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The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-11-06

MEASURING CRANIAL CAPACITY.
A variety of methods have been
ADOPTED to determine the cranial capac-
ity They all have certain advantages
ana disadvantages. The ideal method,
OF course. would be to fill the interior
Of the calvaria with fluid introduced
through the foramen magnum. and then
measure the amount of liquid contained.
but this is open to grave objection on
account Of the difficulty Of making the
skull water tight OF recent years an
ingenious way OF overcoming this diff
ficuity has been introduced. A fine
Bladder is introduced into the inside Of
the ca,varia, and into this the fluid Is
poured, We are unable, however, to
speak from experience as to whether
this arrangement is satisfactory or no.
or ether plans adopted the most COM
mon are those In which small shot (No.
s for preference), small glass beads or
fine seeds Of various kinds are used
Simple though it appears to measure
skulls In this way, by pouring In shot
and then pouring 1t out again and TAX
ing its cubage, 1t requires very consid
cradle experience before any degree of
care must be taken to use the same
measures and tunnels into which and
through which the shot Is poured. The
height from which .he shot Is poured
must Always be the same, and precisely
the same manipuatons must be EN-
plo.ed in packing" the shot in each
case else very considerable differences
Ia the measurements will be the result.
Adopting some such method-and it ia
of advantage to use that most COM
monty employed. viz, that recommend
ed by Brcca, as the results are then
comparable with other observations
has been found that the cranial capac-
ity in man ranges from one thousand
cubic centimetres to eighteen hundred
cubic centimetres. Comparing this
with what we observe in apes, we find
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-11-06

lines which best fit him for the profes-
sion he has in view
The school of the goth century, ac-
cording to Mr. Seaver, will be a schoo
for the develo9ment Of high scholar
ship. The pupils will carry their ac-
quirement to q much higher standard
than is now the case. The high school
Will be the peoples university and will
do much of the work that is now being
done by the colleges. Everything
worth young people learning will be
taught, and all young people who wish
to learn will be free to come for in
struction as long as they please. And,
finally, the ideal high school is going
to pay supreme regard to the health
of it's students and its teachers. Ply
steal exercise will not be neglected.
There will be time enough given to it
through the day. there will be libra
ries and reading rooms, and altogether
the stHoolHouSe VIII De pleasant place
in which the whole day can be passed
with benefit to both mind and body
Fine enough, even for Boston. We
notice that Superintendent Seaver did
MT say anything about the place of
football in his ideal school, but doubt
less it will be an important one.
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head in great folds, holding them by a
buckle and by piercing a pair of quilts
through the cloth in at-pin fashion.
This sort Of thing Is done also In velvet,
but the amateur will make a mistake
II she tries to make the hat the way
1t looks as If it We're made. The result
will be purposeless looking bunch
Felt cloth hats. with brim stitched in
to flexible shape and with crown left
bulgy and loose, are wound about with
a scarf of the same cloth held by the
quill of an eagles feather The gray
rough rider golf hat with the down
slanted crown, the white knotted silk
tie and the santed white quill feather
are all gone by. If you have one give
1t away to dear Cousin Mary who lives
some where that stays two years behind
the latest.
Two hats to keep, are shown here
with. The upper one was gray felt edg-
ed at the brim with black velvet. Two
rows OF this velvet encirced the crown,
and for further trimming there were
two gray velvet rosettes and a large
gray sea gull Biscuit felt was the ma
terial of the other hat, whose brim was
faced with heliotrope velvet In front
was big rosette of the velvet, and
large white rosette appeared at each
side. on the hair was tab of rich
white lace, Straw appears in many
new hat and seems likely to be in use
all winter. Velvet and feathers are
used in so liberal quantities for trim
ming, however, that the straw counts
merely as an adjunct. FLORETTE.
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! that the man with the lowest capacity,
viz. one thousand cubic centimetr=s.
has capacity twice that of the highest
apes, for in gorllas we find capacity
OF orly five hundred cubic centimetres,
| or the reabouts while orangs and CHM
panaees are considerably lower, with
capacities of 430 cubic centimetres ana
40 cubic centimetres respectively,
though enc must not overlook the fac.
that their body weight is much less
than that of the gorilla.
For convenience of classification, cal
varia are grouped according to their Cd
pacities. Those with capacity below
1850 cubic centimetres are termed mi
crocephalic, those between 1850 cubic
ecn1imetres and 1,450 cubic centimetres
are unacceptable, while those of I,a50
cubic centimetres are called megaceph-
alic.
the first group (microcephalic) ill
clude Australians, Tasmani ahor'-
sinrs of India, Veddahs, Bushmen Hot.
ten!ots, Andamanese, Akkas and other
pygny races. The unacceptable COM
prise Malays, American Indians and
African negroes, while the megacepfa-
lie races are composed of Europeans,
ancient Egyptians, Mongolians, mixed
Polynesians, EsQumaux, Kafirs and
Zulrs -Knowledge.
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POLISHING pETRrFIED WOOD.

| A@oLAh1IAIANS tVCOD.
/ The polishing works of this city is
now engaged on the stupendous job of
| getting out S1,000,000 worth Of polished
chalcedony, or petrified wood, to be
taken to the Paris Exposition. This
petrified wood Is hauled from its ma
tive heath in Arizona distance of
sixty-five miles, to a railroad, and then
shipped to this city to be cut and pol
ished, this being the only place in the
world having facilities for treating the
| petrifaction, which is seven-tenths as
| hard as diamond. 1t is shipped here in
| great logs and stumps, Weighing
| many tons each, just as they have lain
for many ages during the process re-
| CURED by nature to turn the wood into
beautiful and variegated colofs Of
stone. The process of saving the stone
up in shape for polishing ia most tedi-
| GUS, the huge machinery used for the
| purpose being able to saw only from
an inch to three inches a day into It..
After being cut and polished the stone
Is worked UP into every conceivable
shape, from cuff buttons to tops for
center tables and great columns which
cost small fortune. All kinds. of Jew
elry is made from 1t, as well ais trink-
cts and handsome articles suitable for
souvenirs.
One of the chief attractions at the
Worlds Fair was the exhibit of chal-
cedony, which had been polished and
prepared in this city 1t is stated that
during the fair sales Of this stuff were
more than 100000 month.
The great exhibit which is to b.
made in Paris will be wonderful ad-
vertisement for Sioux Falls, for the
reason that nowhere else on earth Is
there machinery mammoth yet delicate
enough to saw, polish and put into
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WRONGS IN, PHTLA DETPHIA.

If the people of Philadelphia don
realize their sad situation it will not be
the fault of the Municipal league of that
city. The league has just Issued q cir
cular showing how poorly the taXpay-
ers' money has been spent 1t appears
that the general expenses of the munic-
over twenty years. rising from $13, 446,
451 In 1875 to $27,075 013 in 1897, A very
salary account, the entire expenses of
every kind of all the city departments
in 1886 being no more than the salary
and wage list alone ten years later
Along with this profuse expenditure for
the office holding class has gone shame
full neglect of the wants of the people
Not enough school houses have been
provided to meet the demand, and at
the present time seven thousand school
children are on half time" while ten
thousand children, between eight and
sixteen, are not in attendance at school.
And the water supply Is so poor that
typhoid fever kills hundreds of people
every year whose lives might be saved.
IT is notorious that Philadelphia has
been badly governed What she seems
to need is a new charter, one-man power
and secret sessions. Those will set her
all right ...
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ut was quite true" said I. 1.-THE
study of man is-woman."
did you see the doctor?"
II had the blues" said l. $50 took
the doctor with me. Safest, you
| know"
She rose quickly. And the Babylo-
| MAN bun?" she whispered wistfully.
If you come w. those steps
pleaded, Il will show you head OF
| Aphrodite all the world and his wife
would come to see if they knew of it.
| At least all the world would"
"Oh! well, I'll come-as I'm not all
the worlds wife" said she.
| yet" said I, under my breath, fin
! ishing the sentence. But + think she
| heard me, for she ran UP the stairs with
all the lightness and thoughtessness of
| fourteen. There is only one thing
| makes women young-and young wo-
men younger. / followed more slowly
as beftted my years, and 1 saw that
Cerberus had opened one eye.
"Aphrodite isn't quite the same" said
| /. There is a change. She has grown
older"
impossible" she cried, ''love never
| grows old
"All the same" commended, there
is change. The last time I was here
the halo of eternal youth hung above
that glorious head of hair the gravity
of youth-for youth has ever the most
serious air--lay on the lips: and the
perfect blindness of the eyes invited
abandonment to passion and servitude."
And I sighed, not too regretfully.
"And now?" she queried laughingly
"Do not laugh" said 1. Poor Aph
rodite! / am sorry for her. Age has
touched her golden hair; Age has laid
the rod of resignation to her lips; Age
has opened her eyes to see-before her
something newer and fresher and more
beautiful '-
You are not English, 1 VOW said
Miss Nancy Power. You are too mag
NATIVE"
"You cannot talk with winged things
without wishing to fly said /.
Flying is rather risky" said she,
looking at the watch that winked on her
lapel and hanson is good enough
for me-
So we walked silently to the en-
trance.
give HE your IEodl, odih anu
give you back
/ presented the parasol.
Your reputation"
We went down the courtyard with
Miss Nancy looking rather serious. /
patted myself on the back--quite i'm
partially.
TN going back myself" she apollo
gized for barring my entrance with the
s,lnshade.
| bowed.
There are reasons" she said.
Again bowed.
Nevertheless, said she, touching
that Babylonan bun"
Dreams are better" said I meaning
ly, and she flushed, "Besides," said I,
really the buns are rather stodgy."
''Goodby," said she, Il hope haven't
lost anything"-her eyes showing she
thought of Mrs Mcray-Fox and her
speech
What is lost" said +, lis worth
ktering-s misunderstanding of some
thing else.
She was gone In summer Of smiles.
Black and White.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-11-06
IN UTCITOH'S PISTON.

uperintendent Seaver of Boston has
had vision of what high schools are
to be, or ought to be, in the next
century and he has told the Schoomas
The ideal high school OF the next CEN
fury, he said, will be one for the devel-
opment of individuality. II will offer
many courses and in such a way that
the student will have free choice Of
them all, under which method the stu
dent will frame his own course of
study. Under this free choice of stud
les every student will assume largely
the direction of his own educa ton
The responsibility o, making much or
little of his opportunities will rest
chiefly with him. A students fixed
purpose may be to prepare himself as
best he can in the limited time at his
command for commercial employment
1t may be that his time is very short
and that bookkeeping is about the only
study he can afford the time to take
In the ideal school he will be permitted
to take this study in his first year, and
not be obliged to wait until his second
or third year, and meanwhile expend
much effort on other studies which are
beside his purpose. BY this plan. also
the student will not be obliged to await
any study in particular. ' but to delve
as his ambition suggests along certain
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-11-06
ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations, Wants, Rents, and other small
advertisements One Cent Word each IN
sertion. Five Cents a Word for full week
(seven times.
Display advertisements. per inch, one IN,
sertion, $1.20; each subsequent Insertion, III
cents; one week, So. 20; one month, $40; one
year, $40. -,
Obituary Notices, in prose or verse, 10
cents per line. Notices of Births, Mar
riages, Deaths, and Funerals, 90 cents each
Local Notices, 10 cents per line.
Yearly advertisers are limited to te9lf
own immediate business (all matter TO De
unObjectionabley and their contracts 90 not
include Wants, To Let, For Sale, etc.
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Bro0ksAQQ:
FUR MERCHANTS

Invite examination of their care
fully selected stock of Fur Gar
ments, embracing exclusive novel
ties in Scarfs, Fancy Neck Pieces,
Collarettes and Muffs, of Hudson
Bay Sable, Russian Fox, Lynx,
Persian Lamb, Stone and Black
Marten, and American Fox.
Referring to precedingannounce-
ments we beg to call attention to
the following That in fashioning
and finishing of our garments we
exercise the utmost neatness and
painstaking care that all notice
able patterns are limited to small
quantities that we have special
facilities for obtaining the newest
designs, excluding every style,
fabric and cut which can be imi-
tated in goods of inferior grade.
Fur Lined and Fur Trimmed
Capes and Opera Wraps.
At Very Moderate Prices.
XXVI. SEASON.
CHAPEL, corner State Street.
GOLF CAPEs.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-11-06

Paris and Berlin will probably be put
months preliminary agreement has
been approved by the German post
master general, and the consent of the
German foreign Office is regarded as
certain. There is, apparently, no OPP
position on the part of the French gov
eminent, but for the French line some
$150.000 will have to be raised from pri-
waite sources The line will go from
Paris to Chalon sur Marine and Verdun,
thence via Metz to Frankfort and Ber-
telephone line from Paris to Rome via
Milan.
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Fashion NOTES.
All Sorts Stylish.

The variety of current millinery is re-
markable. Fur hats and hats trimmed
freely with fur are seen alongside hats
almost summer-like in material if not
in treatment, Boat shaped hats have
the up-turned brims covered with fur,
or with grebe, the rest being loosely
draped stitched cloth or velvet. A fine
narrows and overhangs the space be-
tween the eyebrows, and a sweeping
complete such a model. There are bull
gy turban affairs, which look as If one
had taken generous breadth of stitch
ed cloth and laid it loosely about her
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-11-06

Dr. Lehwess proposes to undertake
IAN automobile trip from Picking to
London, or a distance of 5000 miles, the
greater portion of which is through a
practically unknown country. spec
ial carriage, built to order for the ex-
traordinarily severe work, is being
made by Paris firm. The car has a
carrying capacity of fuel and water
sufficient to propel it 300 or 400 miles
The start will be made about the end
of February or March. The car will
be run through to Brindisi and from
there 1t will be taken by water to the
east. The Doctors companions will be
two mechanics. There is no question
that this is serious attempt which is
being made.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-11-06

The Georgia house of representatives
has passed bill providing for the cleo
ton of railroad commissioners by the
people. The vote was ia to II in favor
of the measure. The bill, as 1t passed,
contains an amendment by the COM
mittee providing that the commission
ers should be elected for terms of two,
four and six years, respectively. The
amendment also proposed by the com
1nittee, prescribing that eligibility Of
candidates, was voted down The eff
feet is to make any one eligible for the
position of commissioner, whereas the
existing law provides that one shall be
a railroad man, one a lawyer and the
other a practical business man.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-11-06

1t Is noted that while the Gould for
tune Of s72,000,0oo paid total tax of
approximately $4,000, the Vanderbilt
fortune, provided the estimate of $780,
100000 is correct, will have to pay, to
both State and nation between $500, :
900 and 100000. This difference is ex-
planned by the federal war tax, and
also by the fact that a larger part Of
the Gould money, goes to collateral in
stead of direct heirs which means an
increase in the rate.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-11-06

Facts gathered by the income tax
commission of Great Britain show that
out of total adult male population of
12,500,000 more than 10000, 900 earn less
than $3.50 year The income tax is
collected at the rate of 16 cents on each
S. above $3.50, and the total tax, which
last year amounted to nearly 100000,
O00 was contributed by not more than
100000 people.
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1t doesn't always pay to be as funny
hs you can be- The New Orleans
Times Democrat quotes IAN old mer-
chant" of its own city as telling what
a really good joke, uttered by his own
lawyer, once cost 1t seems that the
merchant was a party to a suit before
a Judge of known Feasibility, and
whose prejudices it was most desira BILE
not to offend, MY attorney" said the
narrator, was really brilliant man,
but he had acquired fatal reputation
for wit, and felt bound to live up to it,
in or out Of occasion. While he was
making his speech, the judge interrupt
ed to correct reference to the evil
dence. Tt seems to the court he said,
very testify that you have quoted that
statement exactly upside down Tt
will seem all right, then, when your
Honor is reversed replied the lawyer,
and everybody laughed except myself
and the Judge My smart advocate
couldn't resist chance to show off, al
though he knew he was in the wrong,
and as the old man had been recently
reversed several times, it was naturally
a sore subject Anyhow, | lost the
case, and I'm satisfied the remark
cost me $4,000 cash.
The increasing difficulty experienced
by English farmers in making living
and the persistent tendency of the rural
nopulation to migrate to the cities have
rronooted the orga nization of the Wo-
mems Agricultural Association by the
Countess of Warwick and other promi-
nent persons. Lady Warwick presided
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LEIiyHRED RY CARRIERS IN THE CITY
10 CENTS A WEEK, 30 GENTS A
MONTH, $3 FOR Six MONTHS pc
YEAR. THE SAME TERMS BY MAIL
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-26

buttons, beginning with the first number
of the magazine were The Autocrat Of
the Breakfast Table"
A new American novelist is to be intro
duced shortly through enc of the leading
magazines. He is Mr.. Booth Harrington
OF indianapolis. His father is we'll
known lawyer of Indiana, and the young
man, as l learn from personal friends of
his is already well-known and much adj
mired there. He had quite brilliant ca
reen al Princeton. whence he graduated
in 1893. He had already shown decided
literary preferences and aptitudes, and he
has ever since devoted himself exclusively
and strictly 10 literary pursuits He soon
began the novel which is now to be pub
lished-"The Gentleman From Indiana. 1t
Is called-but has at intervals turned from
il for other work. ! have read the manu-
c<ript of his novel, and / hardly see how
il can fail of wide popularity. To begin
with, it tells of a good, interesting story:
it Is rot one Of those moves through
which you st wondering whether any
thing Is ever going to happen. Then Il is
extremely attractive in its characters and
in its outcome. Throughout Il is racy of
the soil to which Mr.. Harrington is native;
any one who knows one of the smaller In
diana county towns will see il in its fun
reality In Mr.. Tarkington's pages. He nor
trays it fondly, and thereby all the more
faithfully. r. C. Martin.
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wounded in Cuba, or to Manila.

John vcCeechan was among the first
TO enlist at the call for volunteers, and
went to Cuba with the Seventy-Arst New
York Volunteers Al the Battle of San
Juan a buffet went through his left foot,
and after belug in the hospia! awhile he
came to New York on furlough. The
wound healed quickly. and he took his Old
position agaln,os varnisher in piano fac
tory and held il until the regiment was
mustered out.
This was just at the time of The renewed
Manila excitement. and hearing that the
Grant vas TO sail at once with troops, he
presented himself at The recruiting office
and summoned his brother 10 HIM, simply
requesting on his arrival, that he take
home his citizen clothes. lie had enjoyed
his army experiences, had no complaint TO
make. and had ra-en,isted In the Fourth
United states Infantry. which was hast
ened TO Manila prepared to fight.
McGecehan Is the only volunteer known
70 have joined the forces at Manila after
having been wounded in The fight IN Cuba.
He Is about 25 years Old, and was born in
Scotland. His family has only been N
this country ten years, but an uncle of the
plucky volunteer, a Daniel McGeechan,
fought in our civil war
The much talked Of hnrdshiDs and poor
food Of The Cuban campaign have not
daunted o least one gallant Bad from leav-
ing a good home and a good position,
where he was liked by his fellows, AND
again Offering his services for three more
years of active army service.
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Plant System.

IN Meridian Tlme-one Hour slower Than civ Tim.