The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-09

unsatisfactory to be presented as facts
In science This remark led me on
my return to examine the subject my
self, and [ have since unearthed no
fewer than thirty distinct species of
the horse tribe; and it is now. think,
generally admitted that America is al
ter all the original home OF the horse"
in the pursuit of new fossil fields Pro-
fessor Marsh never allowed anything
to turn him aside. During the expedi-
ton of 1874 to the Bad Lands near the
Black hills ne and his cavalry escort
were twice driven back by hostile Sioux
Indians, who supposed him TO be search
ing for gold rather than bones. After
all other means OF persuasion had
failed Professor Marsh called a council
of the chiefs, and after smoking with
them and Teasing them. he explained
| the nature of his expedition. 1t was
discussed at length. and Red Cloud and
some of his associates finally offered
their protection on condition that Pro-
| fessor Marsh would carry their COM
plants and samples Of their nations TO
the Great Father in Washington.
On his return to the east Professor
Marsh visited President Grant and ex-
posed the frauds which he had seen
practiced on the Indians. The result
was a bitter fight with Secretary of
State Delano and the Indian ring. Sec
rotary Delapo began by calling the
professor "a Mr.. Marsh but the
prompt substantiation of the charges
| forced his resignation and retirement
| to private life, and worked the political
ruin of nearly everyone connected with
the Indian ring. This is, perhaps, the
| only instance in which a private citizen
has successfully fought a department
of the United States government in his
| efforts to expose WrOng-dOing. Red
| Cloud paid Professor Marsh the high
| est compliment known to the Indian
code. He presented him with his pipe
and tobacco pouch. afterwards visiting
him in New Haven.
The bone-hunting chief" he de-
clared, through his interpreter. lis the
only paleface who keeps his prom
/ ises."
! professor Marsh made an exhaustive,
study of the brains of animals and he
has advanced some rather startling
! conclusions. According to scores OF
! comparative measurements Professor
Marsh found that the average weight
| of the Japanese brain was greater than
! that of any other race. This would
. indicate that the Jap is the coming
man; that the course of empire
still takes its way to the westward
While the white race has been domi-
nant in war, in art, in literature and
I in commerce, the mongOls of Japan
! have been slowly building brain tissue,
the results of which are already be-
I coming apparent. Tomorrow, proph-
esied Professor Marsh, they may be in
F, the van of civilization
Professor Marsh was impatient with
| the science that collects a few facts
| and then leaps into print with uncOn-
sidered theories and UNDERGONE conclu-
sions
EXPOSED THE CARDIFF GIANT.
| 1t was Professor Marsh who exposed
| the. famous Cardiff giant. In October,
| 1869. a. farmer named Newell. living
near Cardiff, y. Y, twelve miles south
] of Syracuse, was digging well, when
he unexpectedly unearUhed q stone
giant ten feet long, with body, head
and limbs in perfect proportion. 1t
was at once proclaimed as the remains
! of a prehistoric man, and numbers of
scientists made pilgrimages Of exam
! ination and recorded their belief in its
very great value as a scientific dis
l-covery. Even the state geOlogiSt of
New York became greatly interested
! IN the giant and endeavOred to have it
sent to the state museum at Albany.
But it was finally placed on exhibition
! at Syracuse, where it soon became an
attraction almost equal to q circus.
Special trains were run from the sur
rounding country to accommodate the
! people who wished to see it, and its
owners are said to have refused an
! offer of $300.0 600 in cash for it, although
I they subsequently parted with quar-
! ter share. So important did the relic
become in the eyes of the scientific
world that Professor Marsh visited
| Syracuse and made an examination OF
the giant. The next day he wrote to a.
friend:
/ IT IS of very recent origin, and d
most decided humbug."
| He found that the figure had been
cut from a block Of gypsum. similar 10
that found in many parts OF New
| York, and a close inspection revealed
the presence of human workmanship.
/ las gypsum is soluble in about 400
parts of water" he wrote, "a very
short exposure would suffice to obliter-
ate all traces Of toOI-narks and also to
| roughen the surfaces"
! Professor MarSh's letter was pub
| lished in a Buffalo newspaper. The ac-
| count of how the stone man was made
! had the effect of stimulating the manu-
| facture Of giants, and, to the aStonish-
ment of every one, half dozen Cardiff
! giants were being exhibited around the
country within a year. Recently the.
practical joker who made the giant told
| the story of his deception for the first
| time
| DISPOSING OF \ GIANT
Years later marvellous accounts came
! from Nevada of the discovery Of human
| footprints in the sandstone strata at
Carson City. Each OF the prints was
| from eighteen TO twenty inches long,
about eight inches WIDE having the
| exact shane of a. moccasined human
| foot. There We're regular right and left
! tracks, with d distance between them
of from eighteen to nineteen inches
] They were at once proclaimed as the
remaining evidences of d race OF giants
which once inhabited the Pacific coast,
and the undOubted authenticity of the
! impressions on the stone induced not a
| few men of scientific DretenSiOuS to
| take this view. Such d discovery at
once aroused the keen interest of Pro-
fessOr Marsh, but after an examination
| of the prints he came to the conclusion
| that they were not made by men at all.
! He read a paper on the subject 10 the
National Academy Of Sciences, with
which he presented q. carefully drawn
picture of the huge skeleton foot of an.
extinct sIoth found in the same general
region and in the, same geological hOrl-
zon A comparison of this with the outs
line of the footprint showed cOnclu-
sively that it was d sioth and not a
man that had strOlled slowly along the
shore of this prehistoric lake and left
| his footprints on the sands of time.
Professor Marsh was also fond OF
telling of an encyclopaedia article
| which was commended to his attention.
The writer, wishing to give modern
man a graphic idea of the appearance
| of his remote ancestors, had made q
restoration of an extinct animal in flesh
| and blood but. unfortunately he had
placed the head on the end of the tail.
A COUP IN PTERODACTYLES.