The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-10-21
WEIGHT OF THE HUMAN BRAIN.
Chinese Take the Lead With an Average q
30 Ia Ounces.

Chinese Take the Lead With an Average OF
80 Ia Ounces.
According to DIR. Bischof, of Bonn,
wAo has made extensive investigation
on this subject. the average weight OF
the male brain is 4S ounces and the fe.
male 43 ounces. The maximum is fixed
at 81 ounces and the minimum 81. In
cases of idioey it has been found weigh
ing only 20 ounces. Broca places the
lowest limit Of brain weight compati-
BILE with human intelligence at Sc
ounces. Bischof also weighed the
brains of ten cultivated and celebrated
! men, some of which he found to be be-
low the average, while none reached
the maximum. The brains of 119 or
binary offenders weighed IL grammes
more than the average. Broca COM
pared lis skulls taken from q vault
closed up not later than the twelfth
century with another series of 125
skulls taken from a cemetery belong
ing to the earlier years OF tho present
century, and found the average ca
pacity to be 1926 and 1,46s
grammes. showing considerable gain
during seven centuries of progress
i've civilization. As to the actual
weight of the brains of eminent men
full statistics are not obtainable. TAX.
ing individual cases, some % in mum
Der, Culver, the naturalist, heads the
list, with SAX ounces, but if size or
weight is an indication of greatness, it
Is difficult to account for the fact thst
the brain of Leon Gambetta, one of
the greatest Frenchmen Of the time,
weighed a trife less than 80 ounces.
The brain of a mulatto, who died at
Cincinnati some years ago, was found
to weigh 81 ounces. The heaviest brain
on record, which weighed 81 ounces,
according to DIR. Morris, was that OF q
bricklayer, who had 2 good memory
and was fond of politics, but could
neither read nor write, SO that, what
cver his potentialities, his actual &C.
quirements were no great" It may
occasion surprise to know that the sta
tistics of Chinese brain-weights show
them to exceed all other nations in this
respect The average brain-weight of
the males reached 50H ounces, and that
of the females 451z ouuces. This is an
average not attained, 50 far as yet
known, by any other nation, it being
fully 8 ounce. above tkatof the average
negro and ~ ounces above the Euro
pcan.-Pittsburgh Disp-tch-
"A Plea for Eeotism.
at might be worth something to see
ourselves as others see us, y says a writer
In the Voice, ''but the benefit accruipg
would be far less than Burns surmised,
since now some of us are happy through
the comforting egotism that buoys us
up If our spiritual selves were hung
to view, like q mirage. possibly the rev
citation might render us more valuable
service than great praise from admir-
ins friends or from misleading enemies
But life's possibilities for good arc 80
that we should regret exceed.
irgiy having viewed the expnsureA
soue of u are like the, harmless luna
tics. Ina the slid wards of asyluinS
who 'nag ne themselves to be kings or
Barring The adjustment Of
OF q RATIONAL basis 1t wouid
'ecn unwi-e to restore u sanity such
When we shall have lost tia.
trrst in self. that superb vital
ty that. enables one 70 go through the
touching only the highest places.
hen we have lost orr health or we are
old Egotism is the only pull
alton Of the existence that now i. And
When we have lest il we have lost our
srongest hold pa lie" +.