Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-02-20

and nations, and still greater difIeig
in that of individuals, as the follow
facts will show:
English, average weight. ...-...,.,-. 41.52o,2
French, - .......-..... 4i.JS
Germans. =" ...-......-., 42.S
Germans, another estimate. ......... 4t.1O
Italians, average weight. ...-.. 400
Dutch. 8 -..-..-...-.. $3.50
American aboriginal races). ....... Arb
Lapps, Swedes and Frisans. 46.sS
Eedahs and Hindoos, of Asia 1890. 42.n
Mussulmans. Observation-Disclosures. 42.30
Khouds, of India (aboriginaI .......... 37.S7
African races from $500 to ......... 45.00
The Kaffre high, Bushman low Aus
tralan races J. Observation-Disclosures. f0.5U
Malays and Oceanic races from 39.56
Observation-Disclosures. f3.U
The maximum weight of the hui
brain (Cuvier's) is Cd SO ounces then
mum weight Gdiots) 90 ounces.
Average weight, male adult. ....... .4aDEla
g female adult 800. fO0 ws
The heaviest individual brains
record, next to Cuvier's, are, first:
DR.. Abercrombie. .....-.........--.63 .V
Dupuytren (Frerch surgeon) 62.0
DIVISIONS OF LIFE.
A French statistician has estimated-
a man 80 years Of age has slept
days; worked $500 days; walked
days; amused himself 1900 days
eating 1900 days was sick 800 days
1900 pounds of bread, 16, 900 pOun-
meat, 4, 600 pounds of vegetables, t:
etc, and drank 1000 gallons Of lQQi@
all kinds. The amount of liquid v
make lake 800 feet square and -
depth.
THE NECESSARY DAILY PRoP0RuW
DR.. Mott gives the following daily
portion of food as requisite to susta1
healthfully and soundly:
LIST Class-Persons Of moderate b
and little exercise, IL to Is o. OF.
equal to 10 OF. of nutritious matter,
ID class-Persons of good heaIt1
ordinary labor mechanics, etc., i
OF. of food, equal to Is OF. Of
ment.
Sd Class-Persons of sound be
hard labor, and consequent violent.
else, "a to 30 OF. of food, equal to-
nutriment.
THE HUMAN MACHINERY.
A fully developed man has 60 bor
his head, 60 in his thighs and legs,
| his arms and hands, and 81 Il
trunk; making a total of 249 bones
a frame will contain Is quarts OF
weighing two pounds each. Eve
sation of the heart discharges tWooy
of blood, which is an average OF g.
head an hour. The united length O
perspiratory tubes is 2S miles, anu
drain from the body an average ..
pounds of matter per day, when J.
eighths Of all that the body dlschA.'
The human body contains oVs
muscles. The intestines are q !"
length. The finger nails grow tns
length in AZ months. A man i Ign.:%
age has renewed his finger nails iov'I
Allowing each nail to be hall a.
long, he has grown 7 feet lnchesS%
on each finger, and on fingers ana w.
together, total Of II feet ana = ~
The heart makes an average OF 6 ott
tions in a minute, which IS 81 5aa
hour, and 90, 100 in a day. Two
the oxygen inspired disappears VIZ .,rr
inspiration, the place ofwhicn IS s. sL y,
by the carbonic gas thrown oil ., and.
ton. Thus each adult person W ~.
consume 45, 900 cubic inches o. M
every "a hours, and in the Salu' ,.rs
generates $4,000 cubic inches Oh ''
acid gas. .orir
Every moment during life a P oor
our substance becomes deII,
with some of the inhaled ozystDa
thus removed. By this proceso'r
lieved that the whole body, reh I'
every seven years. -PHr6n0'09'"'
ABOUT the most singular flTS
ord occurred at Auburn, Maln55. rirc
bottle Of white glass, with ,9n7bs
filed with water, sat on taD-e .Dt
morning and soon the wooden ns
it was discovered to be in faln55, nj,
concave surface of the bottle n"f tbs6
trated the rays of the sun uPo DTnerG
en-, setting it on fire. Sewers: Iorfr, h
thus made have resulted slLnLia, isa;
bottle emptied of its con'0n''
produce the same effect.
KATE STANTON, in her lecta .S,tr
Loves of Great Men" assert. .bs ip5,
revolve around the sun oy , ~, s51
of love, like a child reVot ras sh
parent. When the writer Wa wants.!
deal, and may have been ,ldT;ced or
by love, but to an unpreJ u.Iru,1nbp
itloo ked powerfully Ike d ~
Danlury Meas.