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Show SMALL PRINT WAS BARRED. Story Told of Tom Marshall, the Ken- tucklan, and the Sclonoe o Phrenology. One of. Kentucky' national Haw malwra furnishes this story about Tom Marshall: When the science of phre-aoldgy phre-aoldgy first began lo attract publKJ attention at-tention a lecturer on that lino turned jp In LouUvlllo and gave talks ns well as making examinations or a iarce number num-ber of crnnluins. This lecturer developed devel-oped a wonderfully largo amount of hidden hid-den vice and virtue which had not before be-fore been even suspected among the good people of that city Marshall attended at-tended one of the "exhibitions," He was about half-seas over, unfortunately After tho lecture and demonstration closed Marshall and a crowd of friends went to the Gait house to "liquidate" and talk over the newly discovered science. sci-ence. Marshall declared that he could phrenologlro as well as tho lecturer; that It was a rank fake, and the fellow ought to be rocked out of town. Marshall Mar-shall was requested to. go In the parlor and examine a few heads. This he conscntod to do, and several men and women were entertained by the brilliant man as ho called oft the different "bumps" and ground out yard after yard of good and bad qualities of the head owners. He know most of the crowd. and made a vast amount of fun. It happened hap-pened that among those present a lioulsvllletop.ot scant amount of bratns, distinguished for his forwarduess and egotism, was left out by Marshall. To this tho fop objected, telling him that his head had not boen examined, "1 beg your pardon, sir," sald Marshall, "but you must really excuse me. I am too drunk to read small print by candle light." |