The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1877-05-02
Result of an Experiment.


of the human eye, after death, bears a
picture Of what it last looked upon. Prof.
Kuhne has reported to the Berlin Acade-
my the result of experiments showing, as
he believes, that the superstition has a
slight basis of fact. He demonstrates that
the external layer of the retina is in all
animals purple. This color is, during
life, being constantly destroyed by light
that enters the eye, and as often restored
by darkness, but at death it vanishes per-
manently. Prof. Kuhne made in this
connection an experiment that is thus de-
scribed: "He fixed the head of living
rabbit so that one of the eyeballs would be
in front of an open square in window
shutter. The head was covered for five
minutes by black cloth, and then ex-
posed for three minutes. Instant decap-
itation was then effected, and the eyeballs
were rapidly extirpated under yellow
light, and plunged in a five per cent.
solution of alum. On the following
morning the milk white and now tough
ened retin@ were carefully isolated, sepa-
rated from the optic nerve, and turned.
They then exhibited, on beautiful rose
red ground, nearly square image. In
brief, the hole in the window shutter was
photographed in the rabbits eye"
WITT1CISMS.
: "Where was John Rogers burned to
death?" asked teacher in school.
Joshua knows" replied little girl, at
the foot of the class. "Well," said the
teacher, " if Joshua knows, he may tell"
" In the fire" said Joshua, looking very
grave and wise.
"Second class in grammar stand up!"
said the schoolmaster. "'John is bad
boy'-who does John correspond with2 :"
II know" said little boy at the foot, if
you mean John Smithers, he corresponds
with my sister Susan here's letter he
just gil me to carry home to her."
Horace Clark once told Commodore
Vanderbilt, his father-in-l law, that it was
pity he did not have college education.
Did you have college education, Hor-
ace?" asked Vanderbilt. Eyes, sir.'
"Well, Horace, I don't think that 1
could afford to swap with you," the old
man replied with a roguish twinkle in his
eye.
The following paragraphs, intended to
have been printed separately, were by
some blunder, so arranged that they read
consecutively in Paris journal: "Dr. -
has been appointed head physician to the
Hospital de la Charlie" "sOrders have
been issued by the authorities for the i'm
mediate extension of the Cemetery of
Mount Parnasse; the works are being ex-
ecuted with the utmost dispatch"
His objection to her was that although
in other respects good wife, she lacked
spontaneity. One day, when he was on
step-ladder arranging some curtains
over the parlor windows, she spontaneous
ly unhitched the connecting rod of the
ladder and let him down ali in heap
quite suddenly, as it were. He has been
able to leave his bed and move around
for the last few days, and would look
like his old self if he could only get that
piece of his ear back again and raise the
bridge of his nose.
AS an old man was driving a stout sled
having two or three kegs of beer in the
box, a boy called out to him: "Say,
there! Wheels coming OFF, The old
man pulled up, looked around, and the
boy said: "You'd better look out-hind
wheels coming off," The driver got
down, looked his sled all over, felt of the
braces, and inspected clear to the DASH
board, and then asked: "Vhat you say?
What proxies" IT said the hind wheel
was coming off," replied the boy. The
man made another inspection, giving the
sleigh shake, and all at once cried
out, "Vhy, dere ish no hindt wheel on
he1el"
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