The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-17
TIE NONPAREJL MAN

Immense Practical Value Of Physical Sell
ence In Determining Who Is Licked
First In the War In the OrIent-Rapidlty
Of the Nervous Impulse In Tall and In
Short lndIviduaIs-Why Tall Man
Should Be Picked Out to Be Kicked
Rather Than a Short One.
That this maxim Take no thought for
the body, is bit of advice that is care
fully disregarded nowadays is shown by
the minuteness with which the body is
studied by the physical scientists. A
paper was read the other day at a. meeting
of the Royal society in London on the
'Rapidity Of the Nervous Impulse in Tall
and Short Individuals" The difference in
time required for nerve telegram" to
traverse the bodies Of different people is
regarded as matter of scientific import
ance. A series of observations was shown
that the length of the nerve does affect
the velocity with which an impulse passes |
between the brain and the extremitiess |
and consequently that more time is needed
1t the path is long than If it is short
It follows that if short man and a tall
man had their corn trodden on at the same
instant the short man would swear first.
Let short man and a tall man slip on
the sidewalks icy spot and alight on
I1eH SplueS the SiOTI man would Q1SCOV-
er the catastrophe first. Kick a tall man
and your chance of getting away is much
better than If you kick short man.
The practical value Of this lies in it,
application. The Japanese, being short
is able to find out much quicker what is
being done to him. On the other hand the
Russian may not be able to discover that
he is licked and so may keep right On
fighting.
We sports ought to be represented in the
presidential chair at least once in hun
dred years and. for this reason, this COL
umn is thinking Of coming out for Billy
Worst for the democratic standard bearer
dis summer. Dis country has been run
too long by statesmen wild an icy front
and cold mits. Wot we want for an all
around executive Is a gazabo with the
mazuma where 1t is in evidence and where
the boys can get their hooks on it, 'Rah
for, de little yeller kid wild de rocks!
If Admiral Togo finds those missing
Russian ships, biff!
A poor widow with eight small children
was found starving to death at Glasgow.
Mr.. Carnegie has presented them with a
well selected library Of 200 volumes.
The editor Of the Hardeman, Tenn, FREQ
Press wrote for his paper that he was
! threatened with nervous prostration''
and scoundrelly printer set 1t nervous
prohibition" That night the printer fed
north.
There are no signs yet that Mrs. May
brick Is going to elevate the stage, but
you cannot tell what is going on under
| the surface.
| 6a fpr 0 mn
| els Of wheat, as the government estimates,
but the cuss is hanging to 1t like a pup
to a shoe. The price isn't dollar in tho
country yet you see.
The Kansas City Journal complains that
the stage in that city of late has pre-
scented nothing but the characters Of
women with dark pasts. The Journal says
| that there is no denying that many
women. in high life as well as low life.
have been very unfortunate or very
| wicked. but adds that this does not JUS
| tify playwrights in writing and actors in
acting as If the whole Of life was made
I up Of licentious intrigues. Cromwell, says
the Journal, insisted that the artist who
painted his portrait should not leave out
his wart. 1t would not have been art
for him to have done SO. Cromwell with
| out his wart would not have been Cron1-
well. But would any one have said that
the painter had made true and artistic
portrait if he had painted the wart and
j left out Cromwell?
4 Richard S. Palmer, the 'Deadwood
Dick Of the dime novel, is dying In
i Cripple Creek hospital Of the morphine
habit. Deadwood Dick formerly lived in
4 Deadwood, s. D., and won and lost sew
eral fortunes gambling. During the early
days Of the Cripple Creek boom he went
to that place, where he has since re-
manned. He became addicted to the use
Of morphine and his health failed. OF late
! years he has been the vender OF apples.
candy and chewing gum, working only at
night. He was literally patronized by the
j gambling and sporting fraternity. The
boys who have read the Deadwood Dick
literature with enthusiasm will be Inter-
lested in that noble characters latter
end Instead of being shot like a gen
4 tleman and a scoundrel there he is vast
ing away his life with the morphine hor-
rors. It doesn't seem right from a literary
ipoint OF view.
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