Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-03-20
The Brain of the Chimpanzee Sim
liar to that Of a Baby Special
Creation Quite Pronounced by
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the Bible.
4 chimpanzee died in show in
New York a few days ago. 1t was
not the first time that an animal of
that kind died in show. But what
is a chimpanzee! +! Well, the chin
panzee is a member of the monkey
family, and is one of the kind of mon
keys that certain set of men declare
is a near relation to man. The death
of the monkey in question caused a
great sensation in New York, or
rather the dissection of the thing
with the caudal appendage caused
the sensation. They dissected it to
find out how near the animal comes
to being a man. They dissected it
to demonstrate that man is sprung
from a monkey. Perhaps it is put
ting it little too strong to say that
the Object of the dissection was clearly
fhe object just stated. By drawing it
in more general language, and saying
that the object was for the promo
ton of science, it Will relieve the gen
tlemen from the suspicion of desire
to claim relationship with monkeys
There is no accounting for taste, how
ever, and some men may really wish
that a monkey ancestry may be
proven for human kind. 1t is a pity
that tails cannot be attached to such
gentlemen. But the dissection is not
to be sneered at, no, for it was made
by such distinguished surgeons as
Hammond, Mott, Sayre, and others,
and they report that the brain of the
dead chimpan-ee is similar to the BRAN
of baby. That announcement stir
red New York quite a good deal,
nearly as greatly as the Beecher-Til-
ton scandal, and now they ask each
other whether BABY is MONKEY OF
course these eminent men used the
word "sINuALR, and that may save
the babies Of New York. If it does,
it was close shave for the babies.
What a narrow escape, If the doc
tors had said, eractiy similar, what
would have been the result Per-
haps Darwin, at some future day
when the dissection of a second chin
panzee takes place, can get the word
exactly" to fit. 1t would be a con-
sonsolation doubtless to Mr.. Darwin
and all others that are in love with
monkey pedigree If the doctors were
TO disembowel hog and a bear, it is
possible that they might say the in
ternal arrangement of the hog and
the bear are similar, and then the mo-
mentous question might arise, is a
hog a bear and is bear hog9 or, If
that is not satisfactory, they might
subject the hog and the bear to a
chemical process, resolve the two ami
mails into their original elements,
into oxygen. nitrogen, &c, and say
they are similar, and then raise the
question, is hog bear or a bear
hog? OF course there is oxygen.
nitrogen, &c, in both hog and bear.
but the proportion is different, and
that is the reason why one is a hog
and the other bear, and the law of
nature that compounds the hog is a
fixed law and cannot compound bear,
and the law of nature that COM
pounds the bear is fixed and cannot
compound hog. There are q great
many similar things in the world.
The physical machinery of the mon
key, even to the constituent elements
of the brain, may be similar to the
physical construction of the human
family, and still the monkey and man
be 4 separate being, each moving with