Dr. Farnham's Lecture.

The evil effect of tobacco smoking seems to be more pronounced the earlier in the day the weed is used. People of sedentary habits should reduce their allowance of tobacco to the minimum. Angina pectoris is said to be caused by smoking. Evil effects are often very decidedly exhibited on the employees in tobacco factories.

In a series of experiments with two hundred and seventy-eight male brains, it was found that the average weight was forty-nine and one-half ounces. Similar experiments showed that the average weight of the female brain was forty-four ounces. In proportion to the size of the body a woman's brain is very nearly as heavy as a man's. Weight has nothing to do with brain power, for many an idiot has been proven to have as large a brain as that of some of the great intellects of history. Only two animals have brains absolutely larger than man, - the elephant and whale. If weight has nothing to do with brain power, we must look elsewhere for its source; we find it in what is called the "gray matter."