Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1865-03-08
Tall and SlIort.

taller than those of country districts NJ
Queteiet found the same rule TO apply in
Brabant, where, after nearly ten thousand
measurements, he ascertained that town
people are, on an average, three quarters
of an inch taller than country folk Much
discussion has taken place in connection
with the question at what age we cease to
grow VI. Quetelet shows that, in Be GUM
at any rate, men not only grow between
twenty and twenty five years Of age, but
even on 10 thirty Among nine hundred
so dicrs and recruits whom he measured,
this was perceptibly the case, although the
Increase was, Of course, but small. Doctor
Knox, of Edinburg some time ago Obsers-
ed a similar fact; young men, leaving the
university at twenty or twenty two years
Of age, and returning seven or eight years
afterwards, had increased, not in breadth
only, but in height The average height
Of conscripts, twenty years old, taken out
from the whole Of France, for renewing
the Imperial armies, Is found to be FIVE
feet three inches and half We're it not
that the French are very accurate in these
matters, one might almost doubt whether
/ the average was so low. Only one French
soldier in forty, is above five feet eight In
chcs high many Of them bare reach five
! feet Il IS the opinion Of army surgeons
that the maintenance Of large standing ar
mics tends to lessen the average height Of
/ the population Of country, by various di-
rect ana Indirect agencies. Mr. Cowell,
/ one Of the f,ctory inspectors, some years
ago measured as we'll as weighed many Of
the factory operatives at various ages
/ but as Lancashire nil! folks are very prone
to wooden shoes of formidable thickness,
and as it is not stated whether AIr. Cowcll
included or excluded these substantial an
derstnndines, 1t may be well to pass over
I his tabulations unnoFicod. Young men in
a good station in life are rather taller than
those who have more privations to bear
OF eighty Cambridge students, between
ci.hteen and twenty-ttrce years Of age.
I the average hcight was over five feet nine
/ 1t appears 70 be pretty certain, from the
average Of large number Of instances,
( that the height remains constant only iron
about the age Of thirty to that Of fifty; 4
slight average growth until the former
limit. a asIigh5average diminution after the
latter. Among ali the adults Of al class
es measured by NJ. Quetelet he found that
fully Developed and we'll formed men va
Lried from four feet ten to six feet two. with
an average Of five feet six and fully de-
velopcd and we'll formed women varied
I from four feet seven to FIVE feet eight, with
an average Of about FIVE feet two
NJ, Virey says:
Tall men are much more weak and
slow than short men for ali eXcrtions both
Of body and mind Ifmcn Of high stature
are preferred, for their fine appearance,
in the body~euard Of princes, and in the
service Of eminent persons, they are ccr-
( tainIy neither the most robust nor most
active; but they are docile, canlid, and
nairs, lit prone to conspire FOR evil, and
4 faithful even to the worst master In war
/ they are more fitted for defense than at
tack; whereas an impetu0us and brusquc
action suits better Tor short and yiyacious
men. Tall men are mostly tame and in-
sinid. like waterv vegetables. insOmuch
/ that we seldom hear Of q very ia | man
becoming very great man. Lite men
manifest n character more firm and deci-
ded than those lofty and soft bodied folks,
whom we can lead more easily both NOR
al Y and rhysiclIy."
Let all little men rejoice at such an
opinion as this, and especially at the fol-
/ lowing incident An Empress Of Germa-
ny, in the seventeenth century, to crafty
{ whim, caused all the giants and dwarfs
in the empire to be brought to court. A.
/ it was feared the giants would terrify the
dwarfs. means were taken to keep the
! peace hut instead OF this, the dwarfs in
suited, teased AMI robbed the giants 70
such an extent, that the lengthy fellows
complained. with tears in their eyes; and
sentinals had to be posted to protect the
giants from the drarfs.
DlETE1Ics.-We commend to MI, and
especially to vezetariaEs, the experience
Of Dr. Livingstone In q certain part ot
the interior of Africa, he found setere aud
persistent forms of Indigestion pre,alen'
anon. the nati.es who came to him for
medica advice Their mode Of life suc-
gested to him the proper remedies, and
the result Of his practice demonstrated
their superiority, IN their cases, over al
other medicines. Either dinner OF meat