Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1890 — With Head to the North. [ARTICLE]

With Head to the North.

The superstitious belief that human beings should sleep with their heads toward the north is now believed to be based upon a scientific principle. The French academy oi sciences has made experiments upon the body of a guillotined man, which go to prove that each human body is in itself an electric battery, one electrode being represented by the bead and the other by the feet The body of the subject upon which experiments were made was taken immediately after death and placed on a pivot free to move in any direction. After some vacillation the head portion turned toward the north, the pivot-board then remaining stationary. One of the professors turned it half way around, but it soon regained a position with the head-piece to the north, and the same results were repeatedly obtained until organic movement ceased.—St Louis Republic.