STUDENT AND EXECUTIONER.
A Hll.l Kknuilnnlluti Horrors ol Ihr I'm..
Kxcrullon (.round,
Ucv. Selah Hrown, in hi* travels
through China, thus describes in u
letter to the Troy Tinwx, two places of
interest in Canton. On tho eastern
side of Canton is "Examination Hull."
a place of extraordinary interest and
excitement. Here an enclosure of
about twelve acres, entirely surrounded
by a high wall, is set ajuirt lor a triem
nial eompetitive examination in the
Chinese classics. Every third year
al>out lO.OtK) students, young and old,
who have already passed a lirst exami
nation, assemble here to pass the rigid
erdeal of a second trial. So great is
the excitement that sometimes students
are crazed, some even commit suicide,
and others die from sheer nervous ex
haustion. AV hen one dies in his cell
a hole is cut through the w all and the i
corpse put outside, as it is considered
unlucky and unlawful to carry the
corpse through the door. On these
grounds are large buildings for the ex
aminers, and nearly 10,(XX) little brick '
cells only three feet wide and live feet '
long, for the students. No furniture is
allowed in the cells except a rough
l>oard seat, and a rough lioard shelf on
which to write. Each student has one
of the cells, in which he is guarded as
though a prisoner. He is searched as
he enters, lest he have some papers to
help him in his assigned task, then he
is closely watched, day and night, by
policemen, and the jxilicetnen .ire
watched by other guards.
During the two or throe days and
nights in which the student is confined
he must w rite an essay on which de
pends his promotion. The subject is
given after tho competitor has enteral
the roll. Each student is provided
with pen, ink and paper, and a little
food and bedding, but is not permitted
to have any books or helps of any kinds.
Ilis memory must be his only dc|>cnd
once. N'o friends or servants are al
lowed to accompany him. and he must
not even speak to his fellow -students.
The student who passes a successful
examination meets with great congrat
ulation, and splendid ovations, for he
is on the highway to fortune and honor,
both for himself and his friends. Only
about l'R) in 10,000 succcsl in getting
the "degree;" the other y,9i)o must wait
three years, then try again. Even the
successful ones must pass a third ex
amination at I'ekin, the capital. In
this competition there are three exami
nations, and three degrees given. The
firs-t examination is in the district
college. The second in the provincial
college. The third is in the irnj>erial
university at I'ekin. The first degree
ts 11. A., which does not mean, as in
America, bachelor of arts, but l*auti
ful ability. The second degree is A
M., not master of arts, but advanced
men. The third degree, LL. I)., can
only be had at the capital of the empire.
The few who pass a successful three
fold examination, and gain the three
fold degrees, stand very high in the
estimation of the emperor and the gov
ernment, and from their number all
appmntinents for public office arc
made. So great is the honor of success
that men will try front youth to old
age, failing and trying again a score of
times. Sometimes a father, son and
grandson are found at the same exami
nation. This system has been olmerved
for many centuries in China, and has
a very important place in the social
and political economy of the empire.
From Examination Hall we went to
that terrible aceldania, the "execution
ground." in the southeast corner of the
city. One can hardly look without a
shudder on the spot where so many
thousands have been beheaded. In a
little open space not more than twenty
feet wide and 100 feet long morn hu
man blood has flowed than on anv
other place of the same size round the
world. From ten to fifty are generally
executed at a time. .Sometimes the
executions amount to several hundred
annually. During war times .100,000
have been liehcadcd on this Golgotha
in a single year. One missionary said
he had seen 200 headless bodies lying
here at once. The victims are ordered
to kneel down, the heads are stretched '
forward, then ono blow of the short,
leavy, sharp sword of the executioner
cleaves the neck, and the guilty
wretches lay weltering In their blood. 1
The bodies are given to friends, the
government keeping the heads, which 1
are sometimes exposed in public places, '
but generally they are put in stone jars, 1
sprinkled with quicklime, then scaled :!
up with plaster. On going up to a '
row of these Jars, a Chinaman ven- '
tared to open one for our inspection. 1
One glance at the ghostly gory he.-uls 1
within was enough. From among the 1
human Nines that lay around I picked 1
up and brought away a complete low or '
jaw, which plainly shows the gash of 1
the sharp sword of the executioner. '
Leaning against the wall of the execu
tion ground were several rude crosses, i
on which criminals of great iviorraity I <
I are tied, naked, while their bOdlM are
I cut to pieces with sharp swords or
- knives. A sliee is taken from each
| arm, then from each leg, and from the
H breast; finally a mortal stab is given
1 to the heart.
Hibernating Animals.
The badger, dormouse, porcupine,
I hamster and many others enter more
or less into this strungo condition of
( hibernation, while the eases of partial
,! hibernation are extremely common,
( bares having been found buriisi in the
. snow for weeks, and even sheep have
sharisl the same fate without injury,
i Tho dormouse erects its winter home
of various grasses four or live feet
from the ground, and so skilfully are
; they interwoven and joined together
that the closest discernment is neces
sary to distinguish the entrance that,
indeed, is only known to the animal
( itself. Soft mosses lino the home,
among which the sleepers lie until
i early rpring, often awakening while
j snow is yet upon the ground. From
now until warmer days they merely
( sleep, awakening from time to time to
! feed from a store of nuts laid up for
the occasion. In southern countries,
where the intense heat is as fatal tu
animal life as the lowering tempera-!
ture of the far north or south, asimilarj
condition is enterisl into by many'
animals, known as (estivation. In rolJ
looting about liahia lil.tnea, in Scjh
temjier, Darwin unearthed spiders,
lizards, and toads, all in a lethargic
condition. A week later they Is'gan
jto appear of their own accord, and
! thris- days before the equinox all nature
was prepared to greet it. Many aliga
; tors and crocodiles pass the dry periods
l in a similar manner. The mud eases
of the marsh crocodile are often found
in Ccylm, and have been taken out
j perfect easts of the animal, telling the
; story of its hil<ernation. This habit of
the crocodile has l>een the cause in
various countries, especially Ceylon, of
ludicrous incidents. In one, an English
1 officer had retired to hi.s tent, which j
suddenly rose in air, with all its fur- j
niture, out of the wreck of which a|>-
pcarisl an awakened crocodile that was
here hibernating, the lire built without
having, perhaps, disturlnsl its rejiose,
to the astonishment and confusion of
campers-out. The yellow snake of
Jamaica, that attains a length of
twenty feet, excavates a burrow for
purposes of partial hilernation. while
our snakes of the north are well know n
top ass the entire winter in thedeopest
sleep. Among the vertebrate sleepers j
of tlo- south is found the tanree of j
Modagavas, that, burrowed in the sand,
sloops away three months of the year.
With hardly an execution, the mnllusks
<>f the Mcditerancan provinces lie dor
mant throughout the summer. Many i
fishes are perfect hiliematnrs, lying in i
the mud during the cold season, or. iu
the south, passing the season of
drought in sun baked rasi-s, in almost
jMTfts t sleep. Not only during one
season is this kept up, but several
and, in India, ponds that have leen j
dry for extended periods, when tilled,
were, as if by magic. |>opulatcd with
the awakened finny sleejiers.
Arc not our trees in winter sleep
ing? The sap has ceased to flow,
their grow th has stopped, and all their
functions are at rest. Seeds lie dor- ]
mant for years. Corn taken from the
Aztec torn let has N-cn awakened ( ?) in
the present decade, a process analogous
to the awakening of animal life from
summer and winter sleep. .Yetc York
Kttniny Prmt.
Sixty Tears of Serx ice.
A little old man wearing the jwvstal
uniform may lie seen daily at the rail
road station in Louisville, Ky., busily
sorting the tnail. His name is Charles
Green, ami he has Ns-n in the jx>stal
service since 1824. His interest and
share in the distribution of the mail
began, however, in 1815, when he
heijirs! to deliver to his father's neigh-
Nrs printed slips announcing the hat
tie of New Orleans. "We have all
heard," he said the other day to a re
porter, "that a battle had Ns>n fought
hut had no particulars. On a certain
bright, clear morning, when the snow
covered the ground as far as the eve
could reach, wo awaited the coming of
the mail carrier with his pack-horse.
Before he came in sight the stillness of
the air was broken by cries of '(iotsi
news! Good news!' I'eople were
waiting all along the road for the ap
proach of the bearer of the news. There
hail been printed at the office of the
old Lexington (imttu a number of
slips of |taper containing the details of
the battle, and the mail carrier was
distributing these broadcast I was
commissioned by iny father to carry a
number of the ncighlmr* living around.
I hail never worn a pair of shoo* then,
and I tramped about the neighborhood
that day in the snow, my trousers
roiled up to ftie knees, with never a
thought of discomfort."
Manila, and the province of which
It is the capital, had 20,000 deaths from
cholera last fall.
THE LAJfI> OF THE AZTECS. 1
\ I'm Plrluro or ihr- Vlmlrnit ( niiilol
Niroot Nomrnrlaitrr, Hlorr*. IJir.
A r-itv of Mexico letter to tlie New
•r leans Demwrut, says: Nothing can
lie more beautiful than the .situation of
this eity, which, with its magnificent
(liailem of mountains, stands crowned j
the queen of the* Western continent,
hook on every side and you will see
only a different axpeet of the same !
grand panorama, with not one item
that is low and commonplace, but all
planned on the same gigantic scale.
At the end of almost every street there
is a vision of mountain and cloud,
with sunlight tracing its magic figures
upon them, and even in the most
squalid parts of the city you have only
to look a little Is-yond and the eye is
sure to rest upon some 1 ,-vcly cmlxsli- \
mentof nature. The plan of the city j
is worthy of the great conqueror who '
laid it out and win seems to have left
the impress of his iron character upon
its solid edillcies. As I'rescott says;
"The massive grandeur of the few
buildings that remain of the primi
tive perils) and the general inagnifi
cenee and symmetry of its plan attest
tlm farsightcd jxdicy of its founder,
which looked lieyond the present to
the wants of coming generations." It
is built in the form of a square, the
principal streets radiating from the
Xoculo or I'lu/.ude Armas, and so regu
larly do they run that the eye can
follow their course almost to the ex
treme limits of the city. There are
very few winding ways and narrow,
dingy looking alleys, and even the un
sightliest quarters are rcdis-mcd from
ugliness by a certain air of pictures
queness, which is (lightened by the
romantic and historical associations
connis'tisl with nearly every sjs.t.
The main objection to t ho strc<*ta is
the narrowness of the sidewalks ; on
many <f them only two JMT>OIIH can
comfortably walk abreast, and in order
to avoi.i tin. press of the crowd, one is
often obljgisl to step out into the.strict
, ami trot along w.th the hurras.
There is another ri*s|ect in which
the stris-ts might ls imprnvisl, and
that is in regard to their nomencla
ture. hurli block hears a separate
name, and as they are all selected at
random, to rctnrmlicr them is a t,vk
too great for an ordinary meinorv.
For instance, w hen you have once fixed
m your mind that a certain dry good.s
store in Caflede >an Franeiseo, if vou
wish to recollect the position of a mil
linery establishment a few steps fur
ther on the next hlork, you must asso
ciate it With the new title of t'llllc de
I'lateras, and so on. until it is a mira
cle if you do not end l>y forgetting On
position of your own dwelling. SjH-ak
ing of storm reminds us of another jo
ruliaritv. which is that tin- great ma
jority of shops, instead of U-aring the
names of their owners, are adorned
with fancy appellations, some of them
more romantic than appropriate. A
pulqueria, or pulque shop, for example,
rejoices in the title of the "Sun of Mav,"
a grocery storeliears the announcement
that "The Sun Shines for All." while
the principal dry goods emporium is
known by tin- double dmignation rf
the "Surprise and Spring." Such
names as the "Uupuldic," "Progress,'-
"Destiny," etc.. are met with on every
' hand, while you may stiimide across a
I butcher shop ilevoti-d t* "Providence,"
a bakery to the "Holy Spirit." or a
lulceria to the "Hope of Mary."
\\<- must confess a feeling of disap-
I pointinent in regard to the general
appearance of the stores, for they are
exceedingly small and cramp's), the
largest Is-ing but pigmies compared
with such mammoth establishments as
those of New Orleans. The windows
display tempting wares arranged with
great skill and taste, particularly in the
lineof jewelry and silk, but everything
seems to be on a diminutive scale, and
we have been puzzling our brains to
know why the Mexicans should insist
upon calling their city the Paris of
America for it must require a vivid
imagination or a magnifying glass of
great |Hiwer to detect in the one-storied
ls>x-like buildings devoted to merchan
dise. any resemblance to the magnifi
cent stores in that fashion center of
the tvorld.
* It i.s a relief to turn froin these
haunts of traffic, and to let your eves
rest U]Kn the abodes of men, for
Mexican dwellings have a character
peculiar to themselves, an indvid
uality that distinguishes them from
anything belonging to America or
Europe. You could hardly call it
beauty, for from the outside you only j
see flat surfaces, which would iw>
monotonous were it not for the in
numerable little balconies that pro
ject from lieneath each window. And
yet like certain faces which, though
homely in feature, exercise a kind i
of fascination from their originality of
expression, these long lines of gray !
stone mansions grow u|>on you until
you are forced to acknowledge that no
other style would lie so appropriate to
the grand tyjw of the place. Mur.-ihino
i iu>d shallow seem to struggle In the
peculiar color of the stone of which
| the houses are constructed, and their
squareness gives an Idea of strength
and solidity impossible to describe.
Strange to an Aim-rii-un are the ter
rains! roofs and the absence of chim
neys, that in our own land (day so
prominent a part in marring the land
scape, I here are no trees along the
streets except on the I'UMOO, and the
want of thcrn is scarcely felt, for you
imagine somehow that they would lx
out of place beside the massive monu
ments that fasten the attention on all
sides.
Success In Life.
Without unremitting labor, success
in life, whatever our occupation, is
impossible. A fortune is not made
without toil, and money unearned
comes to few. The habitual loiterer
never brings anything to pass. The
young men whom you HIS- lounging
alsiut waiting fur the weather to
change before they go to work, break
down before they begin get stuck be
fore they start. Ability and willing
ness to lain>r are the two great condi
tions of success. |t is useless to work
an electrical machine in a vacuum,
but the air may be full of electricity,
and still you can draw no spark until
you turn the machine. The Ix-autlful
statue may exist in the artist's brain,
and it may also !*• said in a certain
sense to exist in the marble block that
stands liefore him, but he must bring
both his brains and bis bands to bear
upon the marble, and work hard and |
long, in order to produce any practical ■
result. Success also dc|M-mLs in a good
measure upon the man's promptness to
take advantage <4 the rise of the tide.
A great ileal of what we call "luck" is
nothing more nor less than this: It is
the man who keeps bis eyes >j•••ii, and
his hands otU of his pockets, that suc
ceeds. -I missed my chance," exclaims
the disnp]>inted man, when he
another catch eagerly at the opjmrtu
nity. llut something more than alert
; m-ss is needed; we must know how to
i avail ourselves of the emergencv. An
elastic temperament, which never
seems to recognize the fact of defeat,
j or forgets it at once and begin* thn
! work over again, is very likely to en
sure success. Many a great orator has
made a terrible break-down in bis
, maiden speech. Many a men hant
loses one fortune only to build up an
other and a larger one. Many an in
ventor fails in >iis first efforts, and is !
at last rewarded with a splendid
triumph. Some of th<- most jxipular
! novelists wrote very |KST stuff in the
Is ginning. They wi re learning their
trade, and could not exjxs-t to turn out
first-class work until their apprentice
ship is over. One great sern*t of stie
eevs is not t-i Income discouraged, but 1
always I-* ready to try again.
A ( orran Metropolis.
Describing Wonsan. a leading city
of Corea, a Hritish officer says: One
main street, of some ten or twelve feet
in width, winds through it from end to
end, and into this opens numerous
narrow and crooked alleys. The ("or
cans dislike our entering these lanes ;
no doubt, localise in passing along
them one is apt to surprise their woman
whose delicacy is shocked by the near
approach of a foreigner. In only two
jorthris- shojis were there any Euro
pean goods expisosl for sale. Ko.vl
making at Wonsan consists in filling
up the hollows with soft earth, and
there seein to I*> no arrangements
whatever b-r cleaning the streets.
There are numerous pig-styes in front
, of the houses in the main stn>ot, and
the passenger is constantly in danger
.of stumbling over their occupants.
Almost the only pleasant thing to l<H>k
at is the luxuriant growth of melon
and pumpkin with gray fruit and white
orange blossoms, show ing amid a mass
of green leaves, which cover many of
the houses. The clothing and per
sonal appearance of the inhabitants
contrast favorably with the aspects
of the tow ns. Nearly every one isde
centlv dressed, and a really well-dressed
Coroan, in his broad hat and white
rolies, has an eminently respectable,
well-to-do appearance. The Japanese
settlement of Wonsan is on the western
side of the bay, opposite to the island
|of < hangdodo, and almut a mile from
the western end of the native town of
Wonsan. The settlement is infested
with t'orean thieves, who rob the god
owns of the Japenese by picking the
locks or removing the foundation
stones, and the markets at Wonsan are
also said to swarm with them. Tigers
abound in the neighboring mountains,
and last year two (Weans were carried
off by these animals from the itnmed
iate netghlsirhood of the settlement.
fhicagn, with sixty square miles of
territory and 000,000 people, has only
444 policeman, nl-iut 250 lieing avail
aide for night service.
Forty-nine electric light companies,
with $81,000,000 capita), were Bet
agoing in Urent llritaiu last year.
TOFIFH OF THE DAY.
He heapeth up riches and another
man shall gather them. The youngest
bank president in New Vork, worth
♦•'1,000,000, recently died at the age of
thirty; and a man named John Hay,
who set up a drinking saloon along a
Colorado road of lifty miles, which
previously had none, NDOII fllh-d a big
tin lxix with gold; but the other morn
ing he was found with half-a-dozen
on neon of lead in his head and his gold
all gone.
An association has been formed in
New Vork city for the purpose of
promoting by legislative and other
measures the restoration and improve
ment of the scenery of N'iagra Falls
in accordance with the plan which was
approved by the State assembly in IW I ,
but failed in the senate. It is pro
poscd to have the State purchase
enough land about the Fall to preserve
the natural scenery, and to eo-ojcr.ate
with ( an.ida for that purpose,
I here is a soldier m England who
has been able to observe nearly all the
lighting in which his nation has been
engaged since the present century
i came in. He is (ii-ncral (!eorge Mc-
Donald, still in the service as colonel
of the Jleilfurilshiri' regiment, and lias
just passed his ninety-eighth birthday.
In the year of Trafalgar, I*os, lie was
an ensign, arid 1"12 saw him at tin
siege uf Tarragona, in Spain. Two
years later he was in Canada, but got
back to Kuriqie for Waterloo, where he
took thri-e wounds, (luring the peace
tliat followel ho tilled civil offices in
the colonies, and in the recent cam
paign he has taken the lively interest
of the veteran who can tull "how
fields are won."
Philadelphia has a co-operative store
with a present capital .f ip.b.b.Vi and
n-al estate worth s2o,u*). It pays an
annual dividend toils shareholders of
six per cent, and return, quarterly to
customers from lour to nine JUT cent.
!on their purchases. The manager says
that th e w hole secret of success rn co
operation is to start on a small wale and
j extend the business slowly. To this
rule he attributes the success of the
vinture. It was ls-gun eigiit years
ago by several men who worked in a
factory, ami thought it would Is* a
good idea to cheap n provisions by
liuving iii lots and then dix iding. They
formed a little si u*ty, and kept their
| stock in a room of a iiu-mtier's resi
dence. Next they hired a small store,
and from th.it the business has grown
to annual sales aggregating
When Mr. Hitt, American secretary
,of legation at Paris, introduce) tjov.
ernor Hendru ks to (laml>etta as his
! go<-l friend, the French orator and
statesman greatly puzzled. ••Why,'*
said he. "you belong to different
"J'iw,"said Mr. Hendricks,
some of my warmest personal friend
ship* are among my political oppon
ent.*. "And that is con iinon in your
countryasked (JamUdta. "Nothing
more so." remarked Governor Hen
dricks. "There, said CJarnlx'tta. "is the
ideal republic." Gamlietta's apprecia
' tion of a political state of affairs in
which political oppments can express
their difference without shooting one
another's head off or running swords
through one another's My, bctravrd
itself m his own growing moderation
of tone and his good sense in subduing
the passionate radicalism of his party.
Mr. Gunderson, vice-consnl for Swe
den and Norway, at Bordeaux. France,
has hit upon a novel way of sending
messages from the sea. The ancient
liottle is alw ays liable to hr oak age, and
the recent pretty inventions of tin
ships or buoys are found too expensive
and trouhlVsoine in practice, Mr. Gun
derson employs the small colored bal
loons made for children, which cost
only a shilling a dozen and ran be
carried empty. Me puts the message
inside, and throws the in'lated balloon
overboard. It travels rapidly lefore
the wind, keeps the message perfectly
dry. and is a striking object at some
distance a great advantage as regards
the chance of l*>ing picked up. One
was recently tried, with a letter inside,
off Dover, w here one of the inventor's
ships was aground, and two hours
afterward the letter was posted in Do
ver by an unknown hand.
Two locally famous dogs died a short
time since. One was an Enghsh
pointer that caught in it* month a en
nary on the fly (out of its cage) by !
leaping four feet into the air. but with
out hurting the bird or ruffling a feath
er. The other was a Philadelphia
watch-slog that attacked every police
man he saw, once damaging one very
seriously by taking a big piece out of
him. and chewing his calf. He was ,
owned in Disston's saw factory, and if ,
he found the men loafing around out- ,
side of their workahops he would drive i
them back. lie knew the steel uielteri j
I
i from the other workmen, and bad a
special grudge against them. He
caught two of them in the warerrjoms
one day, chased them cm to the coun
| tern and kept them there. He got a
Idte out of two men who leaped tbe
fence tf> see the factory when it caught
fire; went for the cashier of the estab
ment whim he ame down stairs After
hours one evening; the caahier fought
him with a chair untii there wan only
j one round left in his hamls whereas
the dog wan g'xxi for several roumls
more, but waa very luckily, driven off
by the watchman; while a countryman
who came into the warehouse one flay
vvhenno one waa there^inddraped kin
hat, ha<l to walk backward the whole
length of the tore, kicking hU hat ait
he went, the tlog reflifting to jiermit
him to stoop ami pick him up.
The frequent earthquake shock*
which have occurred so far this year,
Ixith in AmerieaarnJ Kurope, b-.i/Ls the
New York Sun to say; "These <lis
turhanees of the earth's crust, occur
ring in rapiti succession, attract atten
tion to the theory that earthquakes are
sometimm, at least, tiie result of causen
affecting a large portion of the earth,
or perhaps the whole glolx*. Various
so-called earthquake ey let have lieen
pointed fitit, but it cargiot !*• said that
any ftne fif them lias been satisfactorily
established. It is iinjcMsihlc to predict
earthquakes, anfl the utmost that care
ful olswrvation has so far proved is
that there are certain jcriods when
earthquakes are unusually numerous.
All Hortsof theories have been invented
to account for these periodic disturb
ances of the earth. Sitne have as
crilcd earth'juakes to the influence of
comets, although the idea is aliout as
well founded as that of the astrologers
that comets foretell wars and famines.
Others have thought that earthquakes
may result from the varying force of
attraction of the sun, the moon, and
the other planets upon the earth. There
is. at least, some appearance of plausi
bility in this theory, but the whole
question is yet open, axel a great deaf
more information is mssied before it
can be in any degree settled. There
is, perhaps, no other display of natural
forces, not even excepting volcanic
eruptions, so frightful as a great earth
quake. Karthquakes have destroyed
many thousands of human Icings and
La d waste whole cities and provinces.
They are entirely Icrond human con
trol. and experience has shown that
they are just as likely to occur now as
they were centuries ago. The quiw
tions what causes them, and is there
any means of foreseeing their visita
tions, are therefore of great interest,
and we have reason to be thankful that
in this part of the world the solid
ground is not often shaken, and that
when an earthquake shock Ls felt it
ilt*"- little damage."
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The human brain is alisolutely big
ger ami heavier than that <>f any animal
except the elephant and the larger
whales, but in no other .iniiual is there
so (rreat variation in brain weights of
different individuals as in man, and it
is perhaps a < urious fart that the higher
the civilization the wider the variation.
That is to say. the brain weight in
savage races is more nearly uniform
than in enlightened nations. While in
a general way the average weight of
the brain is greater in civili7cd raew.it
does not at all follow that the siw of
the brain is an indication of the degree
"f intelligence. The average weight
"f the adult European male brain is
forty-mine to fifty ounces. That of the
female is forty-four to forty-five
ounces, the difference U-ing fully ten
percent. Statistics for America very
nearly coincide with this result. There
are examples of men of remarkable in
tellectual attainment* whose brains
have largely exceeded the average, as
t'unrier. sixty-four and a half
and Dr. Al>ercmmbie, sixty-threw
ounces. Daniel Webster also had a
very large brain. That of Agassi *
weighed fifty-three and a half ounces,
not very much above the average. On
the other hand, high brain weights
have also }<een found where there was
no evidence of superior irtcllectual ca
pacity. In an Knglish insane asylum
nearly ten per rent, of the cases ex
amined show ed abtain w eight of over
tifty-five ounces. An excessively small
brain indicates feeble intellect, and an
| abnormally large one may indicate the
i the same. lletween the extremes
j there is a wide range, in which it is
evident that intellectual power is mors
dependent on quality than quantity of
brain matter. Hut it is estimated by
several oomjetont authorities that in an
adult male of anything approaching
average sire, a brain less than thirty
seven ounces is usually associated with
imbecility. l n other words, a brain of
less than that weight will not confer
the reasoning faculty in the civilized
Caucasian, though in uncivilized man a
rude intelligence may spring from a
brain of thirty ounces at. I ouit 2b.