish to hold in fee.
The rich, ans sons inherlts. cares;
The bank may break the factory burn, .
A breath may burst his bubble shares,
And soft white hands could scarcely earn
living that would serve his turn; :
A heritage, it seems 70 ME, tT@te
One would not wish TO hold in fee. =.
What does the poor mans son Inherit
Stout muscles and slnewy heart,
A hardy frame, harder spirit; - -
King. OF two hands he does his part 'i /.
In every useful toll and ant; III ,'a.
Ilerit ,ge, it seems to me, a!l u
A king might wish to hold in fee a,.,,, >;
What does the poor manson inheritf, ~ ia
Wishes enjoyed with humble things,
A rank adjudged by toil-worn merit,
Consent that from enjoyment springs, -.
A heart that in his labor sings; ~, -,
A heritage, it seems to me, g. F@S 80 3 ~
A king might wish to hold in fee .%Ht !.
What does the poor mans son inherit? :.
A pa,ience learned by, being neorai, ., 49,
Courage, il sorrow come, to,bear it, :. ii =
A fellow feeling that is. sure ~. &. i 81. a.
TO make the outtast bless his door; -
A heritage, it seems me, '?@
A king might wish tolhoid in fee. .,ctf "di
o, rich mans son! there is a:toi', 9 '.* 9. !.
Thatwith all other level stands; h.. ,3t,
Large charity doth never soil, :
But dnfy whitensoft white hands, - 80
Tn s is The best crop from thy lands;, -
I'D 10, mo.
Worth being rich to hold in fee.
0, poor mans son scorn not thy state
There is worse WEAKNESS than thine,
In merely being rich and great ;
Toll only gives The soul to shine, W
And makes rest fragant and benign!
A heritage, it seems. to me, !. = '-r,''t
Worth being poor to hold in, fee. l-..i
Both, heirs to some six feet in sod, ".lt
Are equal in the world at last; ..
Both, children of the same dear God,
Prove title to your. heirship vast;
BY record of a well flied past;
A heritage, it se' ms to me,
Wen worth life to hold in fee.
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to the left, because the rightsleg naturally
takes longer stride. The left side Of the
brain is larser thanzthe right; it has been
shown that the power Of verbal articulation
in the rieht-handed is confined to q certainl
convolution on theJeft side; and hence we
arrive 1.-THE fact,sthat in speaking arplt
thinking we use the left side Of our brain,
this Seing the resnlt Of dextral educstibsv
.Amnesia and aphasiai in right-handed men
Indicate diseaseNsahe left brain. Hash ner-
palsy and wiriiterasscramp show heofesalts
uf excessive worrying Of the left brA ftt:s Dr.
Hollis insists on lhe necessit, al. aaopting a
system of educsAion which NilI: give an
EQUAL p,tomineEe. both sidss s5ss DE brain
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The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-10-11

A parvenue lady, who has risen in the
wcrld, was describing her two daughters to
an acquaintance who had never seen them.
After dwelling on their filal excellences she
said, with profound and technical air, and
with mouth genteclly puckered up, that
lone was a bluenot and the other was
bronze"
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sc1ENcE.

A Mill has been erected on the line Of
the Los Angeles 4 Independence Railroad,
California, for the purpose of manufac'ur-
ing the fibre Of the cactus into paper pnlp
The experiment has been tried. says the
Scientific Press. and an excellent quality OF
paper is the result
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Everybody thought it was match, and
SO did he. and so did she; but last evening
q, a croquet party she hit her pet corn
whack with the mallet that sounded like n
torpedo, and ne-he laughed. 1--WE meet
as strangers" she wrote on her cuff and
showed it TO him. ..Think Of me as no
m ore +" he whispered huskily.
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excess of the proceeding month, and near
ly 100 more than in any month since 1900.
when registration Of deaths commenced.
The mortality in France from the same cause
was equally great.
That the human race even under the
best conditions, advances very little IN
physical capacities, is true. but then i IS
true also that these conditions. are fatal TO
the most powerful Of the old improving
forces; the survival OF the fittest. Stl!l, an
advance is perceptible in vital. power, and
we question whether a Greek swimmer
would ever have crossed from Dover to
Calais: just as strongly as We question
whether the aneient swerld ever possessed 2
horse which would have achieved place at:
Epson. Why should men groay feeble in
CIVILIZATION anyaPfethan .horsesss /. 4 Z ]:
- . s.s A.stsiJine .o,oc4;s H.. zI us
"a uaant kn ,j VT ii California AL:
weed'' is said; to produce tn animals isdk
eat ofit. synptoisis much resembling
81. almentia aud "a corresponding y! 4 !
San San Franz is1kto shsk sspaper, Srisi,
ofndf eraS db1ntyr.sdescribes, az toat1sx
,effe:tprsaaesd 81 this plant II !, gr IF
fifty horses on d -srapshes inithe Hfdtheejt;h
ebart 1eiht: teuntry ;iIff IT }hafRia t
i Ahh,razJ,, 1Orsook the ,.farlns aldsl91n-
.1ei f1f da one. III. one over theptain, payFng
Nbyfaftttntionsr t1theirs mates pr any thing
as h,eyi s.were too uildd1eas dnH hsjt
hfaifa, fo Sock fofs Yrafer sansE most Of. them
AID fthtfst:;h fftf55i Ii efh tN ilt61
ia.dihaa. ~ sss 4 u
|scoald.walk s. So. iii fsm "a lie plain hi
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-10-11

The annual death-rate of various cities
in the United States, for four weeks IN
April. as stated By the SaHifarian, shows 4
minimum tToledol Of 1I-04, and maxi
mum fPatersonl of 30.s3. The rate in
New York was $50. Philadelphia A. ~
st, Louis u o.. Chicago 1911. Boston 70 81,
Baltimore IL IS, Cincinnati 1918. New Or
leans u 90. San Francisco It'll, Pittsburg
1921, Charleston 1882. fF
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-10-11

At public dinner Curran was defending
his countrymen against the imputation Of
being naturally vicious race. Many of
our faults for instance (said he), arise
from our too free use of the circulating
medium pointing to the wine) but never
heard of an Irishman being born drunk
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-10-11

Eugene Come, sit down on the shelly
shore, and hear the mighty ocean roar 9
Amelia Il can't sit down, you silly goose;
because burst my pin back loose. i NJ
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-10-11

Coon ADVICE "A man rushed breath
lcssly into lawyers office in St Paul and
approaching the luminary excitedly remark
ed
7 "a man. has tied hoop to my horses
;ail Can do nnything!"
YES" replied the attorney Ego and un-
tic it," ~f ID.
That was good advice and didn't cost the
man but five dollars IS
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-10-11

V Where ri ten I men vii chesrfsily lay down
heir lives for a womaa, only one " i'll carry
ier . scuttle Of ceal-DaaLury. NeHs.
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ON THE CHRISTOPHER.


s#s TESHysON. HN
What hast thou TO do with evil.
Shooting. singing, ever springing
In anil ont the emerald glooms,
Ever leaping, ever singing,
Lighting on the golden blooms,
KEATS.
He Is never done
What his delights, but wheu tired out with
He rests at ease beneath some pleasant
weed.
LEIGH HUNT.
Green little vaulter in the sunny grass.
Catching your heart up = 1.-The feel o. June
Sole voice that's heard amid the sultry noon
When even the bees lag = the summoning
brass.
wEsrERx rAkMKR.
s.Depart, make o., excede, evade,. erump.
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A crowd Of .,onDg chaps about town were
in one Of the popular beer saloons Of Allan
IA the other day, where they met jolly
old German, who often gets soaked in beer
and maudlin funny.
.Heloa, Kaiserlichcr, have you heard
the news." said one.
.tNein. vas ish das!"
1.-THE Water VI rks are busted.' H
.vel, dots bad mid dem temperance
beeples. don'd i'd, boyse" Laughter all
round. IA -
..Yes. and the rolling mills gone up!"
said another OF the boys tE
..yell, chust dcnsd got'skeered about dat:
it's so hefy dot il COON, down again, en- :"
"a grand peal Of laughter.
Dlnd-and-th ice .machiue has explode
ed cried q third. !: 49, f N#s
.Ish dot bin pozzible 4 Den dots bad,
midout some mistake, and id don'd rain
midout 1t pourt-de vasser oud-de rolling
mill ub-no more ize-out all you yung
cha ckasscs broke oud Of dc stable lot !.
Dot makes me cry" III
And nobody ihought'nit necessary to
laugh at this point. ats 4a
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An accident took place lately on one Of
our railroads oy the axle of The '.tender"
giving way and obstracting the road for
some hours. A indy inquiredof gentle
man The cause Of the delay: he grayely re-
piled. "Aladam, it was occasioned by what
j. often followed by dangerous consequences
= the sudden breaking Of tender attach
mept. The lady looked serious and was
silent. 5.s*A .yt
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/. IA ! broadway shop window is displayed
MS notice; ,.. .'fsoy wanted, awho has fully
rested hihsolf and is not too intellectual"
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..Depsrt, make q, exeede, evade,. erunp.
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1875-01-01

folded him in her arms and kissed him,
and said: "Oh, father, 1 can't go back
to Monroe; Henry viii not care anything
about me now; / am ruined, yes ruined
Il can't go back, but, father, 1 am not
TO blame !" The father tried hard and
lorg to persuade his erring child to re-
turn to her home, but she was overruled
by the ruin her mother had allured her
into that she couldn't turn back. And
thus young, modest and accomplished
girl has been dragged down to ruin by
her shameless, heartless, brutal mother.
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1875-01-01
WASHINGTON CUSTOMS.

Many years ago, when David Crockett
was member Of Congress, and had re
turned to his constituents after bis frs
session, "nation" of them surrounded
him one day, and began to interrogatt
him about Washington.
"What time do they dine at Washing
ton, Colonel2" asked one.
"Why, said he, common people, suct
as you here, get their dinners at o'clock
but the gentry and big uns dine at B.
As for the Representatives, we dine at
and the aristocracy and the Senate, they
don't get their victuals till g."
"Well, when does the President fod.
derl" asked another.
"Old Hickory" exclaimed the Colo
mel, " attempting to appoint time in ac-
cordance with the dignity of the station,
"0ld Hickory well, he don't dine till
next day."
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1875-01-01
PATENT-RIGHT CASE.

A Mr.. ]. P. Woodbury. of Boston has
issued a circular to all owners of planning
mills in this country, claiming royalties
to the amount of more than twenty-five
million dollars for the use of certain de-
vices in planning machinery in which
Woodbury. claims to have patents. The
first claim for patent on Mr.. Wood
bury's inventions was made in June,
.1S4S, and after a long series of failures
with the patent Office he in 1871 renewed
his rejected claims as follows, the "pres-
sure bar" spoken of being the device in
front of the rotary cutter for the pur-
pose Of holding the board down firmly
while it is being planned
"First-I claim the combination of a
rotary cutter and Welding pres
sure-bar or bars, substantially as and for
the purpose described.
'Second-The combination of solid
bed and yielding pressure bar or bars.
for the purpose Of holding down the
material being acted ON by the cutter,
substantially as set forth.
"Ihird-The combination of q solid
bed, a rotary cutter, and yielding pres
sure-bar or bars, substantially as de-
scribed.
''Fourth-The combination of two
.pressure-bars, one of which is supported
upon arms and the other upon springs.
substantially as and for the purpose set
forth"
Notwithstanding the fact that his
claims had been denied by the Patent
Office and practically abandoned for
nearly twenty years, the Patent Com
missioners on the Doth of April, 1873.
granted Woodbury. patent on the above
named devices, which cover about all
the essential points of planning machine.
Armed with this patent, Woodbury..
backed, it is said, by powerful stock
company, now comes down upon the
planning mill owners of the country for
ten dollars as license fee on all machines
used, and twenty cents per thousand feet
as royalty on ali lumber planned by ma
ehinery involving his patents. The
claim is estimated at S25, 796, 100, and
the planning mill owners are organizing a
heavy defense association, to which each
member contributes ten dollaas for each
machine used. The opinion seems to be
that Woodbury. has tenable claim. as
the association is already talking about
compromising with him. 1t is one of
the most remarkable cases of the kind
on record cleveland Leader.
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1875-01-01
now ROBERT DALE OWEN WAS
HUMBUGGED.

Inthe Press of Saturday was published
an accurate account of the recent expose
of the Katie King naturalization seances
as given in this city for the past year.
Among the explanations of apparent
phenomena, which for want of space
were crowded out of the article alluded
to, was one which, if true, clearly ex-
plains manifestation which Robert
Dale Owen regarded as one of the
strongest tests he ever received at a
Holmes seance. Mr.. Owen was asked
during cabinet sitting to pass through
the aperture a sheet of writing paper and
a pencil. This was done; hand seized
the sheet and apparently laid it on moth
ing, few inches back of the aperture,
and about four inches from the bottom
of the opening, While the paper was
thus seemingly suspended in the air a
white hand slowly traced out letter
which, when given to Mr.. Owen, was
found to contain a message from and
signed by frederick Robertson" As
Mr.. Owen was familiar with the sigma
ture, as he had seen the letter written by
a "spirit hand" while the paper was
suspended in the air, and as the CHR
ography closely resembled that of his
departed friend, he was forced to accept
this ostensible evidence of spiritual
presence and power as conclusive. The
woman who confesses that she personated
''Katie King" makes in substance the
following statement in regard to the
manner in which this was done: ''The
letter was written by Mr.. Holmes, who
had a fac sirnile of Robertson's hand
writing in the house. When the blank
paper was passed into the aperture an
other sheet on which the lines had been
inscribed was substituted, and the paper
instead of being placed on nothing was
held on blackboard by Mr.. Holmes,
who had on pair Of black gloves. Il
Katie King] then drew over my right
arm black covering, leaving only the
hand and part of the wrist exposed. This
presented the appearance of detached
hand, and with the pencil Ipretended to
trace out the words on the paper already
prepared. d.-TPhiladeIphia Press.
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1875-01-01
Ten Rules for Farmers.

l. Take good papers and read them.
2. Keep an account of farm operations.
3. Do not leave implements scattered
over the farm, exposed to snow, rain and
heat.
4. Repair tools and buildings alta prop
er time, and do not suffer subsequent
threefold expenditure of time and money.
3. Use money iudiciously, and do moi
attend auction sales to purchase all kinds
of trumpery because it is cheap.
6. See that fences are well repaired,
and cattle not grazing in the meadows, OF
grain fields, or orchards.
Z. Do not refuse to make correct ex.
periments, in a small way, of many new
things.
s. Plant fruit trees well, care for them
and of course get good crops.
9. Practise economy by giving stock
shelter during the winter; also good food,
taking out all that is unsound, half rot
ten or moldy.
10. Do not keep tribes of cats and
snarling dogs around the premesis, who
eat more in a month than they are worth
in lifetime.
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1875-01-01
SCHOOL ENUMERATION.

The Columbus Journal says: "The
State Commissioner Of Common School,
has certified to the Auditor of the State
the enumeration of school youth between
the ages Of @ and q. The table foots
up 9ss, ,090, which is falling off from
last year Of 3,619. The largest decrease
is in Hamilton sounty, wherethe enum-
GRAFTON is 1882 less than last year.
Montgomery county shows falling of
of l,007. In the following counties there
is an increase: In Franklin, 398; in
2,76S; in Lucas, SIG; and in
Erie, 1878. This last is obviously er-
roneous, as in the adjoining county Of
Huron there is falling OFF of 34s. Mr..
Harvey has gone to Sandusky to diseoT-
er the cause Of the large increase"
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1875-01-01
SIFAND SET, LAY AND LIE.

The two words "sit' and ''set" are too
often mistaken for each other. When a
grammar-class is asked, for thefr time,
if it is right to say "hens set," the
"court sets, one-half of them, perhaps,
viii vote one way and the other half the
other. The court means the Judge or
Judges; the Judge sits, court sits, the
jury sits, hens sit, birds sit. "Setting
hem is wrong; hens are not "setters" OF
pointers. Set requires an objective case;
we set q chair, but we sit in it. There
is similar difficulty in the use of '1ie''
and Clay" In families whose hens "set'
everything "lays," and all clay abed. "
The quoted words are wrong. Lay
means to place, and requiresan objective
as "the hen lays eggs" "Now 1 lay
me" We should say the book lies on
the table; he lies abed; lies low; every
body lies, if you please, but nobody lays
unless he has something to lay.