The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1877-07-11

bland, swedish taste, 1t possesses the
power of dissolving the hardest food
that can be swallowed /; it has no in
fuence whatever on the soft and deli
cate 6bres CT the living stomach. nor
upon the living hands, but at the
moment of death, it begins to eat
them away with the power of the
strongest acids.
There is dust on the sea, on land /;
in the valley, and on the mountain
top; there is dust always and every
where; the atmosphere is full of it;
it penetrates the noisome dungeon,
and visits the deepest, darkest caves
of the earth no palace door can shut
it out. no drawer so secret as to es-
cape its presence every breath of
wind dasbes it upon the open eye,
and vet that eye ia not blind. he
cause there is q fountain o fthe bland.
est fluid in nature ~incesantly empty
ing 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 mild, and so well adapted
to the eve itself, has some acidity,
which under certain circumstances,
becomes so decided as to become
scalding to the skin, and would rot
away eyelids were it not that along
the edges of them there are little oil
manufactures, which spread over
their surface a coating, as imperyioIs
to the liquids necessary for keeping
the eyeball washed clean as the best
varnish is impervious to water.
The breath which leaves the lungs
has been so perfectly Invested of its
life giving properties that to rebreathe
it, unmixed with other air, the mo-
ment it escapes from the mouth,
would cause immediate death By
~suffocation; while if it lowered about
us, a more or less destructive in6u-
ence over life and death would be &C.
casioned; but it is made of q nature
so much lighter than the common air
that the instant It escapes the lips
and nostrils it ascends to the higher
regions, above the breathing point,
there to be rectiGed, renovated, and
sent back again, replete with purity
and life. How rapidly it ascends is
beautifully exhibited every frosty
morning. But foul aud deadly as
the expired air is, nature, wisely eco
nomical in all her works and ways,
turns it to good account in its out
ward passage through the organ of
voice, and makes Of it the whispers
of love, the soft words Of affection,
the tender tones of human sympathy,
the sweetest strains of ravishing mu-
sic, the persuasive eloquence Of the
finished orator.
If q well made man be extended
on the ground, bis arms at right an
giles with the body, q circle, making
the navel its centre, will Just take in
the head, the finger ends, and feet.
the distance from top to toe is pre-
cisely 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 statue.
Of the sixty-txo primary elements
known 10 nature, only eighteen are
found in the human body, and of
these seven are metallic. Iron is
found in blood, PHOSPHORUS in the
brain, limestone IN the bile, lime in
the bones, and dust and ashes 10 all
Not only these eighteen human ele.
ments, but the whole sixty-two, of
which the universe is made, have
their essential basis in the four sub.
stances. oxygen. hydrogen, nitrogen
and carbon, representing the more ia
miliar names of fire, water, saltpeter
and charcoal ; and such is man, the
lord Of the earth |! sspark of FIRE, a
drop of water, q grain OF gunpowder,
IN atom Of charcoal !-HaPs Jour.
nal of Health.