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Show Great Men Tall and Shovt. A recent investigator has attempted to show that I.ombroso and his followers follow-ers wero wrong in nsscrtlng that men of genius wero of small staturo. Of 230 Individuals of crnlncnco ho found that figures wero obtnlnablo for 103; of these Mxtccn wero of mlddlo height, fifty-eight above nnd twcnty-nlno bo-low. bo-low. Americans particularly combined greatness with Inches. Jefferson nnd Jackson wero moro thnn six feet tall. Sumner wns six feet four lnchos, nnd Washington, Llncolnfnd needier wero moro than six feet. Among famous foreigners Tolstoy was n Inrgo man, and so wero Thackeray, Itlsmarck and Dnrwln. On tho contrnry, many of tho world's greatest geniuses wero undersized nnd oven deforinod. Napoleon, Poe, Popo, Alexander tho Great, Nelson, Blake nnd Oacsnr wero smnll men. After nil is said, genius Is no respecter re-specter of rules. New York American |