The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-02
TO CORNER GENIUS,
Prof. MOntheOn's Plan for a "Har-
vest Home of Genius.

From the New York Journal
Prof. Charles de Medicis Montheon, the
mathematical wonder and lightning cal
culator, has figured out that an enormous
amount of genius is going to waste in this
country To stop this loss of intellect, he
purposes to corral it and keep it Gagged
in a funny looking temple which he calls
the Harvest Home of Genius"
In the prospectus Of this remarkable
temple, Prof. Montheon explains:
we have almshouses for the paupers,
we have prisons for the criminals, we have
asylums for the idiots but We have no
place of shelter for the talented poor or
for genius inspired with sublime ideas
which at the time may perhaps appear
out of place.
Passing over the fact that the professor
classes genius with erirainality and lun-
acy and asserts that it should be locked
up in an asylum the reader of the pros
pectus gets down to hard pan.
He learns from the professor that the
American government, with huge lack
of wisdom, permits at low estimate one
creative brain daily to fall a. victim to
wickedness or insanity for want of due
recognition or proper support.
Any one can calculate that this involves
the loss of three hundred and sixty-fivc
separate and distinct geniuses per annum.
In a century we lose the services of $500
geniuses who, if properly taken care of,
might have solved many problems and
had a splendid time.
Prof. Montheon talked the thing over
with philanthropic lady and conceived
his Harvest Home of Genius" The lady
promised 10 furnish the gold for building
a structure To contain all the geniuses
who could be captured.
Ii was to be unique in every sense, ac-
cording to plans devised by genius, but
it was a condition that divine and not
human laws should govern the architect
ure of the editice large amount of delv-
ing was done by the professor into the
domain of geometry. He wanted to build
a rational geometric skyscraper, 200 feet
high according to divine laws, and with
out regard to those of architecture.
While doing this,he solved many unsolv-
able problems, including the squaring of
the circle. He had scarcely got his plans
finished when, unfortunately, the lady with
the money died.
'The genius still lives, however," he
says in his circulars.
The first story of the structure is to be
devoted to geometry. In this all the geo
metrical geniuses committed 10 the insti-
fution will be huddled together On the
next floor will be found the Euclid's Pons
Assinorum department. Going up another.
flight of steps, the genius is in the do
main of the Pythagorian problem; above
that will be the flats devoted to rational
mathematics; on the next floor the apart
ments of the Archimedian problem and its
devotees On the other floors will be 9th
er things.
The whole magnificent conception is to
be crowned by a fine observatory, in which
astronomical geniuses, armed with the lat
est telescopes, will glare constantly at the
heavens.
Prof Montheon, who has long hair and
a very remarkable appearance, has start
Toll
Aston Place. There every day from l to
D. M his disciples busy themselves in for
mulating a rational philosophy.
They have got 10 per cent. of ii done al
ready They hope 10 sink its precepts into
the youthful minds of the coming gener-
alton II will raise human affairs TO a
higher standard of morality and make no.
bier aims aud objects in life
When the philosophy has been con-
structed and adopted, all the geniuses viii
HE themselves 10 their Harvest Home"
which will have been built by that time
if the funds are raised The site for the
home is to be in the borough of the
Bronx where large quantities of waste
lands are at the disposal Of the purchaser.
The professor, as papt Of his life's work.
has esta blished the Montheon Society for
the Cultivation of Goodness. This society
reports that ii has cultivated large guam
Htfes Of goodness since IL was formed. It
has lS0 obtained the names OIL lnnumerd-
BILE geniuses who viii occupy rooms IN the
various wards of the Harvest Home"
eve nave not yet secured the funds"
saws she professor, vaguely, but all will
vet be we'll Before many years are past
the Montheon Temple will be an assured
fact. and the leading geniuses Of the city
will be residing Ia it,
There are large numbers of geniuses
who annoy their friends with their the
cries and. their constant talk about them
selves Prof. Montheon would be pleased
10 receive the names and addresses of all
these persons, so that they may be con-
signed to the institution as soon as it
opens There Is no doubt whatever that
their friends will be delighted to furnish
the information as long as there is the
slightest hope Of their being captured and
Gagged anywhere,