The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-11
A STUDY OF EARS.
The AuraI AppendaEes of some Wen
Known Men.
From the New York Press.

me that in no other physical feature does
the law of heredlty so strongly rule. In
deed, he declares that the ear is the only
feature by which an infalllble Identified
ton can be made. Noses, eyes, cheeks,
chins, lips, brows, etc, of forbears and
progeny may be alike. but if the ears do
not tally there is no lineal descent This
statement is asserted to be paradoxical,
but true.
What part in history has the human
ear played? Waive its faculty of hear
ing. What has it done besides hear? 1t
was early used as a support for rings.
You remember when Jacob went up to
Bethel to live, 1882 years b. c., he re-
quired his daughters to give up to him
all the strange gods they had in their
hands and the earrings which were in
their ears. He hid the rings under the
oak by Shechem, and Joshua, 800 years
later, set up a monument Of stone there
But the Bible does not tell who got the
treasure, and we are left to suppose that
Jacob slipped back from his new home
and dug 1t up. Roman soldiers used to
make sit in the ears OF prisoners for
purposes of identified ton, and this Italian
practice has come down to US in the ear
marks of cattle 'and swine Time was
when every hog and pig that rooted for
worms and cracked acorns for living
had its ears cropped.
When Achille Murat lived in Florida he
Toasted half hundred friends on cows
ears. Canniba.s are extremely fond Of
human ears. Ears have never been clas-
sified owing to their immense variety Of
size and form. I notice that the straight
lobe, growing fast TO the neck is becom-
ing more common each year, though The
curved hanging lobe still prevails. Women
nave much better Sn9Da1
They are smaller and lie closer to the
head. Some men can flap their ears after
the manner of donkeys-and they usually
| are closely related in intellect to that use
| full beast of burden.
Big ears that stand away from the head
and are thick through helix and antihelix
| are regarded a sign of a generous and
| coarse nature. Nordau says they Indicate
| degeneracy. but he forgets that the stand
| ing out may result from the boy wearing
| his hat too low. Surely all will agree that
| a man with a thin, small ear plastered
| against his head, will not do to trust or
| tie to. His nature may be refined md
delicate, but he will steal nine times IN
ten, and would rather lie at sixty days
| than tell the truth for cash. The great
| Napoleon had a small ear formed like a
shell, with the curved lobe. Washington
| had large ears, but they did not stand out
ward, nor were they thick Small ears
| mean seifshness.
| Admiral Dewey has a small ear, with
many angles, which tells US that he can be
| cruei and tyrannical as wen as delicate in
| fancy. Such is his character. John A.
| Mccall president of the New York Life,
has wonderfully small ears for man of
his size, but they are well shaped. John
| A. Stewart of the United States Trust
| Company looks always as if his ears are
| backed When a horse backs his ears he
jenkins of the American Loan and Deposit
Company stand out like a spinnaker on a
| cup defender. Gen. Louis Ftzgeralds lie
close to his head, and are pretty high up.
| Otto Bannard's are very low, showing his
| immense top head. w L. Trenholm and
| Charles S. Fairchild have cultivated tho
| ears of statesmen-very sloping
| President Vree.and of the Metropolitan
Street Railway, who looks the image of
| Bookmaker McDonald-"Flat-F jack
has tremendous ears with the antihelix
exceedingly thick and standing out far be-
| yong the helix. Mr.. Plat has the ear of
| philosopher, The top leans far out ana
| the lobe in. Il is rather over than under
the medium size. The ears of President
| Alpheus Stickney of the Chicago Great
| Western Railroad are nearly a right an
giles to his head, he has been listening so
| long and hard for a rise in the price of
c. G. w. President Maxwell of the Jer-
| sey Central has a woman's ears. Cal
| Brices ears were immense, with the as
pect of a mill hopper. There was no an,
tihelix. Cornelius Vanderbilts ears are
thick, homely, commonplace. They indi-
cate mediocrity. Gen. Sampel Thomas
| ears look as if they would fall off if he
| were to give them a shake
/ James r. Keene's ears are larger than
the average, and they are well set on.
| Addison Cammacks ears resemble an ele-
| plants, not in size or shape, but in the
general effect. j. Pierpont Morgan has
full-sized ear firmly glued on, and nearly.
straight up and down. The antlhelix is
thick and protruding, while the concha
| is of small diameter. John l. Blairs ears
are enormous, and they have the intense
philosophic slope. Age increases the an
gularity and prominence of the ear Mr.
| Blair is nearly a hundred years old Ros-
| well p. Flower had very large and thick
| ear, with extremely wide, flat ridges and
concha smaller than Mr.. Morgans. Rus
| sell Sage's ear is about the average size
well-shaped, sloping slightly and deeply
| lobed.
Richard Cookers ear is just like The
nan--plain about medium size, thick and
| coarse, close to his head, fiat, deep con
| cha John c. Sheehans is smaller and
extremely angular. The antihelix is very
prominent and the concha Of large diam
| eter. Inc lobe is of the straight variety
| City Chamberlain Pat Keenan's ears look
as il he tied them back at night. They
| are nondescript-like the man. Bird Sim
Colers are nearly round, and. like Gen.
| Thomas appear weakly sewed on john
| Scannell has an ear as big as the side Of
O house, with numerous convoiutions 1t
is long and narrow. One of the better
| cars in New York is pinned firmly on The
head of Col. William Jay. 1t is nearly
all that an ear should be- Frederic Rene
| Couderts ear is nearly perfect oval, suf-
! ficiently large to satisfy any critic. Il
stands wen outward. The bottom Of
Wheeler Ii. Peckham's ear stands further
| out than the top. This is rare joseph
Larocque has the statesmans sloping ear
| large and full ridged; Stephen p. Nash's
is Of the biggest in New York with broad
fan-top and protruding anuhelix. Am
bassador Choate has fine ear, of perfect
| size and Of about the right angle One
Of the remarkable things about William
NJ. Evarts who seems 10 have disappeared
| from the haunts of men, is the distance