The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-02-18
THE HUMAN HEAD.
Progress in knowledge Increasing
It's Size
Comparative Dimensions OF Cr~-
niums OF Famous Men OF
Ancient and Modern
Tfmes.

According to Prof. John II. Francis,
of New England Terrace, Orange, N. J.,
chronological statistician, as the world
I progresses in knowledge the human
grows larger and larger. AS a co1se-
I quence the men of to-day carry on eir
shoulders dome of thought. beside
which the occiputs of the ancient he
roes were small almost to insicnih-
cance. In q recent interview he sal:
"As civilization increases educa ion
becomes more and more general am ong
men. The brain begins it's training
at an earlier age than ever before, and
as our modern intelligence is subje, ted
to greater activity the brain deve ops
accordingly. Consequently the sias OF
the head expands. This is thorons hly
consistent with Darwin's theory OF vo-
luton, as well as with every prin, Pile
of science that know Of
'Such men as Caesar and Shn.es
peare were prodigies, and must be on
sidered apart by their very gei..us.
While admitting that the size of the
brain among ancients must have / zen
much less than that of man Ii, ing
to-day, am forced to this double on
clusion with respect to such a maa an
Caesar-namely, that what brain he
had must have been of the higheast ,ios-
sible- quality, and moreover, that ii be
lived to-day, with brain of such are
quality added to the enlarged size { [ it.
such as nature equips men with J. ow,
his genius would have been proror-
tionately magnifled.
Julius Caesar was a mighty man
for his times. II he lived to-day / dc ubt
if he would be much larger than Tom
Thumb. By a careful system Of cal
culation I figure out that the g-eat
Caesar would have worn 51s hat md
as for Shakespeare, colossal, fgura i've.
ly speaking, as was his brain, hav, not
the slightest doubt that he carricl Il
about without crowding in 6A hat
and that's figuring on him generou sly
too.
81 have been told that Napoleon V ore
6h hat in the latter years Of his ifc,
and from one to two sizes smaller len
he was simply an officer in the ny.
If Napoleon Bonaparte had ever cen
able to put on the hat of Gen. e. ant
it would have hidden him from CHI
from the crown to the shoulders.
washington was a good-sized ran,
yet he wore hat 21s sizes smaller laIi
whose immediate pr, de-
cessors, Presidents Harrison and C.,ve-
land, wore still larger hats-7k. Let
me give you a further illustration. A
census of the United States congress,
taken in the time of President tn or,
so years ago, shows that our legislator
of that time only wore on the average
D 6h hat. / doubt if there is siTgle
man in either house to-day who W, ars
so small size.
webster, OF course, had a phen ON
enally big head. OF his colleagues and
however, there was no
one who wore size as large as nat
Of the present secretary of state. j 1hn
Sherman wears T1s hat. Foster v ore
4 z, Blaine IN large size, and Bay ard
W close.
LET me conclude with further 81
ustration of my theory. Old Con mo-
lore Vanderbilt wore 6H. His OH,
William H., took hat a shade lar5er,
which the hatters mark at 67s and -10.
Willie K. Vanderbilt and his bro her
Cornelius wear 7Hs, and one of the Loys
Il the fourth generation takes hat
tilllarger than his father, uncle, grn nd
ather or great-grandfather = witch
loesn't necessarily prove that the
oungest scion is the brainiest.
"It is the same way with the Gou.ds.
ay Gould wore 6Z hat, while his
ons, George and Eddie, each requi-ea
"a. The probability is that the reNt
eneration of boys will go their illus
rious progenitor at least three full
izes better"-N. Y. Journal.