Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-11
All Sorts.

ALI Sorts.
SIR SAMUEL BAKERS African expedi-
ton cost the Khedive of Egypt over
s40O, 600.
THREE of the nine Judges of the Uni
ted States Supreme Court are natives of |
Connecticut.
THE last day that Henry Clay ever sat |
in the Senate was Charles Summers |
first day in the Senate.
GREAT BRITAIN and Ireland are about |
as large as New Mexico, but not as large
as Iowa and Nebraska.
IT is said that Donald Mckay and his
band of Warm Spring Indians, who did
such valuable service during the Modoc
war, are coming East on an exhibition
tour.
IT has been decided in Delaware that
a man is not necessarily drunk because
he tries to unlock the front door at
midnight with the butt end of his to-
bacco box.
A CALIFORNIA farmer, according to
rural press, cut sixty tons of hay from
sixteen acres of lucerne, pastured fifty
calves three months, and harvested fifty
bushels of 81 ed.
A FEMALE graduate of the Medical
Department of Iowa University has Ia
ken the first prize for the best perform
ed dissection in surgical anatomy, in
class consisting of twenty-four young
men and one other young woman.
A QUESTIONABLE christening party
in New York was postponed last week
in consequence of the non-arrival of a
steamer from Europe having on board
the lace dress (made to order) in which
the baby was to have appeared. The
clergyman engaged was disguised.
TIE gravity of the situation in India
is shown by the fact that loan of $780,
600, 600 is announced as about to be put
upon the market for the relief of the
famine. It is said that the necessities
of the suffering natives are such as to
require Immediately the sum of $15,-
OO0, 900.
A FEW days ago New Orleans horse
railroad company sunk Al, 900 counterfeit
nickel coins in the Mississippi river, the
receipts of one year. The counterfeiting
of these coins is carried on so extensively
in New Orleans that the Picayuae esti-
mates that 900 people daily pay their
fares on the horse railroad with bogus
coin.
FRANCE pays her ambassadors fairly.
Her new minister to London, the Due
de la Rochefoucauld-B -Bisaccia, gets
$40, 900 year, the highest sum paid to
any diplomatist except the ambassador
to st. Petersburg, who receives $780,
600. The ambassador at Vienna re-
ceives $34, 900; the one at Berlin, $28,
600.
ON the announcement of the death Of
ex-President Fillmore, in the United
States Senate, Senator Sherman asked
if there was precedent for adjourn
ment. Senator Anthony replied that
Congress adjurned upon the death OF
General Washington, and it was upon
that day that the phrase, 'First in
war, first in peace, and first in the
SENATOR SUMNER never kept carriage
during his long residence in Washing
ton, but generally walked on fine days
and patronized the horse cars in unfa-
vorable weather. He sometimes ex.
pressed the wish to be the possessor o1
horses and carriage, but would add
"I cannot afford it. I either must give
up buying books and keep a carriage
or forego the carriage and keep myself
posted in literature"
Brain Weight of Different Races.
An eminent German professor once
! assumed that, as a certain size and mass
of brain is essential for the exercise oil
the mental faculties, therefore all the
human race must be furnished with ar
equal amount of brains. This truly
Teutonic theory has since, however
been cffectually dissipated. An elabo
rate paper was read not very long age
before the Royal Society of England, in
! which the existing evidence as to the
weight of brain among different nations
was analyzed. The average brain weigh
. for the English is stated to be 47.5t
ounces for the French, Ass; for the
Germans, 1888; but there are discrep
( ancies in the results of different OBJ
servers, some giving greater average
than this to the Germans. The Italians
, Lapps, Swedes, Frisans, aud Dutcl
f come into the category with the En-
glish. Among the Asiatic races, ths
? Vedahs of Ceylon and the Hindoos Civ,
| a mean of over 42.11 ounces. Tht
skulls of Mussulmans afford slightl,
increased average of brain weight ovel
|
male Khonds-one of the unquestionet
| aboriginal races of India-show brail
5 weight of only 37.S7 ounces. The gen
eral average of the Asiatic table show
a diminution of more than two ounce,
1 when compared with Europeans. Th,
general mean of african races is les
than that of European races, although
there are great differences the Caffr,
. rising high, and the Bushman sinking
, low in the scale. The average of tn,
: whole of the aboriginal American race
) reaches 44.73 ounces, which is 81.
ounces less than that of the Europeal
/ races. The Australian races shoy
a brain weight one-ninth less thai
: that of the general average of Euro
\ peans. The Malays and others of tn
{ Oceanic races, who migrated boldly, TO
, commercial purposes, over the Nortl
and Sonth Pacific Ocean, and occup,
> the islands, show tolerably high aver
age of brain weight and, on arriving a
) this section, we return in some measur
| to the large braign weight of Euro
peans.
A Dog Carries the Mail once a Week
Mr. T Prosser saws a. Minnesot,