Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1854-05-08
The size Of Hoads.

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Ind ,nhlv good memory. Tle brain OF
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,ir ,,,ces i1r e,Iol,nsrs lIs a very larze head
indeed fJosenh Hume and he were said to have
the largest heads in the kingdom:) aud vet his
der The averpge. On ihe other hand Byron had a
smnll head. NJ ieast Mr. Leigh Hunt informs us
that his hat, which Is not a very large one. USED
10 20 quite over Byron,s head but his brain is said
o 6ov,- NJ eisI,et, nearly four nonn,Is Keafs and
Shelly mad very small heads. Nj. Leigh HUNTS
hat eoing hem tos RofI,tli.. md small
head, sir Waiter Scotthnd small head; so had
Neander, The church Historian; SO, also, il we re-
collect right what Bornal 0inz saws had Cottez
the conuueror of Mexico. Weliinsfon,s head is
said to have been under The ayelage sze. The
brain of Mrs Manning the murdaress was
pound Liz iiter han than her husband,s Thesknll
OF Rush was very large. measuring. we think. up,
wards Of twenty four inches round Pericles, as
we know, had a large head, SO had Afahonet so
had Mlrabeau; so had q, Conileli; Lamafgine de-
scfiles Napoieon's as a small head which lladbul-
gediout. The skull of the pr ct Burns was care
fully measured when twas disinterred on tile bu-
mi of his wife; il measured twenty two and
quarter inches round, which, allowing hall an
inch for the integuments, would make The crcum-
ference of the living head twenty-five and three.
quarter inches; iargish sud, but not exiraordi-
nary. Goethe's head, we believe, was not re-
markable for size. About ShakspeaIe's had our
only information must be from the Stratiord bust
which Chantrey pronounced, from cefiain signss
TO be almost AMY modeiled from an original
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foregone conclusion, that Mr.. Hugh Miller.
speaking OF this bust, in his admirable work, en-
titled stirst sslons OF Eilgiand anu lis Peo-
PIE, describes the head, from personal inspec-
HON. as very large one. he skull he sal must
have been of q pacity TO contain all nr. Chal-i
Inet.s brains. This, as DIT Chalmers was then
alive, was tantamouat 10 saying that II was oil the
largest know dimensions. Now iwitlTlhis very
description m our memory we have QUIZ elves eS-
amined tne Sfatorl bnst with the utmost close.
ness and care, and we declare that
the heain that bust Is, IL not siiiaiiisi one, at
least sue ms ayerage English hat easily
ny, " Z belieYe tlls srnaiiish head.
In snort, rom all the statistics We have oil COM
mand respecting lnrge and small heads Including
our own private Observations among our acqnalnt-l
ances we have never been sbie to obtain any pre-
ssnIaoie conclusion on the point The opinion OF
David Scoit The Painter, VAS that large heads
Were genelaiiy found M successful men OF the
wo.la suenss pa mixers and the like, and
tIat me nneness 81 nervous tissue requisite for
inc purely inteiiectual llves 81 artists, thinkers
anu lilefary men geneiaiiys connoted small or
asstage stze OF mead Even this opinion, howss-
er, VIII break down, II applied in piactice. We
know very energetic, prudential and weiglity men,
isrge heads who seem Ct home in the most ex-
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