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The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-08
Fair Hair and Blue Eyes in Germany.
From the London Times.

For long time the idea of a Ger
man, more particularly German lady,
was that he or she had blue eyes and
fair hair. The Germans themselves
have frequently protested against this
sweeping assertion, and a careful eX-
animation Of a German regiment or Of
a German school would have suficed
to show the strong admixture of black
hair and brown eyes. But anthropol-
ogfsts went on asserting their own
views, formed on what they called
their own long experience, till at last
the public insisted on having the mat
ter settled by regular census.
Government assented and on a Ger.
tain day every school in Prussia had to
make a return Of the black and blue
and brown color of the children's eyes.
Many Of the pupils came home Oh that
day telling their parents, with mys.
terious air, that their eyes and hair
and skin had been examined at school.
Some of the parents thought it an I'M
due interference with their rights, but
the thing was done, and angry protests
against what the government COM
mands or allows to be done are of lit
tie avail in Germany. After a short
time the results of this anthropological
commission have been published, and
they are at all events, curious, though
perhaps not of much scientific value.
The number of persons examined in
Prussia amounted to 4, l27, 7G6. Out of
that number 4, 1910, 1923 were under IA
years of age. With regard to the col
or of their eyes. 42.07 per centum had
blue, 24.3l per centum brown eyes.
With regard to the color of the hair,
- per centum had blonde, 26 per cent
um brown, and l.21 per centum black
hair. With regard to the color of the
skin Prussia has only 6.53 per centum
of brunette complexion. In Bavaria
the brunette complexion claims Is per
centum, the black hair per centum,
the brown hair Al per centum, the fair
hair 81 per centum; and it is argued
from this that the darker complexion
in Germany came from the south
rather a bold generalization. if one
considers the mixture of tribes in Ger
many even at so late time as the in
vasion of the barbarians into the Ro-
man empire.
The report contains number of GU
riOus observations for instance, that
nearly one-third of the Jewish school
children are fair, which would certain
ly not be the impression left upon a
casual spectator by the ordinary run
of the Jewish population.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-08
A New Stimnlant.

Another drug becoming quite in de-
mand as a medicine and as a stimulant
is iodine. AS an eXitant and stimulant
it has remarkable properties. Taken
in six-grain doses, it will completely
revolutioniZe the nervous system.
This demand is principally among the
rich and fashionable, for the high price
of iodine prevents it's ever becoming
popular with the masses. 1t is an az
lStOcratiC stimulant. \ gentleman
who IS familiar with it's workings thus
describes the effect of iodine upon
himself: "My pulse was accelerated
and my face flushed. I became liter
ally in fever of excitement. This
excitement was Of the most agreeable
kind. I had pleasant day-dreams. I
seemed inspired with celestial vigor.
[ felt equal for any undertaking. At
the same time had no ambition to I'M
dertaking anything whatever. 1 was
content to be happy thus forever, I
saw bright objects all around me,
vague, impalpable, but very brilliant.
Suddenly experienced an intense itch
ing OF the skin "a rather pleasant feel
ing, but soon merging into almost in
supportable agony. 1 scratched and
scratched, I almost tore my skin, but
IN vain. The itching continued and
increased, and soon drove all the mem.
cries Of my previous ecstasy out of my
head. The itching must have lasted
about an hour lit seemed a century,
and then 1 began to feel weary, very
weary not exactly sleepy, but indies.
cribably tired. Then period of de-
preston set in, and two or three times
| really contemplated suicide rather
than endure longer the abominable
melancholy. Finally felt sick at the
stomach, and commenced to vomit.
This relieved me, and in little while
TWAS restored to my normal condition.
But would not go through what I
went through again for worlds.''
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-08
Medical Sclence in Servia.
From the London Standard.

From the London Standard.
SERyIA has hitherto done without
doctors. In a few of the large towns,
no doubt, there were medical men,
mostly brought up in Vienna, but in
the villages there we're absolutely
none. Their place was-I should per-
haps say is--supplied by 'wise
women,'' called ''babas.'' These
.'babas'' profess to have an intuitive
knowledge of medicinal plants but
that intelligent being, the Servian
peasant, placed much less trust in their
medical than in their magical skill.
Their performances in this line was
remarkable, and their rustic patients
had every faith in it. The most COM
monty fatal diseases in Servia are con-
sumption and congestion of the lungs.
The staple remedy for the latter all
ment is to administer to the patient
three apples grown on the same Dough.
If after eating these apples, which are
supposed to have some mysterious con-
nection with the Trinity, the patient
feels no better, then, but not till then,
the wise women adopt more vigorous
measures. The unfortunate malade is
laid on the ground on his stomach, the
wise women scatter salt over him, and
march around him mumbling cabalistic
words. This seems to be kind of ex-
orcism, and would indicate a belief
that the illness is caused by Witchcraft
or demOniacal possession.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-08
American Meats in Europe.

Prof. Buchardat, one of the men,
bers of the Paris Council of Hygiene
and Salubrity, has recently directed
public attention to some of the foreign
preserved meats imported into France
as being unfit for human food, and in
many cases positively dangerous. He
mentions especially kind Of ham i'm
ported from Cincinnati. which is
usually enveloped in cloth saturated
with a yellow substance, which, on ex-
animation, proved to be chromate of
lead-a ready poison. Prof. Bouchar-
dat suggests that if the American pur-
veyors prefer to have a yellow envel-
ope around the alimentary substances
they export, the chromate of lead may
be discarded for some other yellow
substance turmeric, for instance,
which is known to be entirely harm
less,
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-08
Collecting.

From the Lake City (Minn Leader.
Collections are rather lively these
days. We travelled all one day recent
", determined to s'raise the wind' or
nearly perish in the attempt-for we
needed money for a thousand purposes
and we had on our books q thousand
bills due us. and long due us. After
travelling all day, and laboring earnest
ly with our delinquents, we sat down
in the early twilight on a lonesome
corner in q back street to take an &C.
count Of what we had collected during
the day, and get it into the form of q
memoranda, on the back Of an old ell
velope. We found that we had accom-
plished Notwithstanding the fact
that we are very poor collector, and
that it is close time for money. The
collections. in money and chattels-
which we had in a large new dish-pan,
which was one among the articles we
had secured,-panned out rs follows,
to Wit: First, we pulled out large
iron spoon, and laid it down on the
ground next came tin pepper-bOX;
then a ten cent scrip, a pound of starch,
two bars of soap, q pound Of sterine
candles, and a tWenty-fve.cen scrip;
next came tin steW-pan and q match
safe. some more scrip. a spool of No.
30 thread, and dollar bill with it's
northeast corner torn off and missing
next was fifty cents worth of coffee
and four ounces of black tea, q sack of
dairy salt, q ID q stone. china butter
dish: then a beautiful set of teaspoons
pressed finland another pepperboX.
This may seem to be an undue pro-
portion of pepper-boN. but never mind
it was a second hand box, and was
the only thing in the shape Of wealth
that the poor man had who owed us,
and 50 we took it, that he might be
completely unencumbered with per-
s0nal property. Then we yanked out
a gridlron and dozen patent clothes
pins. five ten-cent scrips and three
nickles then a bottle of pepper. sauce,
Il nutmeg, box of contemporaries,
and I; large piece of earthenware with
Il handle on the east side. This was
the result, and after all we tlattered
ourselves that there were plenty of
worse collectors in the world than we
were. AS the entire bill of goods
lay around on the ground, the sight
was very rich one, and we fancied
ourselves to be an East India mer-
chairman just returned from a sue
cessful voyage. After feasting Our
eyes for time upon the rare and gor-
geous view, we gave a stout boy the
odd pepper-boX to help us repack our
effects and bring them into camp.
Those persons who still owe us can
rest assured that we are ':well healed'
in almost everything, excepting money;
we could handle good deal more of
that. however, than we possess at the
time, with a good deal Of satisfaction.
No cards.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-08
The Judge Silenced.

The yield of milk of Northern dairy
COWS is incredible to people in the
South, where cattle are raised mostly
for beef and hides.
Judge Grant was in Little Rock,
Ark, in attendance at the United
States court. One morning he saw a
farmer with SLOUGH hat and a genu-
inc butternut" suit, trying to sell a cow
in the market there. 1t was a large,
long horned animal, and the farmer
was informing man that the COW
would give four quarts day, if fed
we'll.
Up stepped the judge. s'What do you
ask for the cow?'
':About thirty dollars. She'll give
five quarts of milk it you feed her
well,'' replied the planter, and he pro-
ceeded to describe her good qualities.
''Said the Judge, 81 have COWS on my
farm, mot more than half as big as your
cow, which gives twenty to twenty five
quarts of milk a day.
The planter eyed the judge sharply
for Il moment as if trying to remem-
Der whether he had ever seen him be-
fore or not, and then asked:
'Stranger, whar do you live?'
''My home is in Iowa.
Eyes, stranger, | don't dispute it.
There was heaps of sogers from Iowa
down here during the war. and strang-
er, they was the all tiredest liars in the
whole Yankee army. Mabbe you
mought be an officer in some of them
regiments -
The Judge slid for the courthouse.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-08
The Power of the Nose.

Two remarkable cases Of exceptional
susceptibility of the olfactory nerves
are reported from Europe. One Of
them seems SO well authenticated
that it is impossible to doubt either
the good faith or the general ability
of the reporters. The first occurred in
Scotland: Early in this year a gentle
man, while travelling by rail, "encount-
cred a volume O. ofens4vely smelling
vapor that was suddenly engaged from
a'bone manure.works which practically
forms part of the station into which
the train was entering. He imme-
diately became sick and faint, vomited
continuously, and in spite of the best
medical aduice to be procured in In
verness, he died on the fourth day
after his mishap. These facts are
given by DR.. James Adams, who
founded upon the circumstance a
book intended to warn the public
against these manure factories. He
seems to ascribe the gentleman death
to the presence of arsenic in the va
p0rs but as their is no source for this
arsenic except the mere trace that
might be in the sulphuric acid used,
we can but think that this theory is
i'll founded. The other case is of a
different kind. Probably as an instance
of the remarkable powers which may
be developed in the human nose, the
editor of a French ''year book'' of
science declares that the ashes from
the first Chicago fire fell in1the Azores
islands on the fourth day after the
conflagration, ''while the empyreu-
matte odor led the inhabitants to
suspect that some great forest was
burning on the American continent!"
The editor omits to remind his readers
that Chicago is a Thousand miles in.
land
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-08
NEW MOON.

Once when the new on glittered
So slender in the West,
Hooked across my shoulder,
And wild wish stirred my breast.
Over my white right shoulder
Hooked at the silver horn,
And wished a wish at even,
To come to pass in the morn.
Whenever the new moon glittered
So slender and so fine,
looked across my shoulder,
Aud wished that wish of mine.
Now, when the West is rosy,
And the snow-wreaths blush below,
And ! see the light white crescent
Sink downward soft and slow;
never look over my shoulder,
AS I used to look before;
For my heart is older and colder,
And now wish no more!
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-08

A man rushes into a stamp-office.
"Quick; postage stamp!'' ''Of what
denomination, sir?'' s'The cheapest
you have" 'sWhere is the letter to go
to 2" SIT isn't for any letter; I've cut
my fngsr. New York World.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-08

Sunny monkey said Mrs. Parting
ton, as she saw him patiently sitting,
but he sets as if he had plumbago in the
back, and could wish there was more
hair on his reprehensible tail. l can
not believe, neither, that they're our
prosperity
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-08

A bald man made merry at the ex-
pense of another who covered his
partial badness with wig, adding as
a clincher: ''You see how bald I am,
and don't wear a wig.'' ssTrue,'
was the reply, t'but an empty barn re-
quires no thatch.''
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-08

swept the survivors of Halls expedi.
ton southwark to the coast of Labra
dor, little advantage can be expected
from further persistence in that d.
rectiOn.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-01-20
Tca.!iinE Children Courage.

Courage il a vital cl~mcnt Of Christian
ch,valry. Without it, indeed, H. iiier
truth nor fideiiy.to promise Can be hoped
for The coward is sure to lie when truth
means punishment, ard sure to retreat
from his engagements when they involve
peril We need valient souls that have
learned to endure and scorn pain, and tace
danger tcallrsssly ano promptly "hrn
duty requires. Some parents cvadc this
vital part of training by glo3scs and dcctp
ton. \ mother who has taken her boy TO
the dentists TO get Il tooth ont will oflcn
say if he is shrinking: "Sit still my boy;
it won't hurt you.' Now she knows j,
will hurt him, but thinks if she can only
get him BY TINS device to sit still and let
The dentist get hold Of the too1h then his
discovery OF tho pain will not hind r its
extraction. This is double mistake. 1t
destroys her boys confidence III her: for it
detects her in lie. And though it gets
the boy this time to sit still, ii is under the
delusion that there is to be no pain, where
as he should he taught to face the pain
and to scorn it. This makes the differ
cncc between the coward and heroes. a
regiment of poltroons could march up to
battery as chcerfully as a regiment of
heroes, if they thought there was no enc
my at the guns. The difference is that
heroes know the danger and yet face it
valiantly.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-01-20
Central America.

There will shortly be a meeting Of plcn-
ipotentiaries Of the five Central American
States-N Nicaragua, Honduras, Guat' ma!a.
San Salvador anal Costa Rica-:o confer
upon plan of confederation. This step
revives the memory OF an interesting his
,orical incident. During the adminis,ra-
liun Of President Monroe these diminu.
tive republics gained their independence
from Spain. John Quincy Adams was
Secretary OF State, and lie advised them to
form u Union # Safes, as Mexico had
doue, similar t. that OF the United States
They did So Il, the convt n'i"n h.ld al
Panama, and invited this Country to be-
represented, which wss agreed to, and
Monroe and Adams sent commission
'here. Henry Clay WAS then speaker OF
the House, and when the President in u
message communicat, his acton to''on,
gress, Clay left the chair and made fierce
and violent attack on the President and
Secretary CT State on account OF what he
called an usurpalion, in the absence ot le-
gal authority; yet, within n Year after
Clay's vote decided the choice OF Adams
as Monroc's successor, and Clay himself
became the Secretary Of State Of the very
man whom hc had denounced. The Cen.
trail American Union, then founded, held
together only few years, aud the new
one about to IL established will probably
share the same fate.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-01-20
Human Sacrifice.

Human sacrifices were extremely pre-.
vnl"nt II the @Lcicut world. Thus, among
The Gaul~, those who were afflicted wi1l1
severe disease, "r about TO go 10 battle and
engage ia l';:z.rdoua enterprises, either
sacrifice. lnco as victims, OF vowel that
they would do so-lhc Druids acting as
priests on the occasion. They III ught
that ;hc god, could not be "pl'eased but
by giving the lie Of one human being TO
save that Of another. The Two gallant
Dccii-in,her and son. Roman generals Of
consular rankin different ages, Geyoted
themselves Is sacrifices to the Iii Names
on the field ol battle, suffering death, and
conceiving that they thereby aver,ed the
public danger. Mt,ius Curtius sacrificed
himself tor his country, TO appcase- The
gods, by plunging on horseback into u
cLasm OF The earth which an earthquake
had made in the forum. During the vir.
tuous days OF the Emperor Cslisula he
having fallen sick, im,n. nsc crowds of
people continued all night about tho pal.
ace, some Of them engaging hy VOWS to
expose themselves in com ba; as gladiators
ior his recovery, and others to lay down
their lives for his which they signi6ed by
bills publicly posted up. Luc'un, in his
dialogue ofthc dead entitled The Tyrant,"
supposcs that monarch, after his death, to
say that while he was on earth, nothing,
during his sickness, WAS to be heard but
VOWS and wishes for his health and pros
pcrity-cvcry man desiring to die, and
leave him living" When pagauism pre-
vailed in Sweden, during famine, The
people Il, ,irs. sacrificed oxen, hex, some
Of themselves, and la,,erly the sovereign
himself Tie Chinese historians record
the ob!aliun OF iLcir ancient monarch
Ching Tang in pacification ol ,Leir eftrnd-
ed deity, and 10 avert from their nation
the dreadful calumilics wiki which il was
| then visited.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-01-20
4 Rare s., .,l.Oul Master.

\ genius certainly Is sc,:o6l master
Br' ut, ol ,l.c Aicmcua district school in
California. lie wouiu have been just The
man to have live, along side of old Gala
gGl:A or Nj ro. For some trivial offence,
he recently sentenced Young master Stone
to the PUNISHMENT lofasccnd3g The school
hou>c stairs one hundred times. III doing
50 he accidentally omitted. in one Of the
the order for fifty more a>ccnsiuns In
performing this aduliional punishment hc
siumhIcu and tell, wnirh added ten TO the
number. This cndcu tAe nastcis luu for
tLa, day, but the ucxt the boy was caught
"lmKiug arounu' tor which hc WAS start
cd Oh trip of three hundred and twenty
times up the s'a,vs. On rcsuminy his seat
u, the cl''sc Of The little Journey, The mas
ter thought he >aw ::, tiancc in sl.rug Of
Tie shou,utr> and doubled TIE mp IN the
spot, j32O multiple, i by ? equals GAO. This
Was performed and the boy took his eeAt
| exhausted. as high, Cain. on. But n.as,er
i B'ndt thou: h, he SAW signs # Insult mis-.
sion in Ic boys sl.t.l:!, II yet, and pro.
c,cdcd I" rrt scri!: nLo,irr double dose
equal l,:>v stairs Wn.ci, hc ui\ III. up in
/" ni,:.!:.:.yeiy h"m' pa,hic u.s, VI 50
a>ce,si> Us daily. lii. boy broke dow
tic tir>l Gay ana tic tath.: t.cn apple d
10 Ike c"u!ls tor All injunction 10 proven,
the t,.;;itr use ut this newly invented pun
lis!r,,.1i
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-01-20
lLanesd His Mind.

A strarping biz SLANG 4 entcrtd . store
on Woodward ave! Ie 1e>'e' day, und lean
ing TOO heavily ON the show case broke
one of the pures oi glass.
THAT will cos, YOU g." said the pro-
prietor.
Haven't got .hc money" replied the
stranger.
We'll, you can't go out Of this store I'm.
til you pa, tor tia, glass" said The store.
lie. per iu determined vcice.
I'm sorry, but I'm willing to be licked.
if ,ha, vii do YOU any gcod," replied tie
stranger, rapidly getting GU, of TWO coats
and u vest, and showing arms like JOINTS
OF stovepipc.
''Uh, guess it was purely accidental"
said the shopkeeper in AL altered voice as
he got b.Liud the counter in Il hurry,
"anu you needn't mind about waiting
around any longer. Here's Gu: tickc, il
YOU arc going ~ The avcnuc."-De,roit
Free Press.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-01-20
Other Won Ids than Ours.

What we can ascertain definitely about
the planets is their size. This is the only
fact we can arrive at. Biologists can tell
you the past history Of the earth, and ar
RYE at IL" probable way in which Chang
es occur in other rlanncts than ours. They
arc all still unable to decide whether or
not life exists in the far depths Of the
heavens, because they cannot see the liv
ing creatures themselves or the place Of
their existence. The planets are al too
Ear away except in the case Of our moon,
and there we have arrived at a satistacto-
ry knowledge that it l:as no life upon its
surface. l want to bring before you a
new theory which DR.. Brewster has called
the hope OF the philosopher and the hope
Of the Chris,ian-thc theory that there arc
other worlds than ours that arc inhabited
by living creatures. Every planet is eth
er the abode Of life, or making ready to
support life, as in the case Of the sun.-
The ,heoryvwhich Dr.. Howell advanced,
that our earth, so far as we know, is the
only inhabited world, is painful to us, for
we cannot conceive that all the universe
around us runs TO waste; and yet we
know that a very great proportion of the
things around us runs to waste: if it may
SO bc called. We krow that Ct the snn
only small proportion reaches us. OF
the feeds cas-, into the earth not mere than
one in Il hun,l; I'd come t. maturity. and
we may believe tha, similar wastes exist
in the far depths Of the heavens. There
may be here the same misaprrhen>i"ns
in his rt>pcc that exists in other r. CARDS.
| The ,rur theory. think. If life in other
worlds, md one which Lave advanced
with confidence. although o:'e which We
cann", get scientific certainty upon, yet
which is analogous TO Ike other facts Of
the universe, i, that every orb has been
purposed o, invented to be III. ali ,dc Of
; life and that during some part Of their
history they Lave tcen or will be such
;,bodrs There is certain state in which
al, l.lies have one similar state of exist
encc when they are 4, to br the abode "f
life. When they arc sn fitted, think il
probable that life makes its appearance
upon them in some way which will not
a,tmp, to explain; uh>n PASSES to lis
highest development, and then dies away
under surroundings which MAKE lis exist
ercc NO longer possible. Then that b, dy
remains for longer or shorter period :
dead thing, bu, \, some remote period j
may >uhsvrve some Other purpose. \ NE
,c"ric mass may fail into The sun and 81
contribute to the mass If hrat wh4eh IT,
sun pour forth. The time may COM
" II. Ii the earth it>,lf my fall upon III
sun and furnish fuel 10 incrta e the SUI
ply of heat and light. H. the case o, III
earth there must come Il day when ii wi
NJ. Longer b.. fit 10 support life. The lee
: ur pr.c cded t. illustrate lis thcor
with the magic LAM, rl,.-Pr'f. Proctor.