The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1877-05-18
QUE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.
Just How Much and What a Man Devours in a
yeag-A puek-wickian View Of the Case.
From Puck.

As-A SQcK-Wlck1an view OF the Case
From Puck.
The inside Of an alleged human being
curious study, regarded as a receptacl
for diversified food. The stomach is eccen
trio and whimsical in its individuality, S
to speak. The gastric juice is creatur
of elective affinities, like Jim Smiley
jumping frog. A professor of chemistr,
in treatise on food, has just made a dis
closure which will startle and shock tn,
entire country. He says: "When w
pour milk into cup of tea or coffee, th,
albumen of the milk end the tannln of tht
tea instantly uuite and form leather, OF
minute fakes of the same compound which
is produced in the texture of the tanned
hide and which makes it leather as distin.
| guished from the original skin. In the
course of year tea-drinker of average
habits will have imbibed leather enough to
make pair of shoes, if it could be put in
to the proper shape for the purpose" This
is doubtless entirely true, but it stops SO
far short Of the truth as to be no more val
liable than cheap falsehood. We drink,
every one of us, pair Of boots every year;
but observe how much else we devour.
We carry iron enough in our blood con-
stantly to make horseshoe. We have
enough argillaceous earth in our mortal
frame to make, if properly separated and
baked, dozen good-sized bricks. We
probably eat a peck of dirt year. ANY
piscivorous person-especially if he live
almost exclusively on Goldfish balls-de-
YOURS phophorus and birthstone enough to
make 25 cent box of matches (stamped1
every week. The man who carelessly tips
a glass of lager into bis stomach seldom
indnlges in the solemn reflection shat he
has begun the manufacture of II lat; yet
such is the case. The malt of the beer and
the chyle of the stomach instantly unite
and form felt, or minute flakes of the same
compound seen so often in the hat facto-
ries. But there is no internal II achinery
for blocking, and, not being Immediately
utilized, the material is lost forever-or at
least until it returns in some more eligible
form. Still further, it is estimated that
the bones of every adult frame require to
be fed with lime enough to make marble
mantel every eight months.
The mathematician of Puck has been at
work all of one afternoon on the above
facts, and he has found that the
stomach of every tramp contains in three
score years and ten the following awe-in-
spring aggregate of articles in a crude
form:
Men shoes, 10 years, @ 1pair
per year. ~ pairs |
Horse-shoes, 10 years, (G pair
per month, as our arterial sys-
tenn renews is blood every
full moon $40 ST oes
Bricks, @ 12 for every years. 120 bricks
Hats, not less than Ia year.. $50 hats
Matches Counting bissextile or
iIantels, ante IL og II year for well
man ............,..... Ioo IMAM
The casual reader, who has given little
tudy to the abtruse science OF human
physiology, will be astonished at the iesnlt'
Ie will be surprised to learn that we eat as
many shoes as we wear, upon the authority
# Yale professor; that we digest hats
nougf to pay all the election bets OF an
.verage village, even when the pools are
lot withdrawn; that we float in our arteries
lorsesboes enough to keep span OF grays
hod all the while; that a very brainy per-
on, like, for instance, this Yale professor,
ats phosphorus enough to keep the city
amplighter supplied with matches, if he
elies manly on his torch: that we bear in
ur animated ovens crude bricks enough
0 build modern fire place, and from our
hangefu bones shed marble enough to
,lrnish all cur friends with gravestones.
This is an interesting study for our young
creative possibilities of
ur human frames. We have not figured
n the soil that goes into our mouths, but
! is safe to say that a hearty eater masti-
ates good deal of valuable real estate, If
could be regulurly surveyed and sold at
i 900 per front foot.