Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1882 — Science and Satisfaction. [ARTICLE]

Science and Satisfaction.

Prof. Procter may tell within the sixteenth of an inch the length of a comet’s tail,and Prof. Huxley give us the

exact weight and age of the earth, and Herbert Spencer evolve more philosophy in one diy than the average man can understand in six months; but when it comes to determining the ripeness of a watermelon from the exterior, the triumvirate of scientific sharps must take a back seat, and let the Southern colored man, who never had a d <y’s schooling, step to the front. —Norristown Herald.