The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-06-04
CURIOUS AND INTERESTING.

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CURIOUS AND INTERESTING.
SUCKERS AND PUKEs.-A writer in
the Chicago Inter Ocean gives this YER
sion OF the origin of "Suckers and
"Pukes - g. came to Illinois in the
year A. d. 1888, and had curiosity to
know why the people Of Illinois were
called Suckers and those of Missouri
Pukes. The first to tell me was lady,
who had lived in st. Louis several years
previous, during summer of great dis
tress on account of sickness. All the
help (succor) they got came from Illinois,
About 10 o'clock a. M, they would see
one or two wagons winding their way to
town, when their dead would be buried
and the sick attended to; thus they re-
ceived daily succor. The old doctors
then Gas they do now gave an emetic
for the first thin T., followed with Gallo
me-, and the Pukes had to be attended
to, thus the sobriquet Succors and Pukes
as applied respectively"
The Sun MADE OF META1.-In re-
cent article in the Nineteenth Century,
by Mr.. J. Norman Lockyer, the writer
very strongly objects to DR.. Draper's
discovery of oxygen in the sun. Mr..
Lockyer says he has gone carefully over
the whole ground and finds: First, that
the photograph on which DIR. Draper
bases the discovery is not one competent
to settle such an important question;
second, that he does not find the CO.
incidence between bright solar lines and
oxygen lines in the part Of the spectrum
with which he is most familiar and,
third, that, comparing DIR. Diapers pho
tograph with the fine photograph of
the spectrum obtained by Mr.. Ruther-
ford, he "fails to find any true bright
line in the sun whatever coincident with
any line of oxygen whatever" Mr.
Lockyer sums up the evidence as to the
suns composition in these words: $50
far as our uncontested knowledge goes,
the sun is chiefly made of metal, and on
this account is strangely different from
the crust of our earth, in which the
metals are in large minority"
CUBIC CAPACITY OF THE SKUL1.-Of
all the measurements by which the
difference can be determined between
the human skulls of one race and an
other, the most important is now be-
ieved to be that which gives the cubic
capacity of the great cavity of the skull
wherein is contained the brain. Upon
this basis, some interesting Investigations
have been made. Among other facts as
certained is that relating to, a race Of
long, fat-headed people on the west
coast of Africa, who exhibit the largest
average capacity of any human head yet
examined. The Laplanders an 1 Esqui-
maux, though very small people, have
very large skulls, the latter giving an
average measurement of 1,546. The
lower grades of English skulls show a
size or capacity of 1,542; the inhabi-
tants of the Canary islands, 1893; the
Japanese, 1886; the Chinese, 1924;
the Italians, 1,475; the ancient Egyp-
tians, l, 464 the true Polynesians, 1, 454;
negroes of various kinds, 1877; the
Kafirs, 1,348; Hindoos, 1906. The
Australian aborigines give one of the
smallest averages-namely, 1888 and
theAndamanese, q very diminutive people,
show only 1920. A comparison between
the skulls of sixty-three men of various
races, and Of twenty -four women, showed
the ratio Of the woman's skull to the
mans to be as 854 to 1000.
Coop AND BAD NEws.-Bad news
weakens the action of the heart, op-
presses the lungs, destroys the appetite,
stops the digestion, and partially srls-
ponds all the functions Of the system.
An emotion of shame Pushes the face;
fear blanches, Joy Eliminates it; and an
instant thrill electrifes a million nerves.
Surprise spurs the pulse into gallop.
Delirium infuses great energy. Volt
ton commands, and hundreds OF muscles
spring to excite. Powerful emotions
often kill the body at stroke. Chile,
Liagoras, and Sophocles died Of Joy at
the Grecian games The news of defeat
killed Philip V. One of the Popes died
of an emotion of the ludicrous on see
ing his pet monkey robed in pontifcals,
occupying the chair Of state. Muley
Muloch was carried upon the field Of
battle in the first stages of an incurable
disease; upon seeing his army give way,
he rallied his panic stricken troops, rolled
back the tide of battle, shouted victory,
and died. The Doorkeeper of Congress
expired On nearing OF the surrender OF
CORVALLIS. Eminent public speakers
nave often died in the midst of an i'm
passioned burst of eloquence, or when
the deep emotion that produced it has
suddenly subsidized. Lagrave, the young
Partisan, died when he heard that the
musical prize for which he had COM
peted was adjudged to another.
An UnexDected RESPONSE.