The Savannah morning news., 1901-07-18

neo, but some authorities advance the
theory that they are afflicted with he
reditary malformation, which would
tend to add color to the belief that this
relic of a remote ancestor can be trans
mitted.
| "A tailed race of princes have ruled
| Rajoopootana, and are fond of their an
cestral mark" says one authority, writ
| ing of an East Indian tribe.
| In the East Indies there is said to
| be a tailed race of natives, the benches
| of whose canoes are made with aper-
| lures to fit the caudal appendage of
| each rover. At one time, according to
another authority, the presence of tails
in the orient was taken as sign of
brute force.
Here is a remarkable story from
Paraguay, where a tribe of long-tail-
ed Indians is said to have ben discov-
cred: Zone day a number of work.
men belonging to Tacura Tuyn, while
engaged in cutting grass, had their
| mules attacked by some Guayacuyan
| Indians. The workmen pursued the In
| dams, but only succeeded in capturing
a boy of eight. He was taken to the
house of Senior Francisco .Galeochoa,
| at Posedas, and was there discovered
to have a tail ten inches long. Upon
Interrogation the boy stated that he
had a brother who had a tail as long
as his and that all the tribe had tails. ="
| Emanuel KONG, son of doctor of
laws, had such an appendage half
span long, which grew directly down.
ward causing much discomfort" ac-
cording to one authority Emanuel was
alive in 1890, but the writer neglects to
state where he lived. His caudal APP
pendage was gracefully coiled. Blanch-
ard, a European naturalist, describes
a like adornment fully a span in
| length" DIR. Think of Broussa, in
| 1920, describes Kurd of % who had a
posterior attachment containing four
| vertebrae.
Before a Berlin Archaeological So
eiety there were lately exhibited two
adult male Papuans, in good health
| and spirits" brought from New
| Guinea. Each had a tail containing
| bones.
In Cochin China was found boy of
| twelve years who had tail foot long.
| He was known as 1.-The Moi boy" and
was studied by scientists. DR.. Bartels,
a German pathologist, describes TWEEN
| ty-five human beings with various eau
| dial appendages.
| Granting that the evolutionists are
right in their theory that the occur
renee of the tail in man is a reversion
| to our lower ancestors, such an I'M
wieldly inheritance cannot be laid to
the door of father ape. Grandfather
monkey must be to blame. This was
we'll set forth by DR.. Theodore Gill,
the noted biologist, in the course of a
conversation with the writer.
at is curious" said he. that the
tail should be so generally associated
with the ape. The fact is that the
larger apes have even less of a tail
than man, and If we ranked ourselves
by the tail alone we would have to
take a place second to that of the
ape, who would enjoy the first. We
| have four caudal vertebrae. The cor
responding vertebrate of the apes are
broader and less defined as tail pieces
| than those of men,"
Resides the tail, other remains of
our lower ancestors have been noted
by biologists. The pointed ears or
| turned down tip of the ears of many
men are supposed to be inheritances
from forefathers to whose portraits, If
adjoining our ancestral halls, we would
not point with the gusto of pride. A
like significance is given to the ear
which can be wagged. There are GER
tain people known to the medical
world which have this power. Accord
ing to the Memoirs" of the Able de
] Marbles, the Regent Crassot could
easily move his ears.
the fashion of the horse when he rids
himself of fiies.is another subnormality
which is said to be an Inheritance from
an arboreal ancestor. In the loose
scalps of certain small-headed idiots
has been noted for the same sort OF
! furrowing as seen when the
dog pricks his ears. This is
regarded as turning back TO
brute ancestors. The turning of the
| L.. oxl In he iQ another
/ of these signs by which we may dis
tinguish the remote ancestor, as also
the extraordinary ability of some peo-
| pie to move their big toes. The Aetas,
/ often referred to as the missing links
of the Philippines, are reported to climb
trees feet uppermost. grasping the
branches with their toes. Significance
is also given by evolutionists to the
projection of the big toes at an angle
from the side of the foot popularity
OF some human creatures.
The so-called missing link" is often
depicted by journalistic artists as
adorned by tail. But biologists agree
that he. like his near relative, the ape,
had no such extension TO his posterior
architecture. Nevertheless II is to be
feared that homo caudatus," in so
far as he is present among US. will con-
tinue 20 disguise his supplementary
| dUHOIuihi ACA A'NA -
Asuffering ostracism at the hands OF
lfhat exclusive aristocracy which prides
itself upon at least a long and unin-
't$terrupted line OF purely human ances-
A try commencing IN Eden. IL r. un-
I fortunate that =. T. Barnum never
successfully entrapped one Of these
tailed men believed 10 be widely dis
tributed about the earth. II stu ply
ing the styx IN the hOuseboat made IA
nous BY Kendrick Bangs. and n still
In touch with affairs ~ mundane IN
teeiat. he doubtless viii suffef rein0rfe
upon hearing u Prof HarfisoD's dis
eovery that such a species r. COM
mon. even IN our civilized ana enlight-
ened midst
Boz whatever disadvantage and en-
( barTseEueufF homo rau1afuH" may
FUner. We. iD fha glorious summer days
when ali naiufe a. w ana doing MAJ
envy f1oEe ~ blf species who are abs
- protect themselves from or klna,
men. fhf ~ aur uofQuifo. after thf
/ fashion ~ fNf faithful Nouaiaa. fhf