Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-02-11
THE RIVER OF LIFE Blood is the

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The RIVER OF LIFE Blood is the
mighty river of life-the mysterious
centre of chemical and vital actions as
as they are indispensable ;;
our attention no less by the
many problems it presents to specula-
tive ingenuity, than by the practical
to which those speculations
lead. 1t is o torrent impetuously rush
ing through every part Of the body,
carried by an elaborate network of
vessels, which, in the course Of twelve
convey to the various tissues
not less than three thousand pounds Of
nuritive material, and convey from the
various tissues three thousand pounds
weight of waste. At'every moment of
our lives there is nearly ten pounds Of
this fluid rushing in one continuous
throbbing stream, from the heart
through the great arteries, which branch
and branch like a tree, the vessels be-
coming smaller and smaller as they d.
vide and subdivide, till they are invisi-
bic to the naked eye, and then they are
called capillaries, (hair-like vessels
although they are no more to be com
pared to hairs, than hairs are with ca
bles. These vessels form a network
finer than the finest lace 80 fne, IN
deed, that if we pierce the surface at
almost any part, with the point Of a
needle, we open one Of them and let out
its blood. In these vessels the blood
yields some of its nutrient materials,
and receives in exchange some of the
wasted products of the tissue; thus
modified, the stream continues its rap
id course backwards to the heart.
through system of veins, which COM
mence in the myriad Of capillaries that
form the termination Of the arteries.
The veins, instead of subdividing like
the arteries, become gradually less and
less numerous, their twigs entering
branches, and in their turn the branch
es trunks, until they reach the heart
No sooner has the blood poured into the
heart from the veins, than it rusheS
through the lungs, and from them back
again to the heart and arteries, thus
completing The circle, or circulation.
This wonderful stream, ceaselessly
circulating, occupies the very centre Of
the vital organism, midway between the
functions Of nutrition and excretlon
feeding and stimulating the organs into
activity, and removing from them al
their useless material. In its torrent
upwards Of forty different substances
are hurried along it carries gases, i
carries salts it even carries metals anC
soaps I! Millions Of organized cells
float in its liquid and Of these cells
which by some are considered organized
entities, twenty millions are said to die
at every pulsation Of The heart, and are
replaced by other millions. The iror
which it washes onward can be separa,
ted. Prof. Bel r ard used to exhibit {
lump Of it in his lecture-room ma,
more, an ingenious Frenchman ha
suggested that coins be struck from tn
metal extracted from the blood Of grea
men Let no o suggest that we SHOULD
wash our hands with the soap extract e'
! from the same source. - Bidcklc0oG
Magazine.
ADVICE TO YOU'VE MEN.-We advis
all young people to acquire in early lif
the habit of using good language, bot
in speaking and writing, and to aban
don. as early as possible, any use o
slang words and phrases. The longe
they live the more difficult the acquisi
ton will be-; and if the golden age 0
youth, the proper season for the acqui
sitioD Of language, be passed in it
abuse, the unfortunate victim of neg
lected education is very probably doom
ed to talk slang all his life. Money il
not necessary to procure this education
Every man has it in his power. He ha
merely to use the language which h
hears from the best speakers, to form
his taste from the best writer's and po
cts Of the country, to treasure up choic'
phrases in his memory, and habituat
himself to their use avoiding, at tn
same time, that pcdantic precision anC
bombast which show rather the weak
ness Of a vain ambition than the pollSl
Of an educated mind.
RESIST THE Beginnings - Tho
Arabs have fable of a miller, who Was
one day startled by d camel's nose be-
ing thrust in through the window of The
room where he was sleeping. cit il
very cold outside % said the camel. 81
only want to get my nose in The
nose was let i'll then the neck, and f.
nally the whole body. Presently the
miller began to be extremely inconve-
nienced with the ungalnly companion
he had obtained in room certainly not
large enough for them both. ''If you
are inconvenienced," said the camel,
'you can leayc-as for myself, I shall
Stay where | am
The moral Of the fable concerns all
When temptation occWs we must not
begin to yield'to it. We must not al
low so much as its "uose" to come in.
The approach Of anything like sin must
be stoutly resisted. He who yields in
the smallest degree, will soon be entire
ly overcome and his folly having OBJ
tanned the mastery will rule over him
with merciless hand.
Stick TO THE FARM.-Are pale ia
ces, white hands, decayed teeth and
bad health, more gentecl than robust
frames, good appetite, sound sleep
and independent circumstances /? We
think not, and for the same reason we