The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-04-30
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ed. Ithas no influence whatever on the
soft and delicate fibres of the living hand;
but at the moment of death, it begins to eat
them away with the power of the strongest
acids. no Is r 81 go,
There is dust on sea and land, in the
valley and on the mountain top:--there is
dust always and everywhere. The atmos-
phere is full of it. It penetrates tho moi
some dungeon, and visits the deepest. dark
est caves of the earth. No palace door can
shut it out; no drawer so secretas to escape
! its presence. Every breath of wind dashes
itupon the open eye; and yet that eye is
not blinded, because there is a fountain of
the blandest fluid in nature necessarily
implying itself under the eyelid, which
spreads it over the surface of the ball at
! every winking, and washes every atom of
dust away. But this liquid, so we'll adapted
to the eye ITSELF has some acrdity, which,
under certain circumstances, becomes SO de-
cided as to be scalding to the skin, and
would rot away the eyelids, were it not that
along the edges of them, there are little oil
manufactures, which spread over their sur
face coating as iInpervous to the liquids
| necessary for keeping the eyeball washed
clean as the best vsrnish IS impervious to
water.
The breath which leaves the lungs has
been so perfectly divested of its life giving
properties, that to re-breathe it, unmixed
with other air, the moment it escapes from
mouth, would cause immediate death by
sufocation; while, if it hovered about US, a
moro or less destructive influence over
health and life would be occasioned. But
1t IS made of a nature so much lighter than
the common air, that the instant it escapes
the lips and nostrils, it ascends to the high er
regions, above the breathing point, there to |
be rectihed, renovated and sent back again, |
replete with purity and life. How rapidly !
it ascends, is beautifully exhibited any
frosty morning.
But, foul and deadly as the expired air
is, nature wisely economical in all her
works and ways, turns it to good account in
its outward passage through the organ of
voice, and makes of it the whisper of love,
the soft words of affection, the tender tones
of human sympathy, the sweetest strains of
ravishing music, the persuasive eloquence
of the finished orator,
If we'll made man be extended on thu
ground, his arms at right angles with the
body, circle, making the'naval its center,
will just take in the head, the finger ends
and feet. The distance from top to toe is
precisely the same as that between the tips
of the fingers when the arms are extended.
The length of the body is just six times
that of the foot while the distance from the
edge of the hair on the forehead to the end
of the chin, is one tenth of the length of the
whole stature. a
OF the sixty-two primary elements known
in nature, only eighteen are found in the
human body, and of these, seven are me-
talic. Iron is found in the blood, phos-
phorous in the brain. limestone in the bile,
lime in the bones. dust and ashes in ALL
Not only these eighteen human elements.
but the whole sixty-two, of which the uni
verse is made have their essential basis, in
the four substances-oxygen, hydrogen, nj
trogen, carbon-representiDg the moro fa-
miliar names of fire, water, .saltpeter, and
charcoal. And such is man, the lord of
earth-a spark of fire, drop of water, a
grain of guupowder. and an atom Of chay- :
coal.
But, looking at him in another direction, !
hese elements shadow forth the higher ;
qualities of divine nature, of an immortal
existence. In that spark is the oaloric
which speaks of irrepressible activity; in !,
hat drop is the water which speaks of puri-
~, in that grain is the force by which he
iubdues all things, himself, makes the wide
creation the supplier of his wants. and the ..
'ervitor of his pleasures; while in that atom
If charcoal there is diamond, which speaks =
1t once of light and purity, of indestructi- :
oility, and of resstless progress. For there =
s nothing which out shines it. 1t is purer :
han the dew-drop. Moth and rust cor !.
'upt it not, nor can ordinary fires destroy it;
while it cuts its way alike through brass,
md adamant, and hardest steel. In that
light we see an eternal progression toward !
in that purity, the goodness ofr
livine nature; in that indestructibility an
immortal existence; in that progress, a
steady accession toward the home and bosom
,f God.-Halps Journal of Health. s,