The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-08-28
MEN AND WOMEN WITH HORNS.
Curious Adornment of Which There
Is Scientific Record.

Oh w n1Ch mere
Is Scientific Record.
From the Revue des Revues
This phenomenon is more frequently
met with than is generally believed
Such is the force of prejudice that
nearly all of us would rather have two
noses of four feet than the emblem
which in bygone ages was considered
th1 supreme ornament Of man. 1t is in
this view that horns are attributed to
gods and heroes. Alexander the Great,
When he proclaimed himself the son of
Jupiter, gave orders that on the coins
which should be struck thereafter he
should be represented bearing horns
Michel Angelo, when he made a statue
of Noses, depicted the Hebrew legisla-
to- with horns, as a sign Of manly
strength. The kings of India were wont
to have horns attached to their helmets,
as q mark of their supreme rank. The
great gods, like Jupiter, Pan and even
Astarte. goddess of the Syrians, We're
represented with horns, as an indication
of their mighty power. In the course
of time the horn lost its significance,
and ceased to be regarded as a mark
of splenGor, force and dignity.
NJ. yilleneuve has written a book in
which he describes seventy-one cases
of horned human beings. Fifty per
cent of these occurred in the cases of
men who had the horns. like animals,
on the forehead. The statistics show
that more women are horned than men.
and the horns of the women are usually
longer than those of men. In the Brit
ish museum is the largest specimen of
a human horn. 1t is eight inches in
length and ornamented the head of
noble EEglishman. In the seventeenth
century a Mrs. Allen, of Leicestershire
England, had pair of horns So far
from being ashamed, she was proud Of
them and wore them as an ornament
all her life. They attracted to her. 1t
IS told. numerous admirers Another
English woman of the same town
known as the beautiful Mary Davis
had pair of horns, which were regard
ed as an addition to her charms. She
had them cut off four times but thew
grew again. One growth was present
ed to King Henry ". of France.
NJ Lamprey and other travellers have
toid OF people who number among
them numerous specimens of horned
men and women These people are
found in certain regions of Western
AFRICA. In 1887, NJ. Lamprey relates.
he found in the African territory of
Ganlm several imposing types of horn
ed men and women. One of these
was a notwithstanding negro with
two horns, which in his case sprang
one from each side of the nose
as having horn on the side of his
head about seven inches long. with
three branches like the horns Of a
stag.
Are horns hereditary? 1t would an
pear from the observations Of nhv-
sicians who have fully studied these
eXcrescefces that they are sometimes
hereditary, though not as a general
rule. N. Dublanc relates in ..The
Journal de Pharmacie" for 1890 that
the Medical society sent him for analv-
sis three human horns, of which one
was cut from the head of the grand
father of the person who bore the 9TH
er two. Animals that are not usually
horned sometimes, like the human
race, put forth Unexpectedly a deco
ration of this kind There are we'll
authenticated cases OF horns being
found on dogs, horses and hares: and
there is even one case related by a
trustworthy physician of their being
seen on a cat. What is the nature Of
this formation? According to NAL
piShi, whose opinion is entitled to great
weight, horns are the nervous pro-
longation of the skin. Bieschu. an
other judge not to be despised. saws
they are due to a morbid secretion.
Without entering into details on this
subject, it may be said that it is
agreed that in their essence human
horns are analogous. in their sub