The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-24

get at the paste.
Duplicate stamps had to be furnished,
and 1t Is now question whittier the de-
partment at Washington will choose to fur
nish stamps or whether 1t will show a
preference for appropriating 81 for cat
meat. AT any rate. the rats threaten to
become public nuisance, for if the casks
had gone out without the stamps their
contents would have been liable to seiz-
ure, and then the expense attendant up
this would have fallen upon the importer.
CONCERNING HATS AND HEADS.
Big Skulls Have No Advantages Over
Those of Lesser Dimensions.
When Mr.. Gladstone died the London
News stated that his head was of excep-
tional size, and gave an incident which
Gladstone told at Lord Ripon's residence,
| about a man who could not get hat large
enough till at last the halter called In
desperation, for an Aberdeen hat. The
point of this was that Scotchmen have
larger heads than Irishmen or English
men. The News recalls the special
study in hats made by DR.. Collins, in :hs
course of which it was mentioned that M.
Gladstone's number in hats was Z 3S.
A No. hat is the average English SIZE.
Sir Walter SCOTS and Lord Beaconsteid's
hats were Of this size. The hats of John
! Bright, Robert Burns, and Charles Dickens
were Z is, Lord John Russelrs 714-an
smaller than Mr. Gladstone's. But the
Gladstone hat was exceeded in size by
that of DR.. Chalmers, ga. Daniel OCon-
nell, whom Gladstone styled the greatest
lrishman who ever lived, wore hat of the
size OF S. The late DR.. Thomas. Archbish-
OPP of York, wore large s. and Joseph
Hume's was emphatically abnormal. IA.
At a meeting of the convention of London
University, DR.. Collins had 126 hats meas
ured and found that between 40 and Al
per cent were above the English average,
between % and 80 per cent were just the
average size, and 81 per cent were under
the average.
When Bismarck died, Herr Friedrich II.
Kranz, the present head of the old Frank
fort firm OF hatmakers, Martini & Co..
communicated some trade statistics 20 the
Hamburger Nachrichten,"- which the
London Times published TO: the benefit
of future biographers and Psychologists.
Fifty years ago. according y the first
record of the Martini 'tKopfmass ma
chine Bismarck's head had width Of
50 1-2 centimetres. During the last
years of his life his head had swollen to
the width of GO centimetres. 1t Is obvi-
Gus that this statement means hot
width, but a circumference, for the 62
centimetres are equal to twentyfour and
forty zone hundredth inches, which would
give him a size of about No. s. Concern
ing his heads swelling, this would mean
thickening of the scalp of two-fifths
OF an inch all round.
On reading these statistics 1t occurred
to us to call at what is generally sup
posed to be the leading hat store in this
country and probably the most numerous
Iy patronized of the big headed class
fperhaps in both good senses of the world
in this city, and to enquire of the manager
concerning the relative proportions of
size of heads in a large order He kindly
responded to our request, showing US that
in four lots of twepty-four dozen each,
total of LISP hats. there were the fol-
lowing sizes: 1-2. 3; SIS. So; 6 ga, III;
c rs 213; Z. 27S; Z is, 243; Z Ia, 165;
3-s, 10; 1-2, "a; SIS, 3.
The manager informed us that there are
calls for hats ga five or six during the
season. and there are many with Z SIS size
who have hats made to order. We asked
him If he had any objection to giving us
the name of some of the prominent men
having the largest heads not comprehended
In the regular averages. The result is ex-
,remely interesting. From nearly 100 we
select as follows. Each Of the following
wears a hat of size SIS: J. Pierpont Nor
gan. the banker; H. B. Hyde. of the Equi-
table Life Insurance Society; Capt ]. Bro
gan. of the police force; G. c, Beaman,
member of the bar; G. S. Hubbard, an
other lawyer; Prof. Moeller, ]. S. Barnes,
the banker; Col W l. Brown, publisher;
]. Z. Milholland. of the New York Tri-
bune;" DR. Griffith. Alexander Williams.
ex-inspector of police.
Each of the following wears size Z 81:
Prof Andrew Victor Herbert. the must
clan; F. II. Partridge. author; Justice
Clarence Meade and Mr.. McCutcheon. the
dealer in linens. DR.. jacob, the eminent
physician; Bishop Goodsell and Bourke
Cochran the orator, require hats of rs.
But all these. English and American. are
inferior in size to that of one of the reg
ular customers of the firm we consulted.
For him they regularly made a hat 3-S
In order to make comparison with En-
glish hats, we found that the English
measure upon the principle of the oval.
When a head is 81 inches long and l-2
inches wide, they add the two measure
ments and divide by two. giving Z as the
size of the head. The American method
is different. Here the circumference of the
head is carefully measured. and is always
estimated one-eighth more, so that Glad
stones head 1873 by the English meas
urement would be Z 1-2 American, and all
the American heads reduced to the Eng
lish standard would be one-eighth less.
Persons having large heads should not
fancy that this demonstrates greater abil-
ity than is possessed by those whose skulls
are smaller. nor should the latter be dis
Outraged for IT is easy to prove that
quality OF brain is as important factor
ms size. Disraeli was certainly one of the
ablest men who ever sat in the British
Parliament, and, in the opinion of JUSTIN
Mccarthy, a greater parliamentary orator
than Gladstone. yet his head was but
Z is. according to the American plan. Lord
Chelmsfords size was C 1-2: the Duke of
York's. SIS; Dean Stanley's. 6 "a. and
that of the Emperor of Germany, 67-S.
II man is distinguished from the lower
animals, physiologically, by the superior
development Of the anterior portion of the
spinal cord-that is to say, by the greater
size of his forehead. all other things be-
ing equal the relative location of the
brain in man must have much more to do
with the sum total of brain power meas
ured by mental results. Such phenomenal
beings as Blind Tom are not as rare as
might be supposed. He seems very ex-
traordinary because of his musical power
but similar unquestionable results of brain
CONFORMATION, quantity and relation to the
movements Of the mystical force that agi-
,ates them, can alone account for such pc
culiarities The largest heads of peasants
we have ever seen were among the Gre
tins of Switzerland. most of whom are but
little above idiots.
The old school phrenologsts with their
charts. can produce many plausible coinci-
dences, and they will always have a fol-
lowing, since those who have large heads
will he nredisposed to believe in their svs-