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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-09-24
Odd Monument. In Churches.

Sometimes the memory Of departed
persons has been perpetuated by the
erection OF some part of the fabric, or
by the gift Of some article Of church
furniture instead of by the erection of a
monument. In Little Birmingham a
pew is thus constituted a souvenir. In
Wellington church, SUSSEX, a tic beam
is made to answer this purpose A cor
bel in Reculver church, Kent, Is in
scribed TO the memory of one Thomas.
Many fonts and screens are thus memo
rails, as are also chalices.
The pulpit In Wells cathedral was
put up in the reign Of Henry VIII. by
Bishop Knight, 'for his tombe." lord
Thomas Dacre In 1881 left a certain
sum Of mouey for a tomb, which ne di-
rected should DO used as the Easter
sepulcher. In the preceding century
another testator desired there should
be made for him "a playne tombe OF
marble Of n competent height, 10 the In
tent that it may bear the Blessed Body
OF our Lord, and the sepultur, at the
time of Estre. "-Gentleman's Magazine
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-09-24
A Bad Day for shnnnI,.

The superstition that Friday il AN
unlucky day, so prevalent of late
among women, seems to have died ont
That is, II hasn't died out exactly. but
Friday has given way TO Monday. The
following conversation between Young
ladies overheard In street car has
some bearing on the subject; "Tu
never go shopping on Monday again. +"
You don't mean TO say you ever did
MS awfully unlucky." Eyes, | went
last Monday; positively had 20.
Wen, n wagon load Of watermelons
broke down, and the cars were blocked
Tor an hour; and another wagon with
boiler on 1t, the boiler rolled of into
the street; and a clothesline full Of
clean clothes broke and the clothes cot
all dirty; and the cat in grandmother's
had fit; and two cross eyed men ran
into each other in the street Wasn't
that DREADFUL Surprising one had
followed you homer" PhiladelphIa
Iad0aE ''N
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-09-24
BOSTON PRODUCE MARKET.
Saturday, Sept. 10.

FLoUR-The flour market has been excited
on the rise in wheat, and prices were put III
by the millers lOc to l5c, though 1t Is doubtful
If the quotations can hold on. The quotations
are at: Fine and super, 80 2504 80; extra
seconds, 81 25G5 Minnesota bakers, clear anC
straight, "a 50Gl5 So: winter wheat, clear anC
straight, S505 80; winter patents, So 1895 So
spring patents, prime, 50 5OC06; fancy brands
CoRN-Closed 1c off on December at Chicago
with the western market easier. The prizes
for No yellow, Chicago, for shipment is al
7O19617lc, with 72df253c for lake ports. The
spot market is quoted at: High mixed, 75Q1;6c
steamer yellow, $50 7515c; steamer, 740D74I6.
MEALr-Cornmeal is easier on easier corn.
Oatmeal is quiet. Quotations are at: Choice
kiln-dried cornmeal for export, 81 95 u Dbl
bag meal, 81 44C0l Al; choice graduated Std
rs. Oatmeal is quoted ct 81 9505 p fol
rolled Rye is quiet at 81 1C0l Is from dealer.
and Sl0l 65 in round lots to arrive. Rye Hour
Pork tadit AND f1A.sp@steady and firm, with
trade good with the packers here. Quotations
BEEF-tlrmer, with higher prices asked on
the best steers. Nominally the quotations are
not changed, though the trade was better and
the market is better sold up on medium and
good beef.
MUTTON AND LAMBs-Easier. veaIs are off
in prices: Choice eastern lambs, 96I0L6c:
Brighton, Sl1S19c; eastern, 7@Sc for choice;
fair to good, 66l7c; eastern veals; Dc or to good
G45e; good to choice, 8GsI9c; fancy, 90lCc.
to requirements just now.
shade easier: Choice northern, 91I611O14c;
western, S131916c; sage, 10lA6llc; jobbing
prices, 1G2c higher. Liverpool is cabled at 4Gs.
EGGs-Steady, with the market at: Eastern
and northern extra, 2lq22c;
POTATOEs-Steady; New York, Vermont and
New Hampshire rose, 40c; burbanks, 35614Oc:
hebrons, 45c; eastern New Hampshire rose and
hebrons, 45c; sIoulton and Aroostook hebrons,
Acc; rose, 35c; barrel stock, good, 81 256l1 So
Sweet potatoes are steady at: Eastern shore
Virginia cloth heads, S2dl2 25; bulk S2G2 ~
Jersey double heads S2 50.
APPLEs-Dull, with pears also dull. The
quotations are nominally at: Williams. 81 50
@2, Gravensteins, S2Gb3 25; collins, ST 25iS1 60:
pippins, 81 25g2; orange pippins 81 5lk92; Por-
tiers, 81 200 81 70; golden sweets, Sl6lI rs; com
mon apples, I5ct0l % q Dbl.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-09-24
The st. Clair Tunnel,

By the formal opening Saturday of
the st. Clair sub-aquatic tunnel be-
tween the American frontier city of
Port Huron, Mich, and the Canadian
border town of Sarnia another i'm
portant triumph in engineeringis con-
summated. Rivers have been tunneled
before, but never have they been I'M
dermined by practically solid tube
of cast-iron more than a mile long
and wide enough to permit the pas
sage both of train of cars and 5eot
passengers walking two abreast on
either side of the central track.
The st. Clair tunnel is 6,026 feet
long and twenty feet in diameter. Its
massive Innings weigh, altogether,
$4,000 tons and the cost to date is
$2,O00,000. 1t is thoroughly lighted
and ventilated and it's entire safety
is rendered certain by the fact that it
is built to withstand ten times all the
probable pressure that will ever be
brought to bear upon it. The tun-
mel was built solely to promote traf-
fic. 1t lessons the distance from the
United States to Canada six miles,
supersedes the cumbersome and an
noying ferryboat system of transfer
and saves two hours to It's proprie-
tor, the Grand Trunk railway.
AS to the advantages which this
new connecting link will offer to the
trade of the two countries, these can
be coniectured when it is said that
the railroad it benefits carries nearly
one-half the entire freightage of Can
ada. Last yearit transported Z, -9O9-
20S tons, and with the considerable
improvement in facilities now accom-
plished this aggregate will undoubt-
edly be largely augmented When the
proposed enlargement of the st. Ma
rvs Falls canal and the projected
tunnel under the Detroit river shall
have been completed, there will be
trio of commerce-breeders which can
not fail to exert a widespread infu-
ence upon both politics and business.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-09-24
Relic, Of 90. nm Faled Jeannetts.


More remarkable than the DRIFT OF
tbe Jeanette itself Is the fact that
number OF objects belonging 10 her or
her crew we're found Oh an ice hoe near
JuIiansbaab. on the southwest coast OF
Greenland, just three years after she
had sunk June 49, 1850 Among
these objects the following may be
mentioned here; a list OF provisions
with the signature Of De Long tho
leader OF the Jeanette expediuon'
written In his own handwriting;
written list Of the boats OF the Jean
nette; a pair Of trousers made OF oiled
linen. marked Louis Noros. when Is
the name of one OF the men saved from
the Jeanette and still living.
When it was first made known tliat
these objects had been found. some peo-
pie i'm America were rather skeptlc'u'
and Il was even pretended In American
papers that the whole story was lie.
But how could il be sol What could
the poor Eskimos of Greenland Know
about the Jeanette and her iief
The above mentioned facts speak Tor
themselves. and need no further testl-
mony.
These objects must have been left on
the foe either near the place where the
Jeanette sank or somewhere on tile
route of her crew toward the Lena
delta From this region the foe must
have been foated by sea currents to
the southwest coast Of Greenland. where
it was found. DIR Fridtjof Nansen In
EOrnm
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-09-24
Estate of Harvey Holton.

LICENSE TO SELL.
State of Vermont, District of LamOille, S.
In Probate Court held at Hyde Park, within and
for said District. on the 9Th day of Sept, A. ID.
1891.
James l.. BedlOck, Admr. of the estate OF
Harvey IlOltOn, late of WOlcOtt, in said district
deceased, makes application to said Court for
license to sell all of the real estate of said de-
ceased, of which he died seized and pos
necessary to pay the debts of said estate
WhereupOn it is ordered by said Court that
said application be referred to a session thereof
to be held at the Probate Office i'm said Hyde
Park. on the 26tE day of September. a. ID. 1891.
for hearing and decision thereon; and it is
further ordered, that all persons interested be
notified hereof by publication of notice of said ap
plicatOn and order thereon, three weeks success
Sively in the News and Citizen, printed at Morris
vile and Hyde Park, before said time OF hearing
that they may appear at said time and place, and
if they see cause, object thereto.
By the COurt-Attest.
45 EDWIN G. WHITE. Judge.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-09-24

Paper parasols Mrs W Shaw,
Embr'd corsets Mrs f o Joslyn,
Kensington banner Laura Irish. NTH,
Gents knit scarf Mrs S & Scribner,
Embr'd sofa pillow slip Mrs E 0 Joslyn,
:" Edna Rublee, I'd,
Staple work throw Ellen Drugg,
Drawn work handk'f Mrs E S Benjamin,
Fan tidy Mrs Fred Wheeler, Wolcott,
90 Miss Ellen Drugg,
Infants knit blunket Mrs Z S Robinson,
Crochet blanket Mrs A Robinson,
Towel holder Mrs Julia Terrill Cady's F,
Infants dress Mrs E Robinson,
Embr'd napkins and tea cloth Mrs Slocum,
Lace throw Mrs Julia Terrill,
Scrim throw Mrs + s whitney,
Two scrim scarfs Mrs { Rublee,
Bed spread Mrs Ella Hardy, 1.
Outline spread Cora L Reed, WoIcott,
Quilt Mrs Spiller, Wolcott,
Shams Nell Tinker. 3D."
Chenele rug Mrs Hawley, Cambridge,
Mrs Hoyt, Morristown, I'd
Lap robe Mrs Hubbell, Wolcott,
Birch limb ornament Mrs Julia Terrill,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-09-24
The Tobacco Crop.

The Springfield Homestead has
completed a tobacco census of The
country, and finds an area this yeal
of 81, 967 acres against S3'76O acres
last year, and 1892 acres as showr
by the census of 1892. The total new
crop will aggregate 800, 765 cases
against 1875, 900 cases last year. The
New England crop is grown on So
acres in New Hampshire, Vermont,
II, Massachusetts 24O4, Connecticut
6712, while the same states last year
grew respectively 1886, 2131 and
61O2 acres. The 1891 crop promises
to aggregate 1877 cases in New Hamp-
shire, Vermont 234, Massachusetts
1868. Connecticut p, 921, against a
production last year respectively of
166, 100, 6373 and 1852 cases.
The prospective total for New Eng
land is thus 3O,975 cases this year
against 23,95O cases last year and
23, 654 cases in 1889.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-09-24
Floral Hall Premium List.

Homemade toweling Mrs S N Palmer, 81 O
Rag carpeting Mrs F Shippy, NTH, 7
"a Mrs n W Hoyt, " I'd, 5
Silk mittins Mrs Hattie slayton :. Z
silk quilt Mrs Fred Wheeler. Woleott. -
Foot rest Mrs L Shaw, Morristown. 3
Laura Wilkins, C'ys Falls I'd, 9
Applique work Mrs Anna Robinson, NTH, 3
Toilet cushion Mrs F S Whitney HIP, 2
Braided rug Mrs C Hill, Min, & 2, 1.2
Drawn rug Mrs Smith, - n
g Mrs II NJ Small, ed 4
Button rug Mrs D K Stone, Gilmore. ),
Macrame lambrequin Mrs L Z Whitc'b. q
Stand growing flowers Mrs J 0 Cleveld. | on
Boquet peoples Mrs W Shaw, NTH. :,
Pillow shams Mrs c Rublee {" ),
Mrs Ella Hardy, 4" I'd q,
Crochet tidy Mrs S c Scribner, johnson, 2;
Canvas tidy Mrs E Whitcomb, II PIX, 2:
Drawn and Mexican tidy Myra Rogers q
Infants skirt Mrs W H Boyce, johnson. 2:
Toilet set Mrs c II Slocum Morrist'n. sc
Mrs w H Boyce, D
Sofa pillow Mrs Robinson. n
- Ella Holmes. Cam bridge, I'd. &c
Ladies Underwear Mrs z w Shaw, &c
Afghan Mrs G l. Shaw, Ia
Mrs E Wilkins, Stowe. I'd, N
" Florence Whipple, Sd, 80
Cotton lace edging Mrs G L Shaw, 90
Gents wool hose Mrs S C Scribner 81
Lace handkerchief Mrs l. Z Whitcomb m
Crocheted sacque Mrs f Joslyn, 80 ~
Mems knit mittens Mrs L + Whitcomb, so
Infants socks Mrs Z S Robinson, %
Stocking yarn Mrs Merriam, NTH. 40
Crochet shawl Ellen Drugg. Stowe, 90
g % Mrs Ella Hardy. I'd *
Knit bed spread Mrs L E Whitcomb, $50
:" Laura Lyon, NTH, I'd, / 90
Log cabin quilt. J ohn Duffy, Cam bridge, 90
Patch work quilt Mrs C L Shaw, 90
Mrs T. T. Wb;+oo,,L ~ 20
Angel cake Mrs W F Whipple, NTH, so
Gold cake Mrs H Slocum, 10
Mrs Jennie Colby, H PIX, I'd. 81
Apple pie Mrs J 0 Cleveland, Hyde PIX, %
Currant Jelly Mrs c H slocum, 20
Apple jelly Mrs G E Woodward, Min, %
Can peas " % %
Can peaches I" " %
Can cherries o.
Can plums Mrs K Vaughn, H PIX 50
Cage canaries Minnie Tillotson, NTH. 90
Oil painting Minnie Fitch IS
from nature, LOO
Shopping bag Mrs NJ NJ Brown. Wolcott S0
Painted banner Minnie Fitch 81
Painted plaque Aggie Woodward, Is
Mrs Julia Terrill, I'd, 80
clay work Minnie Fitch, Oh
Painted jewel case Cora Woodward. o.
Repousse work Minnie Fitch, 20
Photograph case Mrs Julia TerrilI, d
Sacket Jessie Slayton, Morristown. OK
Hand embro'd skirt Mrs Z Joslyn. 75
blanket Mrs H Slocum. 30
;rochet cape Mrs E o Joslyn, so
Key board Mrs c L Shaw. d
tainted picture throw Nellie Slayton, 40
'' g Minnie Fitch, I'd, %
,rochet fascinator Mrs Joslyn 80
Tray cloth Mrs M NJ Brown, 30
Mrs W Clement, Morrist'n, 25
'rochet trimmed apron Mrs Z S BENJAMIN. 20
'otton table scarf Mrs Ii Slocum, %
Imbr'd commode scarf Mrs Els BENJAMIN. d
init undervest Mrs E Robinson, 20
imbr'd picture throw Mrs II Slocum. 81
rocket skirt Mrs C NJ Peck, North, 80
sope brush Mrs Z Benjamin, Wolcott, Is
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-09-24
A MYSTERIOUS PAYMENT
or $4,000 to National Bank to Repay
81 ImeY Stolen in 1867.

or $4,000 to National Bank to Repay
NJ puey Stolen in 1868.
Boston, Sept. 18.-The State National
Dank has a peculiar case on its hands
which looks much like the "laterepent
ance-better- than-nu-repentanc e--at-alP' &C
ton of wrong-doer On Sept. Is, b. L.
M. Tower. as attorney for parties un
known, called upon Honorable S. M. AL
drich, president of this bank, and paid
him $4,000 as a debt, with all interest due
upon it, to the bank
Mr.. Tower was engaged in this matter
by person who gave no further explana
ton than that man upon his death-bec
directed his executors to make such pay
ment to the bank.
Under these circumstances the bank Off
Gals naturally began an examination Of
the books to trace, if possible, the
payer of the mysterious debt The
only clew has been found in The
accounts for November, 1865, whel
a bag containing $4,000 in gold wa:
taken from the teller's desk while his bach
was turned. Gold at that time was at 14E
Compound interest figured on the
amount stolen at that valuation woulC
bring principal and interest to the amount
paid the bank on Tuesday last.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-09-24
TO THE
FARMERS Of VERMONT.

1t has incidentally come to
my knowledge that you oc-
casionally make complaints
because of the small sums re-
ceived for your Dairy skins.
The fault is your own, for if
you would take them off and
properly care for them you
would rarely find a skin that
would bring You less than so
cents, and a great many OF
them would bring you 60,
10 and even 80 cents each.
Poor skins, like poor butter,
are poor property and bring a
poor price. 1t will cost you
only a penny for a postal card
on which to send me your ad
dress, to secure full printed
directions as to the proper
method of taking ffand caring
for your calf skins. | will very
gladly mail these to you free
postpaid, if you will send me
your name and so request.
In most ofthe towns of Yer
mont | have buyers but in
localities where | have none |
would suggest that a half doz-
en- farmers club together and
ship their skins in quantities of
Is or more in which case
will pay all freights after de-
livery at r. R. depot. | cannot
allow you wholesale prices in
towns where havea buyer but
where | have none | will
gladly arrange with any reli-
able farmer who is willing to
attend to the matter of collect
ing skins taken off in his
and in such case will
of course allow the buyers
commission.
G. S. PAGE,
HYDE Park, VT.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-09-24
Nav Ynrk WnNa.

IL notice n great difference In dress
and customs In New York from what
we have out our way" said an Indiana
man at the Hoffman. Now, there are
these red shoes. II "a man appeared on
the streets of my town with red shoes,
'dehannel shirt and sash he would be
mobbed. And yet those who wear
them here look nice and fresh and com
Portable never saw sash or red
shoes in my town. The first thing ]
noticed at the table here was n man
taking a lump OF sugar between his
fingers. | thought he was very inpolitc
at first, but ! soon saw that nobody
uses sugar tones. as we do.
"Then there's that individual butter
knife everywhere We've outgrown
the custom Of eating with "A knife and
everybody dipping into the same dish
with il, but we think one butter knife
Is good enough And yet II seems like
very sensible thing that man
shouldn't have to spread the rest OF his
food on his bread along with his but
ter, when you come to think OF IT, i
notice some Of these people don't
spread at all. but break their bread
with their fingers into pinches. don't
think we will ever get up TO the idea
that n man must go out behind the
barn to pick his teeth That's playing
ii a little too fine New York Herald.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-09-24

Even the Burlington Independent
admits that the Republican state
ticket in New York is a strong one
and that the Democracy will have to
hustle to get there this fall. This is
saying a good deal for a Democratic
sheet; but then Bro. Dodge was away
and the boys gave a little truth dur
ing his absence.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-09-24

VERMoNTERs AS PRIZE WINNERS
Some time since the editor of the
Mirror and Farmer of Manchester, N.
H., offered 800 in prizes for essays
on the manufacture of butter, the
money to be divided into purses of
$50, $25, $15 and SO. There were
121 essays sent in, of which 80 came
ON Vermont. and the committee,
after two weeks careful study, has
made its award, giving the first prize
$50, to Mrs. HI. d. Brown ofSt. Johns
bury Centre; second, $25 to Jessie L.
+. Clough, Thetford Centre; third $15
to Mrs. S. A. Stearns, Ringe, N. H.,
and fourth, $40, to E. F. Little, La
Grange, North Hero, Vt. 1t will be
seen from the above that three of the
-four prizes went to Vermont and that
the two highest prizes were awarded
Vermont Farmers wives.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-09-24

The New York Press says that Min
nesota and the Dakotas will realize
1925, 100000 from their crops this
year. We are glad fit. When the
farmers are prosperous everything
else fourishes. But then how calling
this must be to the "alliance" advo-
Gates who were loud in their predic-
tions of devastation and poverty
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-09-24

At the triennial session of the su.
preme council of the Ancient and Ac-
cepted Scottish Rite for the northern
Masonic jurisdiction of the United
States, the VermOnters who received
the 33d degree were Sayles Nichols OF
Burlington, George w. Wing ofMont-
pelier and Alfred A. Hall of st. AL
bans. Col. Marsh o. Perkins of Wind
sOr, was created an active member.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-09-24
Estate of c. w. 10 I'd an.

LICENSE TO Sci L.
State of Vermont, District of LamOille, ss.-In
Probate Court, held at Hyde Park, within and
for said district, the 14th day of September A.
d. 1891.
S. A. Fife, Administrator of the estate of
C. w. Jordan, late of WOcott, in said dis
trict, deceased, makes application to said
Court for license to sell all of the real estate #
said deceased, situated in the Town of VOL
colt, representing that the sale thereof is
necessary to pay debts and charges of admin
iStratiOn. WhereupOn, it is ordered by said
Court that said application be referred to
a session thereof, to be held at the Probate Of
flee. in said Hyde Park, on the 18th day of OctO-
Der, A. ID. 1891 for hearing and decision
thereon and, it is further order, d, that all
persons interested be notified hereof, by publ
cation of notice If said application and order
thereon, three weeks successfully in the NEWS
AND CITIZEN, printed at Morrisville and Hyde
Park, before said time of hearing that they
may appear at said time and place, and, if they
see cause, object thereto.
By the COurt.-Attest.
46 EDWIN G. WHITE, Judge.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-09-24

The Hardwick Gazette is very bit
ter toward the Republican nominee
for Governor of New York. 1t calls
Fassett "the INSCRIPTIONS tool OF
the Platt ring" and says the ticket
deserves to be beaten" Harris Dem
ocratic tendencies will crop out occa-
sionally "spite of all that hec can do"
All the same we would like to enquire
if Flower and Shehan, the Democratic
nominees, are not the tools of Tam
many Hall, the most corrupt politi-
cal organization known? AndifFlow-
er would have been nominated if he
had not been millionaire? After these
nuts have been cracked, will John
please give US an Interpretation of
the present Democratic Lieut.-Gov-
ernor's recent article ON the Tam
many ticket. Of the two tickets, that
placed in nomination by the Republi-
ems is by far the cleanest and best.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-09-24
ALL SEEKING CLAIMS.

WOuld-Be Settlers on the New Lands
Waiting for the Grand Rush.
GUTHRIE, OF, Sept 21-Yesterday had
little semblance to Sunday. All day the
streets were crowded with prairie
schooners, carriages, horsemen and foot
passengers, all damned into a shouting,
struggling, hurrying mass. At the negro
settlement of Langston are 1000 negroes,
all armed. All of these negroes are de
termined to have a claim or fight. On
every side of the reservations the line is
one continuous camp, and the number Of
people in waiting is fully 10000.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-09-24
Estate of Heman Story.

COMMISSIONERS NOTICE.
The undersigned, having been appointed by
the Honorable Probate Court for the District Of
LamOille, Commissioners, to receive, examine
sons against the Estate of Heman Story
late of Stowe. in said District, deceased
and all claims exhibited in offset thereto here
by give notice that we will meet for the pur.
poses aforesaid at the dwelling house OF
the deceased on the first day of October 1891
and twenty-fOurth day of February, 1892
IN. each of said days, and that six months from
the Goth day of Aug, A. ID. 1891, is the time
limited by said Court for said creditors to pre-
lOwance.
Dated at Stowe, VT, this 1st day of Sept
A. ID. 1891. S. G. ATWOOD,
III. j. HARRIS,
40 commissioners
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-09-24

An Enormous Brain and n Thin Skull
When Ivan Turgenef, the great Rus
sian novelist, died in 1888. his brain
was removed for the purpose of weigh
ing 1t, the distinguished physicians and
surgeons having often remarked the ex.
traordinary size OF his head. When
placed on the delicate balances the
brain was found to weigh exactly 2,012
grams. The meaning Of this can be
better understood when II Is known
that the weight of the average human
brain is but 1890 grams Turgenefrs
brain was the heaviest that has yet
been weighed, Cuvier's coming next,
his having weighed 1900 grams
There are many cases 10 which an
extraordinary intellect has been accom-.
panied by n heavy brain weight, but
men whose mental superiority Is under
stood by both friend and foe have often
had brains under the average weight.
One other peculiarly of TurgeneT
was the surprising thinness of his skull
When at school he often tainted from
being playfully tapped on the temples
by his schoolfellows The post mortem,
which revealed the enormous weight Of
the brain, also proved that the skull
was so thin that it would yield to tho
pressure of the fingers and thumb.-st
Louis Republic.