Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1886 — British Races. [ARTICLE]

British Races.

Dr. John Eeddoe has published the results of, thirty years’ study of the races which make up the population of Britain. He takes county by county from the Shetlands to Cornwall and examines all available statistics after personal acquaintance with the inhabitants, measuring heads and noting the color of skin, hair, and eyes. He places ! great reliance on the latter, thinking that “the color of the hair is so nearly permanent in races of men as to be fairly trustworthy evidence in matters of ethnical descent; and that nearly as much may be said for the color of the eyes.” Artists will find a curious con- ! elusion in his volume —namely: that the darker-skinned portion of the population of Britain is gaining on the blonde. He holds that the Gaelic and Iberian races of the West, mostly darkhaired, are tending to swamp the TeuJ tonic of England by a reflex emigration. - 1 This may account for the wide difference found by the tourist between the ; average Briton whom he sees, and the typical Briton of the pictures. ’ Hear Jena, Germany, there are beds df phosphoriferons gypsum, E. Reichardt says that thesejdeposits contain 2.94 per cent, of phosphoric acid, of which .52 is soluble in water, .78 soluble in ammonium, citrate and the remainder not attacked % that solvent In the United States there are eightytwo factories engaged in the manufacture of glue,f nd they employ altogether about 2,000 hands. The value of ! the product is above $5,000,000 a year