Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1888 — Some Scientific Facts. [ARTICLE]

Some Scientific Facts.

It is a peculiarity of the emotions of fear or wonder that they relax the muscles of the lower part of the face and cause the dropping of the jaw. Few people carry the head erect; that is to say, perfectly balanced on the end of the spine, like the end of a walkingstick. It is always'ieaned to one side or the other. There is a class of people who have a carious habit of taking hold of the chin as if it were a door-knob. Sometimes they make a motion as if they were pulling an imaginary beard. The origin of the habits of crossing the legs and of nursing the knee—the last an entirely snperflnons task in this country, where habits are so accessible —is lost in the hoary mists oi antiquity. Persons nowadays receive their friends with open arms. The primitive animals received thens with open jaws, because they had originally regarded all other beings either as enemies or articles of diet