Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1875 — Large and Small Ears. [ARTICLE]

Large and Small Ears.

Large ears, as has been observed, hear things in general and denote broad, comprehensive views and modes of thought; while small ears hear things in particular, showing a disposition to individualize, often accompanied by the love of the minute. Large ears are usually satisfied with learning the leading facts of a case, with the general principles involved—too strict an attention to the enumeration of details, especially all repetition of the more unimportant is wearisome<to them. People with such ears like generally and are usually well fitted to conduct large enterprises, to receive and pay out money in large sums, in buying or selling would prefer to leave a margin rather than reduce the quantity of goods of any sort to the exact dimensions of the measure specified, and in eiving, would prefer to give with a free hand and without too strict a calculation as to the exact amount. Small ears, on the contrary, desire to know the particulars of a story as well as the main facts; take delight often in examining, handling, or constructing tiny specimens of workmanship; are disposed to be exact with respect to inches and ounces in buying or selling to the extent at least of knowing the exact number over or under the stated measure givqn or received. People with such ears would, in most cases, prefer a retail to a wholesale business.— Phrenological Journal. The following directions are givdh for detecting some counterfeit fifty-cent notes now in circulation: On the counterfeit the lock of hair in the corner of Dexter’s forehead touches the other hair at each end, while in the genuine it is a “ C” shaped lock, and touches only at the lower end. Don’t shut a child up in the, dark to punish him. The dark doesn’t hurt him a bit, and he generally manages to kick in a door-panel and twist the knob off.