The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-02-06
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The smallest diocese IN the world. is said
20 ue thar OK s. He-- "a. Besides the hizr-
90. Ut Thomas r AalhV. WLose salary
IS s9tt. 10 mas Only three -clergymen
= collection OF G9 human brains. Gaze
fully prepared ana classified by. D.. Luys
fu-irz MS twenty vcars' service q abe
SalueIrsere ana Chafre nospfta Is. has been
recently presented Ly 3 n. % the .Far-s
museum. The collection IS unique IL con-
taius all forms OF mental disease mad
i-ess and idiocy and includes she only
preserved brain Of a hynorized subject in
existence.
Nearly every race has contributed =
e1autisrl. saws S0r.bUlr. hut t2e English.
have furnished far the larger proportion,
pa1t's. pernaps, because The nl-ssiish have
always been fond of seeing giants and
paying for the privilege. thereby drawing
the merit Of physical higness, -which has
always been modest. out Of its ul3eserved
onscurity- Next TO the English. the irish
have supplied the largest number. bur
the Irish giant is rarely grown nowadays.
since mat stock has been drawn upon so.
heavily by America. Germany ana the
United states have supplied. each eight
or nine men who have won publicity ard
seems TO be The American western states
that supply The American giants. ana or
war rccoles show that IA these regions
together with Maine and Vermont. the
average stature is the highest There have
been French and Italian, negro ana Arab
giants, but the number is few. and il -
me large races supply the most cases of
gl4ntlsm. 1t is a curious fact.fhat since
Biblical DAYS there have been no giants
among the Jews.
a grea- many devices are known for
the purpose of enabling people in house
10 see what is going on in the street
without opening their widows. a new
lnNenuon Of this nature is reported from
dalpeIstadt, Germany being a plan for
so SiIVerlHg glass that il reflects the
image when looked at from one side but
when ar fFssav. -.
parent as ordinary window glass II
TINS is glazed ia "a dwelhng-rGon ". ntiow,
any one inside can see all the life of the
street while any passer-by looking in
at the window VIII see but a mirror and
nothIhg more. This avoids, therefore, the
annoyance sometimes encountered i'm
glazing either clear window glass or
ground glass, in combining The special
advantages of both. one objection would
De that many people might stop to adj
JUS helr personal appearance at such
mirrors. An innovation on reversed lines
Is that recently made IN one of the Van
dcrbilt bathrooms. where the windows nv
day become large mirrors by night
through mechanical ARA ngements. and
mus add simply but wonderfully 10 the
brilliance of the scene.
If the peculiar "Pithecantnrouus Free
tus, the fragmentary skeletons Of which
nave Just oxen discovered in the island
OF Java he not the real missing link"
tor Whlcn me scientists have been search
ing IN vain so long in order 20 estab-
tS1 the physical connection between man
AMI the ape, the animal would certainly
seem, at least, TO justify the belief 1t
belongs says the Phla1olpha Record. to
an entirely new species. which is also
a new genus and "A new family of the
primates. The cubic capacity of the
skull is about two-th rds that II the hui
man average, and the skull itself aiton-
lshinsly resembles the earliest skulls Of
mankind. Furthermore, the femoral
bones prove beyond Il doubt that this
creature walked constantly cn two legs,
and that when erect ii was Quife equal i'm
hight TO the average male. 1t is more
related TO man than TO the aue, but is
liulSd to boil. The discovery of It's
skeletons in the carly pleistocene strata
of Java also favors the missing link
theory. for that would seem to have been
the particular geological era in the
earth's history which witnessed the adj
vent Of maniike creature, if not OF man
himself IL is certainly a striking c.in-
cidence, too, that this discovery. which
viii do so much to revive the so-callei
Darwinian theory. should have come Just
now when science was beginning 10 aban-
don q decided belief ia Il monkey ances-
tor Of man.
The outer wall Of Pelzin is about twen-
ty-seven miles in circumference, says