The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-08-30
The STUDY OF HEADS.
A chronological School Where Lee
tuTerS Attend,
One Of New YDtS Queer Institutes Where Students are
Taught the Secrets Of Crana Construction

Not every one knows that there is col
lege of phrenology in this city, and that
pupils attend its classes every year in order
to adopt the profession of phrenology pre-
cisely as other students fit themselves to
become lawyers, clergymen or doctors
The great majority Of the students hail
from country districts. The west supplies
L great number and they are of all sorts,
\ considerable proportion are what the
French call Originals" They are of the
sort that has made America equally origi
nal. They would rather work hard and be
their own masters than lead an easier life
in the employ of others. Their photographs
make some of them look like strong mind
ed and unconventional folks, with II pref
erence for new paths rather than old. Some
are well along in years and have dabbed III
many callings and professions before they
came to take up phrenology.
About one half the students expect to
make use of the science for money getting
They intend to lecture, either charging for
the lectures and then taking fees for max
ing cranial examinations, or giving the lee
lures free and charging for the eXamina
tions which usually follow. Others pursue
the study to assist them in dealing with
men and women or children in other pur
suits One graduate is an elocutiOnst,
another is an actor and others are clergy
men, LAWYERS and doctors. The actor says
he finds it valuable to be sure of the Ian
guage by which each function of the brain
expresses itself, for it is held that all kinds
of men Tor that men dominated by each OF
the various leading impulses have their
peculiar language. Indeed it is held that
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of getting ON and off horse cars, and OF
doing every other thing in life.
The official record of the institute shows
that already nearly $50 persons have taken
diplomas from this college. OF these about
one in seven have been women, some mar
ried and as many single. At least twenty
were or have become doctors, and an equal
number now Sign themselves reverend
a few are now lawyers. OF the foreigners,
some hail from Canada, England, Scot
land Australia, Switzerland, Sweden,
Denmark, Chilli, New Zealand, Spain and
Germany.
The institution was chartered by the New
York legislature in 1866, with power to hold
real and personal estate of the value of
100000 for no other purpose than that OF
promoting instruction in all departments
Of learning connected with phrenology, and
for collecting and preserving crania, busts
casts and other representations of the diff
fcrent races, tribes and families Of men
These must be kept for free public eXhibi
ton at all proper times. The society must
give, by a competent person or persons, IA
course of not less than six free lectures
every year, and must have annually Il class
for instruction i'll practical phrenology, ito
which shall be admitted gratuitously at
least one student from each public school
in the city of New York"
The founders of the institute were Amos
Dean, one of the founders of the American
News company; Horace Greeley the Rev
DR.. Samuel Osgood, A. Oakley Hall, Henry
Dexter, the hygienic physician whose medi
cal baths in laight street will be remem
bered by old New Workers.; Messrs. Fowler
4 Wells the phrenologsts; Nelson SiHer,
now professor in the institute and Lester
a. Roberts.
The institute does possess and preserve IA
museum of skulls, death masks and busts
and it is one Of the most remarkable and
valuable collections of the kind in the
world. The collection of Mr.. Laurence
Hutton is small and inconsiderable as com
pared with this. Taken from the actual
heads or faces, in life or after death, are
such casts as those of Nicholas Biddle, Cal
houn, Webster, Burr, Hamilton, Greeley
Lincoln, Sumner, Clay, Tom Ewing, Fanny
Wright, the first woman's rights agitator
General Scott, Edwin Forrest, George
Christy, Jim Crow Rice, the Rev. DR.
Chapin, Chastine Cox and Rugg, the muir
derers Edison, Seward, Zachary Taylor
Silas Wright, the only cPet of Wcbster'>
head, Tom Paine, Van Buren,, w. c. Bry
amt, kimball, the church debt raiser, Gen
eral Hancock, Horace Mann, j. Watsor
Webb and many other Americans.
Aaron Burr's-a little, old womani u
head-has the point of his nose twiste
forty degrees out of line, and it is seen that
, this was due to the loss Of several teeth on
one side of his mouth. The nose of Tom
Paine is even more awry. OF foreigners
the notable casts are those of Cromwell
Edmund kean, Dante, r. Brinsley Sher
idan, Sir Isaac Newton, Pere Hyacnthe
9 William Pitt, Voltaire and Captain Cook
} the navigator Eighteen in twenty of these
. are Individually genuine casts at first hand,
Nearly all tie Others are duplicates, and
two or three are models made from meas
urements. The warts on Cromwel's brow
the lines in his face and the matted tuft
! of beard below his upper lip give new
view VI HIS ltlCc-
Among the casts is one of Dr. f. joseph
. Gall, the founder of the science of phrenol
ogy. He lived perhaps $50 years ago In
school he found that he had no repeating
memory that he could not quote ANYTHING
or remember any words he ever read. He
noticed that other boys could, and present
ly he noticed that every one Of these BOYS
had full, rounded eyes. Bullying eyes some
OF them had, but all who could repeat from
S memory had more or less protruding eyes
{ and more or less fullness or conveXity un
0 der them. That led him to investigate
other peculiarities and he discovered that
other gifts were equally surely revealed in
other physical peculiarities of the heads of
men and boys. Good diners had IA prom
nent development in front of their ears
! Timid, cautious folk had a great width at
what might be called the upper back cor
! ners of their heads, and so on through the
e list He verified these marks by a thou
! sand instances in each case, so it is said
OF course that is nonsense, but he did what
q he could to verify his findings, and he gave
the world his discoveries.-New York Sun
a The Standby.
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coming to the conventon?" asked the re-
, porter.
why" said the man in charge of the ar