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"the Physical Men Of Ohio."

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Parent Issue
Day
19
Month
December
Year
1862
Copyright
Public Domain
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The commissi ,ner ot statistics of the otate of Oliio, in hia annual report, savs; " Tliat Professor Heury aud himsalf have been scveral years engaged in defining the American man, by accurate measure meuls. He prescnts only suuh of these as go to describe accurate ly the men of Oliio. For tbis purposo, he giyes the meusurements of three hundred farmers, miuers and laboréis, in several (jouuties; of two hundred an4 thirty others, iu eleven villages ; aird rive companies of Kemiey's cavalry, all native Americans. The fülliiw.ng appears to be the gauera! result ol these nieafurements : That the man of Oliio is five feet nine and one third inc-hcs high, and is taller than my of the Europeau nations of whïch there are measurements. He is tallur than the Belgian, by several inches : than the Kngiish, and ev,en the Scotch Highlanderg, The Highlanders, howeer, exceod tbc Americans around the chest, and are, on the whole, the stoutost. In complexión, eyes, and hair, the light predominatfa orer the darlf. The prevailiug hair is brown, and the preyaDing eyes gray or blue. In onc word, the native Americitn ig-a modified Germán of the timo of Tacitus, and euch ho ought to bc from bis anteccdents." - Hiüarical jifagazine. JC3E" Politenesg s like an aircusbion - there may be nothiug sojid in it, bijt it easep the jolts woaderfully, JGHST There are two kinds of cata, one with niue lives, the other with uine tails; the iormer always fa!l upon their opn focf. tho Jatfer npon othen '.

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Old News
Michigan Argus