Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1859-12-14
Science ~ the snburbs.

| we must ~ THIS one instance plead guilty o.
neglect as q faithful chronicler Of passing
events. A few evenings since our suburban
neighbOe Of Miami City were treated with 4
rich intellectual and sciontf feast, in the way
Of a lecture on Phrenology, which we "hSd orr
ter" have noticed at the time, but 3 press Of
business and "other circumstances" has mate'
rally interfered with our good intentions" uu-
I'll the present writing.
The learned Lecturer, DR.. L. Musson, Protss.
cor Of the Science, commenced his evenings
entertainment by requesting the medical facul
ty TO take "front seats" as he was confident
Of being able to construct them when he went
into the execution Of his head. To attempt 10
follow the Prof, or Dr.. in his pure literary uud
scientific peregnnAtions before bis audiences
especially 10 his personal athtsdss, would be
highly presumptuous in us,--it is out Of the
queston--and to be understood and apprecia
ted must have been with essed.
The intellectual scientific portion of his Of
fort we are most positive was hard to beat for
It's sloquence and erudition, and we are con6s
dent that the majority Of his audience judged
him to be very talented and "smart" young
man. looking from the same standpoint the
old lady did when eulogzing her favorite
preacher;--she did not understand the meaning
Of half the words he used--and il was doubt.
ful II he did himself Why, he told us right
where the petella Uranium ulma was situated,
what its direct influence upon the oxyital rR-
dius was-how the great COLOSSEUM corpus
exercised It's functions over the thisAsic aad
other ducks--[didu't say whether they were of
the wild or tame species,l He also made II as
clear as mud that the submhxi hilary scapula
eerebellum. was not in the least governed by
the duodemem elongated or the clavicle fis-
sura. But we cannot further follow the learned
speaker in HE lucid aud unique illustrations
The public examinations Of heads was most
felicitous, and the delineaton Of one character
we can testify was just to the point; where he
was portrayed as beng a diverse parallelogram
Of an oblusO triaugle-a pondescript hippot'
tamus of rhewbarb, mAgnesia and ippecncu,
ance-a deleetable acknowledgement in.
clined plane Of an isosacles--a triple crowned
geological stratum--a cosmopolitan metropo-
lis of a double distilled metaphysical megaA
tharium-the fagAend Of a sanguiuary aurora
borealis.
We regret that we have not time nor room
for more extended notice Of this intellectual
repast, and in conclusion must say that it
equalled IL it did not surpass the surblime
description Of the "good time coming" given
by an eloquent and popular orator, who has
declared that "in the twelfth hour, the Holy
Procedure shall crown the Triune Creator
with the perfect disclosive illustration; and
that there shall the Creator in effulgenee, above
the Divine SeraphDal, arise into the Dome of
the Disclosive, in one comprehensive galaxy Of
Supreme Beattudes"
Which being translated into common Eng
lish means: "Then shall Blockheads. 10 the
AseDine Dome of DisclosIve Procedure rise into
the Disclosure, until co-equal and cO>extensive
and conglomerated Lumaxes, in one compre-
hensive mix, shall assimulate into nothing
and revolve, like a bob tailed pussy cat after
the space where the tail was" G.