MODERN PHRENOLOGY.
_ A good old coloured man, named Uncle Jim, sat himself up the other day as a phrenologist, and a barber was his first subject. He placed the barber in a chair, felt at his head for a long time, and then remarked, ' William, you are too sanguine. When you lend money you expect it back. You are bilious. You want to be honest, but you hasn't the necessary character ; you isn't hopeful; you is bowed down with grief most of do time ; you has an ear for music ; you has the worst feet on Kentuckystreet ; you is de right sort of a man to wheel coal down hill for big wages.' William rose up, pitched Uncle Jim over the stove and under the bed, and split a panel of the door as he went out. The aged phrenologist was at the Town Hall the next day to get advice from the police, and when advised to go out of the trade, replied, ' Seems like I have to, for I'se getting too aged to be bumped over stoves.'
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3488, 11 September 1882, Page 4
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