Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1884 — Some Queer Notions. [ARTICLE]

Some Queer Notions.

The old Jewish doctors entertained some queer notions in regard to fingernails. A favorite theory was that before Adam’s fall the bodies of the first parents were perfectly transparent, and that the nails are the vestige left of man’s estate in the garden of Eden. Instances have been observed of nails - growing on the stumps of amputated fingers, and when the coffin containing the corpse of the great Napoleon was. opened long after his death at St. Helena, his toe-nails had grown clear through his boots, aud bis hair .stuck through the chinks of tho coffin— Laramie Boomerang. - 1—_ x. The educational statistics of tho British' army show that out of every 1,000soldiers 30 can neither read nor write, 28 can read but not write, ISC can read and write, while 756 are of superior education. Twenty years ago 134 could neither read nor’ write, 173 could read but not write, 641 could just read and write, while 52 only Were of superior’ education. £ Richest is he who wants least.