Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-12-14
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rolled. has been supplied.
Or. Edward Spitzka, professor Of
general Anatomy at Jefferson college,
fhilaaelphia. and ore of the most dis
ngushed anthropolosical sclioars in
tie world, has revealed in a remarkable
report of his researches in the compare
tiye study Of the brains of SIX IF Ameri-
q greatest scientists, that the brain Of
| Walt Whitman had been lost 10 science.
! Through the carelessness of an em-
ploye of Il hospital, tile jar containing
the poets brain slipped to the floor and
was broken
Not even the pieces of the organ. which
might have meant so much to science.
We're saved. Tie brain Of the man who
evolved a philosophy was lost to pos
tarity by the slippery fingers of Z Si5-a-
week employc.
As il is, DR. Sptzkas investigation,
which adds considerable to the evoliI-
ton theory evolved by Darwin, is based
upon examinations Of the brains of the
following eminent men: Joseph Leidy
| Philip Ledy. ]. w. White, ST.. Andrew
j. Parker. Harrison Allen, Edward d..
Cope and William Pepper.
/ That the future American brain is to
is the conclusion reached by DIR. Spitzka
after his investigation. His most inn
portant statement is that the brains of
/ geniuses can easily be determined by
their weight. They weigh far more than
/ the average brain.
/ What is perhaps tile oldest Egyntian
mummy in tile world has come into the
possession of the Metropolitan Museum
of Art of New York and will soon be
placed on exhibition. 1t was found by
the expedition sent to Egypt last year
by the museum, 1t is that of a woman
and is said to belong to the twelfth
dynasty. which fourished about 1000
years ago The mummy is said to be
IN excellent condition. In the coffin
with the mummy was found cere-
monial whip of the Senbtes, said to be
the only complete one ever discovered.
A portion of the objects found by the ex-
pedltiOn are roTs on exhibition and the
rest viii be placed in the galleries soon.
The over-strenuosity of the heroine in
the melodrama, Convict 999' was the
cause of suit which has been filed
against the lessees of the new American
theater in New York. The plaintiff is
Miss Fanny Silver and she demands
$4,000 Miss Silver attended per-
formance of the meledrama November
~. She occupied 4 seat in the front
row. IN the last act of the play, l;e
heroine prevents tile william from attack
ing the hero by Selling sledge hammer
and menacing him with it. On the night
Miss Silver saw the play the heroine put
so much strength into her acting that
the head of the sledge hammer flew off
and struck Miss Silver in the face
breaking her nose and knocking out two
teeth. Hence the damage suit.
The marble that is now being put in
place on the new building of the Dime
Savings bank at DeKalb avenue and
Fleet street, Brooklyn. has attracted
many persons by its purity It is not
generally known that the marble comes
from the quarry in Greece which fur
nished some of the material for the Par
thenon. Some Of the friends of John
Thatcher. the contractor, are skeptical
when he tells them this. but he explains
that the marble qHarries in this country
We're too busy to supply the marble al
the time he wanted it SO he had to "a
abroad for it. The best arrangement he
could make was in Greece.