The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1898-07-01

Normal was over Friday, and that
evening a number of the teachers went
to the Christian church, where they
had been especially invited, TO listen to
a lecture on phrenOlOgy by Prof. H. NJ
Elliott, (BpsD-) graduate Of the Fowler
Il Wells school of pbrenOlOgy.
After discOursing briefly upon the
different temperOments, he gave from
a black board outline history OF phren-
OlOgy. In speaking Of Geo. COmbe, he
said: "He was born in Edinburgh, and
wasn't a fool, either" Just what was
remarkable about the modern Athens
producing one man who was not fool,
the lecturer did not take time to ex-
plain, but continued his biography of
the wonderful man Of Edinburgh, who
in the earlier part Of his life disbe-
lieved in phrenOlOgy, but in 1888 ar
rived in New York, and at different
conclusions. After COmbe had got all
of this arriving business off his hands,
he lectured on phrenOlOgy.
The professor insisted that the per
son who had told him that phrenologY
was thrown aside 70 years ago made a
mistake in the figures; and from the
logical way in which he reasoned con
corning the dates, doubtless he con
WINGED his hearers that it was not so
long as that that phrenOlOgy's Obse-
q1ies were held.
Then he finished Geo. COmbe's biOg-
Taphy, and spoke Of the work of Gall
and "that other man" two noted phren-
OlOgists. As we saw the not easily pro-
nOunced name Of Spurzheim on the
board we presume that he was the
"Other man" referred to. He recited
some interesting phenomena in sup
port of his theory in regard to tenn
Pronunciation instance, the fact that
a pugilist's muscles are we'll developed.
He was astOnishingly liberal with his
money, Offering ten dollars for each one
Of variOusly shaped heads, and also
offering to give away books
on phrenOlOgy to those who
would read them and not receive any
benefit therefOTm. But there are other
ways of earning money, so no one con-
scented to read the books He called
on several persons to come forward
and have their characters read, which
they did.
One young man had a we'll developed
observatory" besides his other lands
teuements and hereditaments, and also
the wonderful faculty of reasoning well
when he got on the right theory; and
he had, too, a few Of the . different
kinds of memory. The others who we're
teristics, and to prove that he did not
rely altogether on the shape of the
head, he took the hat of one subject, to
read her character FROM And he was
about as successful that way as with
any. A lady weighing a possible 100
pounds, was told that she would not
beat a person to death with a club, in
anger, because that was coarse. An
other that she would rather get out in
the open air than to set by the stove;
and the swelteriBg audience felt for a
prominence on their heads where the
lecturer indicated.
He worked an example on the black
board, but said be couldn't prove that
it was true; you can't prove pbrenOlOgy,
therefore it must be true, if arithmetic
is true.
This logic baf1ed the teachers and
they went home, to figure it out attheir
leisure: also to grasp that point on
child study. which was promised by the
lecturer, while he was examining the
head Of some full grown man.
The point, oh. where Is itg