"YOUR BRAINS, PLEASE."

Evening Post, Volume LXI, Issue 86, 13 April 1901, Page 7 (Supplement)

"YOUR BRAINS, PLEASE."

Public men in Amwica who suffer from* the abnormal curiosity of that country about their pensonalkies and daily movements are (says an, Australian jontemporary) confronted with • new terror, which is just now being discussed with the characteristic- national frankness and humour. Cornell University has evolved a body of enthusiastic students of heredity and kindred subjects called tho Brain A*sociation. These gentlemen consider it a grievance thai their investigations should be cornQnad to criminals and diseased persons, and so, with the view of enlarging their operations, they •have coolly addressed a circular to many cultivated and prominent persons in the country asking for a btquost of their brains for scientific stuiy. The audacity of the association hus horrified some, while others treat it with a mixture of complaisance ana levity. Mr. Chauncey Depew, the noted orator, was one of the recipients of ti*e circular. He replied— "You are welcome to my brain when I am through with, it." His friends say he was only joking.

AN INTERESTING CONTEST. + A very interesting international contest is absut to begin ia Glasgow. Sometime ago tfce experts appointed by tho Tramway Committee oi tUo Glasgow Corporation declared that British Engineers wore unworthy of undertaking tUe construction ot the four vast steam engines required for the electrics genexatiag plant and proposed to give th« order to an American Him. A storm of indignation was aroused by tho proposal, and eventually tha order was divided between the E. P. Allis Co., of Milwaukee, U.S.A., and an English firm, M'essra. J. Mußgrave and Sous, c^f Bolton, each firm being given two engines. The specifications aro absolutely identical in every detail, Messrs. Musguave and Sons are now completing tkeir first engine in an erecting shop built for tha express purpose, none of their existing departments being large enough. T-hese engines are made for 5000 horse-power nominal, with only 75 revolutions per minute. The four — two American and two English — will be set side by side and tested against each other. The results will bo waited with intense interest, not merely by engineers but all interested in the development of English electric railroads.