New-York tribune., 1873-01-22
BRAfN.oF CHILD

,os-,ng this in mind. great German ana,Vi9,, Ith,
neSL,nS Rudolph Wagner. and his son, measured WIN
now % entire surfaces of the oerebrum both Tree an1
concealed between the folds OF four 49, ~
pnse were eminent scientific mon the otheis were
! nneducated persons, man ana woman. lne
results justified the expectation; ior the surfaces
~ the two former cerebra measured 3fl and Si2 square
bs m reSpectiyeIy while the surfaces OF the two latter
measured STA and 29 respectively aud the difference
between prof Gauss and the workman Krebs amounted
IN so sonsre inches u space about7 inches square.
But while these satisfactory, they are
by no means enough TO settle the point In question: and
not only are there many instances OF paucty OF the
cerebral cOnvOutiOns concden with superior intellect
but among animals is to bo noted that sheep have
more abundant cOnvolutiOns than dogs and cats than
monkeys that according TO our present lniOr-
he the instrument OF more extensive mental operations
The snatural land legitimate conclusion will be that
Quantity, since we know how easily big hulkng fell
low who looks IL he could fell OK and eat him. too
built adversary, whose muscles, though SMALL are wiry
and fun OF energy and whose % sppeTGr SUP ntner ag nns
sn it is one thing TO ascrbe this difference in power
difference in quality and quite another to demon,
srate wherein this consists and the fact that normal
and healthy brains present no structural features with
which this quality be connected and we may have
ascbe good deal 20 the results OF training ana the
energy Of the Will.
BRAIN AND MIND oP AN IDIOT.
As illustrating our present inability TO determine what
1t is that constitutes good and poor quality in brain
tissue add the latest published history of an idiot
Jonathan tho only idiot known in tho fam
lily he was blind from birth. but and hearing were
properly developed At death he weigheu GO pounds
and was than four feet high but it was difficult to
ascertain his exact hight since he always lay or sat-
coiIed up in a ball with his arms and legs acutely
hexed upon themselves. He extremely feeble, be-
bench swaying 10 and fro and constantly uttering
low. moaning sound. Up to the age OF 49, he never
spoke. but he subsequently learned to say rev words
winch he would repeat, parrotike, when the cue was
given him. much as follows: Jauny good boy, Chris
baked in pe. nndder" He also knew some profane
expressions, and sometimes lost his way while speakg
confusion. His habits we're filthy and MS passions VO
lent he never recognized any one and always DIT ana
tore at the man who daily carried MIN 10 ms meas ne
was not paralyzed, but quite incapable or iOcOO
thing beyond carrying his food to his mouth with ms
fingers Neither the expression OF his iace Wheh aeIeeT
nor the shape of the head, conveyed the notion
that the man was IdlOuc Tue race Whch was qlte sio
best part OF him. was rather ntellgent-o0kng than
Otherwise The brain weighed 2S ounces the Istt nan
of the cerebelum smaller than tho right Dut the
whole cerebellum was 10 the cerebrum as 10 90;
was paler than usual but tho cells appeared normal
under the microscope the percentage OF phosphorus
avoid the impression that the want of quality traceaDo
throughout the body, existed also in the brain Nor Is
this idea dsprOved by the nOndetecti0n OF the deect
Tor the microscopes and the chemist are not yet able to
discover and describe the nature of two muscles OF
which one is in good condition or tone whe the oIner
The existence of two cerebral hemspheres which in
mammalla, connected across the middle llne, sug
gests the INQUIRY whether either one alone - capable OF
intellectual operations as one kidney or one
lung NAV act alone in of injury or disease OF the
other There is not time to recount the experiments
made animals nor the effects OF ordinary aSc1ents
upOn men, excepting TO mention that 1t rs possible 10
live for good while after serious INJURY 10 one oi tno
RenlspheTes.
THE CROwBAR CASE.
By far the extraordinary instance OF this is that
known in the the CrOwbar Case, or as 1t
was at one called in derision. by foreigners. the
Great American case" indicating its similarity to the
Cardiff Giant and other illustrations OF the love OF
humbuggng and of being humbugged. which seem TO be
equally and largely developed among us. However,
there is longer for doubt respecting TINS
case only the published account but any
one may inspect the skull of the man TO whom the
accident occurred and the identical bar which passed
through his head at the Warren Anatomical Museum OF
Harvard University. The bar which now show Is an
exact model of real iron bar and the holes IN TINS
fairly indicate the direction which IT followed
The bar is called tampingiron Is round ana com
paratvey smooth feet inches long, II inches in its
largest diameter and at end tapers Tor about foot
tO point Une-quarter inch thick.
SKULL PIBROBD IRON BAR.