Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-01-06

The husband and vile who are cousins can ENJOY
each others society, and love each other as de-
votedly as others, with this exception: the more
you can get in the partner you take that is to
you, the more interesting it will be- Ifyou marry
cousins, it is supposed that you marry some one
who has erwn up right in the sphere you have,
and there is not variety of thought and feel
ing. But the effect is on the offspring. have
heen in a great many insane nsylums, and see
ing great many Of the same name, have in
quired why so many of the same family were
there They married cousins; the children were
all deiormed in some way. In n certain village
below Baton Rouge, where they have married
in and in from the first settlement, there are
more idiots than in ten times the population
where they have married out Of their families.
There is an island between here and Europe
where they marry cousins and near relatives;
and when the boat touches the wharf and the
inhabitants come down to the shore, there may
be counted from thirty to sixty idiots nS the re-
suit Of their intermarriage. They may be deal,
blind, or scroIulous; they may lack some func-
ton Of the body: and that is the reason we
ought not to marry cousins. Some say they
have married cousins and have healthy smart
children. Well, you ought to be thankful that
it is so. The difference between you and your
partner; different colored hair, different physi-
ology and temperament, saved you from the
common result of marrying cousins
ADAPTATION OF TnR SKULL TO THE BRAIN.
1t may be difficult to explain how the brain
gives shape to the skull but it is nevertheless
fact that it does do it. Casts of individuals
have been taken at different periods in life and
found to differ materially. For instance, boy
when he was bound out to 4 mechanic had his
cast taken; he served his trade, and spent years
of time. From seven to fourteen years after
wards another cast was taken, and the two com
pared, and it was found that conStructiveness,
as compared with other organs was larger in
the last than in the first We have taken casts
Of persons at different periods of time and com
pared them and found different shape in the
development of that part of the skull where
those faculties most exercised have been located
The philosophy of it is this: that the skull is
servant to the brain, and not the brain a servant
to the skull The oyster shell grows because
the oyster grows, and it is shaped to the shape
of the oyster. The bark of the tree grows
because the tree itself grows, and as is
the shape of the tree so is the shape of
the bark. As the shape of the oyster is so
is the shape of the shell; MS the shape of
the brain, SO is the shape of the skull
The skull is not so dry when it is in its living
state it is after death. Besides, there is n
constant casting off and taking on of our physi-
cal powers, of our physical structures We have
not that now which we had in our physiology
when we were children, or perhaps few years
ago. We have not particle in our physical
structure that we had then. Every mouthful
we eat helps to give us physical structure, and
every act and thought helps TO use it up. And
so We are constantly taking up, and constantly
throwing off. And while we are throwing off
and taking on, the brain being excited all this
time takes Oh great amount of vigor and size
by absorption, and the skull gives way to that
increase of the brain. There is a change in the
internal table of the skull after the person be-
comes more fully developed in the osseous sys-
TEN; but while the skull is growing, it shapes
itself most naturally to those faculties that are
most exercised. To say more on the subject
would be TO multiply words.