The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-09-21

Butlera sand KeRrney Phrenologicallyt
Analized-.A Man Who Would't Hear
Buffers Bumps Run Down--Kear-
| ney With no Moral Brain.
| (New York Herald)
A chronological analysis Of the heads of /
Ben Butler and Kearney was given in a
discurslvc lecture last evening at Science |
Hall, Eighth street, by Professor P. Ora
ham, man with Scotch accent. The |
room was nearly full and every shot given
kearney was hailed with hearty applause. |
About dozen pictures OF the heads of
various liustrious and notorious people /
were displayed on the platform. A dial
gram supposed to illustrate Kearney' head |
gave him forehead no higher than an AT |
rican balloons and . pair of ears as large
any average donkey's. His animal facul- |
ties were ruled off so as to cover halt the
size OF his head and put down as one mass
of sel6shness, hatred, envy and jealousy.
The diagram supposed to offer some idea
of the leading bumps in Buffers head,
showed an appalling lack of honesty and
iveneraticn; but the lecture admired il
much more than the other because il
showed larger area of brains. The faces
land heads intended fer Butler and Kear-
uey would bring swift conviction on them
if they were charged In the flesh before a
Iiury with the crime of murder. %
The lecturer said he went to Fort
IGreene last Saturday to hear and see
IKearney, and he took fair dose of his
language and mental photograph Of his
, head and face. Pointing to the diagram of
Kearney, about 14xl8, he exclaimed
That head does not exhibit one inch and
a quarter ofmoral brain. Ii is lacks honesty.
1t is too fat to tell the truth, and you
never find any single man who runs others
= down as rogues and hyrocrites but ia a
rogue and hyprocrite himself, and that is
because man knows what he is inwardly
and, having no acquaintance with
society believes all society like him
= self. Honest men believe in the
existence of other honest men, bat men
| like KeaIney have too little of the moral
faculties to feel its existance anywhere
lelse. Heaven protect u.s. cried the lec-
lures. gazing in horror at his own drawing
from the working classes that can be 10
fuenced by such head as that. lap
+. plause and laughter.
-. Ii you will lock at the front of his head
and measure it you viii find that he has
de only one and three-fourth inches of brain
N He has about as much as parrot, and h
N. is just like parrot that gets of a numbel
% lot adiectives and throws them out, with
out regard to meaning, wherever he get
'r an opportunity, Take away these adlec
tives from him and be cant stand on thl
platform and speak common sense for nv
II minutes" The lecturer then twisted tn
diagram around and displayed anothe
= head, which stood for Butler. the top o
the head appearing as big and round q
IS the top of an inverted wash basin.
Il have studied Buffers head and fac
and figure and all as he sat winking b
cooked eye and smoking his cigar in ii
Potter committee, and believe he is e.
actly what Blaine designated him-a /
inevitable cross between fox and ho
Laughter and Kisses Hiss ifyou like
lcontinued the professor, Il won't say b
cause you do so that you are hoary hea
ed vampires and blood suckers as kearn'
would say, Ii you have reason on sol
mt side this rostrum is as free to you as
me to speak your mind" The profess
- here took up pair of callipers and ope
- ing them to their full width declared tn
Butler had ''all that size OF a lack OF co
=. scientiousnass aud could be all things
p all men for purposes of selfish aggran
oFF izement, all that of self esteem and all To
love of appreciation and acquisltiv
- ness. He has broad, cunning head a
more brains than Kearney." The au'
ence hardly recognized Ben in the lii
ness,
AT a distance the side of the head loo
ed like an immense ear, and the pecul
me. expression of Ben's optics was entir'
lost in that organ The lecturer cut sh
pty' his analysis and said no more of kearr
lited for the remainder of the evening.
and went into a discourse on the questions
0i'e' labor and finance which had nothing .
in it, and when he ceased speaking n
stood up in the rear of the audience {
- said he was an admirer of Ben. But
. and, sitter passing an eulogy on him
the friend of the working people, he
clared he could not sit there and hear 81
man abused and made little of. Th
was near being row at this point, bl
LADY on the platform, Mrs. Emma Ga
Conkling, acting as chairman, spoke shi
" to Buffers companion and restored
no der. After some talking and examiE
US of heads in the audience the proceed
ended