East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1863-10-14
MARvELs CT MAN.

W ME tne Bastflc Julco mas u niilu
bland, sweeting taste, it possesses tho
power of digesting the hardest food
that can be swallowed. 1t is 10 in.
fluonce whatever on the fibyes of the
living animal, but at the moment OF
death, it begins to eat them away Will
the power of the strong acid.
There is dust on sea and land--in the
valley, and on the mountain top-there
is dust always and everywhere. The
atmosphere is full of it. 1t penetrates
the noisome dungeon, and visits the
deepest, darkest caves of the earth
No palace door can shut it out; nc
drawer is SO secret as to escape Its
presence. Every breath of wind dash
es it against the open eye; which yet
is not blinded, because there is a foun.
tain of the hlnpdest apid IN not,''''a =
cessantly carrying itself under the eye
lid, which spreads itself over the sur.
face of the cyeball at every winkine
of the eye, and washing every atom OF
dust away. This liquid, so well adapt
ed TO the eye itself, has some acidity,
which, under certain circumstances,
becomes so decided as to be scalding
to the skin, and would rot away the
eyelids, were it not that along the ed
ges of them are little oil manufactures
which spread over their uface a coat
ing as impervious to the liquid neces-
sary for keeping the eyeballs washed
clean, as the varnish is imperyious to
water.
The breath which leaves the lungs
has been SO totally divested of its life
giving properties, that to breathe it,
unmixed with other air, the moment
it escaped from the mouth would cause
immediate death by suffocation; while,
| If IL bovops about mo, nrurc Or less
destructive influence over health would
be occasioned. But it is made Of a
nature so much lighter than the COM
mon air, that the moment it escapes
from the mouth and uostrils it ascends
to higher regions, above the breathing
point, there to be rectified, renovated
and sent back again, replete with pu-
rity and life. How rapidly it ascends
is beautifully exhibited any frosty
morning.
But foul and deadly as the expired
air is, nature wisely economical i'll all
her works and ways = turns it to good
account in the outward passage thro'
the organs of voice, and makes it the
whisper of love, and soft words of af-
fection, and tender tones of human
sympathy, the sweet strains of ravish-
ing music, and thepersuasive eloquence
of the finished orator.
fla well made man be extended
on the ground, his arms at right an.
giles with his body, circle making the
naval the center, will just take in the
head, the finger ends and the feet
The distance from ''toe to toe" is pre-
cisely the same as that between tip'
of the fingers when the arms are ox
tended. The length of the body il
Just six times that of the foot; while
the distance from the edge of the hail
on the forehead to the end of the chii
is one-tenth of the whole statue.
OF the sixty-two primary elements
known in nature, only eighteen arr
found in the human body, and of thes,
seven are metallic. Iron is found il
the blood; PHOSPHORUS i'll the brain
limestone in the bile; lime in the bones
dust and ashes in all. Not only thes,
eighteen human elements, but tn,
whole sixty-two, of which theuniverst
is made, have their essential basis il
the four substanccs-oXygen, hydro
gen, nitrogen and carbon-represent
ing the more familiar names of fire
water, saltpetre and charcoal. AnC
such is man the lord of earth a sparl
of fire--a drop of water-a grain o
gunpowder-an atom of charcoal |
But, look at him in another direc
ton these elements shadow forth tn,
higher qualities of a divinor nature o
an immortal existence. In that sparl
is the caloric which speaks of irrepres
} sible activity; in that drop is the wa
} ter which speaks of purity; in tina
grain is the force by which he subduei
all things to himself-makes the wild,
} creation the supplier of his wants, anc
the servitor of his pleasure while il
that atom of charcoal there is dia
mond, which speaks at once of ligh
and purity; of indestructale and re
sistless progress. There is nothing
which outshines it, it is purerthan TIN
: dew drop. "Moth and rust corrup
it not; nor can ordinary fires destro,
it; while it cuts its way alike through
brass and adamant, and the hardes
steel. In that light we see an eternn
5 progression towards omniscience, il
that purity, the good of divine nature
i'll that indestructbility an immorta
existence; in that progress stead
| ascension towards the home and bosom
of God.