San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-04-13
CRANIiL UNEvENNESS.
Bumps aud Depressions That Give Their Posses.
sors Away.
New York SIM

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George Washington, on whose right
was Jim Fisk, with mustache elabor-
ately waxed. Then came Robert
Burns, Horace Greeley, Peter Cooper,
Dio Lewis, Charles Sumner and other
well known men. Shakspeare's poet
ical face stood side by side with the
stoical features of John Kelley, whose
hair and beard were cut in waxy ring
lets, giving him the appearance OF
Greek god, barring the nose. Alone
stood the bust of q man whose neck is
so thick that it looks as though it were
a prolongation of the head. 1t is that
"Jim Grow" Rice, who won distinc-
ton by first initiating the plantation
negro.
"What do you want, sir?" the Pro-
fessor asked.
81 want to know something about
heads.
"Ah, sit down."
The Professor placed the two casts
on the shelves and returned to the
fire.
"Whose head is this?" asked the re-
porter, taking cast from the shelf.
The head was very high at the top, or
crown.
"That is Robert Ovens, the philan-
thropist. There's gentleness and be-
nevolence for you; it is mild face
There is scarcely any back head. Take
a mau with hi gh top head, and you
can depend on it he has good morals.
"Here's Edison's head. It's very re-
markable, from it's size, indicsting
large brain, and is particularly well de-
veloped at the seat of the constructive
faculties, just back of and above the
eyes. For a man with head like this
to fall on new ideas is no marvel; it
would be marvellous, rather, If he did
not"
The Professor then called the re-
porter's attention to some casts to
which are attached curious bits OF his
tory.
@This one," he said, "is the head OF
Stephen Blu. roughs, an American ad-
yentu err, who led a most curious life.
The lnber of avocations he followed
is in itself remarkable. He ran away
from home when he was on fourteen
wears old to join the army OF the Revo-
luton. Army life didn't suit his taste,
and he deserted at the end OF SIX weeks.
He was next heard of as student at
Amherst college, where he figured as
I'D and rebellious sophomore. He
was compelled to leave college to avoid
expulsion. After this he was pri-
vateer and subsequently ships physl-
clan, though where he picked up his
knowledge of medicine is mystery.
He left the sea and became school
master for while, and then he took up
theology and was the regular pastor OF
a CONGREGATIONAL church in Massachu-
sets. While preaching in the pulpit
on SUNDAYS he was detected in passing
counterfeit cein on week days, ana
when thrown into prison for this offence
he attempted to escape by firing the
iail He did not get away, and had to
serve his full term in prison. After
his release he went at counterfeltlng
again, and was for years at the head OF
gang in Canada. When an old, gray
haired man, he suddenly reformed and
went into the Catholic Church. he
tutored the sons of rich Canadians at
his own home. His head is preserved
as one in which certain faculties are
developed in an extraordinary degree.
"The heads of murderers are nearly
always wide Just above their ears. 1t
is also found that their heads are very
low and fiat on top. This head OF
Mrs Gottflied has these characteristics
strongly marked. She killed, by
means of poison, her own mother, Two
husbands, several of her own children
and three other persons. Her motive
was TO gain money. 1 find that inner
case the faculties of destructlveness'
acquisitiveness, secretiveness and KIN
bred qualities were highly developed
while self-esteem and benevolence were
excessively small.
"This low, brutal head is that OF an
other murderer, who killed live OF his
wife's relations that he might inherit a
few hundred dollars. The head OF An
ton PRO- :, who murdered the Deering
family in Philadelphia, he's the same
characteristics, and also that OF IN
murderer Burke, who killed people
sim ply that he might s Il their bodies
for dissection" >, =,
Are the heads of theologians all well
developed at the top|
Not always to a marked degree
tt reason is that many men are In the
pulpit who are not fitted for 1t by ma
ture. Many boys are bred to 1t, learn
ing nothing else from the cradle. :.
SDo men as a rule adopt the pursuits
they are best fitted for?'
aSome men do, but in many cases it
;s merely n matter of accident; in this
way; A boy is advertised for, and a
bow is sent down to take the place, not
because he has a fitness or fancy for
that particular position, but because
his services will bring so many dollars
; ,,o,.b he GETS a place IN the paint