American watchman and Delaware advertiser., 1825-09-20


prematurely removed from the sphere Of literature
which he adorned.
Quantity Of blood IN .animals.. 1,hose who iavs
not considered the subject be surprised at tbs
quantity oil blood which passes through the heart of
any moderately sized animal in the of twen-
ty-tour hours in man, the quantity OF blood exisg-
ing In The body at any given probably from
80 10 40 pints. OF these ounce aud half OF
about three table spooninls, sent out at every
stroke; which multiplied into 70 (ihe average rate
OF the pulse) gives I25 ounces, or seven pnts, in
mlnute l. G. 420 pints, 52a gallons. in an hour:
and 1860 gallons,i nealy "a hogsheads, 10 day
Now, II we recollect that The whale is said to se
out from his heart at each stroke l5 gallons, til.
Imagination is overwhelmed with The aggregate
OF the quantity that must pass through the heart 81
that animal in "a hours.
II is general law that the pulse OF larger aninss
is slower thar that ofthe smaller ;but even If we ut
the pulse OF the whale so low as 90 in tie minute,
the quantity circulated through the heart calculated
at 10 gallons tor each pulsson, will be SO oC0 gol-
Ions, equal 10 5000 hogsheads in "a hours. The
consideration OF this amazing quantity is, however,
subject OF mere empty wonder, it not accompan
ed with the reflection, that in der to produce The
aggregate amount, the heart is kept in constant mo-
ton and that, in fact, it is necessarily beating i,
termed, or throwing out The blood into the arteries,
from the first period OF our existence to the momen.
OF our death, without any sensation Of fatigue,
even without consciousness, excepting under
sona corporeal or mental agitation.
Dr. Kidd. Edin. IAH. Journal
- GpGtgp Co.,
Our readers generally are acquainted with the
leading points OF difference between the TWO parties
known by the appeationa Of relief and aafi-retipg
which have for several years agitard the state Of
Kentucky. Between these parties there has just
terminated Gf we may hope that it has terminated)
one ot the most violent political struggles that do
mestic politics have ever given rise 10 any state in
the Union. Our readers remember that the Judges
of the Court of Appeals in that state had rendered
themselves obnoxious to the relief party, by declaf.
ing the relief laws which had been passed, uncon.
stitutiona and null and therefore refusing 10 enforce
them; that the relief party in the Legislature, after
falling in an attempt to remove the Judges by iln.
peachment. (io do which two thirds Of the Legis.
lature were, by the constitution, n-cessary.) yet
afterwards effected their object by passing an Z
polishing the Court of Appeals, which ,eeislated
the Judges out of Office and by contemporsne-
ous act reorganizing the Court and appointing
other Judges from their party. These acts, Of
course, created much sensation throughout the state
the anti-reef party asserting that the proceeding
was In violation of the constitution and The relief
party maintaining that the Judges not right,
fully independent Of. or paramount to, the law, and
had no constitutional power to set aside the will of
ihe people, expressed ID the acts OF the Legislature
The new Court went into operation; and The old
Court, after attempting for time 10 maintain It's
authority retired from the contest, and yielded The
judicial power to the new Court, but protested for
may against the consutonaity oi its creation and
existence.
From that time forward, the torch Of discord blaz.
ed through the state with increased fury. The
great effort that followed. was to obtain the ascsn
dancy in the next Legslanre--by one party 10 con.
firm The new order of thlnps-hy he MI 10
store the old The controversy has not been con-
fined to interior politicians, demagogues by pro-
fessions but the questions issue have divided
the first talents of the state, (of which it is doubt
full if any state can boast of more.) many Of the
most distinguished Of its citizens have entered &C.
lively and openly, by public addresses. or under
their proper signatures into the controversy. The
Struggle has resulted in the most signal success Of
he friends Of the old Court, or the antirelf party.
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