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clandestinely from the cask, by means of a pipe- 

 As this had been declared to be a crime punish- 

 able with death, they were immediately seized 

 and cast into the sea." There were originally 

 on the raft one hundred and fifty ; and although 

 of these one hundred and twenty had perished, 

 yet were two of the remaining thirty doomed to 

 death for painfully impressing the alimentiveness 

 of the other survivors. In these extracts we 

 have evidence of the great influence exercised by 

 alimentiveness over the other faculties. 



Let us now take the case of a man, having the 

 moral and restraining faculties but poorly deve- 

 loped, and let him have a largely _ developed 

 alimentiveness. We will suppose him to be a 

 farm laborer. He will always be on the look-out 

 for opportunities of gratifying his propensity. 

 Eating and drinking will be to him the acme of 

 enjoyment. He will be extremely liable to lose 

 his character and employment. He becomes ac- 

 quainted with a gang of accomplished thieves 

 and burglars; he sees to what extent they 

 gratify their alimentiveness, and joins them. 

 Henceforth, thieving and carousing occupy his 

 whole attention. Thieves and burglars are great 

 carousers. How frequently do they in the midst 

 of danger give way to their ruling propensity ? 

 How frequently have they, after breaking into^ a 

 dwelling-house, and after having bound the in- 

 mates, sat down to eat and drink, until, as Buffon 

 would say, they were fully gorged. They rob and 

 plunder, that they may eat and drink " their fill." 

 We need not wonder that alimentiveness should 

 be found so large in their heads ! 



Again, gross feeding has a sympathetic action 

 on the other faculties. Byron declared that beef- 

 steaks would make -him ferocious ; and every 

 sensitive mind will be aware how much our food 

 has to do with our moral conduct. I am backed 

 up by the testimony of hundreds of divines, 

 magistrates, jail-governors, and others, when I 

 assert that the abuse of alimentiveness is more 

 productive of crime, than the abuse of all the 

 other faculties put together. 



Those who may agree with me in the view I 

 have taken, will admire the force of the truth — that 

 though the real organ of alimentiveness had been 

 given over to another function, yet nature kept 

 continually pointing to this region as its seat ; and 

 phrenologists were compelled to admit that a 

 fullness of this region was accompanied by a love 

 of feeding. Most firmly do I believe, that although 

 phrenologists of some standing have got used to 

 two aggressive faculties, the rising generation of 

 phrenologists will very willingly discard one of 

 them ; and I can promise them that if they do, 

 they will find phrenology much improved there- 



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It may be asked, why should a lion or tiger 



kill so many more animals than they eat ? To this I 

 would answer, that it is not satisfactorily estab- 

 lished that they ever leave an animal, after kill- 

 ing it, without drinking the blood, — to which 

 they seem to be the most partial ; and I wo lid 

 ask in return, why do so many other kinds of ani- 

 mals destroy so much more food than they con- 

 sume ? Why do the Brazilian monkeys pluck so 

 much more fruit than they carry away ? 



J. S. H. 



f npnlnr §iimn. 



THE STEREOSCOPE. 



Popular Science is now making such 

 rapid strides, that the pen can hardly keep 

 pace in recording its progress. 



A few days since, we had our attention 

 directed by a friend to a little mechanical 

 apparatus, called the Stereoscope ; " one of 

 the most delightful inventions," as our in- 

 formant called it, " of modern times." It 

 is so. Let us describe it in few words, as 

 we saw it in operation at the " Daguerro- 

 type Portrait Gallery " of Mr. Mayall, 

 224, Regent Street. 



As we dislike the introduction of techni- 

 calities in a popular journal, let us remark 

 that the Stereoscope presents all persons 

 who have had their likenesses taken by the 

 Daguerreotype, with an apparent cameo, or 

 raised bust of the same — standing out in full 

 relief like marble. 



This is effected, by merely placing a per- 

 son's likeness in duplicate, one on either side 

 of a small mahogany frame. Immediately 

 above each of these, is fixed a magnifying 

 eye-glass. By simply looking through this, 

 as through a telescope, the likenesses, before 

 in duplicate, are seen by an optical illusion 

 melted into " one ; " and that one, a raised 

 bust ! The effect of this is delicately beau- 

 tiful. And as for the likeness, it is so per- 

 fect — so completely a fac-simile of the origi- 

 nal, that the smallest mark on the counte- 

 nance is preserved intact. It becomes, in 

 fact, stereotyped. 



This is alone sufficient to immortalise the 

 stereoscope. If any pet of ours be possessed 

 even of a pimple on her fair skin, let us see 

 it in her picture by all means. A miniature 

 must be a "likeness," or it loses all real 

 value. 



Mr. Mayall deserves all we can say in 

 praise of his skill ; and we thank him for the 

 opportunity he has afforded us, at an inex- 

 pensive rate, of throwing so much expres- 

 sion into the picture of all we hold dear. 



THE HYDROELECTRIC CHAIN, 



The very remarkable weather that we 

 have had for the last four months, has put 

 the virtues of " Pulvermacher's Patent Port- 

 able Chain" to a severe test. Rheumatism, 

 lumbago, nervous affection, and the various 

 bodily ailments peculiar to the season, have 

 this year been in unceasing operation, with 

 all their baneful effects. 



It was to assist in removing these, that 

 the Chain we are now noticing was in- 

 vented ; and we are well pleased to be able 

 to speak in decided terms of its great, nay 

 marvellous utility. It is truly simple in its 



