Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1874 — Scientific Information. [ARTICLE]

Scientific Information.

If you know of any body who wears false hair it may be judicious to mention to them that Prof. Lindeman announces that he has discovered in the hair sold at the stores “ little nodosites collected in colonies of about fifty psorosperms which are sometimes spherical and sometimes flattened into discoids. When heat is applied they are transformed into pseudonavicellse or fusiform corpuscles.” Other people may do as they please, but as for myself I would rather pass onward down the vista of the years, beyond the purple boundaries of youth and into the serene placidity of a passionless old age as bald as a watermelon than to frisk about with nodosites and fusiform corpuscles in my hair. This information will be valuable for the purpose of detecting persons who, wear purchased tresses. When I go to church now and see discoid psorosperms playing their little pranks upon the heads of the woman in the pew in front of me, I will know that her coiffure is a base capillary fraud, and when I see a spherical nodosite parading around the rim of a man’s hat I will have sufficient evidence that the man wears a delusive wig. The Indians ought to know about this, for then, when One dashes up to a woman with a tomahawk in his hand, a knife inhis teeth, death in his eye, and a yearning for scalps in his heart, a glimpse of a pseudo-navicellae balancing itself on its hind legs on that woman’s waterfall will induce him to put up his artillery and go home in disgust. What the aboriginal American needs is scientific information.— Max Adeler, in Danbury News.